U.S. school board banned Sherlock Holmes

Ban on reading Sherlock Holmes: Where is the only insult in my story?
Sherlock Holmes is actually one of the treasures of literary history,
but some parents in the U.S. have a different view: The novel offends
their Mormon faith. The authority gave them right and struck the book
from the curriculum. The detective finds himself in good company.

Sherlock Holmes, the detective par excellence, has already solved
several puzzles and bandits convicted - but now he had to give a
couple of Mormons. For in a district in the U.S. state of Virginia,
the novel "A Study in Scarlet" was taken from the curriculum. Some
parents had complained about an alleged insult to the Mormon faith,
reports the "Washington Post".
In the novel can be said Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective occur
first in order to solve a case. The story is also a passage in a
forced marriage in the Mormon milieu. That the Mormon parents of a
child in Albemarle County in the U.S. state of Virginia felt as
demeaning and complained together with other parents. A committee of
the district school board proved them right, the book has been deleted
from the curriculum of the school.


Some at the school were not happy about this decision had been told,
said Josh Davis, head of public schools in the district, the
newspaper. They said it was censorship in the game. "But that's not
true." The book remains in the library are assured Davis. From a
complete ban can therefore be no question.
Harry Potter does not come on to parents
In the U.S., parents often worry of a dangerous influence of
Büchern.Einige works they believe are so bad and dirty that they have
repeatedly official requests to ban these books from the classroom and
on the shelves. Thus came a half years ago at another school in
Virginia, the unabridged version of Anne Frank's diary on the black
list. Some thought the teenage Anne's parents were too suggestive. "I
would like to make a big deal," said one person responsible at that
time the school board of the local newspaper "Star Exponent". You
could have just listened to the parents and it deleted from the plan.
The highest levels of U.S. parents complained in the past decade about
the way the Sorcerer Harry Potter. Also Huckleberry Finn is not
particularly good - just like the "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger.