Yes, the rise of the Islamic State must have come about because Muslim children are watching cartoons that millions of non-Muslim children have watched without becoming murderous death-loving psychopaths. It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with their reading a book that they think comes from the supreme being, and that exhorts them to “kill the polytheists wherever you find them” (Qur’an 9:5).
“Tom and Jerry are blamed for ISIS: Head of Egypt’s Information Service blames cartoon characters for teaching children that you can blow people up and encouraging extremism,” by Julian Robinson, MailOnline, May 5, 2016 (thanks to Thomas):
The head of Egypt’s Information Service has blamed Tom and Jerry for the rise of ISIS – claiming the characters encourage extremism and teach children that you can blow people up.
Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek said the cartoon as well as video games and ‘violent’ movies helped to spark violence and extremism across the Arab world.
He told an audience at Cairo University that Tom and Jerry contributed to the notion that violence was a ‘natural’ part of life.
According to Egyptian Streets, he said: ‘[The cartoon] 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 viewers’] mind that this is natural.’
He added that it has become common place for young men to spend hours playing violent video games and that the gamer will be ‘happy and content’.
The website said that the Egyptian government had not yet taken steps to censor Tom and Jerry or video games – despite Salah Abdel Sadek’s comments….

mortimer says
Islamic Melodrama 101 plus Islamic Victimology 101 equal al Walaa wal Baraa…the scapegoating of the ‘other’. Muslims can’t be blamed Muslims and Islam are never the motives for violence and, hey, it isn’t ‘violence’ if it’s jihad. Anyway, the dirty kafirs have it coming to them. They stubbornly resisted Allah’s absurdities. For that, Allah wants them dead…the kafirs think too much. Muslims are Allah’s bounty hunters, massacring the dirty kafirs and exterminating them. Allah pays the Muslims in ‘honor’ and sex slaves both here and in the afterlife.
Of course, the Sira and the hadiths and Islamic history also provide role models for violence, but those are jihad.
It isn’t an atrocity if it’s jihad.
Jay Boo says
Mortimer you forget that:
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Muslims have absolutely — no honor.
Muhammad was a disgrace to humanity as well.
mortimer says
Islam is an honor culture. http://www.zwemercenter.com/guide/honor-and-shame-9-keys/
gravenimage says
Muslims use the concept of “honor” differently than do civilized people.
Westman says
Mortimer, I think you have described the central source of Allah-commanded supremist arrogance, Al-Wala’u wa Al-Bara – love Muslims and all things Islam , hate the unbelievers, Jews and Christians. You have listed it before and I didn’t really recognize that it meant total polarization against the unbelivers; no different than historical groups like the KKK. Who are the real racists, again?
O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.Quran 5:51
Al-Wala’u wa Al-Barais the strongest bond of Iman(belief plus the Golden Rule for Muslims, only). Al-Barra’ bin A’aazeb ‘(companion of Muhammad) narrates that the Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “The strongest bond of Iman is the love for Allah’s sake and the hatred for Allah’s sake” (Reported by Imam Ahmad).
Again:
“The strongest bond of Iman is the love for Allah’s sake and the hatred for Allah’s sake” </b?
Accusing Tom and Jerry to be the source of violent Jihad (holy war) is the equivalent of saying Tom And Jerry is Allah.
Again, using any ridiculous excuse to deflect criticism of Islam's violent reality simply illustrates that marginal intelligence is unable to recognize that it is marginal.
Dean says
I find it amusing that cultures that require children to read and study as if there is nothing else the most violent and oppressive collection of propaganda in the world and then blame western cartoons for the resulting violent culture. However, it is likely that cartoons like these and Mickey Mouse have done as much as anything else to spread western culture and that is what is really irritating their cultural leaders.
Ahmed says
I was born in ’43 and raised on Tom and Jerry and Micket mouse and Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner and other cartoons. I’m 73 and I have never hurt another human being nor blown up a mousehole or a skyscraper.
Eur says
Jajajajaa They are so stupid and ridiculous .. Is there any study about the low IQ of the Arabs? This is not normal.
mortimer says
50 generations of first cousin marriage and uncle-niece marriage have led to low IQs in all Muslim countries.
Eur says
just saw the oque data by country. Arabs rub subnormality . That will be the explanation of almost everything about Islam.very simple and manipulative people with inferiority complex, on the one hand people tell them that because of been Muslims are superior but then reto realizarse are not able to anything useful.
Jay Boo says
Islam is a penis driven religion.
Muslims worship the penis with piety.
Muslim men derive all thoughts from this appendage rather than use their brains.
Muhammad promised them a 72 virgin Jannah.
They have kissed carpets in submission ever since.
Jay Boo says
Where is the ISIS Tom & Jerry flag?
Carolyne says
A Turk once told me that a villager had said to him , after watching a Donald Duck cartoon, that “These Americans are funny looking people. “
gravenimage says
That’s *hilarious*!
Angemon says
Funny how ISIS didn’t develop in countries where violent cartoons and videogames abound. And funny how it’s called “islamic state” instead of “Cartoon Violence State”…
gravenimage says
Also true, Angemon.
Jay Boo says
Wacko — Baby killer religion.
somehistory says
The psychopath blames everyone and everything for his own faults, errors and shortcomings.
The psychopathy known as islam and served by a multitude of individual psychopaths blame everyone and everything else for their evils.
