Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer Now Muslim In New Turkish Versions of Classics

The New York Sun ^ | August 31, 2006 | MALCOLM MOORE

[DaveLoneRanger]

ANTALYA, Turkey — Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer, and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories designed for the Turkish school curriculum.

"Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the Ministry of Education.

"Thanks be to Allah," the puppet says later.

In "The Three Musketeers," D'Artagnan is told that he cannot visit Aramis.

An old woman explains: "He is surrounded by men of religion. He converted to Islam after his illness."

Tom Sawyer may always have shirked his homework, but he is more conscientious in learning his Islamic prayers. He is given a "special treat" for learning the Arabic words.

Pollyanna, seen by some as the embodiment of Christian forgiveness, says that she believes in the end of the world as predicted in the Koran.

Heidi, the Swiss orphan girl in the tale by Johanna Spyri, is told that praying to Allah will help her to relax.

Several more books have been altered, including La Fontaine's fables, and Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables."

[DaveLoneRanger]

Tom Sawyer, of course, the grandfather of Diane Sawyer...

[x_plus_one]

Heidi, the Swiss orphan girl in the tale by Johanna Spyri, is told that praying to Allah will help her to relax

Tom Cruise tells Katy the same thing about Scientology>>>>>:-)

[agere_contra]

Pollyanna, seen by some as the embodiment of Christian forgiveness, says that she believes in the end of the world as predicted in the Koran.

Which means that Pollyanna will be wandering about looking for Jooos to kill.

Seriously - can't they write their own? Does Islam not have its own uplifting children's stories? Ones that don't involve martyrdom and Jew-killing I mean?

[Lexington Green]

''Death to America,'' Tom Sawyer said as he beat Becky Thatcher for insolence.

[McGavin999]

It's called rewriting history folks, they even have to try to steal other's cultures because theirs is so lacking.

[OpusatFR]

So...what are they going to do with The Three Little Pigs?

How the Chinese Discovered Roast Pork? (My personal favorite story)

A Christmas Carol?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

[OpusatFR]

Almost forgot one of the greatest: Les Miserables.

War and Peace...lots of Orthodox references there...

[VOA]

Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer Now Muslim In New Turkish Versions of Classics

I can understand why the Islamics dislike the term facists
(although it fits with their spiritual union with the Nazis in WWII)...
because they act like Communists.

I remember, as a child, that during the Cold War, the USSR was always
editing history, art, etc. to show the some Russian had invented any
invention on earth...FIRST!

I detect more than a bit of this from the Islamics in Persia/Iran.

[OpusatFR]

Let's make Alladin and the Forty Thieves born again Christians who see the error of their ways.

[VOA]

The real question is...
when some immigrant from Turkey brings his family to the USA and
puts his kids into public school...

Will the teachers have the cojones to tell the kid...NO, Tom Sawyer
wasn NEVER a Muslim and NEVER prayed to freakin' Allah.

Nah, the public school teachers will say, well, that' a valid interpretation
of what Mark Twain wrote...
(and keep their heads)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Does Islam not have its own uplifting children's stories? Ones that don't involve martyrdom and Jew-killing I mean?

Well, there are the Thousand And One Nights of Sheherazad, related by a young girl to keep her Muslim husband from murdering her and her younger sister (that he has raped them goes without saying).

[lesser_satan]

Let's make Alladin Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves born again Christians who see the error of their ways.

[Nachum]

It's in the Koran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarzT2Qs3FY&NR

[ConservaTexan]

What will become of the Three Little Pigs????

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Does Geppetto strap bombs around Pinocchio and send him to a bus in Israel filled with children, adults and the elderly?

[P-40]

I wonder if Tom Sawyer will still go rafting with Infidel Jim...

[Chewie84]

This is beyond disgusting, perverting classic works just to fit an agenda.

[OpusatFR]

Oopps.

Guess my pre-Disney age is showing.

[NRA2BFree]

Tom Cruise tells Katy the same thing about Scientology.

Obviously, Tom Cruise failed to tell Katy the truth about their baby and Scientology! LOL!

[Turk2]

I saw this in the Turkish press. They're not going to be taught in schools. Some idiot funded by Iran or Saudi Arabia decided to disgrace a number of world classics to brainwash little kids and printed these books for sale at ridiculously low prices. They won't sell more than a few thousand and that is nothing in a country of 70 million. Besides, the AKP has commited political suicide and a center right or left party will take the majority of the votes in the next elections and send these nuts back to where they belong.