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)
How precious!
Pretty much exactly like that.
And if true, related to this story how?
BTTT
Sooey
I'll put a fiver on the underdog (underpig?) "Osama Lives" just for fun. With a million to one odds, what the hey?
Would dumping a five gallon drum of bacon grease all over the door and front steps be inappropriate?
Probably not - until after the next 911.
LOL!
Damn zoning laws - wont allow pigs! Argh!
Or vice-versa.
Yet law-abiding scholars write:
Law is neither wrong nor right,
Law is only crimes
Punished by places and by times,
Law is the clothes men wear
Anytime, anywhere,
Law is Good morning and Good night.Others say, Law is our Fate;
Others say, Law is our State;
Others say, others say
Law is no more,
Law has gone away.And always the loud angry crowd,
Very angry and very loud,
Law is We,
And always the soft idiot softly Me.
--W.H. Auden (excerpt>
Sure can. But aren't pigs on the property line racing on a Friday night a little offensive to a Muslim neighbor?
And then there are those pesky holes in the fence. Haven'
t seen one yet a pig can't root through, especially if they are hungry.
Funny, on other the other hand I have been told for generations that INTEGRATION was "THE WAY." ....Not separatism/'multi'culture....
Try it and then tell the judge you were wondering about ettiquette.
That'll be nice when the neighbors hear the calling for prayers 5 times a day on loudspeakers.
Good idea. Permanent idea. Eternal idea.
Read the following and remember Who is in charge. I can be dead and gone and the following will STILL be effected if people reject God. There is no God but God. Allah is NOT God. You are not arguing with me.
Leviticus 26:19 'And I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
Leviticus 26:20 'And your strength shall be spent uselessly, for your land shall not yield its produce and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:21 'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:22 'And I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
Leviticus 26:23 'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Leviticus 26:24 then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:25 'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
Leviticus 26:26 'When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:27 'Yet if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Leviticus 26:28 then I will act with wrathful hostility against you; and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:29 'Further, you shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.
Leviticus 26:30 'I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols; for My soul shall abhor you.
Leviticus 26:31 'I will lay waste your cities as well, and will make your sanctuaries desolate; and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Leviticus 26:32 'And I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled over it.
Leviticus 26:33 'You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
Leviticus 26:34 'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
In case some of you fail to notice, God is pretty adamant about not being rejected. He does NOT approve of Islam as it is a false religion, it advocates violence and vehemently opposes christianity.
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