What a load of bollocks

**dotnetter** · 12 July 2007, 12:08

Maybe the car on the front page should be fitted with "22's", some hydraulic suspension and be painted gold to fall into line with modern political views

**Troll** · 12 July 2007, 12:11

Did TinTin ever go to Mecca?

**Burdock** · 12 July 2007, 12:13

Originally posted by Troll

Did TinTin ever go to Mecca?

ha! ha!

yeah, but in those days arabs just rode camels and smoked hookah pipes.

happier times <sniff>

**Churchill** · 12 July 2007, 12:13

Originally posted by Troll

Did TinTin ever go to Mecca?

No because he wasn't a muslim.

**Troll** · 12 July 2007, 12:14

Originally posted by Churchill

No because he wasn't a muslim.

Did Herge ever confirm TT's religion?

**Troll** · 12 July 2007, 12:15

Originally posted by Churchill

No because he wasn't a muslim.

didn't play bingo would have been a good one

**thunderlizard** · 12 July 2007, 12:16

I always assumed Tintin was a Lutheran. Don't know why.

**Churchill** · 12 July 2007, 12:16

Originally posted by Troll

didn't play bingo would have been a good one

I was being factual.

Try getting into Mecca without being a Muslim.

**zathras** · 12 July 2007, 12:23

Yes

Originally posted by freakydancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294670.stm

Can't remember who said it but

'He who burns books, ends up burning people'

Rather appropiate. The Tintin books were written at a time when thinking was very different (just as for a time it was considered healthy to smoke).

Yes by our modern standards the portrayal of Blacks may be offensive.

But once we start down the road of censoring the bits of history we do not like then it gets forgotten and before long you end of repeating it.

What a load of bollocks