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Outlawing the Pig
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | May 2, 2008 | Janet Levy

Posted on 05/08/2008 7:44:00 AM PDT by PreviouslyA-Lurker

The practice of political correctness may soon be tallying another casualty: the pig. Increasingly, as America and the rest of the Western world continue accommodating Muslim religious demands, pork food products are being singled out for removal from dining tables and pig-related trinkets banished from the desks of office workers.

If this continues, good ol’ American food, such as barbeque replete with hot dogs and ribs and the typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausage, might be seen as the equivalent of political poison. Could outright censorship of pig depictions in drawings, pig references in literary works and pig portrayals in movies be far behind? Could the well-known, cartoon figure Porky Pig become a cultural embarrassment of our unenlightened past as we fear to utter the “P” word?...

In 2004, a Muslim-owned investment company, Arcapita (formerly Capital Crescent Investments) acquired the 1,200-unit Church’s Chicken chain. In 2005, Arcapita, with a net income of $70.5 million and assets worth $1.2 billion (2004), enjoined a franchisee from selling pork products. In correspondence with the franchisee, the corporate owners cited violation of shariah law as the reason for prohibiting the sale of bacon, ham and sausages. The restaurant owners were thereby forced to surrender to corporate demands and operate under shariah law. ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: crushislam; immigration; islam; jihadinamerica; muslim; muslims; politicallycorrect; pork; sharia; shariahlaw
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To: Ingtar
Now we need a cartoon with a pig body and a Mohommed face.

Or vicey-versey?


21 posted on 05/08/2008 8:09:33 AM PDT by OSHA (framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

Babe and Arnold the pig will be in the unemployment line.


22 posted on 05/08/2008 8:10:17 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

If God had meant for us to not eat pig, he wouldn’t have made it so damn delicious. Same for beer.


23 posted on 05/08/2008 8:15:02 AM PDT by WarToad
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To: OSHA

Watch out for that fatone (or however it is spelled.)


25 posted on 05/08/2008 8:16:37 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

PIG!!

SOOIE!!

RAZORBACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


26 posted on 05/08/2008 8:17:17 AM PDT by Originalist (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. - RWR)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.


27 posted on 05/08/2008 8:17:17 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (May contain traces of tree nuts.)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
We should just start flying a pig on every plane.

Serving bacon, scrapple, and sausage with every hot meal.

Pork Chops should be an option in EVERY restaurant!

And they can have my country style spare ribs when I'm pushin’ up daises.

I tell you what, I'd hate to “eradicate” a religion (or the people that practice it), but I'm seriously thinking it might be the only option.

28 posted on 05/08/2008 8:18:02 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51 ("...If it moves, tax it, if it moves faster, regulate it, if it stops, subsidies it.")
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

Women have chocolate. Men have bacon.


30 posted on 05/08/2008 8:20:37 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Morgana

Great cartoon. What would we do without Cox & Forkum?

And what would life be like without bacon?


31 posted on 05/08/2008 8:21:55 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: AntiKev

I wonder if this is why it has become so hard to find canned ham, like Dak (danish) brand.
I’ve been stocking up, both on cost savings (with food prices going up) and in case of storm season related power outages. It tastes good, requires no cooking, and can sit there for 2 years if necessary.
Yet canned hams are harder to find, especially the Dak (danish) brand.


32 posted on 05/08/2008 8:22:05 AM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

A.) the answer to this madness: http://www.peacethroughpork.com/

B.) I ain’t eatin’ at Church’s Chicken no mo.


33 posted on 05/08/2008 8:22:20 AM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Eva

HHHMMMMMMM....is any official doing more research into that? (Love your tag line.)


34 posted on 05/08/2008 8:25:14 AM PDT by goodnesswins (20 is the new 10)
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To: NotMeAgain
Put your money where your mouth is... Try this one!

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35 posted on 05/08/2008 8:27:19 AM PDT by WVKayaker ( "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome..." I. Asimov)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

Sorry, the Muzzies aren’t taking away my bacon and pork chops.


36 posted on 05/08/2008 8:28:37 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
In correspondence with the franchisee, the corporate owners cited violation of shariah law as the reason for prohibiting the sale of bacon, ham and sausages.

Maybe it's only a Shi'i interpretation, but it was my understanding that it was only haram to buy the pork, but the act of selling it to a non-Muslim was okay. Not that it makes much difference, though, since how will they acquire the pork to sell in the first place?

37 posted on 05/08/2008 8:28:47 AM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker

I have been told by some that part of modern islamic
belief contains the notion that a Muslim cannot be
guaranteed a place in Paradise, even if living an obversant
life. The term is “em-shalah” or something that sounds like
that. It means, something like “if God wills”...

So why they would want to push a law on you (i.e. don’t
eat this, eat this other thing...) that cannot
guarantee entrance into paradise is beyond me...it sounds
like human insecurity, and frustration about having no
solid promise about the future.


38 posted on 05/08/2008 8:30:56 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"They’ll have to pry my bacon out of my cold, dead hands."

Well, they'll have to scrape mine out of my arteries!

39 posted on 05/08/2008 8:32:56 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: OSHA

Is that Mo-HAM-med?


40 posted on 05/08/2008 8:33:49 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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