Pentagram

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P2 S'pore Assessment Book Recalled for Using Bloody Pentagram ... (Goody Feed)

In an incredibly Mr-Midnight-esque approach, a Chinese assessment book published by Marlinsons had a Satanic pentagram image to represent the Chinese word for “ ...

The offending image was also placed next to a sentence: “two sisters were in the kitchen making cookies of all sorts of shapes“. The bloody pentagram in question was printed multiple times through the assessment book, at times defined as “shapes”, others as “all sorts of shapes”. In an incredibly Mr-Midnight-esque approach, a Chinese assessment book published by Marlinsons had a Satanic pentagram image to represent the Chinese word for “shapes”.

Publisher recalls P2 Chinese textbook containing image of bloody ... (The Straits Times)

The pentagram, which has been associated with Satanism and the occult, was used to depict the word "shapes". . Read more at straitstimes.com.

In 2014, an incident involved the books And Tango Makes Three and The White Swan Express, which were initially pulled from shelves after public uproar as some felt they encouraged homosexuality. The 139-page book featured common words and phrases in both Chinese and English accompanied by images. Among them were an image of a penguin in jeans for the word "pants" and another of a bald man sipping from a wine glass for the word "try". In 2017, eight book titles that were previously available at public libraries were pulled permanently from the shelves after they were deemed to have the potential of creating religious and racial disharmony. ST was able to purchase a copy of the book, which was first printed in 2016 and had a second print run in 2020. The pentagram, which has been associated with Satanism and the occult, was used to depict the word "shapes" in both Chinese and English.

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