In a new revised version of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Linus, Lucy and the gang break the Sabbath and are transformed into apes and pigs and driven into the sea.
What’s that? You missed that one? Okay, I confess: I made it up as a Christmas present for all you “Christianity is just as likely to inspire hatred and intolerance as Islam” types. Merry Christmas!
Here’s the real story: “Hizbullah Al-Manar TV”s Children’s Claymation Special: Jews Turn Into Apes and Pigs, are Annihilated and Cast Into the Sea” from MEMRI, with thanks to Mrs. Obelix:
In its Stories from the Koran series, Al-Manar TV, which is affiliated with the Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah, aired an Egyptian claymation children’s special by the well-known filmaker Dr. Zeinab Zamzam. [1]
The following are excerpts are from the program, which aired December 7, 2005.
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Habakkuk: “Step right up. It is me, Habakkuk. I am, as you can see, safe and sound. The only illness that has struck me is wealth. Come here. How nice it is to work on the Sabbath. How nice it is to work on the Sabbath. I am working on the Sabbath, and I challenge the will of the heavens.”
[While jumping up and down, Pinhas, Shamloun, Habakkuk, and others in the marketplace turn into apes. The boy and his grandfather open a door in the wall and step to the other side with some other villagers.]
Grandfather: “Look, my child, the young among them have turned into apes, and their elderly have become pigs.”
Boy: “They should know that the Lord speaks the truth and punishes severely.”
Grandfather: “Praise the Lord, who has saved us. They remained in this condition for three days, and then were annihilated. The wind has cast them into the sea.”
[Music plays as the apes and pigs are cast into the sea.]
Narrator: “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. When they disregarded the warning that had been given to them, We rescued those who forbade Evil; but We visited the wrong-doers with a grievous punishment because they were given to transgression. When in their insolence they transgressed prohibitions, We said the them: ‘Be ye apes, despised and rejected.’ Behold – thy Lord did declare that He would send against them, to the Day of Judgment those who would afflict them with grievous penalty. The Lord is quick in retribution, but he is also oft-forgiving, most Merciful.”