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Sharia: Can a monkey sue for libel?

My favorite story of the week comes from one of my favorite places: the home of John Howard, AC/DC, Crocodile Dundee and Tim Blair.

There was a bit of a hub-bub on Iranian TV recently – over a toy monkey.

When the presenter of Amoo Pourang, a programme watched by millions of Iranian children three times a week on state TV, asked the name of the toy the boy had been given as a reward for behaving himself, the child replied: “Well, my father calls him Ahmadinejad.”

The show is now facing closure due to “spiritual and financial damage.”

H/T: The irrepressible Tim Blair.

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