{"id":304,"date":"2007-09-11T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/09\/11\/he-doesnt-look-jewish\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T22:31:42","slug":"he-doesnt-look-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/he-doesnt-look-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"He doesn&#8217;t look Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=3906\">So Pikachu is an agent of International Zionism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Who<\/strong>: Saudi Arabia\u2019s Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong>: Denouncing the lovable Japanese cartoon characters as having \u201cpossessed the minds\u201d of Saudi youngsters, Saudi Arabia\u2019s highest religious authority banned Pok\u00e9mon video games and cards in the spring of 2001. Not only do Saudi scholars believe that Pok\u00e9mon encourages gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, but it is apparently a front for Israel as well. The fatwa\u2019s authors claimed that Pok\u00e9mon games include, \u201cthe Star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel\u2019s national emblem.\u201d Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates joined in, condemning the games for promoting evolution, \u201ca Jewish-Darwinist theory that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles,\u201d but didn\u2019t ban them outright. Even the Catholic Church in Mexico got into the act, calling Pok\u00e9mon video games \u201cdemonic.\u201d ((These Mexican Catholic officials obviously weren&#8217;t paying attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,26334,620818,00.html\">the Vatican<\/a>.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Pikachu is an agent of International Zionism: Who: Saudi Arabia\u2019s Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law What: Denouncing the lovable Japanese cartoon characters as having \u201cpossessed the minds\u201d of Saudi youngsters, Saudi Arabia\u2019s highest religious authority banned Pok\u00e9mon video games and cards in the spring of 2001. Not only do Saudi scholars &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/he-doesnt-look-jewish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t look Jewish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-4U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}