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Jack Straw apologises after 200 Muslim prisoners are given ham sandwiches during Ramadan
This Is London ^ | 03/14/08

Posted on 03/14/2008 8:13:23 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70

Muslim prisoners who were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan have received a letter of apology from the Government.

Officials said sorry to the 200 Muslim inmates of HMP Leeds believed to have been offered the meat, which is forbidden by Islam.

Jack Straw said in a letter that a "regrettable administrative error" led to the blunder and apologised for any offence caused to the Muslim community.

The Justice Secretary has ordered staff at the category B facility to be more diligent and prison officers will be re-trained to consider inmates' cultural and religious needs.

In October last year the sandwiches were on a menu created for the festival, which requires Muslims to fast in daylight.

A complaint from a city councillor to local Labour MP Hilary Benn led Mr Straw to send the personally signed letter to Mr Benn.

Justice Minister Jack Straw has apologised after 200 muslim prison inmates were offered ham sandwiches


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hamonwry; islam; jihadinbritain
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To: MotleyGirl70
There's just no satisfying these guys.

Give them a ham sandwich...they bitch
Give them a nice bacon and eggs breakfast...they bitch
Give them a snack of Funions and Pork Rinds...they bitch

I think they are just too finicky eaters.

Tonight we are serving Beer Brats and sauerkraut and I better not here a WORD about it!

21 posted on 03/14/2008 8:31:28 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: MotleyGirl70

Those lucky lucky ba$tards, just today they hung me rightside up.


22 posted on 03/14/2008 8:34:38 AM PDT by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: MotleyGirl70
“The ham sandwiches were only an option! Get over it people! Were there any non-Muslims who were offered this “menu?” If so then it would be nice to have a ham sandwich option (not to mention a beer). There may be a nonpracticing Muslims in the group that wanted a little ham.”
23 posted on 03/14/2008 8:35:11 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: MotleyGirl70

They are in freaking PRISON!

They can pay extra to have their special food brought to them.


24 posted on 03/14/2008 8:35:28 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: TornadoAlley3
It could have been SPAM.

25 posted on 03/14/2008 8:40:38 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: MotleyGirl70

Maybe Jack ought to come by AZ and have Sheriff Joe give him a tour of Tent City and discuss the culinary delights offered there.


26 posted on 03/14/2008 8:45:05 AM PDT by mancini
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To: MotleyGirl70

Giving ham sammies to Muslims during Ramadan?

Well, SOMEONE in Britain has a sense of humor....

If God didn’t want you to eat pork, why do pigs taste so good?


27 posted on 03/14/2008 8:48:50 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: EyeGuy

Savage says the only thing that’ll save England from the Muslim hordes are the soccer hooligans.

I say turn ‘em loose.


28 posted on 03/14/2008 8:50:45 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: MotleyGirl70

Boo frickin’ hoo - I was going to rearrange my sock drawer today but after reading this I don’t think I can manage.


29 posted on 03/14/2008 8:50:48 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: MotleyGirl70

I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in a restaurant, while the waiter named Mohammed from Bangladesh served pork ribs to a black guy who said he was a Muslim. He liked those ribs. Another waitress asked him how he liked them, and he said he was a muslim and wasn’t supposed to eat them. And she says, yes, but did you like them? LOL Like why didn’t he ask if they were pork ribs before he ordered them, instead of waiting until he ate them all? And how does the Islam religion handle cases like this. Are you permanently haram if you eat pork? Or can you take a laxative and like brush and floss and rinse with clorox?


30 posted on 03/14/2008 8:52:05 AM PDT by webheart
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To: MotleyGirl70

The funniest post all year!....We’re so sorry Uncle Albert!


31 posted on 03/14/2008 8:53:44 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MotleyGirl70

The cook, no doubt, is now working on an oil derrick in the North Atlantic?......


32 posted on 03/14/2008 8:55:54 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mancini
Sheriff Joe would set these whiny Muzzies straight.

Breakfast: Bologna sandwich

Lunch: Bologna sandwich

Dinner: Bologna sandwich

...and eat it while wearing pink shorts.

I love it!

33 posted on 03/14/2008 9:02:07 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

Eat this and I'll throw in a Mosque, Honest

34 posted on 03/14/2008 9:02:31 AM PDT by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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To: MotleyGirl70
These Muslim prisoners are just conducting "operations" as best they can from prision- by using the media.

I've always like the story of Gen. John J. Pershing when he was in command of the garrison in the Philipines. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson. Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs. All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

Its not confirmed in his writings but even if a legend it captures the spirit we need as a nation to stop these extremists.
35 posted on 03/14/2008 9:07:17 AM PDT by zadox (Galatians 5:1: It is for freedom that we have been set free)
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To: MotleyGirl70
Getting caught and having to eat pork ought to be one of the risks of being a terrorist. Civilized defense tactics ought to include pork products everywhere, from fat-dipped bullets to eating pig's feet. I'm sick of the apologies for being involved in defending ourselves.

We go to our jobs and risk getting a plane flown into our office...they behead somebody and risk having to eat a ham sandwich. Hmmmmm...

36 posted on 03/14/2008 9:08:17 AM PDT by BBT
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To: Emperor Palpatine

“Savage says the only thing that’ll save England from the Muslim hordes are the soccer hooligans.
I say turn ‘em loose.”

With good ol’ American ammunition. Go ‘head Chesney, use all you want. We’ll make more.


37 posted on 03/14/2008 9:10:38 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: MotleyGirl70

How about a bloody apology from the murderers who blew up London trains and people in them? Shove the damned ham sandwiches down their murdering throats!


38 posted on 03/14/2008 9:14:16 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (cult of death is a bunch of hypocrites too)
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To: MotleyGirl70
Jack Straw said it was a regrettable administrative error and "The staff has been informed that in the future, they should offer ham AND cheese sandwiches. In addition, those prisoners exhibiting good behavior will be offered DOUBLE cheese, at no additional charge."

An unnamed prison official commented, "So what's it gonna be, mate, Cheddar, White Stilton, Derby? With our luck, the beggars are gonna want Wensleydale or something else we don't 'ave."

Members of the Ministry for Silly Prisons appeared concerned.


39 posted on 03/14/2008 9:46:43 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

The UK’s Justice Minister is “a man of straw”..


40 posted on 03/14/2008 10:04:23 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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