The relationship between Muslim Fundamentalists and Mickey Mouse gets stranger and stranger. From Guysen International News:

A sheik from Saudi Arabia, a former diplomat posted in Washington, has put out a fatwa on Mickey Mouse, calling him the new enemy of Islam. "Mickey Mouse is a soldier of Satan, and everything he touches becomes impure," said Sheik Muhammad al-Munajid. (Guysen.International.News)

"According to sharia law, the mouse is a repugnant and corrupting animal," he said during a show broadcast by Al-Majd television.

Interestingly, there is some similarity between the views of Muslim Fundmentalists and Baptist Fundmentalists regarding Disney. Baptists were raging against Disney's corrupting influence (I kid you not) some 11 years before this Saudi sheik jumped on the bandwagon. From Religious Tolerance.org:

[UPDATE: Turns out this was going on last year too. See this 2007 blog. It also suggests either the organization's leaders are liars, or the organization's volunteers are actually violating their own standards in addition to the law and common decency.]

[UPDATE II: Given that the 2007 article suggests that this is all against the organization's stated policies, in addition to reporting problems to the Park Administration as outlined below...

Turns out the CEF is denying any connection with this practice...see their statement at the bottom.]

Would like to pass along something from the Park Slope Parents List. Seems a fundamentalist Christian group is proselytizing kids in playgrounds without parent's permission:

But is it good for Israel?...The now seemingly age-old refrain of American Jews whose support for Israel sometimes affects their reason. Now despite some anti-Semitic accusations, I don't know a single American Jew whose support for Israel EVER interferes with their loyalty and patriotism as American citizens. But sometimes American Jews are willing to make what seem to me to be idiotic alliances in the name of Israel.