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Sunday, 18 Jun 2006
Turkey joins the retards club and bans piglet the same way the british did before them , and for the same reason: the protection of muslim sensibilities!
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.
Ok, so the british are retarded multiculturalists who think that muslims really get offended by Piglet, so they ban him out of misguided, albeit good, intentions. Fine. What's Turkey's excuse? They are a muslim nation and this is an islamic party government, and last I checked Piglet wasn't Haram. WTF is going on?
June 18th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Try to be positive and think they banned it so there can be more for you :p
June 18th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I’d say this move reminds me more of eeyore — an ass — but I adore eeyore and don’t want to lump him in same group as fundamentalists.
June 18th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
What??? I thought Turkey was secular! Then why are womens headscarfs (higab) forbidden in all public buildings?
I’m confused..
June 18th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Ok, I missed your last post about Turkey. Sorry, my bad
June 18th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Islam forbids eating pork. So why the hatred of the living animal? How does removing Winnie the Pooh a good act or promote Islam?
And according to “The Koran For Dummies”, a muslim may eat pork if he’s faced with starvation otherwise. It must be the loss of reason. Muslims don’t want to think, so they let the Koran think for them. Or rather, their own twisted interpretation which somehow equates a cartoon with a pig in it to eating bacon.
Same thing happens with Xtian fundies, too. They prefer to let the Bible think for them as well. That’s why you have silly fights over the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, as if allowing it would solve everyone’s problems.
God, save me from your most devout followers!
June 18th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Aren’t dogs also considered unclean? Does that mean they can’t watch 101 Dalmations or Old Yeller either?
June 18th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
God, save me from religion!
June 18th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Allah created all living things, right? Well, if he doesn’t like pigs, why did he created it? Did allah made a mistake?
June 18th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
seriously: wtf??
consider giving out awards for the most retarded plan of crap ever to be undertaken by a government –> turkey’s right up there with the bush administration’s war on terror
June 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Now that’s seriously STUPID. I have a piggie bank where I keep all my coins. Ooooooh I’m going to hell aren’t I…?
June 18th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Well I just looked it up. Sorry, you can’t wear or sell pig leather either.
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=E&Id=1322&Option=FatwaId
I guess that also means no american foot ball!
Drima, those piggy bank coins are now unclean. Send them to me & I’ll dispose of them properly.
June 18th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Am I the only one who had a crush on Ms Piggy growing up? I guess in Turkey, that type of fantasy would be considered “wrong” and “immoral”.
June 18th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
No Nike shoes either!
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=E&Id=1278&Option=FatwaId
Or Nike shirts. Or Nike hats. Or Nike balls. Or Nike anything. Or Nike factories I suppose!
June 18th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Craig - thanks for the info from “The Fatwa Center!!” The Fatwa Center. LOL
Oh boy - keep me the hell away from the Fatwa Center or I just might go and blow it up.
Can’t wear Nike because “Nike” was the goddess of Victory. Praise be to Allah, that one is a doozy!!
June 18th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
poor little piglet ,no wonder the poor little thing is so neurotic. hufflumps rabbit and crazy muslim fundies . misery indeed
June 19th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Poor piglet indeed! what has he done
and winnie too what did he do? it reminds of people who won’t see harry potter for religious reasons.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:42 am
I first mis-read that as:
“Turkey bangs piglet”.
There is a gross image for you all. Enjoy!
June 19th, 2006 at 1:44 am
I understand banning pig-leather more than the piglet character.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:57 am
I can understand why Muslims might ban leather or other pork products, but since when is it a sin to VIEW a pig? I don’t understand this at all!
June 19th, 2006 at 2:47 am
This is OT but insurance is also forbidden??!!
I’ve found over 30 Fatwas against it.
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=E&Id=5294&Option=FatwaId
Are these Fatwas to be technically followed by “all” Muslims or just members belonging to the fatwa writers group?
BTW, Sand Monkey I think you may have to quite your job:
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=E&Id=985&Option=FatwaId
June 19th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
It would make more sense to ban Winnie The Pooh himself, as he was named after Winston Churchill, who is regarded as a hero in Britain but as a bad guy in some other countries.
The reason to not eat pork is to avoid getting the pork tapewaorm. AFAIK this animal is now more or less extinct. I have never heard of anyone who eats bacon, sausages or roast pork getting a tapeworm. Raw fish is a much bigger risk.
I would guess that the reason dogs are “unclean” is because children can gat roundworms from dogs.
The reason shoes are unclean is the lack of sanitation in the Middle East until relatively recently. In Iraq at least, there is still sewage on the ground in the streets in many places.
Muslims are confusing sensible health precautions with religion. How about some fatwas telling people to wear condoms?
June 19th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Trichinosis is still a problem Don. Not so much in the US because we don’t feed pigs garbage anymore, and we are aware of the importance of cooking pork fully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
Good description of where religious prohibitions likely come from, though.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
OK this has nothing to do with Piglet.
This is a clip from MTV Wondershowzen on the farm.
The funniest line is they show several pigs and one of the children says
“Oh look! Moslem Kryptonite!”
I may be sick but that was funny as hell.
http://gorillamask.net/wsfarm.shtml
June 19th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
personally, i think banning anything by disney, pigs or no pigs, is a great idea.
June 19th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Don, Winnie the Pooh was not named for Winston Churchill. The character was first published in 1926 and was named after a stuffed bear owned by A.A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne. Chris had named his bear “Winnie” after a real bear named “Winnipeg” (as in the Canadian city) who was the unofficial mascot of a Canadian regiment in World War I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_the_pooh#Origins
June 20th, 2006 at 9:47 am
No falafel in Iraq.
No piglet in Turkey.
Suicide bombers.
Interesting religion you’ve got there.
LoL.
September 29th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
No Nikes in Turkey? Then just what is my daughter doing out there as the Nike girl being interviewed by Turkish TV and newspapers?
By the way…Turkey has a secularist government and they are not allowed to vote in an Islamic one because according to Ataturk the country must remain secular. The people can choose their religion but a religious party is not allowed to run Turkey.
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 am
TURKEY IS A SECULAR CONTRY. THERE IS NO SUCH A THING LIKE A BANNING OF THE DISNEY CARTOON . DO YOU KNOW WHY ? BECAUSE I GROW UP WATCHING THEM. JUST WANT TO ADD THIS ALSO,I REMEBER WATCHING A SHOW CALL “THE LITTLE HOUSE” WHICH WAS MY FAVORT WAS LOADED WITH CHURCH SEENS AND CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS. PLEASE LEARN MORE ABOUT TURKEY BEFORE YOU TRUST THE LIES THANK YOU NICKY.