From the Sun UK:
Novelty pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office  in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: “It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs.â€Â
Well, that’s one way to put it. Me, I’d prefer to frame it as the tyranny of the minority and the ascension of a tolerance culture that, when coupled with left-liberal multiculturalist fetishizing, climbs into the rarified air of “beyond parody.” But then, I’m prickly that way.
As one of Ranturg’s commenters notes, “Just remember, not every Brit has pigs, but a lot of people have dogs. And while the Prophet (piss be upon him) never told people not to eat dogs, they’re just about as unclean as pigs. Maybe more so, because they disturb prayer with their barking.
“So long, British hounds.”
Can bagels and creamed herring really be that far behind…?
via Rantburg (h/t Tom Pechinski)
I think what’s missing here is the notion that “tolerance” is a two-way street.
TW: “Foot”. Shoe. Other. On.
…And let’s just hope this won’t affect St. John.
I think what is actually happing here is a snowball effect by said “Muslims” to effectivley push their idealogy down our throats for the sake of “People’s personal beliefs”
What a load of horseshit and damn those who coddle to it……
Ya think?
I hoped?
Damn them anyway, and damn me for stating the obvious…..
Quick everyone bash Bush and maybe the bad people will leave us alone.
The British do not mind offending Christians and Jews. After all, what will they do? Write a letter to the Daily Mail or maybe picket. The reason that the Brits are becoming so sensitive to the feelings of another group is fear. Yep. Fear of violence. They won’t admit it yet, but that is what is at work. And that fear leads to cowardice. Slippery slope; bit by bit and piece by piece the UK will be a bifurcated nation. And the continent is in the same shape, but seems more inclined to strike back.
This is why it is often embarrassing to be on the left. Do you guys feel this way when Justice makes porn the top priority?
You tell me, Charles.
If you will scroll back a few days Chas. you will find a thread devoted to ridiculing the porn task force.
As for pigs, I would rather eat pig than about anything. I love sausage in the morning. I love country smoked ham. I love to grill shoulders and tenderloins and ribs and chops. These asswipes start messin’ with my pork, they will find out what a jihad is, hillbilly style.
Charles, surely you can find many more embarrasing reasons to be on the left than that.
Yay we’re back to porn. Now I can fence all those dead guys I took pictures of.
TW “trade” I love commerce
In related news, Bell Helicopter has been forced to withdraw an ad they placed in the National Journal for their Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. C.A.I.R. (who else?) complained that the ad shows U.S. soldiers rappelling down from an Osprey onto the roof of a mosque.
Apologies and groveling all around.
Here’s the ad
Article from Dallas Morning News (Sorry, free registration required)
Statement from C.A.I.R.
Ham sandwich?
Jeff, boychick… “Schande” is all I have to say.
As long as they leave my morning bacon alone….
First Piglet Then Lassie?????????
So Piglet is a big deal and must be removed?
Guess what folks LASSIE is an even BIGGER DEAL to Muslims are we NOW going to remove all evidence of what our Society calls Man’s Best Friend from view because to a Believing Muslim
The impurity of dogs is the greatest of animal impurities
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=1093802
I wonder what these idiots will resort when they cannot get their agenda enacted by elections or ,hopefully, by courts.
I am from Kentucky
Be interesting to see something like this tried
In the Land of Pulled Pork Babecue and Coon Hounds
I don’t know anyone who would give a second thought to these idiots. My question is, where did we find the people who DO give in to this baloney, and how could they have possibly gotten into a position to do such a thing? I mean, I honestly try not to offend anybody, but there is a limit.
Besides that, I can’t think of a better place for a Ranger assault team to rappel into…
I’ve always maintained that there is no humor that is not offensive to someone. I think I may need to expand that to there is NOTHING that is not offensive to someone.
Trackback died; you show up on my blog for some reason…
This post offended me. So I covered it up with a tea cozy. Then it was like it wasn’t even there anymore. And I was cool with that.
Unfortunately, I kept seeing things about the world which offended me, so I wound up simplifying things and simply putting the tea cozy over my head. Now nothing can touch me. Unfortunately, I keep bumping into walls and barking my shins on filing cabinets. Still, it’s better than the alternative.
Beck,
As an added bonus to having a tea cozy on your head, you also safe from being attacked by the Ravenous Bug Bladder Beast of Trall. (Although traditionally you should use a towel.)
Homer: Are you saying you’re never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
FWIW, I think most Muslims are sensible about this subject…personal anecdote: when I was working for a little software company in a small town, I brought my dog to work every day. The propreitor hired two young women from Malaysia to do some coding and we naturally worked in the same room in the office. They couldn’t touch Molly since, to them, she was unclean (although I gathered that it would have been more of a nuisance to them rather than the end of the world; they would have had to undergo a purification ritual), but they didn’t object to her presence and were actually kind of fascinated by her, since their ignorance of dogs and dogly ways was, naturally, nearly total. (I recall that they were astonished when I told them that Molly was three years old and fully grown; they hadn’t known the maturation rate for dogs.) One of them did reach out and gently scratch Molly’s nose with the eraser end of her pencil, and the other girl lightly slapped her arm and reprimanded her. But it was in a giggly way, as if she was flirting with something forbidden but not too forbidden…
The trouble comes when people who should otherwise have some modicum of sense start taking the a**hole complainers seriously without seeing them for what they are: namely, a**hole complainers…
The problem is the a* holes as you call them do not limit themselves to just intimidating officials.
I read this off a referall link to my website a lady in Yorkshire.
http://www.techievampire.net/wppol/archives/971
# DaBarlbyMassive Says:
October 2nd, 2005 at 3:20 am
It’s not an isolated example either. There have been cases of butchers being told to take displays of pork out of their shop windows and one little old lady had to take her porcelain pig figures off her window will.
I might be getting a knock on the door myself soon, since I’ve put up a picture of Miss Piggy on my own blog.
and let’s not forget Theo Van Gogh? btw
anyone who has never actually viewed the Film for which he was butchered in the street?
I have a link to it here
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=1059839
LMFAO!
I didn’t realize they couldn’t handle dogs, either. I mean is there such thing as a moderate anything that is not allowed to like dogs? These folks seriously need an enlightenment and reformation.
Someone explain to me the Islamic reasoning behind banning Ms. Piggy and Piglet.
Jews don’t eat pork either, but we don’t have any problem with Porky Pig, who happens to be imaginary, not food, not even imaginary food.
And to make another point, Jews don’t even mind non-Jews eating pork…
Does anyone know why this is supposedly a problem?
We should also remember that islam forbids artistic/pictorial representations of humans which they consider idolatry; ergo, all pictures of the Queen in gov’t office and schools should be taken down to avoid upseting muslims. Next they’ll want her off the currency too. Maybe they’ll kindly lend an embrace of tolerance logo to take her place.
The bosses in that workplace should have directed the person to see human resources for Psych referals if he or she was really upset by a fictional Disney character. Fricking nuts.
Arrgh! Friggin’ trackback systems!
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I’m not sure who posted the link to me, thinking that DBM is a “lady”, but I was definitely male the last time I looked.
Anyway, in answer to TedM, the appeasement of Islamofascists isn’t down to fear of violence, it’s more down to authority figures such as senior police officers who are terrified of being labelled “racist”. Once they get that label, it’s the end of their career, so they bend over backwards to accommodate these people.