Has anyone here ever had a sit down conversation with any Arabs or Muslums? NOTE: You can be one or the other but do NOT need to be BOTH....
Try it sometime. You will be amazingly surprised at just how much they DO value freedon of speech. In fact, they will debate just about anything. They will allow your point to be voiced and will reply with as much openness and honesty as you could imagine. So this article is of course propaganda. On 6/18/06, Eric Dondero Rittberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- ***************************************** "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately!" ...Ben Franklin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/bmUd6C/fOaOAA/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/
