The phrase, “Oxford University Press” used to sound like something smart. How low the British have fallen. The British government, at the request of some Obama-compliant Yankies, no doubt, have banned two of the most outstanding and brilliant and principled journalist heroes of our time, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, from the UK.
The Brits are far, far distant from their finest hour.
Now one of their once prestigious scholarly publishers, Oxford University Press, says it’s today been scared so much by sabre-rattling Islamists that it is afraid to write or publish in any language the words “pig,” “pork,” “porcine,” “hog,” “swine,” “sow,” “ham,” “bacon,” “lard,” and “Piggly Wiggly.” Maybe someone high-up at the Press reasons that pretending these items don’t exist will keep the Islamist grim reapers at bay.
This new policy is a bold step into an intellectual abyss from which there will be no recovery! Not to mention that there will be no more Christmas hams in Jolly Old England, or, if there are, no one will dare mention it.
Monty Python, where are you when your countrymen desperately need you?
This is one of the saddest stories to come out of Europe since last week’s atrocities. I’m not saying it can’t happen here - it bloody well can and will - but to see Oxford University Press sink this low, so quickly, breaks my heart. In the original Barnes & Noble bookstore on 18th Street and 5th Avenue, the shelves were lined with second hand University Press publications as well as Penguins and other great British books. What a delight it was to pick up these beautiful paperbacks and wonder at the great literature contained between the covers. Shame on them.