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BBC ‘angers Muslim staff’ by hosting hog roast to celebrate Commonwealth Games under the windows of Arabic TV service

Aug 3, 2014 7:39 am By Robert Spencer

angry-muslim2Remember the principle: in Muslim countries, non-Muslims must conform their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims must conform their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. Mind you, these Muslims were not forced or cajoled or asked to eat the pork. They just didn’t want others to do so while in their proximity. “BBC ‘angers Muslim staff’ by hosting hog roast to celebrate Commonwealth Games under the windows of Arabic TV service,” by Mia De Graaf, Daily Mail, August 3, 2014:

The BBC has enraged Muslim staff after holding a hog roast to celebrate the Commonwealth Games – under the windows of the Arabic TV service.

An entire pig was spit-roasted in the courtyard of New Broadcasting House, central London, with wafts of meat drifting up to the predominantly Muslim office.

Staff in the department whose religion bans them from eating pork blasted the ‘horror’ at spotting the carcass on their lunch break.

The event on Friday, celebrating the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, was held just days after the close of Ramadan, a month of fasting for Muslims for spiritual reflection.

Sharing a photo of a scorched pig’s head covered in juice, an Iranian journalist wrote: ‘Horror in my lunch break at BBC New Broadcasting House.’

The Corporation routinely promotes ‘diversity’ values, and issues all employees with a welcome pack, that includes a survey with questions about their religion, sexual orientation, financial background, and any disabilities.

It is a bid to ‘ensure we meet diversity targets’, bosses claim.

However, an insider berated the hog roast as ‘disrespectful‘, claiming the hog was ‘being flaunted’, according to The Sun on Sunday.

A BBC spokesman said: ‘We have received no complaints’.

The food festival set up outside the John Peel Wing, where the Arabic TV service is based on the fourth floor.

The Arabic TV service is one of the Corporation’s flagship channels, covering 32 countries.

The team has been significantly expanded since 2008, when it officially launched.

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  1. Jovial Joe says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 7:45 am

    I know what the problem is here: they’re use to a human head on a spit, not a hog. Very unsettling for them I can see that.

    • Lynne Newington says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 9:57 pm

      How do do expect to be taken seriously with a comment like that.

      • Jovial Joe says

        Aug 4, 2014 at 2:02 am

        The clue is in my name. You might want to ask: how can these goons expect to be taken seriously when they claim victimhood all the time. Anyway, here’s a taste of what my comment was referring to: http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/isis-goes-on-horrific-beheading-spree/

      • RICHTHOFEN says

        Aug 4, 2014 at 6:51 am

        How can they be taken seriously, when we all know that their own mantra states clearly that halal is not compulsory when travelling/living in a non-muslim country? Get them to admit that, drop all their baseless claims about what they can, and cannot, eat, wear, etc – get them to admit that the sharia is not appropriate to modern civilisation – let them see that they are guests in our lands – integrate, or go home – then we may begin to get somewhere. Respect has to be earned – islam earns nothing but opprobrium and disgust

  2. john spielman says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 7:55 am

    great! I have regained some respect for the BBC (as long as they don’t apologize that is!)

    • Tradewinds says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 7:57 am

      Right. If the Burqa Broadcasting Company apologizes then all respect vanishes.

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 1:34 pm

        Instead of an apology BBC might offer up a quote by an American Mark Twain.

        “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

        • Tradewinds says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 2:32 pm

          How about this quote about Islam by Mark Twain:

          “When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic — for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it.”

          – Mark Twain

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 3:31 pm

          Good one Tradewinds

        • oldmanlogan says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 6:54 pm

          how about this quote from Kermit the Frog
          “god damn, pig tastes so good”

    • Judi says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 8:57 am

      They probably will!!

  3. Steffen Larsen says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 7:55 am

    It must be horrible, I can see that. Living among the infidels and their disgusting habits.

    As told me by a Muslim: “You eat pig, you smell of pig, you are a pig”. Something must be done.

    • Tradewinds says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 7:58 am

      Muslims and their pig obsession is absolutely pathological. But then again, so is Islam.

