Piglet Banned in Saudi Arabia?

08:10 pm on Feb 1st 2007

Piglet Banned in Saudi Arabia
CJW over at the RetroDisney Blog tipped me off to this article on QatarLiving.com. The author of the post found a Winnie the Pooh book in a local bookstore. They picked it up in hopes of teaching their young daughter about Pooh and nature. On further examination, they found that Piglet had been systematically blotched out with a black sharpie. It’s not definitive that it was a censor who “vandalized” the book, but the author is pretty convinced it was.

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  • Andy

    As far as I know (I don’t follow Islam, I am sure somebody will be able to give more info on this) pigs are considdered unclean with the believe. Showing a pig in a kiddie book is not something they can tolerate. Therefore it has been censored.

  • http://www.claimid.com/joshkenzer Josh

    That was the impression I took from the article too.

  • Jane

    But pigs love cleaness its just we don’t give them the water to wash themself

  • Umm Latifa

    I've been living in Saudi Arabia since almost 6 years, and bought Winnie the Pooh (Arabic-English versions) magazines for my children here. The PIGLET as well as EEYORE (Muslims are also not allowed to eat donkey meat) are doing great. You can see the pictures of these heroes on my blog:
    http://arabiasaudyjska.blogspot.com/2009/03/gdz…
    The magazines were bought in Riyadh in 2008 year.
    Umm Latifa