Muslims Ban Gay Books And Other Fairy Tales
SAYS the Mail: “Muslims’ fury forces schools to shelve anti-homophobia storybooks for 5-year-olds.”
The Muslims are censoring the books at Easton Primary School and Bannerman Road Community School, both in Bristol.
There have been “Objections from Muslim parents”. The King & King, a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before marrying one of their brothers, is no longer on the bookshelves.
And Tango Makes Three, the story of two male penguins who fall in love at a New York zoo, is purged.
Bristol City Council said the two schools had been using the books to ensure they complied with gay rights laws which came into force last April. They were intended to help prevent homophobic bullying, it said.
But the books have gone. And the Mail says it is because of the Muslims. Only, it isn’t. Not really.
Farooq Siddique, community development officer for the Bristol Muslim Cultural Society and a governor at Bannerman Road, says: “The main issue was there was a total lack of consultation with parents…
“The agenda was to reduce homophobic bullying and all the parents said they were not against that side of it, but families were saying to us ‘our child is coming home and talking about same-sex relationships, when we haven’t even talked about heterosexual relationships with them yet’.
“They don’t do sex education until Year Six and at least there you have got the option of withdrawing the children.
“But here you don’t have that option apparently. You can’t withdraw because it is no particular lesson they are used in.”
So much for the Mail’s Muslim “fury”.
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (4) | TrackBack | Permalink
