Posted on 12/02/2006 8:18:10 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
(11/29/06 - KTRK/KATY, TX) - There's an awful lot of exciting news when you round the corner on Baker Road. One of two big yellow signs announces a new neighbor is coming soon.
"It's not an appropriate place to have a mosque or church," said resident Barbara Simpson.
It isn't going over real well.
"As a house of worship, they shouldn't be disturbing the peace and tranquility of 15 homes," said resident John Wetmore.
Neighbors tell us they're concerned about traffic and drainage and a little fear of the unknown. Some of the homeowners even offered to buy the land back for more than a million dollars. The K.I.A. doesn't seem very interested in the offers.
"We're not going anywhere," said Katy Islamic Association member Alvi Muzfar.
So it seems the community at the end of Baker Road has a pretty good fight. But this fight has gone much farther than many between two neighbors. You see in these fights, sometimes neighbors throw mud at one another. In this instance, they're wallowing in it.
Craig Baker owns pigs. He's the guy behind the second big yellow sign on Baker Road. That's the one announcing Friday night pig races.
"What does it matter, I can do whatever I want with my land right," asked landowner Craig Baker.
Sure can. But aren't pigs on the property line racing on a Friday night a little offensive to a Muslim neighbor?
"The meat of a pig is prohibited in the religion of Islam," said Katy Islamic Association member Youssof Allam. "It's looked upon as a dirty creature."
Yeah, there's that and also that Friday night is a Muslim holy day.
"That is definitely a slap in the face," said Allam..
Now before you go thinking Craig Baker is unfair, or full of hate, or somehow racist, hear him out.
Baker has long roots here. His family named the road and when the new neighbors moved in, he tells us, they asked him to move out.
"Basically that I should package up my family and my business and find a place elsewhere," said Baker. "That's ridiculous, they just bought the place one week prior and he's telling me I should think about leaving."
That new owners deny they ever said anything like that, but Baker isn't budging.
Baker admits the pigs are a message he is not leaving.
The 11-acre property is sandwiched between a pricey subdivision and Craig Baker's business.
K.I.A. eventually plans to build a mosque, a gym and a school there. There's no date for the groundbreaking ceremonies, or the first pig race.
(Copyright © 2006, KTRK-TV)
I went by the site Saturday...there is a large yellow banner announcing the coming pig races.....I'll get a pix and post it soon. This will be better than the Katy Rice Harvest parade.....
Carolyn
I bet there is a personal injury lawyer that represents pigs...just awaiting a pig crash....
Did the Jews in pre WWII Berlin commit terrorism?
This thread is about pig races.....in Texas....actually they are quite common...
Did they have pig races in Berlin?
"Robinsons Racing Pigs" is a perennial favorite at the County Fair. They even have their own theme song which will now be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
L
LOL! Poor little pigs. They'll probably get beheaded, if the Muslims have their way.
Carolyn
Unsure of the question. Some people here are trying to equate treatment of Muslims in US to treatment of pre WWII Jews, and I'm pointing out a possible reason why the analogy doesn't work.
Any comparison is not worthy of a logical response....Jews were exterminated....
Muslims are the 21st century equivalent to the Nazis...especially those that remain silent to the atrocities.
Those Muslims that remain silent while their leaders behead the innocent...are as guilty as the silent Nazis.....
Their silence is tantamount to approval.
Exactly. Not only were Jews exterminated, they didn't commit the types of terrorism we have seen before, on and after 9/11.
Leviticus is G-d's spoken words to Moshe, he was setting the parameters for the nomadic Jews...this book is the setting up monotheism and getting the Jews ready for the promise land.
Funny Christians have a "forgiving" G-d until they need to invoke violence and hatred and then they run to G-d's spoken word to Moshe and the Jews in the Torah, to defend Christian hatred, I find that puzzling.
And I will do eveything I can to stop them. We need to make it uncomfortable & unwelcoming as we can for the muslims until they crawl back to the third wold mud-hole they came from. (and the Williams character on this thread can go with them)
When faced with a sword at your neck and your feet and hands bound.....hatred may not Be the definitive word....
Thank you. Very well written and the TRUTH.
The muslims here who fail to denounce such evil are then also evil themselves. Case closed. Deport them and destroy their places of worship. No compromise. That would be the word that goes out...
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