{"id":2877,"date":"2009-02-19T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2009-02-19T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:37:09","slug":"an-islamic-perspective-on-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-islamic-perspective-on-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"An Islamic perspective on Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would Harry get past the Islamic Gestapo if we renamed him Muhammad Potter<\/a>? Could the religion of peace bear<\/a> it?<\/p>\n

Some Muslim schools ‘make children despise the West’: Ban on cricket and Harry Potter<\/strong>\"Add<\/p>\n

Some Islamic schools are promoting fundamentalist views and encouraging children to despise Western society, a report warns.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the Civitas social policy think-tank found websites of some of the UK’s 166 Muslim schools are spreading extreme teachings, while a handful had links to sites promoting jihad, or holy war.<\/p>\n

Examples include web forums forbidding Muslims from reading Harry Potter books, playing chess or cricket and listening to Western music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my early school-days, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was a banned book. As soon as the obscenity trial was over (E. M. Forster and his elite literary cronies had no idea what they were unleashing) and it became freely available, I saved up my pocket money and bought a copy. Naturally, along with thousands of other schoolboys whose hormones were out of control, I read it for its literary merit.<\/p>\n

Thinking about it now, it is quite obvious that it doesn’t have much literary merit. And that brings me to Harry Potter: literary merit or not, I read the whole series with enjoyment.<\/p>\n

I have a strong suspicion that J. K. Rowling has paid Muslims to ban Harry Potter in an attempt to increase sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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