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IS THE THREE LITTLE PIGS FAIRYTALE OFFENSIVE?

Wednesday January 23,2008


A pop-up book based on a popular children's fairytale has been dismissed as "offensive to Muslims" by a Government agency.


The Three Little Cowboy Builders, targeted at youngsters aged five to 11, re-tells the classic fairy-tale of The Three Little Pigs.

But Becta, the Government's educational technology agency, turned down the digital book for an educational award because it might offend Muslim groups.

Feedback from the BETT Awards explained that the judges "could not recommend this product to the Muslim community" and even that it "might alienate parts of the building trade."

But what do YOU think?

Could this book offend Muslims? Does it!? Should we take action like this to protect Britain's minority faiths?

Or are faceless bureaucrats, yet again, interfering for no good reason?