Senior Egypt Official Blames ‘Tom and Jerry’, Video Games for Violence Across Middle East

Egyptian Streets ^ | 5/4/2016 | Mohamed Khairat

[Dallas59]

The head of Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS), Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek, has attributed the rise of violence and extremism across the Arab world to children’s cartoon Tom and Jerry, video games and ‘violent’ movies.

During a speech at a conference titled ‘The Media and the Culture of Violence’ at Cairo University, the Ambassador said that Tom and Jerry sets an idea in the viewer’s mind that violence is natural.

“[Tom and Jerry] portrays the violence in a funny manner and sends the message that, yes, I can hit him…and I can blow him up with explosives. It becomes set in [the viewer’s] mind that this is natural,” said Ambassador Abdel Sadek.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Heckle and Jeckle? Wherd is Dudly Doo Right and Clutch Cargo when you need them.

[WashingtonSource]

Cute

[Seruzawa]

Looks like Muslims and Baptists have something in common.

[chajin]

They were all pharaoh’s faucet majors.

Probably lost their savings in a pyramid scheme

[chajin]

I guess ol’ Salah Abdul Sadsack never watches Palestinian children’s TV where Farfur the Mouse

Amen; I couldn't remember the character, but he can be seen on Youtube, and it's very disturbing.

[chuckee]

So are the sunni Tom and the shia Jerry or is it the other way around?

[elcid1970]

At least Dudley Do Right was animated, like the other Rocky & Bullwinkle characters.

Clutch Cargo was the most el cheapo form of “animation” ever with the frozen frames and moving mouths. Later I learned that “clutch cargo” meant shipped baggage.

I liked Heckle & Jeckle but I thought they were crows rather than magpies.

[tophat9000]

Islam is a cartoon world.

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Like Itchy and Scratchy cartoon from The Simpsons

[Charles Martel]

They would really hate Itchy and Scratchy

I think they *are* Itchy and Scratchy.

[Jack Hammer]

Not surprising - the average IQ for the entire Arab world is about 25, if that.

[SaraJohnson]

Tom and Jerry did it. Now we know why islam is so violent and barbaric.

[SunkenCiv]

And that time travel episode of Tom & Jerry exonerates the Big Old Mo from the mass-murder of the Jews of Arabia. Thanks Dallas59.

[GOPJ]

Gads, sounds like the guy’s a member of a democrat victim group...