Because if muslims touch any pork products, it’s an instant trip to hell for them. I agree leave the bacon alone. Some sliced ham lunch meat, or a pork chop would work just as well as bacon.
It is not that. It renders them unclean and they must follow certain practices to purify themselves i.e. extra fasting of freeing of a Moslem slave etc. The feigned horror of pork is used to impose certain customs on infidels and make excuses for violence. It was so in India of the British Raj and is so now.