Piglet is in trouble again
No, Kanga has not mistaken him for Baby Roo and is trying to give him a bath.It's certain Middle Eastern Muslims again who have it in for A.A. Milne's character.
A blogger in Qatar reports that images of Piglet are being censored from children's books. Follow the link for photos of the evidence.
Next step, perhaps: stern imams will thunder in their Friday sermons: "Do not even think of a cartoon pig, or you will be damned!"
The censored Piglet is the colorized, Disney-fied version. The Piglet in the graphic here, however, is based on Ernest H. Shepard's original 1920s pen-and-ink drawings.
posted by Chas S. Clifton at 9:11 AM Permalink
4 Comments:
Think we could get some progressive imam to just proscribe Disney? ;-)
Prairie Mary
Of course, nothing like this would EVER happen in the wonderful xian West. Get a grip.
Hecate, are you suggesting that I should just "get over" censorship and violent fundamentalism?
Not in this lifetime.
Mary, I share your opinions re. Disney, actually. But there is something about the implied violence of scribbling over even the Disney Piglet with a Magic Marker-equivalent that bothers me!
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