Wednesday, January 23, 2008

UK: "Three Little Pigs" story rejected because it may offend Muslims

I just can't make this stuff up:

A pop-up book based on a popular children's fairytale has been dismissed as "offensive to Muslims" by a Government agency.

The Three Little Cowboy Builders, targeted at youngsters aged five to 11, re-tells the classic fairy-tale of The Three Little Pigs.

But Becta, the Government's educational technology agency, turned down the digital book for an educational award because it might offend Muslim groups.

Feedback from the BETT Awards explained that the judges "could not recommend this product to the Muslim community" and even that it "might alienate parts of the building trade."
Not only is this political correctness gone mad, but in fact, Muslims should be insulted too. There is an unstated but obvious suggestion that they are going to start rioting over a "Three Little Pigs" book. The sheer idiocy here boggles the mind.

2 comments:

Joshua L. said...

Still, gave me my only laugh of the day. Not sure if even Bin Laden himself would make death threats or call for Jihad over the three little pigs, but you never know...

Anonymous said...

What I want to know is, how could it "alienate parts of the building trade"???