Posted on 02/15/2006 2:29:49 PM PST by beaversmom
During his second hour today, Medved was discussing the Danish cartoons with a columnist. A caller toward the end of the hour, said that his daughter was told not to bring her Piglet lunchbox to school because it might offend Muslims. I had heard about this Piglet ban in Britain but didn't think it had reached our shores yet (if this man's account is true). Didn't catch where he was from--maybe some other listener did.
If this account is true and it were my son/daughter I would send them back to school with the offending lunch box filled with a ham sandwich and pork rinds, a Charlotte's Web book in the backpack, and have the child sporting a T-shirt of Babe the pig then I would remove them from the school.
Also, if Muslims are so offended by a cartoon pig, why aren't they offended when grocery stores sell pig products. Will these be removed from the shelves one day? I bet this will be happening in Europe soon if it hasn't already.
I live in DC.
That's right, I have NO problem with private companies setting up whatever policies they want? If they want to cater to the hyper-sensitive muslim demographic with policies like this, then they run the risk of driving away my business. I DO however have a problem with religious senstivities being forced onto schoolchildren. Could you imagine is an entire school was forced to cater to the judeo-christian community? The ACLU would be all over it.
I was listening to the show when that guy called in. I got the feeling that he was lying about the lunchbox ban at his daughter's school, based on the way he sounded when Medved asked him if that was really true.
***A high School with 'The Squirrels' as the nickname? Jeez, that is a funny nickname. Where is the school located?***
I think it is Mountainburg or Winslow, Arkansas, just south of Fayetteville.
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