meat.

"Boys" exclude GIRLS.

"Little" is a slur against the "vertically challenged".

Did I miss anything?

Hell, just rename the book "The Three Israelis and the Palestinian S.O.B.". (But the third Israeli was wise and built his wall with cement and razor wire, backing it up with machine guns and mortars....)

Hon I live it every day, I live in the land of PC lunacy, I live in the country where a one eyed claw handed fundamentalist was allowed to spew hate for years whilst collecting £100's a week in state benefits, because he was an asylum seeker who would face death if he was deported. Yup because he was wanted on terrorist charges in a country that carried the death penalty.

Go figure............

The glories of the European Human Rights Act.

Why dya think we all want to emigrate??

NIna x

Man, that is so stupid and so depressing....

I have to laugh at articles like this b/c it makes it seem like we are sitting around thinking about things to complain about and to change when in all reality we really don't care.

But b/c I also felt you were leaving a huge part of the real article out I had to read for myself and I love how you left key parts of this article out like the officials were also worried about stereotyping builders.

"Officials also attacked the story - called The Three Little Cowboy Builders - for stereotyping the building trade."

"But its authors were also told that it portrays the building industry in a bad light.

Judges said "retelling a story" was acceptable, but it "should not alienate parts of the workforce", adding that builders should be "positive" role models for young children.

"Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?" the judges asked."

If you read the below quote from the original article you will see how Muslims feel about issues like this, I have to wonder why you left this out....

"Muslims criticised Becta's response and insisted that a computer program based on the Three Little Pigs should be welcomed in state schools.

Tahir Alam, the head of education at the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "We are not offended by that at all."

Also if you are going to quote something from an article why do you feel the need to add YOUR own bits and pieces to try to get YOUR point across. Here is my example...." The digital book The 3 Little Cowboy Builders retells the classic children's tale. It was rejected at a Government-sponsored awards event because judges had "concerns about the Asian [i.e., Muslim] community," and "the use of pigs raises cultural issues."

The true quote from the article reads like this "The digital remake of the children's classic was criticised by Becta, the education technology agency, because "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".

The reason I am posting all of this is b/c things like this get twisted and make it look like Muslims are complaining about things like this, it makes it appear that we want the entire world to bend over backwards for us and change traditions and stories to make us feel better when in fact we really don't give a damn. Unfortunately others will read what the OP posted and believe it is in fact the truth when it's not even close. I am sick of having to defend myself and other Muslims for the stupidity and ignorance of those out there that don't have the brains to research things for themselves to get the truth but until this kind of crap ends I will continue to do just that. If you look at how easy it was for the OP to bend this story then maybe you can see how easy it is for lies to start and spread about any group of ppl. Read the comments of that article and you will see that many ppl couldn't even get the entire point of the article, instead they start bitching and complaining about Muslims wanting to change things or they should go back to their countries.

Anyway after reading the entire article I can totally see why Becta had to reject this, it's no different then all the PC crap of the past. Do I think it's right? Hell no but sadly this is the way things are going now, everyone is scared to offend everyone. I say get over it, if you don't like something don't go there, don't read it, whatever.

Here is the link to the article in case anyone wants to actually read it for themselves instead of taking what the OP said to be the truth.....Three little pigs 'could offend builders, Muslims' - Telegraph

Oh and btw Derick thanks for this thread, it opened a door for me to get a very good point out there.

Bugger I just typed a really long reply and lost it!!!

God that pisses me off!!

I wanted to say that my muslim/black friends are just as embarrassed as I am about the state of the UK. You are right hon, they do pick and choose what they report on, but can the policy makers not see that all they are doing is getting people riled up.

I live in a country now where you can quite literally be arrested for saying the wrong thing, it is lunacy!

I dont agree with rasism in any form but unfortunatly in the UK there are racial tensions on all sides and as yet phrases like 'white trash' havent been outlawed, this leads to a situation that you see all the time at schools where if there are 2 kids involved in a fight, that was started because they fell out , not for a race reason, the white child will be expelled. I think that they both should, JMHO

In the Uk now we have lost control of our borders thanks to the mighty EU, which insists, despite the fact that most of the origional member states have no intention of ever sticking to them, on brining out more and more laws that restrict and define the way that you can live in your own home.

The eastern block countries ( known to most of you yanks as the good old USSR) are now members of the EU which gives them the freedom to travel into the UK whenever they want to look for work.....or claim benefits. We have the most lenient social security system in the world, we have free healthcare for all, and dya know what we are IMPLODING. Go to France and by the channel tunnel crossing the French set up camps, and in those camps there were leaflets being distributed in many languages on how to claim asylum, how to claim benefits and how much you will get if you go to the UK!!

Our police are encountering forms of organised crime the likes of which they have never seen before, child sex trades, women being sold - and I mean SOLD into prostitution - the russian mafia is alive and well and living in the UK.

In the mean time the government is reacting by

banning baa baa black sheep

banning the word blackboard

leaving thousands of kids in care because they are mixed race , so white parents cannot adopt them

banning the union jack from being flown in council offices during the olympic games and the world cups

details on how to claim benefits being printed in 30/50 different languages

arguing constantly about what might offend, and I mean offend anyone, other of course than the middle class, who just get the fun job of footing the bill for it all.

I think, no I KNOW that the muslims of the world are just as pissed off with what the radical idiots are doing as the rest of us, I just dont think that the PC luncy is helping anyone.

Hope I didnt offend cos I truly didnt mean to.