Saturday, March 31, 2007

Three Little WHAT???

From the land of Londonstan:

A junior school production of the children's story has been renamed the Three Little Puppies for fear of offending Muslims.

Organisers of a children's music festival have altered the popular characters and lyrics because of the multi-cultural nature of the youngsters involved and their parents in the audience.

Committee member Gill Goodswen, head teacher of Stile Common Junior School, defending the move. She said: "We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs.
We feared that some Muslim children wouldn't sing along to the words about pigs," she said. We didn't want to take that risk. If changing a few words avoids offence then we will do so."


The slippery slope has now become a free-fall.

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