Posted on 01/25/2007 9:20:37 AM PST by BunnySlippers
Pigs Get the Ax
SHANGHAI -- Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said.
This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestlé's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday.
China's postal service has launched 'Year of Piglet' stamps The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean. "China is a multiethnic country," the network's ad department said in a notice sent to ad agencies late Tuesday. "To show respect to Islam, and upon guidance from higher levels of the government, CCTV will keep any 'pig' images off the TV screen."
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For most other Chinese, the pig has powerful and positive cultural associations as one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac. snip
Pork is the meat most widely consumed by the country's Han Chinese majority. snip
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Pigs have often been at the center of communal violence between China's Muslim minority and the Chinese majority. Protests ensued when a pig's head was nailed to the door of a mosque several years ago.
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China closely monitors mosques and Islamic religious schools, and the government has worked to damp Muslim protests over issues that have prompted outcries among Muslims elsewhere, such as a Danish newspaper's publication in 2005 of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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At that time, Mr. Ma says, some newspapers published a tale in which a pig saves the life of Muhammad. "That aroused a lot of anger," he says.
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So China is doomed also.
damn, now I'm hungry
I could have sword I have read numerous times where muslims have said pigs don't offend them, they just don't eat pork.
Well, which is the real story?
"sword"?? Jeez, SWORN.
Come to Daddy! Yum.
The day I bring a turkey sandwich you do this, your EVIL:)
The day I bring a turkey sandwich you do this, your EVIL:)
I think I'll go get a delicious bag of chips out of our cafeteria's vending machine.
Only those who want to be doomed are so. And apparently the majority of us want exactly that. What has come of this world?
I thought you meant to say sword as in the muzzies live by the sword. They swear by the sword so why not use sword instead of sworn?
Makes sense to me. Let's change everything to accomodate the muz cult.
Geez even the Totalitarians are afraid of the Koranimals//??..
I never would have thought that.
They don't bow down to anyone........until now.
This can't go on much longer.
Didnt all make everything..including Pigs?
Since Allah made pigs, would that make Allah himself unclean?
(Of course all this is based on MUslimes insistance that their "Allah" is actually God...which is a ridiculous assertion as God would never condone the evil that Islam and Allah promote)
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