Government public television not showing a tv show means that muslims are against free speech?
Does that not just mean that the state is against free speech? In Soviet Union no capitalist tv shows where shown! Ohh my god! I am against free speech by your logic :( I am an enemy of the free world :P Best wishes, Urmas On 06/18/2006 20:31, Eric Dondero Rittberg wrote: > > http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,19503274,00.html > > Piglet keeps Pooh off air > > >From correspondents in Ankara > 17-06-2006 > From: Reuters > > 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. > > Winnie the Pooh has been aired on other television channels in > Turkey and > its videos are easily available at the stores. > > Employees have recently complained of increasing government > intervention in > TRT's broadcasting policy, including also the appointment of ruling > party > cronies to key posts at the institution, which runs several > television and > radio channels. > > Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, > the > offshoot of a now-banned Islamist movement, is under fire for > seeking to > raise the profile of Islam in mainly Muslim but strictly secular > Turkey. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XmUd6C/bOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
