Sunday, February 11, 2007

Piglet Anathema In The Middle East

What is it with Muslims and cartoons?

Here is what one blogger found in a bookstore in Qatar:
We flipped it open and noticed that some of the pages had been vandalised with a black marker. We figured it must have been bought and returned after some kids had got there hands on it. Further inspection made us realise that this was actually systematic. Someone had deliberately "censored" out each and every picture of Piglet from hundreds of pages in the book with a black marker (my guess is that the book got caught by Saudi Censors enroute to Doha).







And here is GM's solution:



Just for good measure, I'm adding the following to this posting:

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posted by Always On Watch @ 2/11/2007 10:55:00 AM  

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