This morning in FrontPage I discuss the strange disappearance of pigs in Britain -- they offend Muslim sensibilities.
Pigs are disappearing all over England, but not because of some porcine variant of Mad Cow Disease: rather, the most implacable foe of the swine is turning out to be multiculturalism.The latest assault came in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, where employees were told that they were no longer allowed to have any representations of pigs at their desks. Some had little porcine porcelain figurines. Others had toys or calendars of cute little pigs. One had a tissue box depicting Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. All of this had to go, not because of new some new anti-kitsch ordinance, but because Muslims might be offended — particularly now, what with Ramadan beginning. How could a pious Muslim in the Dudley Council, West Midlands benefits department redouble his efforts to conform his life to the will of Allah with all these…pigs staring him in the face? It was an insult!
This was not the first anti-pig initiative in Britain. In Derby, Muslims took offense at plans to restore the statue of the Florentine Boar, which had stood in the Derby Park for over a hundred years before it was decapitated by a German bomb in 1942. Recent plans to rebuild the Boar’s head ran into resistance from local Muslims. Suman Gupta, a local Council member, warned: “If the statue of the boar is put back at the Arboretum I have been told that it will not be there the next day, or at least it won’t be in the same condition the next day at least. We should not have the boar because it is offensive to some of the groups in the immediate area.” However, after more than 2,000 locals signed petitions in favor of the Boar, local authorities decided to bend to public opinion and go ahead with their original plans to restore the statue.Elsewhere in England pigs did not fare so well. In March 2003, Barbara Harris, head teacher at Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley, West Yorkshire, banned stories mentioning pigs. “Recently,” Harris explained, “I have been aware of an occasion where young Muslim children in class were read stories about pigs. We try to be sensitive to the fact that for Muslims talk of pigs is offensive.” Harris didn’t mention whether or not she intended to allow Muslim students to possess copies of the Qur’an at the school, despite its repeated mention of how Allah cursed Jews and turned them into apes and pigs (2:62-65; 5:59-60; 7:166).
Why have pigs become so unpopular in Britain? Mahbubur Rahman, a Muslim Councillor in West Midlands, summed it up in explaining why the toy pigs had to go: “It’s a tolerance,” he said, “of people’s beliefs.”
How’s that again? It’s “a tolerance of people’s beliefs” to deny to others the right to display harmless pictures and figurines? Mahbubur Rahman seems unacquainted with the dictum, widely attributed to Voltaire, that “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Yet this is what tolerance really is: the acceptance of the fact that in a free society, some will do and say things of which one may disapprove, and that one has no consequent right to command or force them to stop. If this is not recognized in any given society, that society is not in fact free at all — any more than Henry Ford’s offer that “You can have a car in any color you want, as long as it’s black” represented a genuine choice.
For Rahman instead to equate a British capitulation to Muslim sensibilities with tolerance indicates that he has confused Islamic supremacism with tolerance. This is perhaps not surprising given the near-universal tendency among Muslims and non-Muslims alike to laud Medieval Muslim Spain as a proto-multiculturalist paradise of tolerance, when actually it was a paradise for Islamic supremacists. Christians and Jews lived in harmony with Muslims only as inferiors. Historian Kenneth Baxter Wolf notes that the after the Muslim conquest, the conquerors imposed new laws “aimed at limiting those aspects of the Christian cult which seemed to compromise the dominant position of Islam.” After enumerating a standard list of the laws restricting non-Muslims (dhimmis) — no building of new churches, no holding authority over Muslims, distinctive clothing, etc. — he adds: “Aside from such cultic restrictions most of the laws were simply designed to underscore the position of the dimmîs as second-class citizens.”
Multiculturalism? Tolerance? Not by any modern standard. And neither are the disappearing pigs of Great Britain.
England and the rest of Eurabia are finished. They might as well trash their existing culture, put on their burkas, surrender to the "religion of peace" and bow down towards Mecca with their asses up in the air.
I will add to my previous post that America is not too far behind.
Offensive terms that you shud not use when talking to a Muslim:
Bring home the bacon
Pig out
Hog wild
Hog (Harley-Davidson MC)
Bore (because it sounds like Boar)
Hogwarts (from Harry Potter books)
Prehaps we can substitute the word Jew of Zionist Entity in lieu of pig. This should please most of our special short bus people (Muslims).
