Suicide bombing for children
Cabra West
03-08-2005, 10:12
Read full article here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4737391.stm)
Suicide bomb novel proves popular
Malorie Blackman won the FCBG Children's Book Award
A children's novel featuring a mixed-race teenage girl groomed to become a suicide bomber has become a best-seller in the UK.
Checkmate, by Malorie Blackman, was number two in book chain Waterstone's latest teenage fiction sales chart.
The book was published in June, before four suicide bombers attacked London and four attempted bombings took place. ...
And here's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385607733/qid%3D1123060309/202-7863731-9943034) the book...
Cabra West
03-08-2005, 10:17
I think I'm going to have a good look at those books. In my experience as librarian, youth books tend to be even better reads than some books for adults...
Faztopia
03-08-2005, 10:22
"The three novels are set in a fictional world occupied by a ruling class of black people called Crosses and a subservient class of white people called Noughts."
I think the author may be having some interesting thoughts.
Read full article here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4737391.stm)
And here's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385607733/qid%3D1123060309/202-7863731-9943034) the book...
The book certainly does sound interesting. Have you read the book?
Zoth Binglebox
03-08-2005, 10:50
Im confused. Are you blaming BOOKS for suicide bombing!?
Cabra West
03-08-2005, 11:23
Im confused. Are you blaming BOOKS for suicide bombing!?
*lol
Lord, no. I just thought it might be interesting to see that the phenomenon of suicide bombings has found its way into children/youth literature and I was curious if there were people out there who would appreciate the informative value or others who would wholly disagree with the book as such...
Cabra West
03-08-2005, 11:29
Mmmm, you can bet that there's going to be a few that will probably link it somehow. maybe a bit less since the person portrayed here is a white, but I bet if you wrote a book back then dealing with a person of Arab descent blowing up some whites with jacket bombs, you can bet that there would be a lot of outcry demanding that it be banned now.
Actually, these stereotypes had me a bit worried. I can understand and fully appreciate the author's thought of turning the traditional image of the white oppressor and the black oppressed around, to some extend undoubtedly to avoid the typical image of the "victim".
On the other hand, the book may end up delivering the message that violence against blacks by whites is ok...
I'll have to read it first to be able to say anything specific in that respect.
Non Aligned States
03-08-2005, 11:33
Mmmm, you can bet that there's going to be a few that will probably link it somehow. maybe a bit less since the person portrayed here is a white, but I bet if you wrote a book back then dealing with a person of Arab descent blowing up some whites with jacket bombs, you can bet that there would be a lot of outcry demanding that it be banned now.
Scotsnations
03-08-2005, 11:53
Funny how they have to be "groomed"
Read: grown. Small kids can't carry as much explosive....
Carnivorous Lickers
03-08-2005, 13:49
Just what we need, more insanity.
Cabra West
03-08-2005, 13:50
Just what we need, more insanity.
In what way? :confused:
Monkeypimp
03-08-2005, 14:07
Bah, girls are worthless as suicide bombers.
They can't fit enough explosives on their little bodies.
How quickly everyone forgets the child that walked up to the US checkpoint in Iraq, with bombs strapped on his body. He was a child, Groomed to be a suicide bomber also.
wonder how her book ends.