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bird
23-01-2008, 13:44
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm

Makes my blood boil!

Beaker
23-01-2008, 14:05
This country is being run by a bunch of saps. Politically I don't learn either to the right or left I believe myself to be a free thinking individual. This is liberalism gone mad really.

Scourge
23-01-2008, 14:28
This country is being run by a bunch of saps. Politically I don't learn either to the right or left I believe myself to be a free thinking individual. This is liberalism gone mad really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

This isn't an example of liberalism. It's just an example of stupid.

Alex
23-01-2008, 14:46
Oh my god how could that possibly offend Muslims? Seriously PC these days is ridiculous to quote the article:

"The judges criticised the stereotyping in the story of the unfortunate pigs: "Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?"

How ****ing stupid are these people, of course its not saying that! Its why the books called "cowboy builders" not "every builder in the uk" and how is it saying builders are like pigs jesus!!

Ridiculous all this PC bollocks does is put peoples backs up against the people the PC Brigade are trying to 'Protect'. If the book got serious complaints I'd understand but I don't think I'd find 1 person who'd be offended by that, and if I were a Muslim or a builder I think I'd be more offended that people were trying to speak for me without actually having a ****ing clue!

Dam bit of a rant there but PC bull shit pisses me off!

Beaker
23-01-2008, 15:50
OK Scourge fair point...

plateau2
23-01-2008, 20:33
So will the use of the word pig in the playground lead to immediate expulsion?

Sloth
24-01-2008, 16:01
how does this raise cultural issues with muslims?
i dont get it..

bird
24-01-2008, 16:49
Its doesn't its just pure madness.

Beaker
24-01-2008, 17:36
how does this raise cultural issues with muslims?
i dont get it..

Muslims don't eat pork. I think they consider the pig to be a filthy animal and are not allowed to come into contact with them either.

The Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places. It is prohibited in 2:173, 5:3, 6:145 and 16:115.

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."

PikeKing
24-01-2008, 18:17
****ing stupid

NJ
24-01-2008, 20:20
Muslims don't eat pork. I think they consider the pig to be a filthy animal and are not allowed to come into contact with them either.

The Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places. It is prohibited in 2:173, 5:3, 6:145 and 16:115.

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."

Surely that doesn't mean they can't read a story about them does it ?

Sloth
24-01-2008, 20:27
yeah thats what i mean.
im not being funny but i find it offensive when people talk to me with a mask on so why the **** are there books with people in masks in them!? not that i eat people with masks though, i have no problem with there being books about fish (something i find disgusting and dont eat)

Beaker
24-01-2008, 22:57
Surely that doesn't mean they can't read a story about them does it ?

No, your right. I posted that for info really. Something I had googled quickly. Jews don't eat pork for pretty much the same reasons, you don't see any books being pulled from shelves in case they offend jews ??? Christ even mien kamph is still in circulation....

Scourge
25-01-2008, 20:12
The Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places. It is prohibited in 2:173, 5:3, 6:145 and 16:115.

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."
Using the logic employed by BECTA, wouldn't this reference to eating pork make the Qur'an offensive to Muslims?

Oh, the irony...

Scourge
25-01-2008, 20:13
Christ even mien kamph is still in circulation....
Although not as teaching material in primary schools, I expect.

the block
25-01-2008, 21:53
Using the logic employed by BECTA, wouldn't this reference to eating pork make the Qur'an offensive to Muslims?

Oh, the irony...

BECTA didnt use logic hence it being so absurd. Any Muslim that finds the Qur'an offensive isn't a Muslim anymore.

Killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan etc... isn't offensive to Muslims but some stupid little book is.
I actually find the turning down of the book offensive, it makes Muslims look dumb. So I suppose the objective has been achieved.

As a Muslim I just see it as anti-Islamic propaganda and am sick of this sort of rubbish. Just recently the teddy bear and now this. Islam gets bad press and has been getting it for ages. Guy with a beard and Arab clothing farts and its breaking news. Anything with Muslims in it makes headline news whilst child rapists and murderers don't get a mention. Guy gets something like 16 years for walking around with a board with inciting words on it and paedophile's are getting a couple of years/months in some cases. 16 years is not a joke.

There are probably lots of soldiers dying in Iraq or Afghanistan or something so rubbish like this helps to move the spotlight so Joe Public's brain doesnt start working and actually thinking.

The Government goes on about integration etc... and then they totally isolate like 2 million people with stupidness like this.

I did however enjoy this from the judge ""Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?" haha

Scourge
25-01-2008, 22:26
Any Muslim that finds the Qur'an offensive isn't a Muslim anymore.
Obviously. I was just pointing out the mahoosive contradiction in BECTA's argument.

I'm not suprised you feel like that at all. All this type of thing does is give essentially positive principles like political correctness and religious tolerance negative connotations for a large number of people.

Sloth
25-01-2008, 23:08
but then in all fairness, what is news is news for a reason, things that make people stupid or makes other people look stupid.
the important stuff you never hear about, you never hear about.