It's enough to make Shakespeare weep.
So much for Islam being a "religion of tolerance".
The multiculturalist's form of "tolerance" involves tolerating the appalling intolerance of others--even when it impinges on your own rights of free expression. In other words, perfect for self-loathing, masochistic dhimmis and the ever-more dominent minority whom they love to placate.
Ranoir:
I hate to tell you this, but it is already here.
2 years ago while on a crowded NYC sidewalk, I had to step over Muslims who were praying in the middle of the sidewalk. When I asked a nearby police officer to do something about it, I was told that WE have to respect their religious beliefs. Last year in our middle school, my child had to do a report on the peaceful,loving religion of Islam. Well, needless to say that the teacher got the correct meaning of their religion and I was summoned to the principals office! The fight is now on with the administration and the school board. If we wait to stand up for ourselves, we shall surely fall.
And I guess they'll now be forced to expunge the following from an old classic:
`You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. `Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'
`Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. `I can explain all the poems that were ever invented -- and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'That's enough to begin with,' Humpty Dumpty interrupted: `there are plenty of hard words there...
`And then "MOME RATHS"?' said Alice. `I'm afraid I'm giving you a great deal of trouble.'
`Well, a "RATH" is a sort of green pig: but "MOME" I'm not certain about. I think it's short for "from home"-- meaning that they'd lost their way, you know.'...
And this song is definitely out:
http://www.ocap.ca/songs/piggies.html
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings; and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."
Oh, Oh. Sorry about that last reference. I'd better come up with something less offensive and more multicultural. Call in the censors!
Lewis G. Carroll (by proxy)
Offensive terms that you shud not use when talking to a Muslim:
Bring home the bacon
Pig out
Hog wild
Hog (Harley-Davidson MC)
Bore (because it sounds like Boar)
Hogwarts (from Harry Potter books)
Posted by: JanuaryMan
One small correction my friend:
Offensive terms that you should ALWAYS use when talking to a Muslim:
Bring home the bacon
Pig out
Hog wild
Hog (Harley-Davidson MC)
Bore (because it sounds like Boar)
Hogwarts (from Harry Potter books)
Posted by: JanuaryMan
Alas, under heavy pressure from CAIR, Kevin Bacon has oficially changed his last name to Lamb. Some have detected a sly rebellion in this choice, the implication being that Kevin is following sheepishly. Lamb denies this, however. "I've been thinking of changing my last name for a few years," he told our domestic correspondant. "I love lamb, and plan to grow mutton chop sideburns to maximize the synergy of my new image. My brother is changing his name, too- so our band is now "The Lamb Brothers." We plan to release an updated version of "Wolly Bully" soon. Of course we will omit certain suggestive lyrics at the request of our new management team, CAIR Entertainment."
Reports that digital retouching specialists were adjusting credits in Mr. Lamb's previous movies could not be verified by this reporter. Plans for a recall of all existing VCDs and Videotapes of Mr. Lamb's movies are pending following an agreement with a member of the Saudi ruling family on funding the recall/exchange program. Prices of gasoline are not expected to be affected by this program, should a deal be reached.
Let these babies start up with the pig farmers in the US.....They're liable to end up finding a pitchfork stuck in their ridiculous rumps.
Remember, too, that many Muslims consider dogs to be unclean.
Put a picture of Fido on your desk, and raise Hell if management requests, in some misguided deference to Muslim sensitivities, that you remove it.
Better, yet.
Get a pot-bellied pig as a pet and post its picture on the desk.
Would management dare to request that a pet pig's picture be removed?
Pigs and Dogs....
Last year, a Muslim familiy moved in a block away from me. Everytime I walked the dog doing summer vacation, a black lab, past their house and if they were outside, the rabbit response happened. They freeze, apparently startled by the sight of a dog. Luckily, the dog never had to go right then. God only knows what would happen then.
I live in Minneapolis.
I wonder how Muslims can even drive through places like Iowa....
It's a fact that pigs are the smartest animals followed secondly by dogs and then possibly Muslims and jackasses tied at third.
Itachi, reminds me of the reaction I got when a family moved in next door to me. This was way before 9/11 so I had no idea about Islam. Thought it was just some funny religion where people dressed funny. Their two kids would cross to the other side of the street when I was with my dog. So quickly that they almost got run over by a car one day. I thought they were just afraid of dogs. I had an overly friendly Golden Retriever so I couldn't really understand their very intense reaction.
