children's books

[mr_j936]

Disclaimer: I got those photos from a facebook page, I cannot be sure if these books actually exist. Perhaps some of our Muslim friends in here could enlighten us... I had heard rumors of such books before...

In case the photos are not clear, the arabic description(in brief) speaks of justice and how these bad guys were beheaded, some had their arms and feet chopped off and one was set on fire. Those are based on real Islamic stories.

[Exian]

Still not as bad as that Mr.Wugglebug or whatever it was called.

[ReptilianPeon]

Pretty sure that's real. It's happened before - and made the news. Just search "Saudi Textbook Controversy". Didn't stop my country from continuing to be an apologist for Saudi.

[SteelCurtain]

Nice callback.

That was a crazy lady.

Either way, same stories in the Bible. Circumcision, Lot's Daughters, Abraham/Isaac, Job, The rest of the people/animals on Earth during Noah's flood, etc. Make cartoons out of those stories and it'll be just as crazy. The only difference is that modern Christians don't.

Modern atheists, however, do.

[WinterHold]

The comics are Shia; ain't they ? Never knew Islamic Shia stories are represented in comics.

And death is a reality. We can burn these books, but the kids will always get to the cyber, and chainsaw each other inside an "execution" round in Gears of War :





And maybe stop to savor Mangolia's "manual labor"; not so violent; but to romance with the diamond of the commonwealth, you've got to be a one nasty gory motherfucker yourself  :





Just saying; little boys are always attracted to violence, Marvel's comics has all kinds of fatal ideas for a reason; Tom & Jerry is all about Jerry kicking Tom's ass, also for a reason.

But indeed; the comics you posted are just so extreme and disgusting.

[Rev. Rye]

Really, until fairly recently, a lot of children's literature has been really dark.

Struwwelpeter is probably the most vivid example. See it, in all its child-immolating, thumb-amputating, starving glory at the Internet Archive.

In fact, I remember lit teachers saying that in old days, children's stories, especially Religiously-motivated stories, tended to have really dark elements. Even ignoring the dark elements of Grimm's fairy tales, most of Hans Christian Andersen's tales end, if not unhappily, then rather darkly. The Little Match Girl freezes to death, the Little Mermaid becomes seafoam, and the less said about the Red Shoes, the better.

[Minimalist]

I sort of remember those books....

See Dick run.
Run, Dick.  Run.
See Abdul ride up from behind on a camel with a scimitar.
Duck, Dick! Duck!
Too late, Dick.
See Dick fall.