Piglet Banned
In Turkey
It's true:
TURKEY’S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today.
Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily.
The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh’s closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said.
Employees have recently complained of increasing government intervention in TRT's broadcasting policy, including also the appointment of ruling party cronies to key posts at the institution, which runs several television and radio channels.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, the offshoot of a now-banned Islamist movement, is under fire for seeking to raise the profile of Islam in mainly Muslim but strictly secular Turkey.
Yes, they sound so so secular. And, thank God, because Turkey is likely to become part of the European Union. Of course, Piglet will have to go. Can't wait to watch the EU consider that one.
2 comments:
...and what will the EU do with this place in dhimmi Britanistan?
http://www.pigswhisper.co.uk/
This is just so incredibly offensive!
Yes, the banning of Piglet will come immediately before or after the EU passes a law forbidding any public representation, let alone criticism, of the Pseudoprophet. Right around the same time as they decree that the name of Allah shall under pain of dismemberment be followed by "swt" and that of Mahomet by "saw."
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