Posted on 06/17/2006 9:11:32 AM PDT by bordergal
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.
TRT officials were not immediately available for comment.
Pigs are regarded as unclean by Muslims and Islam prohibits the consumption of pork.
Winnie the Pooh has been aired on other television channels in Turkey and its videos are easily available at the stores.
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.
No, it was Eeyore.
So if Pooh beheaded Pooh's infidel friends would that make it suitable for TV?
Talk about cherry picking.
Always winter and never Christmas in the Muslim lands.
Why did Winnie the Pooh get the works?
That's no one's business but the Turks.
What kind of religion has such phobias about God's creatures?
So? The piglet was not attempting to visit a mosque in that cartoon, if memory serves.
Well, how about we replace all those "useless dead white men" on our currency with Piglet? See how the rag heads do without US currency. A side benefit would be, one less issue for the left in this country to bitch about. You know how they hate successful white people. Diversity, tolerance and all the crap you know.
Oh, bother.
Poor Piglet.
If the creator doesn't like pigs, why did he create them?
Some years ago I was in Dhahran and the front page of the London Times showed a picture of Zola Budd winning a track and field event. The stupid Saudi censors had used magic markers to black out her bare legs on every copy of the paper on the newspaper rack.
Because he likes to piss off the muslims. ;-P
Let me see if I've got this right. The Islamist press treats Piglet just as our MSM treats mainline conservatives?
So, by analogy, the difference between our MSM and the Turkish state media is . . . ?
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