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 1:37 pm

        They are unknowingly declaring takfir on Muhammad.

    • john spielman says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 8:00 am

      you should have answered that muslim ” you believe in a demon inspired religion, you act like a demon possessed person , so you must belong to Satan”

      • Steffen Larsen says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 9:34 am

        Nah ….I referred him to the Arabian Peninsula and the warnings against plague and MERS being transmitted by camels. There was no reply.

        • john spielman says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 10:13 am

          MERS- probably transmitted by drinking infected camel’s urine!

        • KiriMasa says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 10:13 am

          HAMAS is 100 percent successful in its tactics. Pallywood wins the propaganda war in Europe and all Islamic countries. In my country, Norway, 90 percent supports the population of Gaza. Because of pictures of wounded children nobody can resist.

          But then they also indirect supports Hamas, who use their own people as martyrs, as weapons in the propaganda war. What may all this lead to?

          This will pave the way for an massive attack at Israel. 10 islamic countries attack from all sides. It will be the fulfillment of Psalm 83:

          http://wp.me/p3tGFm-7W

          Turkey is allied with ISIS.

    • umbra says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 8:44 am

      Better eating pork than drinking camel urine. One smell really nice on a roast. The other really stink.

    • Richie says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 9:23 am

      Muslims have a problem with eating pork, but they think drinking camel piss and beastiality is fine. Talk about messed up priorities

      • john spielman says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 10:19 am

        and islam (note no capital spelling) sanctifies rape murder lying and pedophilia because muhammed, their “perfect man”, affirmed (and and partook) of such evil practices!~

    • Brazooka says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 1:04 pm

      “And yet it’s your country that looks like a sty. That’s why you came to mine,” replied the infidel.

  4. Tradewinds says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 7:55 am

    Hey! There’s Rage Boy! Where ya been Rage Boy??!

    • john spielman says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 8:01 am

      London ,of course!

    • Angemon says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 8:19 am

      http://snappedshot.com/uploads/Parody/DEATHPIG.jpg

      • JIMJFOX says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 8:50 am

        Loved it- thanks Angemon!

        • Tradewinds says

          Aug 3, 2014 at 8:57 am

          Angemon – thanks for my laugh of the day!

      • umbra says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 12:50 pm

        Need some ribbons to go that trimmed beard. Preferably pink butterfly ribbons.

  5. shrugger says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 8:10 am

    WHAA! Roast one DURING ramalamalinglong next year. Freely Pass out lists of the 57 islamic States they can relocate to if they find themselves O-fended by it.

  6. Angemon says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 8:10 am

    Sharing a photo of a scorched pig’s head covered in juice, an Iranian journalist wrote: ‘Horror in my lunch break at BBC New Broadcasting House.’

    The horror… THE HORROR!!!

    The Corporation routinely promotes ‘diversity’ values, and issues all employees with a welcome pack, that includes a survey with questions about their religion, sexual orientation, financial background, and any disabilities.

    It is a bid to ‘ensure we meet diversity targets’, bosses claim.

    Ugh, “diversity quotes”. I dedicate this song to whoever came up with”diversity quotes”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cg-1HwhO4

    Where was I? Ah, yes, background surveys. It seems that the survey forgot to ask whether the employees are tolerant of other religions and sexual orientations.

    However, an insider berated the hog roast as ‘disrespectful‘, claiming the hog was ‘being flaunted’, according to The Sun on Sunday.

    Typical muslim mindset: the kuffar are out to get them. Obviously, the co-workers don’t really like pork at all and just roasted the pig as a way of giving muslims the finger. And whoever says otherwise is a filthy islamophobe.

  7. Charli Main says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 8:11 am

    Its not about roasting pigs, its about control.
    Its about Muslims forcing their culture, religion and social values on Britain´s non Muslims. Its about showing that they are in charge and your will doff your cap to your Muslim rulers.
    If the BBC had a BBQ roasting T- bone stakes, would there be hordes of Indians and Sikhs threating to burn down the BBC or rioting in the streets ???? Of course not—–
    You see, the Muslims are not a part of British society, they regard themselves as Britain´s new masters !!!!!!!

