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I can't read Christopher's post without thinking of "meka leka hi, meka hiney ho."
I wonder: Had there been a CAIR or an ADC in the 80s, would Pee-Wee's Playhouse have drawn flack for having a goofy genie -- a figure from pre-Islamic Arab mythology -- with a magic spell that sounds like it invokes Mecca?
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