Some time later, my dog found a spot in the hedge fencing between our properties and got into their yard. You'd think a rabid Grizzly Bear had appeared or something! Kids and mother shrieking and running into the house, the dad yelling something in some weird foreign language, my dog wagging his tail thinking this was great fun, all this excitement, yay! Anyway after things calmed down, the father told me they didn't like dogs because they were unclean. I think I must have looked at him like he'd just dropped onto Earth from Uranus or something. I didn't have a clue what he was on about. And didn't, until quite a few years later. It was just a dog, for pete's sake. Shows the power of that cult, to instill such unnatural fear over a pet, a useful, valuable contribution to society. How soon before they decide dogs offend them? The English love their dogs. Will they give them up easily? I hope not. Get rid of your Muslims instead. They are not nearly as useful or valuable.
I have some Muslims who live down the block from me. The no-pig ban is really bothering me. It is so obvious that everything about us bothers them....I am looking for dog and pig lawn ornaments to put in my front yard, tastefully, of course, and clearly visible.
"And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood,
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose!
With a ring at the end of his nose.
'Dear Pig, are you willing to selling for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill."
I am looking for a nice pink piggy wearing a St George's shirt to live on my desk. I shall invoke St Antony of Egypt the patron saint of monks (and by extension scruffy middle aged ladies with a cake problem) whose emblem, as I mentioned the other night, is a pig. If I can get the right shaped pig I should be able to knit the jersey.
Remember a few weeks ago when the retouched photo of the lady at some CAIR event had been airbrushed with a scarf over her head. Well I have the inside scoop on this. Actually she was wearing an University of Arkansas Razorback cap. The red plastic type shaped like a hog. Wow was she ever embarrassed.
next: Halloween pig masks..banned
Pigs for the yard.
http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=251&2=-1&6=1
Some want to replace Duke's mascot with a three eyed pig with antlers, LOL
http://kembrew.com/pranks/threeeyedpig.html
I would put up the weather vane.
http://www.shop.com/op/~Flying_Pig-prod-17778031-24922670?sourceid=78
Flying pig
The pig floating in the air between the smoke-stacks of Pink Floyd's "Animals" must be removed in future printings..
http://www.allfloyd.com/images/covers/animals.jpg
Thanks, Carolyn2. Mr. and Mrs. Pig are cute. I wonder if I should paint a hajib on Mrs. Pig, sort of like CAIR did with their woman speaker. After all, I wouldn't want to offend Muslims TOO much; their feelings are bruised so easily.
Guess this means that "Babe" won't be playing at any of the theaters in Great Britain anytime soon!?
Their demands will just continue and intensify---pigs, dogs, alcohol, immodest dress, temples, churches, democratic elections---anything that offends Muslims must and will be abolished. It'll finally end when England embraces the shari'a.
I kinda take this personally!!!
Pffff.... and you think you've got it bad...
Here in the Netherlands, the muslims have stopped bothering with dogs and hogs.
They harrass families out of their homes and destroy or spray paint billboards if they run advertisements picturing women (without niqab or burkha).
The funniest I've heard so far, however, is this one:
Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from Turkey came to the Netherlands.
Some of them (the critical word here being "some") have actually gotten some education in stead of just living off society here. Now these happy few fairly well integrated types are now returning to Turkey at an alarming rate.
One of them was asked why he was returning to Turkey, as he had been born and raised (and trained) in the Netherlands. His response ?
"Well, at least when I have lunch outside a bar in Ankara [Turkey's capital] during Ramadan, I don't get harassed by Muslims telling me off".
The worst one I've heard so far is of school teachers who have stopped teaching about the holocaust during history lessons since they will get molested by Muslim pupils (!) claiming Jews are dirty scum and they deserved to be killed.
FYI: The Netherlands have a total sum population of 16 million, of which 2 million are non-Western foreigners, generally Muslims from Morocco, Turkey, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan et cetera.
In the major metropolitan area's, 60% of all persons younger than 20 are Muslims of non-Western origin. Dutch people tend to move out of these cities that turn increasingly into no-go areas for ordinary citizens and law enforcement agencies.
