Anyone know what this sign says?

Faize · Post by **Faize** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:29 pm

Or better yet, anyone know what the article is talking about?

I'm rather curious as to how Haruhi ties into the middle east.

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:41 pm

It's about a protest against the killing of three children in a shooting incident on the Gaza Strip.

Here's a translation from an article about it on a Japanese website:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... 8&oe=UTF-8

(Of course, you get all the greatness of machine translated Japanese along with it... but it's readable.)

Someone in the #baka-tsuki chat said the poster reads "Don't kill children" or something to that effect. I don't know any french but the caption in that scan seems to agree.
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Garstansinilliam · Post by **Garstansinilliam** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:08 pm

There's a thread about this on another forum I think. It says 'stop killing the children', and is part of a march in response to a drive-by shootign that killed 3 children a few days ago.

Dragoon · Post by **Dragoon** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:17 pm

A photoshop, perhaps? Somebody try to find the original source photo.

Iznogoud · Post by **Iznogoud** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:25 pm

Here it is :

Spoiler! :

By the way, the picture was taken by a professionnal who got himself injured about a year ago while taking pictures of children throwing stones at israeli soldiers.

Dragoon · Post by **Dragoon** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:22 am

If this is real, then it ranks an 11 on the 1 to 10 ranking of weird crap that can be related to Haruhi Suzumiya.

I'd love to see a history of this.

Iznogoud · Post by **Iznogoud** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:43 am

Dragoon wrote:If this is real, then it ranks an 11 on the 1 to 10 ranking of weird crap that can be related to Haruhi Suzumiya.

I'd love to see a history of this.

Yes, but it is real.

This picture reported by AFP (Agence France Presse), was taken by photographer Mahmud Hams.

jinalbert · Post by **jinalbert** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:30 pm

The kid has a good role model.

That's a pretty strange site to see.

Haiyami · Post by **Haiyami** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:38 pm

wait waht? So is Haruhi the sorce of light for these children or the root of all evil?

This gets weirder and weirder. -_-;

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:21 pm

This happens a lot. People in that part of the world are pretty well isolated, culturally. The effect is that they often use images they get from who-knows-where and use them in ways that seem peculiar to the rest of us... because they don't know the cultural significance.

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