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[bigverne]

It seems that there are no lengths that we pathetic and servile Brits will go to, to appease the fickle sensibilities of muslims. This man should have been laughed at, and told to relocate to a country where people did not have a penchant for porcine knick-knacks.

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 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.

Piglet is deeply offensive and so's your chocolate ice-cream, but if a West End play opens with a gay Jesus, Christians just need to stop being so doctrinaire and uptight. The Church of England bishops would probably agree with that if, in their own misguided attempt at Islamic outreach, they weren't so busy apologising for toppling Saddam.

When every act that a culture makes communicates weakness and loss of self-belief, eventually you'll be taken at your word. In the long term, these trivial concessions are more significant victories than blowing up infidels on the Tube or in Bali beach restaurants. An act of murder demands at least the pretence of moral seriousness, even from the dopiest appeasers. But small acts of cultural vandalism corrode the fabric of freedom all but unseen.

If Islam cannot "co-exist" even with Pooh or the abstract swirl on a Burger King ice-cream, how likely is it that it can co-exist with the more basic principles of a pluralist society?

Yup, that could be a problem all right.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/10/04/do0402.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/04/ixportal.html

[rapier]

Knights defend the Holy land against Muslims, 1096.


English Knights defend christian pilgrims all the way to Jerusalem: win many battles throughout the meditteranean and middle east. They become hugely wealthy and powerful, and are known for their fair treatment of prisoners and chivalry to women.



Muslims beseige Northern England, 2001.

2005: britons ban themselves from having pigtails as it might offend muslims.

Ahem..England has come a long way.

[mithridates]

That's hilarious. Or sad. I can see why you're more concerned about this than most.

[bigverne]

Perhaps you should be too, taking into account your recent brush with Shariah in Canada.

Does such PC lunacy not happen over there?

[mithridates]

Not sure. I'm most definately not living there again. I might even change citizenship if I feel like it, either to Korean or Japanese.

[rapier]

[mithridates]

Sorry, I made it look easier than it actually is. I think it's some five or ten years of residence plus a bunch of other stuff as well as throwing away your old citizenship. What I really meant to say though was that I could probably throw away mine if I had to.

[Gopher]

[khyber]

[dogbert]

Incredible.

We WASPs are our own worst enemies.

[Ya-ta Boy]

What was that reference to chocolate all about?

[bigverne]

[bigverne]

[Gwangjuboy]

A tory controlled council as well! They are not known for PC policies. Britain's culture is under attack. I wish the BNP could make some head way in general elections. Has anyone ead their website? A lot of what they say makes sense. Unfortuntately, the media paints them as Nazis, when in reality their manifesto is a world away from what the Nazis did.

[Swiss James]