    • kikorikid says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 11:57 am

      Picayune, tiny at first but steadily eroding, Islam continues forward with every act of Non-believer “Compliance”. The term currently applied to this is
      “Creeping Sharia”. It is predominately accomplished thru “Strong-Arm Extortion”, meet our demands or we become violent.

  8. Mirren10 says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 8:25 am

    Well, this made me laugh my socks off.

    Talk about being hoist with your own petard ! 🙂

    But I’m sure Auntie will, very soon, abjectly apologise for failing to meet its ”diversity targets”.

    • PJG says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 11:17 pm

      Yes, she had better hop to it, or face becoming a “diversity target” herself!

  9. Rajivi says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 9:00 am

    Well, can any of the readers tell if any psychologist/s have analysed the mindset of Muslims and why they behave so rudely, so cruelly,when any Kaffir does some thing the Muslims oppose…In one Indian state, recently, they objected to the speakers on a temple and got removed it by a state Govt., subservient to them. But, others have to bear the blunt of the horrific sound that emanates from the speakers of Masjids, 5 times a day..

    • Angemon says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 9:20 am

      Rajivi posted:

      “Well, can any of the readers tell if any psychologist/s have analysed the mindset of Muslims and why they behave so rudely, so cruelly,when any Kaffir does some thing the Muslims oppose…”

      Dr. Nicolai Sennels has. He’s one of the regular contributors of JihadWatch.

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/author/Nicolai

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/nicolai-sennels-psychology-why-islam-creates-monsters

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/cultural-psychology-how-islam-managed-to-stay-medieval-for-1400-years

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/the-importance-of-eye-contact-emotional-expression-and-non-verbal-communication-how-niqab-and-burqa

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/ask-the-expert-q-a-with-nicolai-sennels-and-fans

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/psychology-why-do-muslims-sometimes-become-more-criminal-when-there-are-many-together

    • umbra says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 9:30 am

      completely sympathize with you. Listening to those islamic wailing is like listening to a person with a toothache.

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 9:02 am

    Me, I celebrate the fact that The Other White meat was put on the barbie for a celebration. That’s good for business. But I’m surprised that this was done at the Beeb, but let’s give ’em a break, they’ve been terribly busy running the agitprop program for the Jihadists, and full-time work.

    ***

    Most times a country improving itself is a complicated, drawn out process involving calculated estimates and trade offs. But in the UK one simple act would vault the whole nation forward: shut down the BBC today, and things would being steady improvement next week and last for decades.

  11. Mirren10 says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 9:08 am

    ” … shut down the BBC today”

    Yep. I’ve just cancelled my d/d for my telly licence, since it all goes to pay for the BritishBroadcastingCrap.

  12. exsgtbrown says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 9:15 am

    hmmmm, noticed they didn’t protest about human heads posted on pikes and hanging high in the air…oh wait…most of those heads were Muslim heads

    • exsgtbrown says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 9:43 am

      hmmmm…also noticed they haven’t protested the mass execution of Muslims by Muslims or the destruction of churches and mosques by Muslims.

  13. Richie says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 9:36 am

    I wonder if this incident will fill some Muslims with the desire to kill

    • john spielman says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 10:23 am

      or the desire to eat a PULLED PORK SANDWICH-mmmmm

      • Tradewinds says

        Aug 3, 2014 at 5:38 pm

        john – a flyer from Papa John’s pizza arrived the other day. NEW: Spicy Pulled Pork Pizza!

        Ingredients: 100% pulled pork, mozzarella, pepper jack, crushed red pepper. mmmmm!

        Thought I’d let you know!

  14. Twostellas says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 10:26 am

    These people are insane. Pig pickings are are part of our culture, Muslims need to learn give and take…you keep taking, and never giving and eventually the bank of the benefit of the doubt will run dry. Any moderate Muslims better start making some noise. This is a great issue on which to do so. Not holding my breath tho, Muslims are such self-righteous assholes they have problems in this area. Big time!
    In the end it will be their loss if things don’t change. They are too blind, self-righteous, and filled with arrogance and pride (and rage) to see this truth.

