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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew 9/11 Coloring Book Features Terrorist Trading Cards
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/9-11-coloring-book-features-terrorist-trading-cards-204300629.html/
The 40-page book features black-and-white drawings of the branches of the U.S. military and outlined images of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, all ready and waiting be colored in. It also features photos of 9/11 crash sites, excerpts from a letter from Rep. Michele Bachman questioning the head of Homeland Security about the Muslim Brotherhood, and four full-color pull-out pages of glossy trading cards.
On the table of contents page kids are urged to "share the information in this book with your friends, neighbors, teachers, educators, religious leaders." They're also cautioned to get their parents' permission before taking the book to school "to share with friends."
It's the type of book that people have to judge by its content, not its cover, Bell explains.
"A lot of people simply love the book because it's not politically correct, and they're not teaching the history of terrorism in schools today," he says. "This book has nothing to do with the Muslim faith. It has nothing to do with Islam. It just so happens that a lot of the high-profile terrorists happen to be radical Islamic jihadists."
"Why trading cards? It's kind of interesting," he says. "It's kind of like when the U.S. government made USA playing cards with terrorists on the playing cards, from the Ace of Spades down to the Deuce of Hearts. It's just another feature in the book that's pretty unique in that it explains terrorists and terrorism."
"It's unique in the fact that we try to name them and shame them, the actual faces of evil," he adds.
The 36 cards feature the 9/11 terrorists, but also include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, among others. On the backs are printed detailed information about each.
"It's unique in the fact that we try to name them and shame them, the actual faces of evil," he adds.
The 36 cards feature the 9/11 terrorists, but also include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, among others. On the backs are printed detailed information about each.
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New 9/11 Coloring Book Features Terrorist Trading Cards (Original Post)
Curtland1015
Aug 2012
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)1. Good Lord!
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)2. Now Dubya has a nice coloring book,
to go with his favorite novel, My Pet Goat.
Julian Assange? Really? WOW! is right.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)3. Weird right?
Who would buy this for their kids?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)4. Assange? Jeez, that is the worst sort of propaganda
I'd hope that could be used to say "he'll never get a fair trial for anything in the US".