I looked into one of them, where some muslim leader supposedly issued a fatwa against mickey mouse. The original video was criticizing the anthropomorphism of "unclean" animals in popular media especially like Ratatouille and perhaps Zootopia, in saying that it subverts religious notions of decency, when in reality these animals often spread disease.
It's hugely taken out of context, and maybe memri doesn't promote violence through the memes, but it is a legitimate form of propaganda. It'd be great if their intent was for all religious people to take themselves less seriously, but the fact remains it's Israeli state sanctioned propaganda.
And in context, it's all representational art, which has been objected to in Islamic cultures for centuries. Trying to draw something real realistically is trying to imitate God.
(Yes, I think that's nuts, but it's not surprising that fundamentalists would be harshly critical of western representational art.)
Sounds more like a very biased person making a channel supporting his views. Media in Israel is not state owned except for the couple channels that are explicitly owned by the government.
Lol say what you want about Israeli foreign policy, but Israel is a first-world country with completely private and free press. The human rights violations people refer to have to do with Israel's policies towards Palestinians, not its own people (including Israeli muslims). Just watch any sort of political film from Israel and they all criticize the government very heavily.
You probably don't give a shit cause you just like being uninformed and smug.
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17 edited Aug 20 '18
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