Fireman Sam in Islamophobia row after character treads on page of Koran - Polidicks

If you're a practitioner of a religion, these small things probably jump out at you. It's not like someone went around scrutinising all kinds of media for signs of the Koran being misused, more than likely a devout Muslim happened to be watching the show and noticed the page as soon as it came up because they were familiar with it. Also if you don't understand why someone might feel insulted because of this, you need to grow up.

Man, not even one page in and this thread turned into Muslim-hating.

[QUOTE=Fourier;50783065]nobody gives a flying fuck[/QUOTE] It would appear you are wrong

[QUOTE=paul simon;50784128]It would appear you are wrong[/QUOTE] I'm not sure his lack of caring could be construed as hatred though.

[QUOTE=karlosfandango;50784180]I'm not sure his lack of caring could be construed as hatred though.[/QUOTE] ... okay?

[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50782928]you would have thought that it would be pretty hard for them to put a koran page into the animation unless it serves a purpose earlier in the episode? this is more confusing than anything else - why did fireman sam have a copy of the koran in the control room? do they use it to predict fires[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=omarfr;50782998]Probably just an artist being silly. I know I've added stupid stuff to my art just for fun. Then again the difference is, I'm in school. They should probably be a wee bit more professional about these things.[/QUOTE] Animators are children at heart and do shit like this at all levels tbh

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50783925]If you're a practitioner of a religion, these small things probably jump out at you. It's not like someone went around scrutinising all kinds of media for signs of the Koran being misused, more than likely a devout Muslim happened to be watching the show and noticed the page as soon as it came up because they were familiar with it. Also if you don't understand why someone might feel insulted because of this, you need to grow up.[/QUOTE] Yes, I need to grow up, and not the people who dug out a 2 year old episode of a cheap, shitty 3D-animation cartoon, went through it frame by frame to find out that it shows an image of a page from the koran for 0.25 seconds, (which is lifted in the air when he falls to the ground might I add, [URL="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoXFhjcWgAA3F_b.jpg"]he doesn't even step on it[/URL]) and are getting offended in droves about it. I'm also going to quote the following since it makes the whole situation even more ridiculous: [QUOTE]The episode featuring the page from the Koran has never been broadcast by the BBC, but BBC News understands the corporation has received more than 1,000 complaints about it.[/QUOTE] They are complaining to the BBC yet the show is being aired by Channel 5. These people are not very smart. In fact, it doesn't even have to be practitioners of the religion complaining, these might just as well be islamophobes themselves that are angry at the Koran being shown on British TV. But it doesn't even matter who's complaining, the point is that it's completely utterly stupid to complain about such an insignificant tiny little thing. This is the definition of making an elephant out of a mosquito

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50783925]If you're a practitioner of a religion, these small things probably jump out at you. It's not like someone went around scrutinising all kinds of media for signs of the Koran being misused, more than likely a devout Muslim happened to be watching the show and noticed the page as soon as it came up because they were familiar with it. Also if you don't understand why someone might feel insulted because of this, you need to grow up.[/QUOTE] People bitching about it because muh religion are the ones that need to grow up,not us.

The only people that would care about their holy book appearing on some shitty children's cartoon for 30 attoseconds are gigantic children