This is on Al-Aqsa TV, which is run by Hamas, the governing party in the Palestinian Authority territories. Here's a photo of the bunny and Saraa Barhoum, the child host of the show:
Here's the transcript, from MEMRI:
Saraa: "How did these Danes have the audacity to affront the Messenger of Allah? Do you have an answer to that, Assud?"
Assud: "No, I don't. Maybe because the Arabs and Muslims keep silent, [the Danes] humiliated them and did these things to them."
Saraa: "That's one reason, but there is an even more important reason, Assud."
Assud: "I have no idea."
Saraa: "It's because the West has seen that we've moved away from the religion of Allah, and from the Sunna of our Prophet Muhammad. They have also seen that we have forsaken the religion of Allah, and therefore, they could affront the Prophet, because... We have done nothing to redeem the Prophet Muhammad. But I say to them: You haven't seen anything yet. Allah willing, the soldiers of the 'Pioneers of Tomorrow' will redeem the Prophet Muhammad with all that they possess, and even with their blood, Assud. They will not allow them to do this again."
Assud: "If they do it again, Saraa, we will kill them, right?"
Saraa: "Allah willing."
Assud: "I will bite them and eat them up."
Saraa: "Yes." ...
Saraa: "What do you have to say to the cartoonist who started all this, and affronted the Prophet by drawing him?"
Assud: "He's a criminal..."
Saraa: "Yes, a criminal."
Tasnim, by phone: "I say to him, and to all of them, that no matter how much they try to hide him, we will manage to kill him, to assassinate him."
Assud: "Allah willing." ...
MEMRI links to the video; if you can identify any problems with the translation, please e-mail me about them. [UPDATE: Thanks to reader bonhomme for the screen shot that shows the bunny and the child host.]
Thanks to Lou Offen for the pointer.
UPDATE: Sean O'Hara wins, with extra credit for the religious reference: "Where's the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch when you really need it?"
if so, he should be SCARED!
Would Britain be better off with more tolerance of Bunnies of Death? Should such Bunnies hold official positions in Her Majesty's government, or should they be kept unofficial?
Should there be government subsidized warrens? When will the BBC allow Robert Fisk to produce an incisive expose of MEMRI and the Anti-Bunnyist provocateurs in the Bush Administration?
Of course, if you wanted to be complete, you could also say "Hamas, the Iranian/Syrian-supported Islamist faction that has seized power in Gaza, and which routinely conducts terrorist attacks on Israeli targets," or even "Hamas,the Iranian/Syrian-supported Islamist faction that has seized power in Gaza, and which routinely conducts terrorist attacks on Israeli targets and has gained widespread support among the Palestinian people due in no small part to their funding of social programs (such as, inter alia, Al Aqsa TV) and their opposition to the rampant corruption engendered under the leadership of the secular Fattah faction, which has its own terrorist offshoots that have conducted many attacks on Israeli targets."
Or maybe just "Hamas, one of the many groups of unpleasant people currently operating in the Palestinian territories."
I just remember hearing about MEMRI getting in trouble for mistranslations in the past, and I'd prefer not to start sending this link around only to have someone disclaim it later.
Original here , and I commented here.
A phrase I might never have read, were it not for the Internet and this blog. Thanks!
As far as I know, MEMRI's translations are and have been quite accurate. Can you provide any details as to who claimed what about putative mistranslations by MEMRI? I have seen generic claims that MEMRI is anti-Muslim/Arab/Palestinian, but nothing containing details and nothing I found at all persuasive. As far as I can tell, such claims about MEMRI are disinformation spread by people embaressed by the dissemination of accurate information.
Here's one source: LINK.
Of course, I'm really not capable of judging the credibility of the MEMRI criticisms, especially when it comes to issues of translation. Its likely that these people have objections to the content of MEMRI itself, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are incorrect on the mistranslation issue. And of course, you could say that the translation differences spoken about in that link aren't HUGE shifts in the content of the video.
Thats why I was hoping to avoid the issue entirely by getting someone here to verify it (after all, VC commentators are above reproach).
Interesting. Whether it is the mouse or the child that says "I'll shoot" doesn't seem to make much difference but the other points are more disturbing. Even so, the author says that MEMRI translations ARE generally accurate, in spite of a few cases like this. Of course, always accurate would be better.
What was this post about again?
The only comfort I take in relying more or less on MEMRI's accuracy is that, in most instances, even if they were exaggerating by 200-300%, the truth would still be disgusting.
I don't know why they don't do this - they have to have all of these, except possibly for the transcription, so it isn't a lot of additional work, and with current disk space and network bandwidth, it shouldn't pose a capacity problem.
Yep, it'd be "PYTHONESQUE" IF'N THESE FOLKS WEREN'T APPARENTLY DEADLY SERIOUS....
At least, I have a hard time imagining that if Captain Kangaroo's Bunny Rabbit read from a similar script there wouldn't be some vigorous demands to muzzle the cap'n.
I assume you're joking, but I'm not 100% certain, so please reassure me.
Did someone waylay Santa to make her that outfit?
I've seen documentaries where children under ten are recruited as guerilla fighters, acting as lookouts, scouts, and sometimes even footsoldiers for their older peers. Now I've seen murderous bunnies planting more poison into the minds of juveniles.
We all know Israel isn't perfect--they carry out extra-judicial assassinations, for instance--but I have never seen them exploit their children in such a callous fashion.
I have also never seen a Jewish women sentenced to jail and a whipping for having been pack-raped (as happened in Saudi Arabia last year when a woman was sent to jail and whipped after being pack raped by six men, her crime was "being in the car of a unrelated male).
Unfortunately--and this is tough to admit--when faced with such an enemy, it may really be necessary to "fight fire with fire."
The hostess's responses were good-natured but a little softer than I would have liked. How would the world react, do you think, if a Danish frog puppet called for the death of Palestinians? Or even just the assassination of the pink bunny -- for insulting Danish values?
Can you even begin to imagine the outrage and horror? The sanctions and conferences? The clouds of sanctimony that would rise over Brussels and Turtle Bay?
Yet the same world looks at the homicidal pink bunny and shrugs as if little more could be expected.
Talk about the bigotry of low expectations...