Posted on 08/30/2006 6:35:59 PM PDT by blam
Pinocchio and friends converted to Islam
Malcolm Moore in Antalya
(Filed: 31/08/2006)
Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories on 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. The reason would surprise the author, Alexandre Dumas.
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.
The clumsy insertions by Islamic publishing houses have caused controversy in Turkey, which has been a strongly secular state since the 1920s.
Other books contain insults, slang and rude rhymes which mock the president and the prime minister.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is Turkey's first Islamic premier, has called for swift action to be taken against the publishers.
The education ministry has threatened to take legal action against any publisher which continues to issue such books.
Huseyin Celik, the education minister, said: "If there are slang and swear words, we will sue them for using the ministry logo."
So much for "secular" Turkey...some Turkophiles on FR need to have their heads examined.
This is just wrong.
Maybe Israel should do one where Aladdin decides to have a Bar Mitsvah.
Can you blame Pinocchio? His head is full of sawdust.
Good lord! What nonsense. (What are they doing reading the infidel-inspired classics, anyway?)
> Maybe Israel should do one where Aladdin decides to have a Bar Mitsvah.
I like the idea of an addendum to the Koran where Mohammad cannot answer the Riddle Of Steel and Crom hurls him out of Valhalla and laughs at him.
She soon surmised, much to her surprise...
They were now part of a muslim's harem."
Not bad for 45 seconds of thought, eh?
FMCDH(BITS)
Boy, Muslims steal everything, don't they?
That's good, but I don't think Little Bo Peep would be surprised at the fate of the sheep.
Good Grief! Whats next? The Hardy Boys stop their pursuit of counterfeiters to get out their prayer rugs and pray to Mecca??
FMCDH(BITS)
This could be quite revealing about Mo's character.
Bring on the Mo' cartoon ... the one with the fuse in his hat. :)
Oh good grief.
Oh, and the drawings, with the Princess necklines and bare arms. For starters. Are there any illustrations at all? Are they covered modestly, if yes? Does Cinderella marry her Prince and join the 3 other wives at the castle? So many questions...
"But Father, Mr. Darcy says I have the most beautiful eyes."
"Speak no more of such unseemly things, dear Eliza, or I shall have to stone you."
ROFL
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a devout man named Snow White. He was a kindly man who had seven lovely wives who were slightly short of stature. The legend goes that those were once curvaceous babes but were cursed by an evil spell cast on them by a corrupt Zionist witch.
Each day the wives would go and dig diamonds to keep Snow White living well as things should be for such a man. One day, Snow White tells his lovely wives that if they wish to obtain the best place in heaven, they need to don special belts prepared by him, and wear them in the presence of the Zionist witch.
Naturally, the seven wives complied with their master's desire, and they went to visit the witch. Upon entering the witch's filthy Zionist shack, the wives shouted "Alluh Akbar!" and in a flash of holy light, the shack, the witch, and the wives were all turned into little more than a cloud of C4 dust rising up to heaven where the wives will gladly spend eternity darning the socks of Snow White once he arrives to enjoy his 72 babes. The End.
Let's see...
Goldilocks and the Three Martyrs..
Little Red Riding Burqa....
Little Mosque on the Prairie....
etc.
Good lord! Allahu Akbar! What nonsense. (What are they doing reading the infidel-inspired classics, anyway?)
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