Offensivity

Three little pigs:

Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes.

Before they left, their mother told them " Whatever you do , do it the best that you can because that's the way to get along in the world.

The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do.
The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house.

The third little pig built his house out of bricks.

One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"

"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig.

But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig.

The wolf then came to the house of sticks.

"Let me in ,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in"

"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But the wolf blew that house in too, and ate the second little pig.

The wolf then came to the house of bricks.

" Let me in , let me in" cried the wolf

"Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in"

"Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" said the pigs.

Well, the wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house.

But the wolf was a sly old wolf and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house.
The little pig saw the wolf climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace and placed on it a large kettle of water.

When the wolf finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down and KERSPLASH right into that kettle of water and that was the end of his troubles with the big bad wolf.

The next day the little pig invited his mother over . She said "You see it is just as I told you. The way to get along in the world is to do things as well as you can." Fortunately for that little pig, he learned that lesson. And he just lived happily ever after!

Dhimmi Watch: Three Little Pigs is offensive to Muslims

"The use of pigs raises cultural issues." Indeed. Many cultural issues. And questions of cultural suicide.

"Three Little Pigs 'too offensive,'" by Sean Coughlan for the BBC News (thanks to PRJ):

A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency's annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims.

The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".

The awards which rejected the book are run by Becta, the government's educational technology agency.

The judging panel also attacked the book's stereotyping of builders.

The two red highlighted sentences are more or less equal in their stupidity.

I have a question:

Jews are forbidden to eat pig's meat. Their ban on pigs has been in place much longer than the Islamic ban. How come we never hear of Brits showing any public solicitude whatsoever, ever, about Jewish anti-pig sensibilities?

Does anyone have a plausible answer?

How about this here:

Sid Waterman: Jews... you know what they are like... they only sniff the slightest whiff of antisemitism and they start writing letters ...

Isn't he the clever little boy?

Prof. AbuKhalil, who who teaches American students at an American university of a good standing, weighs in on the question of Jewish origins being from "apes and pigs":

... if one believes in evolution theory, we all are descendants of apes so this should not be insulting to us evolutionary theory believers.  

This might remove the taint from "apes" but what about the "pigs"?  Perhaps the scholarly prof. does not realize that pigs are known to be very intelligent animals, so it is not at all a slur to refer to Jews, known for producing lots of intelligent little Jews,  as "pigs".  It is actually a compliment. 

Let me repeat my wonderment at this unfathomable exhibit: that this is the kind of person who teaches young students how to think properly, at an AMERICAN university.

Oh, and BTW, it would appear that the prof. does not really know the Quran very well: 

Case Study: Portraying Jews as "Apes and Pigs" 

 In three instances (Surahs 2, 5, and 7), the Quran tells of Muhammad turning Jews into apes and/or pigs. For instance, Surah 5:60 states, “Those (Jews) who incurred the curse of Allah and his Wrath, and those of whom (some) He transformed into apes and swine.” Another section of the Quran compares the Jews to donkeys. There are two differing traditions in Islam regarding what happened to the Jews who were turned into pigs. One view maintains that all pigs alive today are descendants of the Jews who were turned into pigs by Allah. The other view holds that all the Jews who were turned into pigs by Allah died out without reproducing, and therefore there is no relationship between today’s pigs and Jews:

“There are two opinions among the Ulama [Islamic scholars] in this regard: The first is that the Jews, whom Allah transformed and turned into pigs, remained in that state until they died, without producing descendants. The other opinion is that the Jews who turned into pigs multiplied and produced descendants, and their line continues to this day.

Sheikh Othman [Ahmed Ali Othman, supervisor of the Da'awa (Islamic Indoctrination) of the Egyptian Waqf Islamic Holy places]: "I personally tend towards the view that the pigs that exist now have their origins with the Jews, and therefore their consumption is forbidden in the words of Allah: 'A carcass, and blood, and the flesh of a pig are forbidden to you....' Moreover, our master Jesus, peace be unto him - one of the tasks that he will fulfill when he descends to earth is the killing of the pigs, and this is proof that their source is Jewish. Sheikh Othman said that whoever eats pig, it's as if he ate meat of an impure person…

Sheikh Ali Abu Al-Hassan, head of the Fatwa Committee at Al-Azhar [Sunni Islamic university], said that the first view is accurate, because when Allah punishes a group of people he punishes only them. When Allah grew angry with the nation of Moses, He turned them into pigs and apes as an extraordinary punishment... but they died out without leaving descendants."

[Al-Moheet Arab News Network, May 10, 2009, Al-Hakika al-Dawliya, May 9, 2009] 

Israeli Children Excluded

from the readership of a children's book written by Queen Rania of Jordan.

Here is the story:

Queen Rania of Jordan has turned down several offers to publish a Hebrew version of a children's book she recently wrote. The book, which was published in the United States by Hyperion under the title "The Sandwich Swap" for children between 4 and 8 years old, was co-written with Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by Tricia Tusa.

Some facts about book exclusions in the Arab world:

No gay subjects allowed

"Three Little pigs" offensive to Muslims

Ali Salem - an exceptional writer

No Bibles allowed

Kundera - banned

Egypt's Minister of Culture: He will burn Israeli books

Arab books and human development