Tom and Jerry. Cat and mouse. Sure, sure. A cat and a mouse are to blame for all of the evils of islam. And not even a real cat and mouse, but one drawn on paper.
Aren’t the moslims taught that the representation of anything for any reason is wrong?
What are they doing watching Tom and Jerry?
What are they doing watching television?
Champ says
Tom and Jerry? Boy that is one of the worst attempts at obfuscation for islam and taqiyya that I’ve come across. Read the quran, it’s replete with violent texts instructing muslims to commit murder & mayhem.
gravenimage says
Yes, Champ–incredibly lame, even for victim-mongering Muslims.
Mark Swan says
Maybe their younger generation is demonstrating a sense of humor, and having trouble
concentrating on Quran lessons, making jokes, funny noises, you know, kid stuff.
Dean says
The Islamic leaders don’t really believe this but hate anything and everything western, except the modern world which they appropriate without giving any credit to its creators, and use every excuse to attack it. You can count on the irrational to blame anything they don’t like for everything that happens to them including the next earthquake. No causal links are necessary.
salim says
Before I gave up from Islam and Muslims, I gave up from Egypt. I don’t believe this the country that, only 40 years ago, was the beacon of enlightenment in the Middle East and used to lead the Arabs in every field.
You guys in the West think of Egypt. If you don’t stand up to what seems to some as remote Islamic threat, in 40 years you end up like Egypt.
Carolyne says
Yes, Egypt was the first country to practice polytheism when Akenaten started his cult of sun worship. The ancient Egyptians were master engineers. They built the pyramids within one/fourth inch true. They were great artists–just look at the paintings in the tombs at the Valley of the KIngs. They had a great library, the world’s first, at Alexandria. This was thousands of years ago, but they were the same peoples who now worship a god of destruction, murder and rape. They create nothing. They are now savages. This regression to Neanderthals came about because of Islam.
linnte says
Unbelievable!
Dan says
When I was Middle East 15 years ago, the cartoons, actors in Mickey Mouse style costumes and high pitch voices were all asking six year olds, ‘Well, well little Achmed. How many Jews are you going to kill when you grow up?
Well.
Those proud little kids sticking up fingers because they couldn’t count, are now in their early twenties so..
gravenimage says
Yes–that would be this vile character:
“Mickey the Jihadist Rat “martyred” in final episode”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/06/mickey-the-jihadist-rat-martyred-in-final-episode
vlparker says
LOL. I should be a mass murderer by now. I watched Tom and Jerry all the time. Played cowboys and Indians too. I had a cap gun, a GI Joe and played war games. We used to use dirt clods for hand grenades. Even had a few fights like all kids. And I’ve never in my life instigated a confrontation with anyone.
somehistory says
As kids, all of my siblings and I watched cartoons every Saturday. Not only Tom and Jerry, but Roadrunner and Wiley, Bugs and Elmer with his shotgun…and none of us are murderers.
Hearing, from the age of two or three, from real adults that one should murder others, and hearing it daily with threats and lashings is what turns these *kids* into killers.
Guest says
If Tom and Jerry suffer for this there will be retribution. Mark my words!
Guest says
How could they watch Tom and Jerry any way? Egypt doesn’t have cable!
celticwarriorcanada says
Even as a child I always thought there was something Sinister about that mouse and cat !!!
gravenimage says
Egypt’s Information Service chief blames rise of Islamic State on Tom and Jerry
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And here I always thought it was Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner that were to blame…sarc/off
bernie says
Good thing they haven’t been watching “Itchy and Scratchy” from the Simpsons….now, those characters resemble Islamic extremists.
jayell says
Well, it’s not just Tom and Jerry. What about all those TV Western series that children used to watch, with all the guns and killing? And war/crime programmes? And games like Grand Theft Auto that some young people have got hold of? To go by this Egyptian’s logic, the West should have been full of murdering, genocidal, psychopathic, criminal car-kleptomaniacs many years ago. There was one case about 20 years ago of a very young boy who was abducted and murdered by a pair of psychopathic 10-year-olds who (it was claimed) had been playing some nasty video game. But that was just ONE isolated case, and the culprits seriously had a screw loose. Which probably puts this Egyptian”s claims into perspective. If you’ve got a whole population with a tendency towards looseness of screws, you won’t even need Tom & Jerry to get a few bad results. The question surely is, why do so many of this man’s Egyptian compatriots display an innate tendency to go off the rails at the slightest provocation? Something in the genes? Something in the background culture? Now, I think we may have hit on something there!
Carolyne says
It is something in the genes. They have married close relatives i.e. cousins, nieces, etc. for generations so that the gene pool has been significantly reduced. Their family trees go straight up—no branches.
gravenimage says
I think it’s mostly their vicious ideology.
Converts to Islam who are not inbred are just as violent.
Baconator says
That’s because most converts happen in prison. Junkies, burglars, small-time hookers, drug dealers, carjackers, pick pockets, …. – they get attracted to Islam just like flies are attracted to garbage.
خَليفة says
When you cant find anything else, blame a cartoon.
This makes me laugh so hard. I can just see those Egyptian muslim minds trying to figure something out, like a Wile E Coyote plan to capture the Road Runner. And we know how those Plans worked out…
This shows the oxymoronic quality of Islamic reasoning – they would be embarrassed if they knew how utterly stupid they actually are.