Hamas bans, destroys books
So, what do you think the Islamic Caliphate of Palestine would look like? I think it would look something like this:
The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries and destroyed, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, officials said Monday, in the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society.
[...] The Education Ministry declined immediate comment. A senior ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the issue with reporters, confirmed that 1,500 copies of the book had been pulled from school libraries and destroyed.
[...] However, in recent months the Hamas-controlled ministries have begun forcing women to don headscarves to enter. And two years ago, Hamas officials in charge of the West Bank town of Qalqiliya sparked fears of a culture crackdown by banning a local music festival, arguing that the mingling of men and women at such an event was “haram,” or forbidden by Islam.
In a letter sent to the Nablus school district last month, the Education Ministry said ‘Speak Bird, Speak Again’ must be removed within a week, and asked school officials to notify the ministry once they had complied. The letter did not explain why the book was considered objectionable.
So, what is this fearsome book?
The 400-page anthology of folk tales narrated by Palestinian women was first published in English in 1989 by the University of California at Berkeley. It was put together by Sharif Kanaana, a novelist and anthropology professor at the West Bank’s Bir Zeit University, and by Ibrahim Muhawi, a teacher of Arabic literature and the theory of translation.
Just imagine what they’d do with “Heather Has Two Mommies.”
These are the people that the world expects Israel to deal with, ultimately. Shyeah. Because they’re so eminently reasonable, they have to destroy a children’s book because—well, they never did say, did they? But people made an educated guess.
Kanaana said that two of the 45 tales contained what some might consider vague sexual innuendo, referring to body parts in colloquial Arabic. “This is our heritage, this is our life,” he said of the folk tales.
Well, hey. You voted for them, people. You made your bed. Now lie in it. Segregated by sex, of course.
