Cartoon strip aimed at under-12s depicts Christian boy as Islamaphobe thug

by Jonathan Petre
Daily Mail
April 4, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1565/cartoon-strip-aimed-at-under-12s-depicts

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A Government-funded charity was at the centre of a row last night after a magazine it publishes for children appeared to depict Christians as Islamaphobes who regard Muslims as terrorists.

In a cartoon strip, a boy wearing a large cross around his neck is shown telling a friend that a smiling Muslim girl in a veil looks like a terrorist.

He later confronts her and shouts: 'Hey, whatever your name is, what are you hiding under your turban?'

She replies that the garment is called a hijab and it is part of her religion, 'like that cross you wear'.

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