Political correctness is never itself offensive

From Poe-news.com

Church School Changes Three Little Pigs to Puppies for Fear of Offending Muslims

A junior school production of the popular children’s story the ‘Three Little Pigs’ has been changed to ‘Three Little Puppies’ to avoid causing any offence to Muslims.

Due to the multi-cultural nature of the youngsters involved and their parents in the audience, organisers of a children's music festival have altered the popular characters and lyrics.

But Muslim leaders recently condemned the politically correct move as misguided and said decisions like this were turning Muslims into 'misfits' in society.

"There's an issue about the eating of pork, which is forbidden, but there is no prohibition about reading stories about pigs. This is an unnecessary step," said Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, Muslim Council of Great Britain.

However, organisers of the Kirklees Primary Music Festival decided to change the script to be 'sensitive' to Muslims at a recent committee meeting.

Committee member Gill Goodswen, head teacher of Stile Common Junior School, defended the move.

She said: "We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs. We feared that some Muslim children wouldn't sing along to the words about pigs," she said.

"We didn't want to take that risk. If changing a few words avoids offence then we will do so."

She stressed the decision was not prompted by a complaint from any school.

This one is really awful, but the ending is special:

Woman Pleads Guilty to Murder in Drowning, Beheading of Daughter

SEATTLE: A mentally troubled woman accused of drowning her 6-year-old daughter, cutting off her head and throwing the remains off a Washington state bridge has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

The father of Samara Laverne Spann, 32, told a newspaper in 2005 his daughter routinely called the girl a "devil child" and BELONGED TO A CULT THAT WORSHIPPED THE LATE RAPPER TUPAC SHAKUR AS THE REINCARNATION OF THE 16TH CENTURY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER MACHIAVELLI.