After the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee protested, Disney relented and changed the lines about the ear and face to: "where the sun is immense and the heat is intense."
That's the way it has been since the movie came out on home video in 1993 - even though the Arab-American group still decried keeping the word "barbaric" and the movie retains a scene showing the behavior the group denounced, when a market seller tries to cut off the hand of Princess Jasmine after she takes an apple.
After the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee protested, Disney relented and changed the lines about the ear and face to: "where the sun is immense and the heat is intense."
That's the way it has been since the movie came out on home video in 1993 - even though the Arab-American group still decried keeping the word "barbaric" and the movie retains a scene showing the behavior the group denounced, when a market seller tries to cut off the hand of Princess Jasmine after she takes an apple.
P.C. is so overrated.