MICKEY MOUSE MUST DIE!! He is an agent of Satan! Who could have known that????

I received this in an email this morning, and it totally shocked me. An example of how some religious heads can go so extreme in their views that they do not realise how ridiculous they are beginning to sound.

" An excerpt ( and also on CNN and many other news coverages): Muhammad Al-Munajid: What is the position of Islamic law with regard to mice? The Shari'a refers to the mouse as "little corrupter," and says it is permissible to kill it in all cases. It says that mice set fire to the house, and are steered by Satan. The mouse is one of Satan's soldiers and is steered by him. If a mouse falls into a pot of food – if the food is solid, you should chuck out the mouse and the food touching it, and if it is liquid – you should chuck out the whole thing. Because the mouse is i-m-p-u-r-e!

According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry? Even creatures that are repulsive by nature, by logic, and according to Islamic law have become wonderful and are loved by children. Even mice. Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases."

I totally agree with the scriptures about throwing away food that a mouse has died in... ANYONE with even a micro-dot of common sense will know dead creatures in food is poisonous, disease causing and well... just a bad idea... who wants to eat a rotting dead mouse?

I am so glad I live in a country, where religious heads have a lot more Wisdom, Logic and Love in their hearts to care for the poor, the homeless or the sick, than concern themselves with a Giant Foam and Velvet covered mouse being an agent of evil and corruption.

In the ages goneby, there was the Witch Hunts and Inquisitions in Europe and America, where a woman could be impaled or burnt alive merely for living alone with a cat and for having knowledge of healing herbs. A man could be killed instantly for being a heretic for being poor but being able to read and write... how preposterous!

Today, these attitudes have not change, just re-disguised in a different "costume". I guess Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse and his family of Ducks and Dogs all have to run and go in hiding now... for fear of being murdered or flayed alive...