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THE three little pigs have been cut from a children’s performance at Huddersfield Town Hall for fear of offending Muslims.
Gill Goodswen, head teacher of Stile Common Junior School at Newsome said: “We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs. We feared that some Muslim children wouldn’t sing along to the words about pigs. We didn’t want to take that risk.”
Steve Price, the head of Honley C of E Junior School, said “We are proud of being a church school. Times change and sensitivities change”
On May 3rd, there are Local Elections.
On May 3rd, YOU will have the chance to defend yourself, your family and friends, by placing a X next to a candidate that disagrees with our multicultural hellhole.
On May 3rd, YOU will play a VERY important role in the future make up of YOUR society, and the future society that your family and friends grow into.
Good luck people.
Children at Honley Church of England Primary School in Huddersfield will perform the play in its original form at Kirklees music festival in June.
They wanted to put on Roald Dahl’s reworking of the Three Little Pigs but the plans were changed after a meeting of the festival’s organisers who feared Muslim children would not be able to sing along.
But Jim Dodds, education spokesman at Kirklees Council, has intervened and reversed the decision.
‘There is something barmy going on here and it has happened on my watch,’ Mr Dodds told the BBC.
‘I can tell you now that the Three Little Pigs will be back into the school festival.
‘The decision was made by well-meaning people – it was the wrong decision, so let’s stick with the traditions.’
The decision to change ‘piggies’ to ‘puppies’ was widely condemned.
One parent at the school said: ‘I thought it was a joke. Surely there are worse things to worry about than a story about three little pigs.’
A spokesman for one mosque insisted the change was not needed.
Mohammed Imran said: ‘It is forbidden to eat pork or touch a pig but there is no ruling about talking or singing about them.’
The British Muslim Forum said: ‘All this highlights is the lack of awareness of Islam.’
The committee which made the decision to change the title was trying to be ‘sensitive if we want to be multicultural’.
Gill Goodswen, a headteacher on the committee, said: ‘We feared some Muslim children wouldn’t sing along to words about pigs. If changing a few words avoids offence, then we will do so.’
Metro.co.uk
There is a widespread taboo about eating pork that goes beyond islam. It is well known that Jews do not eat pork for the same reason – i.e. it is considered ‘unclean’. Also some Christians do not eat it and there was always the old country saying: ‘it’s only safe to eat pork during the months with and ‘R’ in them’.
I am an atheist-humanist and I do not eat pork on principle either, for different reasons to do with the way I saw pigs treated by some farmers, market, drivers and abbatoir workers during a time when I occasionally drove livestock lorries. Taking pigs to the abbatoir during the day and then coming home to take the dog for a walk seemed like a double standard too far.
But it’s OK to sing about piggies in my book!!!!!
B55, i watched Ramsey’s F-word the other night, and he’s growing some pigs, went to a farm and showed us how a pig is cut up. The bloke helping uses pretty much everything, including the ears, he rolled some up in bread crumbs, cooked, dipped in some sauce and ramsey loved it.
I wont touch fast food produce now, after seeing a film about how they treet animals for fast food meat, but done humanly as poss, its ok.
Yes Emma – I also watched Gordon Ramsey and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall growing pigs and how much of the animal is used for foodstuffs after it has been slaughtered.
In the south of Italy loads of families keep a pig or two (usually in pretty filthy conditions I have to say) and they slaughter them ‘for the family’. Every bit is used and they dry cure the flesh as ham and as salami etc. I have to say that home cured ”Parma’ type ham is absolutely delicious and farmhouse salami is to die for – as the pig did I guess !!!
That said, I absolutely agree with your point on political correctness in the schools referred to. My only thought is that it might be that the school(s) were located in a high density Muslim or Jewish population where the ethnic/religious mix might be a driver for this.
I can’t be bothered to think too hard about this – but if you took their position on PC I wonder how much of our national heritage you could edit and alter so as to remove the possibility of any implied offence to whatever minority group was around at the time.
However, I am sure that such a policy would have had to receive approval from the Governors of these schools. Could it be that this is being driven by the Governors and not the staff???
“to be seen as nice” via PC is whats driving this.
How ironically offensive to the writer of the three little pigs, that one considers changing the story.
Like you say, theres plenty of national heritage that could be changed to suit minorities, this will go too far, and it will cause civil unrest eventually. Maybe we want civil unrest?
So, who’s voting for the old gang multiculturalists on may 3rd…
I cannot wait for civil unrest :wink: and will enjoy it not if, but when it eventually arrives :twisted: If that is what it takes, so be it.
Im ready for the civil unrest now, but i’d rather we WAKE UP and vote against it.
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