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| Dhimmitude: Piggy banks banned to prevent offense |
| 2005-10-24 |
| British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here. Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal. But camels and goats are just fine, worth of, um, "love," even. Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move. "This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said. Many people are offended by the worship of the devil known as "Allah." Let's ban it. However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics. "The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity," the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said. "We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them." The next thing? I guess there's no ACLU in Britain. Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban. "We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said. "I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks." But the ban still stands. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #10 There is a simple solution. Brits who don't like it can express their displeasure by closing their accounts at the Halifax and NatWest banks. If they don't, and allow the Muslims to tred on them like this, then so be it. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-10-24 22:36 |
| #9 So... what the hell are muslims doing in an infidel interest-charging bank anyway? Isn't that against their religion too? Pretty soon they will be whining about christians praying in a christian church. (they already do this in Indonesia and kill christians / burn churches...). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-10-24 21:42 |
| #8 wonder how the Islamonuts deal with "Roth IRAs"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 21:17 |
| #7 I'm naming my piggy bank "Ummah". |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-10-24 21:14 |
| #6 frankly, I'm getting a Arab bank to replace my piggy bank - you don't wanna know where the coins go, but the eyes do light up in delight |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 20:29 |
| #5 HS - interesting tak, but IMHO the faith they seek will turn out soon to not be what they were looking for and they, striking out, will reject it, in a nasty brutish euro-continent cleansing of Islam |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 20:21 |
| #4 Are pigs more offensive to mooselimbs than to Jewish people? Why has there never been a move by the Jews to have piggy banks extirpated? And why are the Brits now being so accommodating to the mooselimbs whereas they have been somewhat less so to Jews? It's sort of like why the media still dote on Mao, Lenin and Che while the Nazis are the most depraved killers in history. This is not just dhimmitude, it is identification. The euros admire the firm faith of the mooselimbs, a faith they long ago abandoned but now seek to rediscover. Europe will not be conquered, it will be converted, and not by the sword. |
| Posted by: Hupons Spoling9710 2005-10-24 18:56 |
| #3 What happens when Mooselimbs complain about the Razorbacks? |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-10-24 18:41 |
| #2 The banks should immediately be sued because for years they have offended their Jewish customers in the same way, yet have neither discontinued this hateful practice or apologized. Several of there employees have also been observed to be consuming bacon, ham, and spam without washing their hands before contaminating currency with grease from these Satanic pork products and by-products. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-10-24 18:27 |
| #1 "I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks." It should go without saying. But here's a thought: maybe the ones who are could just, say, GET OVER IT. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-10-24 18:18 |