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My own column on this will be coming out in a day or so, but Mark Steyn's is funnier. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Jeremy:
A year and a half ago, I mentioned in this space the Florentine Boar, a famous piece of porcine statuary in Derby that the council had decided not to have repaired on the grounds that it would offend Muslims. Having just seen Looney Tunes: Back in Action, in which Porky Pig mentions en passant that Warner Bros has advised him to lose the stammer, I wondered if for the British release it might be easier just to lose the pig.Alas, the United Kingdom's descent into dhimmitude is beyond parody. Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and "pig-related items" will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as "unclean", even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.
Cllr Mahbubur Rahman is in favour of the blanket pig crackdown. "It is a good thing, it is a tolerance and acceptance of their beliefs and understanding," he said. That's all, folks, as Porky Pig used to stammer at the end of Looney Tunes. Just a little helpful proscription in the interests of tolerance and acceptance.
And where's the harm in that? As Pastor Niemöller said, first they came for Piglet and I did not speak out because I was not a Disney character and, if I was, I'm more of an Eeyore.
And aren't we all? When the Queen knights a Muslim "community leader" whose line on the Rushdie fatwa was that "death is perhaps too easy", and when the Prime Minister has a Muslim "adviser" who is a Holocaust-denier and thinks the Iraq war was cooked up by a conspiracy of Freemasons and Jews, and when the Prime Minister's wife leads the legal battle for a Talibanesque dress code in British schools, you don't need a pig to know which side's bringing home the bacon.
You don't need me in this case to implore you to read it all.
Posted by Robert at October 4, 2005 6:41 AM
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And now just as the US Post Office has released its set of Muppet stamps with Prima Donna Miss Piggy on one of them.
What is amazing is how the Westerners retreat at these pinpricks.
Will it turn into a full blown rout when the pins become needles?
What will it take for these people to stand up for their rights?
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at October 4, 2005 8:20 AM
Q 4: 81 O! Geoff! Take not the readers of Pooh for thy friends, for they are unclean. Those hypocrites! They think that their love of harmless children's characters will absolve them; but none are absolved in the eyes of Allah, who knoweth what they do. They make equals with Donald Duck by their unbelief. Their furry skins will be lashed and stripped away in the fires of hell and they shall be given new skins of rough corduroy so that all may see their sin. For Allah is All-Knowing, Giant-Innoffensive-Teapot-Hating.
Prophet Geoff
Posted by: Geoff at October 4, 2005 9:55 AM
Q o:u812 Do not throweth the football as this is made from the skin of the flying pig. Do not eat of the pork chop even if Jack Daniels BBQ sauce anonints the meat as this is from the body of the frying pig.
Q o:ur1 Cutteth the throat of the Piglet for it doth please the Tigger mightily.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at October 4, 2005 10:06 AM
Lest we forget:
Q o:uch Do not taste of the weiner, frankfurter or hot dog for these are pieces of the unclean pig that have been swept with a broom and placed in the weiner-making machine.
All Quranic quotes are from the Islam for Dhimmis series.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at October 4, 2005 10:33 AM
It is going to start getting really ugly very soon I fear.
Posted by: TooBad at October 4, 2005 11:14 AM
Fear not good people of Britain.
Once Turkey is an EU member, cultural and religous difficulties of this sort will all be a thing of the past!!!
We all know that Turkish membership of the EU will demonstrate that Western and Islamic cultures can thrive together as partners in the modern world.
Well, at least Jack Straw knows it.
Posted by: Anthony at October 4, 2005 12:30 PM
I will continue to hammer home this point: immigrants do not set social policy for the culture into which they have moved. They should return to their home countries if they are unable or unwilling to assimilate. Children born to them while in the new country have the obligation to become citizens in the same vein as those of the mainstream. Let them return with their parents if they are unwilling to do so as they will not be an asset to the host country.
Posted by: epg at October 4, 2005 1:12 PM
Fellow believer JanuaryMan:
You persist in your shirk! Verily you will be mightily smited by the hand of Allah, who is Ever-Loving and Merciful. Except to those who disagree with him.
Indeed, the passages you cite have been reviewed by the holy, holy prophets (BBUT) of the W'Allahwalla sect and they have thoughtfully and sensitively condemned anyone so interpreting them to death by decapitation, in the name of Allah's mercy.
Verily, the passages say:
Q o:uch Do not taste of the weiner, frankfurter or hot dog for these are pieces of the unclean pig that have been swept with a broom and placed in the weiner-making machine. BUT the bits of rat that have ended up within them are halaal for all believers.
Wishing you well, and fortune with Allah, and a fiery burning afterlife for your obstinate shirk,
Prophet Geoff
BBUM
at October 4, 2005 3:13 PM
Dear Ronald McDonald,
I am a Muslim living by choice in a Western country in a secular society. I practice a peaceful and tolerant religion. I am offended by your Hamburger menu item. I demand that you change the name to beefburger and remove any reference to ham.
Thank you for your prompt attention.
(BTW: Beefburger is used throughout fast food restaurants in the heartland of the tolerant religion Saudi Arabia.)
Posted by: myiironu at October 4, 2005 5:27 PM
Nor shalt thou call thy semi-clad abominations "Babe" for it is a film of swine, and a painful chastisement awaits all who watch, for Allah is mighty...mad!
Posted by: islamophobic pride at October 5, 2005 7:43 AM
Poor Piglet. How will we explain this to Eeyore?
Hey! Britons! "Cowboy up!" as we say in the States!
And, yes, I know the same stupidity is happening right here. We'd better stand up and fight this or we are, most assuredly, lost!
Posted by: benning at October 7, 2005 8:40 AM
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