ARARAT AND ARAFAT IN INTERNET

"Mount Arafat": "Um, might they mean Mount Ararat? Seems CNN has done this before ... and so has NPR. I'm sure Arafat would like his name on a mountain where Muslims pray, but so far, we're all stuck with Mount Ararat. Good Lord, I'm no geography expert, but I've known about Mount Ararat since I was five years old." He closes, "Sorry, CNN and NPR! You're idiots!"

They assemble at Ararat for the "standing" on the Mount of Mercy for the climax of the 1,400-year-old hajj. They are to spend the day praying for mercy, in a symbolic enactment of the Final Judgement at the scene of Prophet Mohammad's last sermon. According to Islamic tradition, the Arafat plain is also the place where Adam and Eve "recognised" each other after being expelled from the biblical Garden of Eden.

one called "Ararat." Had resisted going to see this movie in Toronto because mistakenly thought it was called "Arafat" and that it was a biopic of Yasser Arafat and really, did not want to watch anything about Mr. Arafat. (I watch CNN. I know what's going on). But then Butterfly explained to me that it was "Ararat" so I agreed to go see it, thinking it was about Mount Ararat and Noah's Ark and perhaps would have two of every kind of animal in it.

araRAT was, is and always will be a murdering terrorist. And don't expect anything different from Abbas who mentored at araRAT's side. Israelis and US are fooling themselves if they think anything different.

"There's a character in it who plays Atom Egoyan and he's just finished making Ararat, which everyone confuses for Arafat. My character goes around saying, 'No, it's 'rat," not 'fat.'"