The Word 'Bacon' Banned in Vermont Street Sign

The list of things that offend Muslims is long. Muslims are incensed, ready too often to murder offenders of their religion. The offenses range from substantive criticism: the Danish cartoons, The Satanic Verses, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s film “Submission”; to the trivial: the Three Little Pigs banned from British schools, a teddy bear named Mohammed. A blog called the Amboy Times has compiled several hundred more.

Add to this list a sign in Winooski, Vermont, a suburb of Burlington, that said, “Yield for Sneakers Bacon.” (Not “Yield Sneakers Bacon” as reported in numerous outlets.) Sneakers is a local diner, or a “bistro and café,” that was given advertising space as compensation for maintaining a municipal flower bed. The sign isn’t the best ad copy; apparently it was attempting a variation of “I Brake for Doughnuts.”

Unfortunately, Winooski is home to a number of Muslims whose religion teaches them pigs are filthy animals. Like Jules in “Pulp Fiction,” they do not dig on swine.

Winooski’s Muslim population is mainly Somali Bantus, originally black Africans from southeast Africa, brought north by Arab slave traders (but that’s another story). Many Bantus fled to Kenya during the Black Hawk Down period of anarchy in the early 1990s, and in 1999, the United States admitted 12,000 as refugees.

According to the Burlington Free Press, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program resettled the majority of Somali refugees in Winooski, which has “a large number of relatively inexpensive rental units near jobs and public transit.” In 2009, “About a third of the students in the Winooski public-school system [were] English language learners… up from about 20 percent of the student population four years ago.” Note that ten years after their arrival, the refugees’ children remain “English language learners.”

Though the American Thinker article says--and if they got it wrong, then fine--

>>In the midst of all this celebration of her diversity, one unidentified Muslim woman responded to the Sneakers bacon sign. Apparently not in the mood to celebrate the diversity of Vermonters’ bacon-eating habits, the woman wrote an Internet post saying “the sign was insensitive to those who do not consume pork. She said as a Muslim she is personally offended by it.” (WPTZ-TV, h/t Breitbart) Again the article above claims the woman is a Muslim, twice. If they're wrong then so be it...

I am not surprised the Muslim complained about the bacon sign. What sickens me is the capitulation by the restaurant owner. This is representative of so many in business both large and small who have rolled over to political correctness. I think their customers would appreciate them more if they stood up to this nonsense. Personally, I would have told the offended Muslim to pound sand. This is America. We eat bacon. Don’t like it? LEAVE!

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