Outlawing the Pig

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | May 2, 2008 | Janet Levy

[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. ...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

They eventually want to take away more than just our bacon...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

I hope you read the whole article, if not please do.

[Eva]

No, they aren’t going to sue. They aren’t the kind of people to sue. They don’t like government and they wouldn’t use the courts. You would have to meet these people to understand. They think that the government exists to harass them. In WA state, that might be true.

[Jaxter]

Thanks for the tip and the link. I’m ordering tonight.

[LiberConservative]

Is there anything about Muslims to like? Anything? Anybody? HellOOoooooo!

(crickets)

[Publius6961]

Every time I go to any store now, and the store sells food snacks, I make sure that there is at least one pork product in my checkout basket.

If the checkout person pauses during checkout to have someone else take over, I walk out.

[Publius6961]

Woooo Hoooo!

Barack Obama and Mo-ham-mud in one single picture!

Sweet!

[Allegra]

Women have chocolate. Men have bacon.

I'm very fond of both.

Just not together. ;-)

[kenth]

You can take my bacon when you pry it from my cold, greasy hands.

[IM2MAD]

No more Church’s Chicken for me.

[Eepsy]

I’m actually eating bacon as we speak, a good three or four strips of it diced in a bowl of split pea soup. A Manischewitz mix, no less :)

[atomic_dog]

make us sharia compliant via captialism [sic].

Actually it is capitalism that will save us. Demand will call forth supply and entrepreneurs will bring pork products to market. It has always been thus and in time the War on Pork will be an even bigger failure than the War on Drugs.

[manic4organic]

I need a bacon bumper sticker.

[chesley]

They’re all gonna miss out, anyway.

John 14:6

[troy McClure]

Here is a list of company that are owned by Arcapita. Looks like I wontr be spending any money with any of these companies. All owned by Arcapita.

http://www.cariboucoffee.com/

http://www.yakima.com/

http://www.cirrusdesign.com/

http://www.ampad.com/

http://www.churchs.com/

http://www.southlandloghomes.com/index.php

http://www.cypresscom.net/

http://www.tensarcorporation.com/

http://www.bijouxterner.com/content/index.html

http://www.meridiansurgicalpartners.com/

http://www.3pdelivery.com/

http://www.varelintl.com/

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

She doesn’t need to have faith in the government, she just needs not to give up.

[Eva]

She’s afraid that people that she has sold pigs to will come back at her.

[Alouette]

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

That may work in the free market, but as the article states, there are public schools that now no longer serve pork or pork products.

[Alouette]

Now we need a cartoon with a pig body and a Mohommed face.

How about a cartoon with a pig body and a Mohammed butt?