A/HRC/15/53 E. Negative stereotyping of religions, their followers and sacred persons (a) Cases received by the Special Rapporteur 61. On 3 April 2009, the Hamas Al-Aqsa television reportedly broadcasted a play entitled “The House of Sheikh Yassin”, which was performed at the Islamic University of Gaza City. One of the characters of the play was an ultra-orthodox Jewish father. In the play, the Jewish father allegedly said that “We Jews hate Muslims. We like to kill Muslims. We Jews drink the blood of Muslims and Arabs.” Later, the father said to his son: “Shimon, I want to teach you some things: first of all, you have to hate Muslims, you have to drink Muslim blood. We have to wash our hands in Muslim blood.” He then allegedly added that “we have to conspire against Arabs and Muslims to satisfy God. We will destroy the Arabs and the Muslims”. 62. On 5 June 2009, the Vlaams Belang party reportedly held a protest against the planned mosque at the Sint-Bernardsesteenweg in Antwerp, Belgium. Before the protest, Vlaams Belang gave out 50,000 flyers against the mosque, which according to them would be a symbol of the Islamization of Antwerp and Flanders. The Vlaams Belang leader is alleged to have said that “Islam is like a cuckoo which lays its eggs in our European nest. We hatch them and will in the end be cast off.” 63. In July 2009, the Dove World Outreach Centre church in Gainesville, United States of America, reportedly posted a sign that read “Islam is of the Devil” on its front lawn. Despite protests by local residents against such a sign, the church’s pastor indicated that he would put up more signs. 64. On 11 September 2009 — on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks — supporters of the English Defence League and “Stop the Islamization of Europe” allegedly gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to demonstrate against what they refer to as “Islamic colonization”. 65. The Special Rapporteur received several reports of cartoons depicting Jews in a negative manner. Among others, on 8 September 2009, in Saudi Arabia, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Second World War, a cartoon depicting one woman and one child both dressed as a devil on a bloody background was released in the Al-Jazirah newspaper. While the woman — representing the Second World War — displays a devil’s fork, the child displays a similar fork, but with the Star of David at its top. On 15 November 2009, in the United Arab Emirates, a cartoon depicting a hand coming out of a bloody archway to catch an Arab man was released in the Al Ittihad newspaper. On the archway, the following inscription could be read: “International Slaughterhouse under Zionist Management”. On 25 November 2009, in Oman, a cartoon depicting a menorah with missiles at the end of each of its branches was released in the Oman newspaper. 66. On 13 December 2009, a group of around 100 parishioners from the St. Parascheva Orthodox Church in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, reportedly dismantled a Jewish symbol — the Hanukkah Menorah — on Europe Square, transported it to Stefan the Great Square and dumped it upside down. Under the leadership of the Orthodox priest, the group of parishioners also put a small cross in the place of the Hanukkah Menorah. In addition, during the event, the priest allegedly stated that Jewish people were trying to “dominate people” and recalled that the Republic of Moldova was an Orthodox country. He reportedly also said that “the Jews can try to kill us, to traumatize our children”, but that Moldovan Orthodox believers would resist. 67. On 8 January 2010, to illustrate an article on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, reportedly the victim of a homicide attempt on 1 January 2010, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten 14 GE.10-14999