  15. Bacon lover says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Oops our bad! Here have some bacon, oh sorry again, it’s just that bacon is so sinfully infidelicious!

  16. tpellow says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 10:34 am

    Note for BBC Arabic: ham, not Hamas.

  17. Myxlplik says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 11:10 am

    I was at the National Mall the other day near the Vietnam Memorial & they ONLY had ham sandwiches at the food vendors. I was in the mood for turkey, but ham is just so patriotic these days, it was a special treat, knowing ONLY infidel food was on the menu at a place which is the hallowed ground of infidels.

    • St. Michael Defend Us says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 1:41 pm

      That IS good news!

  18. Champ says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Yum! …bacon is meat candy 🙂

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 1:42 pm

      Prophet Muhammad was very wise to forbid the eating of pig.
      Muslims might have used him for breakfast bacon.

  19. snafubar says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 11:42 am

    I can’t imagine that employees of the politically correct, state-run BBC were intentionally trying to insult Muslims. Not that I care.

    No, this is much more simple. They are just plain stupid.

    • Myxlplik says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 12:33 pm

      I agree, but this is a great display in microcosm of stupidity, which by illustration serves as an explanation of the macrocosm, which is the BBC’s generalized institutional, willfull stupidity regarding Islam.

      I suppose this event will not cause a great deal of introspection for the unimaginative, rather just more bowing and scrapping before Islamic sensitivities.

  20. medina says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 11:56 am

    They should have glazed it with a rich red wine and piped some Herbie Hancock. Armageddon will ensue over something akin to this…

  21. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    “Non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules …”
    Manual of Islamic Law o11.5(6): The Manual is a free download at:
    http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/…/reliance2_complete.pdf

  22. Panos says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    Can’t we all, Muslims and non-Muslims, just sit down together over a pepperoni pizza and a beer and talk it all over?-)

  23. Brazooka says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    The Muslims evidently smelled the deliciousness, and knowing they could never taste it, they became angry. For all the evil Muslims perpetrate against non-Muslims, it’s worth remembering that they too are victims of Islam.

  24. Jay Boo says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    Muhammad the Pig Prophet only adopted the custom in the first place to ingratiate himself into the good will of prosperous Jews of Medina before he murdered the men and stole their possessions and enslaved their women and children for sex.

  25. Jay Boo says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    So much for Muslims accepting diversity.
    I suppose we can’t blame them from being shocked after year of pandering to Muslims in the West the took it for granted that non-Muslims would be super-sensitive to all their supremacist quirks.

    http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/10/legal-jihad-us-government-wins-muslim.html

  26. jewdog says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    The BBC should follow it up with a hog calling contest featuring insensitivity training for its employees.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 3, 2014 at 3:57 pm

      Muslims are the ones who should be more sensitive to diversity and respect non-Muslims instead of always shouting “What about me?”.

  27. Montedoro44 says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Must read the classic, A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG, by Charles Lamb

    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43566/43566-h/43566-h.htm

    where the eternal battle plays out.

  28. Anthony Mundane says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 2:04 am

    http://debellation.com/2014/08/02/no-moderate-muslim/

    Get on it

  29. Citizen Warrior says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 2:11 am

    Oh, Muslims offended again… surprise surprise… here have another
    Bacon Burqa
    Everything about ISLAM offends me. But hey it’s my country, don’t I count?

  30. Samhein says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 7:59 am

    I know what the obsession that muslims have with pigs is about. I used to raise pigs and contraty to belief, they are one of the cleanest animals on the farm and by far the most intelligent. Both are traits that muslims can’t handle and can never have themselves.

  31. Hoekom Jy My Haat says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    WTBloodyFook!?! Nobody forced them to partake, did they? See the madness in their eyes? Like a cancer is excised from a body to preserve its health, these people are a cancer upon Britain and must also be excised from the body of Britannia, to preserve her health and future.

  32. Petey says

    Aug 4, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    So where was all this righteous rage when the syrian guy cut out and ate the heart of the other syrian guy, raw human heart ok, but dont hurt their feelings by having a pig roast whatever you do. Then these people wonder why we dont take them or their pathetic religion seriously

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