Evil TV
This is totally weird.. I cannot believe that this is real.. I just read from CNN that lil' kids are imitating the death of Saddam Hussein!! O M G!...
They hanged them self,thinking that it's just a game.
"RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) -- A Moroccan man returned home to find his 11-year-old son hanging dead from the ceiling, a newspaper said on Thursday, the latest victim of a macabre game in which children mimic the death of Saddam Hussein.
The boy decided to copy the former Iraq leader's execution while playing with his younger sister at their home in Khemisset, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the capital of Rabat, newspaper Al Ahdat al-Maghrebia reported.
"The girl then went to school and left her brother playing his deadly game," it said, adding that local officials had opened an inquiry into the death." --CNN.com (READ THE NEWS HERE )
Fears that children too affected by violence in TV news
The deaths have led many to question the television coverage of the graphic violence in Iraq and the Palestinian territories and the influence on children across the region.
"What have children to do with this kind of thing? They should be playing, painting or reading," said Moroccan sociologist Youssef Sadik.
"It is a characteristic of the Muslim world that we have an over-politicized society. Everyone's into politics, discussing events in Palestine and Iraq and hooked on Al-Jazeera."
The manner of Husein's execution at the hands of a U.S.-backed government led by Iraq's Shiite Arab majority led many people in predominantly Sunni Muslim North Africa to momentarily forget his past record.
Many were impressed by his dignity on the gallows in the face of insults hurled at him in his final moments and some praised him as a hero.
That clearly had a powerful effect on younger minds, said Sadik.
"Children in Morocco are under pressure from an early age to try to be heroes themselves, to be the ones who succeeded where others around them did not," he said. --CNN.com
Why on earth, would you do this thing? How can anyone want to imitate the death of someone else? You know.. now I realize, we do really need to control our TV for our kids. But, a 11-year-old-boy?? Isn't he ,at that age, supposed to at least able to differentiate which one is good or which one is bad? Hmm...maybe not then.
I remember when I was a kid, my parent did not let us watch until every 4pm. They kept the TV inside their bedroom and then they would bring the TV out right at 4 o'clock so we (the kids) can watch cartoon on TV in the living room. Other than that, I dont think I remember I watched anything else. I used to think that my mom and dad were weird for doing that. But now.. I think it made a lot of sense. Plus, my parents like to buy a japanese cartoon video to watch.
Hmmm...I am glad I have a great family..well sure, we all had our ups and downs, but despite everything.. I turn out great, right?? Well, maybe not great yet, but soon-to-be-great. Hohoho, AMEN!
They hanged them self,thinking that it's just a game.
"RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) -- A Moroccan man returned home to find his 11-year-old son hanging dead from the ceiling, a newspaper said on Thursday, the latest victim of a macabre game in which children mimic the death of Saddam Hussein.
The boy decided to copy the former Iraq leader's execution while playing with his younger sister at their home in Khemisset, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the capital of Rabat, newspaper Al Ahdat al-Maghrebia reported.
"The girl then went to school and left her brother playing his deadly game," it said, adding that local officials had opened an inquiry into the death." --CNN.com (READ THE NEWS HERE )
Fears that children too affected by violence in TV news
The deaths have led many to question the television coverage of the graphic violence in Iraq and the Palestinian territories and the influence on children across the region.
"What have children to do with this kind of thing? They should be playing, painting or reading," said Moroccan sociologist Youssef Sadik.
"It is a characteristic of the Muslim world that we have an over-politicized society. Everyone's into politics, discussing events in Palestine and Iraq and hooked on Al-Jazeera."
The manner of Husein's execution at the hands of a U.S.-backed government led by Iraq's Shiite Arab majority led many people in predominantly Sunni Muslim North Africa to momentarily forget his past record.
Many were impressed by his dignity on the gallows in the face of insults hurled at him in his final moments and some praised him as a hero.
That clearly had a powerful effect on younger minds, said Sadik.
"Children in Morocco are under pressure from an early age to try to be heroes themselves, to be the ones who succeeded where others around them did not," he said. --CNN.com
Why on earth, would you do this thing? How can anyone want to imitate the death of someone else? You know.. now I realize, we do really need to control our TV for our kids. But, a 11-year-old-boy?? Isn't he ,at that age, supposed to at least able to differentiate which one is good or which one is bad? Hmm...maybe not then.
I remember when I was a kid, my parent did not let us watch until every 4pm. They kept the TV inside their bedroom and then they would bring the TV out right at 4 o'clock so we (the kids) can watch cartoon on TV in the living room. Other than that, I dont think I remember I watched anything else. I used to think that my mom and dad were weird for doing that. But now.. I think it made a lot of sense. Plus, my parents like to buy a japanese cartoon video to watch.
Hmmm...I am glad I have a great family..well sure, we all had our ups and downs, but despite everything.. I turn out great, right?? Well, maybe not great yet, but soon-to-be-great. Hohoho, AMEN!
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