{"id":24791,"date":"2022-04-27T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/04\/27\/biff-and-chip-publishers-pull-no-longer-appropriate-book-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:31:27","slug":"biff-and-chip-publishers-pull-no-longer-appropriate-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/04\/27\/biff-and-chip-publishers-pull-no-longer-appropriate-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Biff and Chip: Publishers pull &#8216;no longer appropriate&#8217; book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p ><b >A children&#8217;s book that drew criticism for calling people in turbans and niqabs unkind has been withdrawn from sale.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Remaining copies of The Blue Eye &#8211; part of the Biff, Chip and Kipper series &#8211; were destroyed by its publisher, Oxford University Press (OUP).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The book was pulled from the press in March after a review, OUP said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;We are taking steps to remove any products that are no longer suitable from our collection,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<div >\n<ul >\n<li>Three decades of Biff, Chip and Kipper<\/li>\n<li>Book &#8220;Captain Underpants&#8221; deleted because of &#8220;passive racism&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Rashford inspires children&#8217;s book about black history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >In the 2001 book, Biff and Wilf are transported to a &#8220;spooky&#8221; town by magic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Below an illustration of a bustling marketplace full of people in turbans and niqabs &#8211; a type of Islamic veil &#8211; Biff says, &#8220;Let&#8217;s stay together&#8230;People don&#8217;t seem very friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >OUP said that phrase was changed in 2012 to read, &#8220;It would be easy to get lost in such a crowded place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >But an image of the original version of this page has been gaining traction on social media in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Some have described it that way <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sherish_o\/status\/1516502974897471491\" >&#8220;inappropriate&#8221;<\/a>during <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moniza_hossain\/status\/1516724298685501443\" >others said<\/a> it was an example of Islamophobia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The OUP spokeswoman said: &#8220;We regularly review and change our track list to ensure it is current, diverse, inclusive and reflective of the world we live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Publishers are striving to create &#8220;more inclusive content,&#8221; she added, and will continue to seek to improve their existing and new titles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, the Biff, Chip and Kipper books have been read by millions of children around the world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The first books were published in 1986 and there are now more than 800 titles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A children&#8217;s book that drew criticism for calling people in turbans and niqabs unkind has been withdrawn from sale. 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