“What are you going to do when they come for you?”
by digby
Really Big Coloring Books has also published titles such as Superheroes of the Bible and Fairies & Princesses. But it gets way more attention for its political coloring materials for small children. For instance, their September 11th coloring book “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom,” published in 2011, was slammed as anti-Muslim “disaster porn”. Back in August, the company reissued two terrorism coloring books with supplemental pages depicting the horrors of ISIS and other Islamist killers:
This is a children’s coloring book by the way, which explains why they go to such lengths to explain that children are “required to watch” all the ISIS horrors. I guess if you can give small kids nightmares and traumatize them for life your work is done. On the other hand, they do get to color the picture in.
And they do offer up a hero to save them. No, not Jesus Christ, but close:
By the way, I’ve written about the crucifixion thing before. ISIS fighters are vicious and cruel and they are executing large numbers of civilians including children. But it’s disputed that they’re literally crucifying Christians, beheading children and putting their heads on pikes. War propaganda that accuses the enemy of atrocities is nothing new, of course, but using this Christian vs Muslim framing is a worse idea than usual.
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