It is expected that by 2020, all major cities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague) will sport Dutch minorities and Muslim majorities.
In one smaller town, a Turkish council member this week proposed changing the street names into Turkish and Moroccan names.
Help ! Where can I apply for political asylum ?
Come to fortress America, NL. I can't guarantee that we won't follow the Netherlands, but we will not go down without a fight.
Sorry NL but Holland and the rest of the EU may as well start calling yourselves Northern Algerians. I think it's already too late for you.
You lack the will to fight back. They have the will to conquer.
We can't save you this time (nor do we want to).
We'll be lucky to save ourselves.
NL - you are more than welcome in Australia. Like the US its a HUGE country geographically, and will be an absolute mongeral to "Balkanize" - unlike Eurarabia.
Besides that, the Australian government is desperate for skilled labour at the moment due to our booming economy. Like the US, we have HUGE swathes of Dutch and German immigrants (who unlike the Muslims in WW2 actually fought the Nazi's ON OUR SIDE) so you would feel right at home.
A word of warning though. In order to get into Australia quickly, you will have to pretend to be a fundamentalist, western hating, Jew Killing, Christian despising Muslim. Oh and if you're white, get a really good tan as our immigration department is very "multi-cultural".
Oh, if you paddle in on a leaky boat with some children on board that would help, as you can use them as leverage (don't worry the Muslim community will only hold it against you if you don't turn them into suicide bombers, or rabid rapists of Aussie girls). If you have a women in a burka - even better, for when the media turns up you can use her on TV for the "sympathy vote" (trendy Melbournians go for this, especially those who kiss Steve Brack’s arse (the Muslim loving Premier of Victoria). But if you come up to North Queensland, well put it this way, the North Queenslander’s don’t take crap and will probably be the last lot to be Dhimmified to Islam.
But seriously, come over to Australia. Sometimes I think that the only thing that will save Australia, and the US will be real European migration who have experienced the “joys” of Islamic domination. Europe is lost. Come over to the Pacific Western nations! The whether is better, the beaches in Australia are the best in the world, as is the diving, fishing, and open spaces. Oh and if you miss the snow, New Zealand is only a short jump away (although there are now more NZ’ers in Australia and more Muslims in NZ than Kiwi’s)
Oh and the Aust, government is seeking skilled labour. Better to try and get in now, as when the Conservatives get kicked out, our immigration policy will return to being an open door to anyone, except the "white" fella's.
I remember when the liberals placed a crucifix in a jar of urine)
When the catholics protested it was called "ART"
Where are ALL the so called artists now that anything resembling a Pig is not allowed in an entire country???
They and the Hollywood hypocrytes are all hiding afraid to say anything as they might find a muslim with a knife sawing their head off in the morning..
Islam is incapable of serious scrutiny ..
The bible puts up with this all the time (and we dont have christians trying to ban items thy dont like)....
This is the proof that puts Christians and Jews over the top when compared to ANY muslim....
Ask the Christians in lebanon after they were nearly EXTERMINATED by the muslim whordes
Screaming ALLAH AKBAR...
They dont even know Gods heart at ALL..
This is JUST the Beginning folks....
I am offended because Muslims are offended...
I am offended by Muslims because they give real pigs a bad name...
I am offended by Muslims because of their Satanist ideologies...
Bottom of the ninth. Team Satan, 0. Last up to bat. Strike three, they are out. Game over...
When the University of Arkansas removes those Razorbacks (hogs) from their football helmets, I know we have a problem.
More ongoing cultural jihad from our peace loving, oh so tolerant Muslim bretheren.
It time we stopped playing Political Cowards and told the PC brigade where to shove it !!
Tolerance is a two way street imho and its time we were less tolerant of this propoganda.
When are we going to wake up and protect whats left of our culture .......??
Well, folks, re pigs and dogs, I'm a cat lover myself. THERE's a clean--and freedom-loving--animal for you!
in Mark 7, it says that Jesus declared all foods clean. Hence, I continue to pig out on pork. Bring on the sausage and bacon!
Well, Muslims need not come to my town. We raise pigs, walk our dogs in public, wear bikinis (with myself as the exception... don't want to scare people, do ya?), indulge in sex on a very regular basis (usually with our own spouse).
And we prosecute child molesters.