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Hey, some Muslim passport official might see the pic and get turned on!

Telegraph | News | Passport photograph of girl's bare shoulders rejected 'as it may offend'

A five-year-old girl's passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders.

Hannah Edwards's mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country.

The photograph was taken at a photo-booth at a local post office for a family trip to the south of France.

Because of the way the camera was set up, the picture came out showing Hannah's shoulders.

The family had it signed and presented it at a post office with the completed form but were told that it would not be accepted by the Passport Office.

A woman behind the counter informed them that she was aware of at least two other cases where applications had been rejected because a person's shoulders were not covered.

This article has been brought to you by the POC - the Permanently Offended Committee. Remember, if you think that someone, somewhere might possibly be offended by what you're thinking or doing, you MUST stop doing it immediately, unless you're of a protected class!*

* Protected classes include but are not limited to blacks, feminists, gays, fundamentalist Islamists, Native Americans, Aboriginals, teachers' union members, unions of all sorts, members of academia with the proper political alignment, DU and Kos posters, Indymedia contributors, 'reality based' political activists, trust fund activists, and anyone who really really really hates Bush. Protected classification is unavailable to groups or individuals who believe in personal responsibility, who have undergone military service (unless you deserted) or persons of color who have the misguided idea that you can succeed without massive amounts of governmental aid. This list is not intended to be comprehensive or complete, but instead is to be used as a guideline to quickly determine the potential for coverage as a protected class. Please note that simply being in a protected classification is not protection from non-PC controllable events - for example, if a radical Islamist is faced with a pair of feminist lesbians, the feminist lesbians may NOT object to the mysogynistic way they'll be treated by the radical Islamist. As Orwell so pointedly wrote in "Animal Farm" - "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

J.