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I wonder if at least the 3 little pigs will be safe from now on. Once the big bad wolf finds the light of Allah.
Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the ministry of education.

"Thanks be to Allah," the puppet says later.

In The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan is told that he cannot visit Aramis. The reason would surprise the author, Alexandre Dumas.

An old woman explains: "He is surrounded by men of religion. He converted to Islam after his illness."

Tom Sawyer may always have shirked his homework, but he is more conscientious in learning his Islamic prayers. He is given a "special treat" for learning the Arabic words.

Pollyanna, seen by some as the embodiment of Christian forgiveness, says that she believes in the end of the world as predicted in the Koran.

Heidi, the Swiss orphan girl in the tale by Johanna Spyri, is told that praying to Allah will help her to relax.

Several more books have been altered, including La Fontaine's fables and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

British telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/31/wpino31.xml)

Worst. Propaganda. EVAR. This is even worse that Superman telling kids they can 'Slap a Jap' by buying something or other, I don't remember.

They need to move their publishing business. They won't earn much money in Turkey.

Saudi Arabia or Pakistan on the other hand...

Seriously though, the time when you could change stories to fit your religion is long over. The Christians did it with the stories of the heathen tribes in the early middle ages. But these days, it could never work.

:/


not really funny...

I actually don't give a damn if people go around altering works of fiction and fantasy to suit their needs. Or kinky preferences. Whichever.

And that's the country that's going to be let into the EU.

And that's the country that's going to be let into the EU.

In case you didn't notice from the article, Turkey's gov't is secular and is planning on suing the publishers

And that's the country that's going to be let into the EU.

You phail at reading the article.

No one told me Deep Kimchi had two old accounts.

I wonder if at least the 3 little pigs will be safe from now on. Once the big bad wolf finds the light of Allah.


British telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/31/wpino31.xml)
Breaking news? DK reported a similar story on Pinnochio hours ago...

And that's the country that's going to be let into the EU.Didn't bother to read my comment in the other thread, did you? Perhaps you're just trolling then.

No one told me Deep Kimchi had two old accounts.

Von Witzleben? He's actually a different player's account.

I'm more offended by anyone presenting Tom Sawyer as being of any religion, since it takes away from the tone of the books as Twain wrote them. I really couldn't care less about the other ones, although it seems totalitarian and propogandistic to me, but I really dislike the corruption of Twain's classics. :

There goes another secular state down the drain. :(

Breaking news? DK reported a similar story on Pinnochio hours ago...

Well, this isn't about Pinnochio. But Heidi. And the 3 musketeers and their nemesis Imam Richelieu.

This makes my head hurt.

Forget about Turkey's battle with Islamicised literatue in a secular state for a moment; These are classic works of literature from around the world. These don't deserve to be edited and modified by two-bit hacks with an agenda. WHat the hell are schools in ANY country doing buying books like that?

Breaking news!!!
People don't bother to check other threads before posting.

Heidi sucks at life.

Damn it. I wish I'd known about this a day ago. I could've asked Ersan to pick up a copy of this stuff while he's going home to Turkey for a month.

Forget about Turkey's battle with Islamicised literatue in a secular state for a moment; These are classic works of literature from around the world. These don't deserve to be edited and modified by two-bit hacks with an agenda. WHat the hell are schools in ANY country doing buying books like that?

They're just doing what schools everywhere do:
Go totally batshit insane.
Shouldn't you know, being the expert on all things crazy around here?

Well, this isn't about Pinnochio. But Heidi. And the 3 musketeers and their nemesis Imam Richelieu.Not about Pinochio?
Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the ministry of education.
First sentence in your quote.

They're just doing what schools everywhere do:
Go totally batshit insane.
Shouldn't you know, being the expert on all things crazy around here?

Craziness is like the Force; There's a lightside and a darkside. I am the Jedi Master of lunacy. *nod*

Just wrong...

Worst. Propaganda. EVAR. This is even worse that Superman telling kids they can 'Slap a Jap' by buying something or other, I don't remember.
You mean this?
http://www.superdickery.com/images/dick/97_4_0000058.jpg
(Taken from link in another thread)

And here was I thinking that Pinocchio was Jewish!

Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories on the Turkish school curriculum.

"Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the ministry of education.

"Thanks be to Allah," the puppet says later.
Allah=Arabic word for God, nothing more nothing less
Arab Christians use Allah for God as well

These seem to general expressions used daily by everyone, nothing strange about that.

My Turkish is not that good, but I reckon they use the same Arabic expressions in daily life, making it an acceptable translation.

I think the Turkish government is probably more upset by the
insults, slang and rude rhymes which mock the president and the prime minister.
The writer of this article obviously does not know what he is talking about....