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Posted on 03/04/2007 5:35:27 AM PST by AdmSmith
In Qatar there is only one decent bookshop (that happens to be a Saudi chain) that has a few shelves of English books. Shopping there is hit or miss - you don't go there to look for a title. You go there in the hope of stumbling upon something interesting.
The kids selection is not bad though. The other night we saw Disney's "My Very First Encyclopedia with Winnie the Pooh and friends". We grabbed it and thought it was exactly what we needed for our daughter - not only does she love Winnie the Pooh but she's also started taking a keen interest in nature.
We flipped it open and noticed that some of the pages had been vandalised with a black marker. We figured it must have been bought and returned after some kids had got there hands on it. Further inspection made us realise that this was actually systematic. Someone had deliberately "censored" out each and every picture of Piglet from hundreds of pages in the book with a black marker (my guess is that the book got caught by Saudi Censors enroute to Doha).
From the first page to the last page. Big and small. The black marker was hogging the limelight, so to speak.
Yes, the cuddly cute pink Piglet had disappeared. First, I have no idea who would buy a book that cost about $30 that was marked up like this. Secondly, what the hell were the censors thinking!?
Now as a Muslim, I can venture why they did this. But as a Muslim, I think it is totally ridiculous.
As in Judaism, there are laws governing what can and cannot be eaten. Muslims are forbidden from eating pork, as pigs are believed to be unclean. Now the point of this post isn't to discuss this. The point is, what is wrong with a picture of Piglet in a kids book? I think absolutely nothing!
Piglet is the great satan!
Dangerous piglet ping.
"Bother," said Pooh, as he released Piglet and his kin into the Grand Mosque.
This would be funny if it weren't so indicative of the stuff that goes on in the tiny Muslim brain. They get upset by a cartoon pig? Fortunately, they appear not to read English, or I'm sure they would have crossed out the "Pig" in Piglet and the kids would now be left with a title inviting them to "have fun with ___let!"
I agree. And while we're on the subject of ridiculous...
Muslim cabbies tell airport they won't bend in alcohol dispute
We shouldn't be living with them, we should be bombing the crap out of them all.
Maybe this will prompt them to ban Mo HAM ed? *snort*
I thought a doll of Piglet was banned in Britain too, some time ago, because some Islamic worker objected to him.
My one year old niece wore that same costume for Halloween.
This issue came up in a children's ward at a hospital here. Same thing, Winnie the Pooh character Piglet was on some wallpaper and someone complained. Other muslims, again, thought the complaint was ridiculous, but I think the hospital changed the paper.
"They get upset by a cartoon pig?" Apparently so. But they let the word pig stay in the text. So much for editing and proofreading.
How about a cartoon of PIglet as Mohammed? Will they behead me twice?
It just dawned on me why hate is such an integral part of the Islamic religion...It's the only emotion strong enough to be capable of illiciting belief in such idiotic premises as this.
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