It seems that at one of the pro-Osama rallies in Bangladesh, a banner with a montage of bin Laden headshots (now there’s a happiness-inducing thought) inexplicably includes the mug of Bert from Sesame Street.
A possible explanation is that the banner-maker was pulling Osama shots from off the Internet, and got one from this website, dedicated to the premise that the irascible Bert is provably evil.
Perhaps we should have been suspicious about things other than the sexual orientation of Sesame Street’s most irritable bachelor …
the COUNT scared me
the “one, two, three, FOUR-FIVE, six, seven,
eight, NINE-TEN, eleven, twelve” thing scared me
the crack in the wall thing REALLY SCARED ME
when you think back,
it does seem like BERT was up to something
The best part this story is that given how these hardcore extremists feel about women, pregnant women, Americans, anyone not them, I can only imagine how OBL would react if he found out that his supporters are waving around a poster of him next to an American puppet of allegedly-homosexual orientation.
He would probably feel like Falwell if his supporters were carrying pictures of him next to Tinky-Winky I imagine.
Osama, as a Muslim fundamentalist, would probably dislike to appear in the same picture as a Muppet.
IIRC, the Quran teaches that on the last day, all those who have fashioned a likeness of one of Allah’s creatures will wake up surrounded by their creations. Allah will then command them to breath life into these creations, and when they fail, throw them into Hell - which explains why puppet shows are about as popular among the Taliban as death metal is among Christian fundies.
Hmmm. A thought just struck me. While I’m pretty certain that images, statues etc. are usually taken to be forbidden by fundamentalist practioners of Islam, that didn’t seem to stop the protesters in Pakistan from making dolls of Bush and Blair. Muslim Guy, could you explain?
Does this also pertain to video images? I seem to have heard that the Taliban has banned television and radio as “evil”, yet Bin Laden made a videotape message just before the military strike on 10/7. How do they reconcile making a video image?
It’s interesting to note that Bert is not mentioned as one of the top 22 terrorists this administration is out to bring down, but the photo does seem to point to their being a link between Bert and Osama.
I have no doubt that the CIA is even now sequestering Bert for some serious interrogation.
And if they can’t find him, will we have a bombing of Sesame Street? Surely the US government won’t stoop as to bomb our own territory, but can’t you just see them storming the street? I imagine there will at least be a visible National Guard presence seen in future episodes.
And lest we forget, Bert is still a threat while remains free. He consorts with passenger pigeons, the very pigeons which may be used to communicate stealthily with Osama.
I have yet to figure how oatmeal and bottlecaps play into this conspiracy, but Bert is a threat to the free world, or so it would appear…
Curiously, no. Photography and moving images are usually excluded from the rule. Dolls are, however, verboten, so I assume making a fluffy doll of Osama bin Laden would make him balk. The following is from a Usenet post by somebody who uses the signature “Shahid” (I am not a Muslim, and I can’t say how representative his views are - he is probably more moderate than the Taliban):
