Posted on 03/15/2007 7:32:59 PM PDT by blam
And these little piggies might offend Muslims
By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 16/03/2007
A school production of Roald Dahl's Three Little Pigs has turned the heroes into three little puppies for fear of offending Muslims.
Dahl's play, in which he reworks Little Red Riding Hood to include the pigs, is being put on by Honley Church of England School, in Huddersfield, with 250 primary pupils from other schools singing along. Gill Goodswen, who is one of the organisers of the Kirklees Primary Music festival behind the changes, said: "We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs."
She said the committee had to consider the feelings of children who would be singing along, not just the performers.
"We feared that some Muslim children wouldn't sing along to the words about pigs," she added. "We didn't want to take that risk. If changing a few words avoids offence then we will do so."
One parent, a mother-of-three, said: "Surely there are much worse things to worry about in the world than a story about three little pigs? It is really ridiculous."
Local councillor Terry Lyons said: "I can't believe that Muslims would be offended. This is pandering to a few extremists. People will take umbrage at this decision, making it easier for the BNP to recruit."
Mohammed Imran, of the nearby Hanfia Mosque and Educational Institute, said he welcomed the thinking behind the decision but did not think it was necessary.
He pointed out that Islam does not ban the mentioning of pigs but added: "They are obviously trying to involve children rather than exclude them." But Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, said: "My view is that the people responsible for this are completely bonkers. It is the type of political correctness which makes people's blood boil.
"As usual it is done in the name of ethnic minorities but it is perpetrated by white, middle class, do-gooders with a guilt complex and far too much time on their hands."
Call 1-800-BIG-GOVT!
This brother's for you! Yeaarghhh!
How about another bedtime story--you are funny, also too accurate.
How far is this crap gonna go?!?!
Is "Charlotte's Web" starring Wilbur the Puppy next??
I am really getting sick of all this censorship. Feh.
Thought of another one: Babe: "That'll do, kitty. That'll do."
Like limousine liberals everywhere
Maybe the Moslems can change the beheadings to nuggies, to avoid offending westerners.
It will ALWAYS AND FOREVER be the Three little pigs and if they don't like it...tough.
Better change it to lambs, since doggies are harram, too.
"This little puppy went to market,
and this little puppy stayed home.
And this little puppy had..."
Oops, sorry. Just getting into the spirit of the times.
I just heard about this on Savage on my drive home from work. Its funny because even the muslims are like "whoa, you guys are nuts, we don't eat pigs, but we'll talk about them".
"As usual it is done in the name of ethnic minorities but it is perpetrated by white, middle class, do-gooders with a guilt complex and far too much time on their hands."
Dmmn. Too long for a tagline.
Yeah, the story of the three little pigs bothers them, but beheadings and mass murder is ok. ROP, my arse.
I'm in. Where should we meet?
Don't Muslims also consider dogs unclean? "Three Little Puppies" would be just as offensive. How about "Three Little PC-Liberal-Doodieheads" instead?
"...perpetrated by white, middle class, do-gooders with a guilt complex and far too much time on their hands." If only ONE SINGLE American solon had the stones to say such a thing.
Hmmm...no dogs, no pigs. What's left? Three little camels?
A hijab over Mona Lisa? You aren't far off the mark. In the mid 1970s, a colleague of mine was working in Saudi Arabia. When he and his wife arrived, the Saudi censors at customs took all of his wife's fashion magazines and carefully marked over all the lingerie ads with black Magic Marker! At the time I thought that was merely curious "foreign" behavior by the Saudis. Little did I know it would invade our shores in 30 short years.
Mohammed did that? I thought it was Ghandi.
From a cat website:
Mohammad himself, according to a report (hadith) attributed to Abu Huraira, owned a cat named Muezza, about whom it is said that one day while she was asleep on the sleeve of Mohammad's robe, the call to prayer was sounded. Rather than awaken the cat, Mohammad quietly cut his sleeve off and left. When he returned, the cat bowed to him and thanked him, after which she was guaranteed a place in heaven.
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