Monday, February 19, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Piglet Insults Islam
Here is what one blogger found in a bookstore in Qatar:
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).
And here is GM's solution:
Just for good measure, I'm adding the following to this posting:
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Winnie the Pooh's pal, Piglet, was censored by the Saudis
Qatar Living talks about how a Saudi-owned bookstore and distributors blotted out the sight of Piglet from some books of Winnie-the-Pooh. Here's a sample picture:
Virtually every copy of the book had Piglet totally erased from sight. Put another way, this is a case of Islamic censorship being performed in the Mideast. It's very sad.