Muslim Piggishness

It's a confusing contrast. On the one hand, they're Great Britain, standing bravely beside us in the fight against terror. On the other hand, they're Namby-Pamby Britain, with stuff like this going on:

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. Muslims are barred from eating pork in the Koran and consider pigs unclean.

Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: “It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs.”

At the very most tolerant, they could perhaps have banned the rather foolish idea of delivering pig-shaped stress relievers during Ramadan, but to ban all pigs isn't an act of tolerance, it's an act if ignorance and fear. If this is the prevailing mindset, what will stop Britain from banning crosses when a Muslim -- who fled to England to avoid repression in his home country -- says ithey offend him?

There's someting to be learned here, but the Brits and their Muslim population isn't learning it. I'm sure the Koran can be scanned cover to cover without finding one verse that says, "Don't even look at a pig,"or "Don't play with toy pigs, because such behavior angers ever-merciful Allah." So the occasion could have been used to teach Muslims something useful about their faith. Another useful lesson would be that Islam does not condone blowing up civilians in subways.

But what can we do? Pigs are out. Well, here's an idea for a British entrepreneur. How about a new one of those stress relieveing toys, this one depicting an olive-skinned fellow with dynamite strapped around his waist?

h/t LGF