Anti-jihadi cartoon

The Clarion Project has an article about a cartoon, Average Mohamed:

At first glance, the idea that a cartoon could fight the Islamic State, a brutal international terror organization, seems absurd. However, Mohamed Ahmed, the inventor of Average Mohamed, designed the cartoons to target a specific demographic, young people who have ideological questions which, if answered incorrectly, can lead to radicalization.
The cartoons openly discuss issues troubling young Muslims, the same demographic the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is targeting. Questions of identity, religious authenticity, and wanting to make a difference in the world are tackled in an honest way, using both Islamic sources and common sense.
The idea for Average Mohamed came to Ahmed after the realization that "it is average people recruiting each other and becoming extremists. So we felt, in the same way, we need an average guy espousing the values of majority Muslims."
Ahmed fit the bill. A gas station manager with a wife, mortgage, and four kids in Minneapolis, Minnesota (home to a large Somali community from which ISIS has successfully recruited), Ahmed decided four years ago that he needed to do something to stop the flow of young people becoming radicalized.
In addition to the Average Mohamed online cartoon series, Ahmed also takes his message to schools, mosques, and madrasas. He describes his work as "a counter-ideology platform. The message is about the values: three principles. One is peace, the second is democracy, and the third is anti-extremism. So it is a way to talk to the youth without veils. And we try to connect with them. We're getting an enormous amount of support across faiths, gender, race."
Fundamentally, Ahmed's message to the kids he speaks to is that they have a choice: a choice about the world that are creating and in which they will be living. "What world do we want? I want a world without extremism. And I'm willing to work on it, I'm willing to talk about it, I'm willing to put my money on it," he said. "A kid comes up to me and asks, for example, about the concept of suicide bombing. They say: 'Well, suicide bombers go to Heaven.' I said: 'No, go back to your teachings. Who's got to be lying, is it the teachings of the Prophet himself who's lying, or is it the teachings of Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and whoever these outfits are? And it starts bothering them'," said Ahmed.

Watch the following espisode of Average Mohamed about Identity in Islam. More episodes can be found at averagemohamed.com:

Rico says that it's Sesame Street for Islam... (Of course, the whole concept of religion is a lie, but that's a separate argument.)