Quote:
A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency's annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims.
The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".
Becta, the government's educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual schools award.
The judges also attacked Three Little Cowboy Builders for offending builders.
The book's creative director, Anne Curtis, said that the idea that including pigs in a story could be interpreted as racism was "like a slap in the face".
Source: beeb
*insert facepalm picture here* pc gone mad yet again D:
Aren't those who rejected the book the first to relate Muslims to pigs in this case? 
What Acrio said. 
~Tobe
i don't get what pigs have to do with muslims anyway.. isn't it jews who can't eat pig products? oo;
The Jews have been avoiding eating Muslims lately
I'm fairly sure neither Jews nor Muslims eat pork.
At any rate, this is mentally hilarious on so many levels. Muslims aren't allowed to eat pig products but I'm fairly sure there's nothing in the Qu'ran about refusing to acknowledge the very existence of pigs. Also the way they seem to use "Asian community" and "Muslim community" almost interchangeably strikes me as awful imprecise for an organisation this uptight about not offending people.
*checks* ah, pigs aren't halal.. that explains it.
still, i doubt the big bad wolf is a muslim, so he can try to eat all the little piggies he wants.
No, the wolf is evil in the face of Allah for even thinking it!
Political Correctness is a terrible thing... everything keeps getting dumbed down because someone else might not like it...
As if Fairy Tales aren't dumb down enough as it is.
Red Hiding Hood- Dealing with talking to strangers and rape
What's next? Mother Goose to offensive to..... Geese haters?
That last one has always been occuring.
The article itself - if you read the full thing on the BBC's web site rather than just the headline or the selectively edited bits - says that it wasn't the only reason and that multiple shortcomings kept it off the shortlist, which basically boiled down to it being not a very good story to begin with, and not worth shortlisting.
This just seems like sloppy PR on the part of the awarding body, combined with vulture journalism. I'm wondering how much the headline has to do with the story, and how much it's just sensationslising against The Nasty Big PC Agenda (TM), as usual.
I wouldn't be shocked either way, though. My last job was as a Children's Librarian in a neighbourhood that was roughly seventy percent Muslim in terms of schoolchildren, and trying to sort out the reading list for pre-school storytimes was always a total nightmare, with my line manager over my shoulder and trying to make my selections for me as though I couldn't recognise cultural sensitivities on my own, let alone not need reminding not to pick Don't Forget the Bacon every week.
Nine out of every ten Muslims present probably wouldn't bat an eyelid at a story about pigs, and especially if it's not specifically aimed at their market and/or in a multi-faith ennvironment - but fear of litigation and simply wanting to maximise revenue mean that some authorities winds up catering to the fundamentalist lowest common denominator, or else randomly getting offended on someone else's behalf.
