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Political correctness has run amok, yet again. Give me a freakin' break! Who cares if the Muslims are offended? Should they be any different than any other religious, ethnic, gender based group in the world? This is absolutely ridiculous!

Three Pigs story ruled 'offensive to Muslims'; review | Children's Books - Times Online

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Lachean

And Muslims are offensive to rational people, reason and logic. (That goes for all mystics of force, or intimidation)

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Lightdemon

I can't really tell what your gripe is.

Are you mad because some book didn't get an award because of political correctness in general? And if so, don't you think awards should be given to books that are not offensive?

Or is it that you are mad at people who do not want to offend muslims specifically? It's not like they are given special treatment. I'm sure they would have done the same if the book offended other groups.

And from reading the article, I can't seem to find what was actually the offensive part of the book. The closest thing to being offensive, according to the article, was its use of stereotypes in the story.

What is rediculous though, is that this was newsworthy. I mean c'mon...A childrens book about the 3 pigs doesn't get an award? Sorry if I don't share your feeling that it was "running amok."

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rivrrat

Oh dear fricken lord. This PC bull**** is going too god damned far.

So someone might be offended. Oh boo hoo hoo. Go cry me a fricken river and get over yourself. Here's a tip:

YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO NOT BE OFFENDED.

Keep repeating that until it gets through the heads of the PC nutcases who are so concerned about people's itsy bitsy feelings. They keep going, we'll live in a world where everything is painted white because color offends the colorblind people. OH WAIT, we can't paint it white, because that would offend the black people. And, We won't have any books or read at all because the written word offends the illiterate.

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americanwoman

I don't know why people are so mad at Muslims about this. No muslims were actually offended by anything, there were just some people who thought it might offend some, so maybe those people are doing a little too much thinking. Gosh even at the bottom of the article people were griping about how Muslims don't have the right to be offended, blah blah blah. Hello, did you even read the article?!

Lightdemon

Well it's one thing if people were saying:

"Oh, we got to ban this book from our libraries." or
"We will boycott this type of material being sold to our kids." or
"We will pass a law to keep books that offend ______ groups off our shelves."

But it isn't. It's simply a book that didn't get an award because the judges thought it would be offensive. It's not like you wont see the book in bookstores, or in kids libraries...

Zyphlin

While I don't agree with the extent that the OP is making this out to be bad, I will contest your point in one simple way.

There is a reason why the climate in this country has got to the point now that it IS the judges making such an outlandish call as this. Actions by world wide muslims (Danish cartoons for example) has set a sort of precident that people, espicially those very beholden by PC, are VERY over sensitive about anything that could possibly be construed as offensive to them. Add on top of this things like the Imus case and you have a climate where a large amount of people constantly walk on egg shells even if those shells aren't there.

The easiest way to kill free speech isn't to personally surpress it or try to fully legislate it, but to use legal means and social pressure to make people cautious and in doubt of using their speech.

rivrrat

I don't think they should award anything. There shouldn't be awards at all. I mean, what if it offends someone who didn't win?!

Lordy, lordy, whatever would the world do if someone were....*gasp*.... offended?!?!?

Lightdemon

Okay, whatever floats yer boat.

But I do understand what you're saying about being too PC. Its just isn't the case this time.

P/N

You missed my point. I could care less about an award, it is the PC police in full riot gear on this one that I have a problem with. We live in a world where we don't want to hurt anyones "feelings". We don't want to offend a particular group of people, and all because of "three little pigs"? Political correctness is taking over in a world of fear. The shame here is in the PC police acting out, not in a book being disqualified for an award.