Yep - it sure does raise cultural issues. Such as why this pre-emptive pandering when so far as I know no Muslims have actually objected to Three Little Pigs?
Once the mobs start chanting ‘God is Great. Death to the Three Little Pigs’ then you can address the issue. The correct address of course being ‘speak to the friggin’ hand’.
Seriously - where does all this kow-towing to imaginary upset Muslims end?
Not to mention the kow-towing to imaginary upset building contractors… :rolleyes:
Why was Three Little Pigs never considered offensive to Jews?
I’m offended that they didn’t worry the book might offend Jews, for whom pigs are also unclean. And if that book has any cows in it, they’re in big trouble!
ETA–Doh! Simulpost.
I guess because there has never been a violent sub-set of lunatic Jews with no sense of proportion?
And Duck-Duck-Goose. You clearly don’t remember the Great Builders Riot of '06. That’s why Bob The Builder is only represented by a shadow on the ground in the latest cartoons.
Any literary award that exludes a work for being offensive is worthless.
Probably because we realize that, if we insisted that there be no non-kosher characters in stories, we couldn’t have humans, cats, or dogs in them.
Well, there are, but they tend to stay in Israel.
I don’t know why the West feels like it has to kowtow to these extremists. Let them riot. One of my primal fantasies is to see English blokes pouring out of houses and pubs armed with pool cues, cricket bats and broken bottles to teach rioting extremists what they think of those who would rob us of our Western freedoms (as they are successfully doing with, among other things, freedom of the press).
It’s not a race thing. I’d love the same thing to happen to rioting KKKers or skinheads. Fuckers.
These people are idiots who clearly know nothing about Islam (I mean, it’s not like Muslims are threatened by the existence of pigs, they just find them unclean).
But if you want to throw some outrage fodder to the ignorant, try some quotes from the actual text (Joseph Jacobs, 1890):
Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme
And monkeys chewed tobacco,
And hens took snuff to make them tough,
And ducks went quack, quack, quack, O!
Opening rhyme promotes use of tobacco. By zoo and farm animals, no less!
So he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and at last he blew the house down, and he ate up the little pig.
Well, there is at least a reference to actually eating pork. Moreover, it is generally felt that the “good” characters shouldn’t be killed and eaten, which is why most 20th-century versions merely have the little pig run to his brother’s house.
Then the wolf was very angry indeed, and declared he would eat up the little pig, and that he would get down the chimney after him. When the little pig saw what he was about, he hung on the pot full of water, and made up a blazing fire, and, just as the wolf was coming down, took off the cover, and in fell the wolf; so the little pig put on the cover again in an instant, boiled him up, and ate him for supper, and lived happy ever afterwards.
The killing might have been self-defense, but was it really necessary to eat the wolf? Clearly the muslims are on to something. This unrepentant murderous swine is a terrible role model, and should be banned from our schools lest our children start killing and eating their enemies.
I don’t know about you, but I see no reason to throw away fresh stew.
Well, they’ll be towed, at any rate.
Maybe they should call Rambo?
Okay - it’s not just us who pander. The godless commies are at it too.
Well, I’m hardly surprised that the Chinese government caved; they’ve always been such pussies when it came to protesters in the streets.
It takes all the fun out of running over protesters if you have to worry about the bastards exploding. 
Hmmm, Muslims consider dogs to be unclean animals as well–does that mean no Crufts or Eukanuba shows this year? No more Dog Whisperer? Lassie not gonna come home no more?
Teh stupid, it buuuuuuuurrrnnns! :rolleyes:
Hey, what about us vegetarians? Do we get to be offended too?
As of this morning, i’ve stopped work on my children’s book manuscript, Porky Goes to Mecca.
Of course. Whoever heard of Jewish zealots?
if this trend towards de-pigging continues, Carson Palmer’s endorsement career will take a big hit.
If you keep on roamin’ the boards looking for trollery, you’re gonna make a mess o’ da place.