CHICAGO school bans book about Islamic brutality by an Iranian woman who suffered it

 

New post on BARE NAKED ISLAM   CHICAGO school bans book about Islamic brutality by an Iranian woman who suffered it by BareNakedIslam Written by an Iranian woman, the memoir “Persepolis” has been banned in Iran, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates because the work is considered to be Islamophobic and blasphemous to Muslims. What’s more, it has also been banned in a Chicago public school for ostensibly the same reasons. Teachers, students and parents at Chicago’s Lane Tech College Prep staged a protest Friday after all traces of Marjane Satrapi’s novel were purged from the North Side school — a decision made by Principal Christopher Dignam, who said he was instructed by Chicago Public School officials to remove the book. A film adaptation of Persepolis, released in 2007, was banned in Iran, a move that the author believes is due to the fact that the movie portrays women who do not wear hijabs and “because they fall in love.” ”It is too Western and it is un-Islamic and maybe anti-revolutionary,” she said in an interview. The book, recommended by the Young Adult Library Association as one of “100 Best Books of the Decade,” follows Satrapi’s life as a young girl-turned-adolescent in Iran following the Islamic Revolution and subsequent deposal of the Shah. H/T SDAMatt2a URL: http://wp.me/p276zM-RUX Comment    See all comments   Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/03/27/chicago-school-bans-book-about-islamic-brutality-by-an-iranian-woman-who-suffered-it/