It's bad enough when a cartoon strip for children depicts an Islamophobic thug as a Christian. What makes it even worse is that this cartoon strip is published by a government-funded charity in Britain. Jonathan Petre of the Mail Online wrote an article about this latest attempt at understanding "diversity":
A Government-funded charity was at the centre of a row last night after a magazine it publishes for children appeared to depict Christians as Islamaphobes who regard Muslims as terrorists.
In a cartoon strip, a boy wearing a large cross around his neck is shown telling a friend that a smiling Muslim girl in a veil looks like a terrorist.
He later confronts her and shouts: ‘Hey, whatever your name is, what are you hiding under your turban?’
Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute, said: ‘What about Christian children in care who received this magazine? How will they feel to see themselves mocked as narrow-minded Islamaphobes?
‘It is a clumsy caricature, symptomatic of a culture which says it is OK to bully Christians in the name of diversity.’
It is highly doubtful that Klick! magazine would present real, not fictional, examples of bullying such as seen in this report:
Today, extremist groups, with sympathy and support from religious schools in Pakistan, go around the country taking the law into their own hands under the banner of equalizing justice. To them, justice often means revenge killings done in the name of law and order.
Targeted are Christians and other religious groups, forcing many religious minorities underground. Christians are fighting for their lives and being put on trial for their beliefs. Reports from Pakistan reveal that many Christians are beginning to dress and grow beards like Muslims just to blend in.
[Where are the government efforts to promote the rejection of extremists Islamic beliefs? Especially those explicitly contrary to their nations laws?]
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