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Children copying Hussein's death.
Topic Started: Jan 19 2007, 01:20 AM (953 Views)
ExiledSoldier
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I hope this is ok since its not a video or anything like that.

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A Moroccan man returned home to find his 11-year-old son hanging dead from the ceiling, a newspaper said on Thursday, the latest victim of a macabre game in which children mimic the death of Saddam Hussein.

The boy decided to copy the former Iraq leader's execution while playing with his younger sister at their home in Khemisset, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the capital of Rabat, newspaper Al Ahdat al-Maghrebia reported.

"The girl then went to school and left her brother playing his deadly game," it said, adding that local officials had opened an inquiry into the death.

Saddam's execution on December 30 came as families gathered for the religious feast of Eid al-Adha and the images of the former Iraqi leader on the gallows shown repeatedly on Arabic news channels spurred indignation among his fellow Sunni Muslims.
Boy latest of children who copied hanging

Since then, several stories have emerged of children dying or being injured after being captivated by the manner of Hussein's death or by family conversations about the execution.

One 12-year-old Saudi boy died after using a chair and a metal wire to hang himself from a door frame, while another in Algeria was found hanging from a tree, papers reported.

Two boys in different regions of Azerbaijan hanged themselves at the weekend and may have been influenced by Hussein's execution, a security source in the country said.

The death of a 15-year-old boy last week in the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca was also suspected of being the result of another re-enactment.
Fears that children too affected by violence in TV news

The deaths have led many to question the television coverage of the graphic violence in Iraq and the Palestinian territories and the influence on children across the region.

"What have children to do with this kind of thing? They should be playing, painting or reading," said Moroccan sociologist Youssef Sadik.

"It is a characteristic of the Muslim world that we have an over-politicized society. Everyone's into politics, discussing events in Palestine and Iraq and hooked on Al-Jazeera."

The manner of Husein's execution at the hands of a U.S.-backed government led by Iraq's Shiite Arab majority led many people in predominantly Sunni Muslim North Africa to momentarily forget his past record.

Many were impressed by his dignity on the gallows in the face of insults hurled at him in his final moments and some praised him as a hero.

That clearly had a powerful effect on younger minds, said Sadik.

"Children in Morocco are under pressure from an early age to try to be heroes themselves, to be the ones who succeeded where others around them did not," he said.
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Read this on GameRenders a day or two ago. Very sad.
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.Kurupt-ZNR
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:( That's very sad.
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Libby.
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Jeese thats awful. :/ Amazing what can impact todays society.
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Ahmed A.
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More like stupid. Kids shouldn't copy that kind of violent stuff. And if they are, then at least copy a hero, not Saddam. And about the Sunni part, that is one of the reasons I hate denominations. Up till last year I didn't even know if I were a Sunni or a Shiite.
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Libby.
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I didn't say it was clever. But some kids just don't know better. Saddam had alot of followers. Its a shame. :/
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Im sorry but at 11 years old i think you should have common sence. He`s dead, yes thats awfull, but stupid to do it in the first place.
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Colonel Mustard
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Darwinism at his best
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Maybe the kid was suicidal and the Saddam thing just happened to be in the news, giving him an idea.

I don't think it's copying or anything in that sense.
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This is probably something like what little Christian kids were doing when Jesus was crucified. Except it was fake crucifixion instead of hanging, yet the two are alike... hmmmm interesting.
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I'm more perturbed that the news constantly feeds this out - not Saddam's death, but news like this.

How can anyone with 1/2 a brain view Saddam as a martyr? The man was guilty and found guilty in a court of law of gassing his own citizens and other murders. Yep, let's worship a mass murderer like his cause was just. <_<

I guarantee at least one of those hangings was coincidental, but was reported tied to the reports - simply to amplify the news.

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"It is a characteristic of the Muslim world that we have an over-politicized society. Everyone's into politics, discussing events in Palestine and Iraq and hooked on Al-Jazeera."


No silly, it's a characteristic of the world. This news likely is slanted by political parties who have much to gain if we leave Iraq, and if not this one, I promise it happens regularly if not with what is reported - but what is left out.
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He was 11 years old ? That's really stupid to copy that. I could understand being 5 or 6, but not 11. He must be really stupid.

It's not sad either. It's just stupid crap that someone did. Hate to see what would happen had he lived and did more stupid stuff later in life.
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Idiots...
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It is very sad, and stupid. Wasting his life? Foolish...

Wasn’t it not Hussein's brother that got his head ripped off when the rope...done something during his hanging?
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Heard about it on the radio, sad. But fucked up.
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