Mickey Mao, Mickey bin Laden

The Chinese are notorious for their blatant disregard for intellectual property rights. You all probably know about their pirated DVDs. Heck, you probably own a few of those yourself. But do you know that they've also pirated the whole Disneyland? Yes, kids, they did.

Japanese journalist discovered this state-owned amusement park in Beijing that's an unauthorized clone of the famous Disneyland theme park. All your favorite Disney characters--or at least poor imitations of them--are there. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy... all of them.

And Disney isn't the only victim of their shameless copyright infringement. Our friend Tiffy will be thrilled to know that there's even a Hello Kitty in the park. Yes, Tiffy, this Hello Kitty has no mouth either. Her whiskers are strangely curly though. Hmm.

Here's a video. See and laugh.

What makes the whole thing even more hilarious is the park management's insistence that their characters are all original. That's not Mickey Mouse, they say. That's actually a cat with very big ears! Heh. Yeah, right.

If you didn't get that, go find a Chinese person to explain it to you--shouldn't be too hard since there are more than a billion of us running around the planet.

Anyway, I was about ready to declare the Chinese as the baddest pirates in the world, until I came across this CNN.com story about how a children's TV show in Palestine stole Mickey, renamed him to Farfour, and had him encouraging kids to martyr themselves in the fight against Jews.

Holy. Cow. So the Chinese are excellent pirates, but these Muslim extremists are something else. And they somehow couldn't see the irony of using a secular symbol of American pop culture to advocate Islamic rule of the world. My head hurts both from laughing and worrying about the future of our world.

Here's some more stuff from the world's cutest terrorist.

Let's laugh at them while we still can. Soon enough, those brainwashed kids will grow up and launch a jihad against us in the name of Allah and His Prophet Mickey. And when that time comes, this won't be a laughing matter anymore.