The Word 'Bacon' Banned in Vermont Street Sign

American Thinker ^ | 08/27/2014 | Peter Wilson

[SeekAndFind]

The list of things that offend Muslims is long. Muslims are incensed, ready too often to murder offenders of their religion. The offenses range from substantive criticism: the Danish cartoons, The Satanic Verses, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s film “Submission”; to the trivial: the Three Little Pigs banned from British schools, a teddy bear named Mohammed. A blog called the Amboy Times has compiled several hundred more.

Add to this list a sign in Winooski, Vermont, a suburb of Burlington, that said, “Yield for Sneakers Bacon.” (Not “Yield Sneakers Bacon” as reported in numerous outlets.) Sneakers is a local diner, or a “bistro and café,” that was given advertising space as compensation for maintaining a municipal flower bed.  The sign isn’t the best ad copy; apparently it was attempting a variation of “I Brake for Doughnuts.”

Unfortunately, Winooski is home to a number of Muslims whose religion teaches them pigs are filthy animals. Like Jules in “Pulp Fiction,” they do not dig on swine.

Winooski’s Muslim population is mainly Somali Bantus, originally black Africans from southeast Africa, brought north by Arab slave traders (but that’s another story). Many Bantus fled to Kenya during the Black Hawk Down period of anarchy in the early 1990s, and in 1999, the United States admitted 12,000 as refugees.

According to the Burlington Free Press, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program resettled the majority of Somali refugees in Winooski, which has “a large number of relatively inexpensive rental units near jobs and public transit.”  In 2009, “About a third of the students in the Winooski public-school system [were] English language learners… up from about 20 percent of the student population four years ago.” Note that ten years after their arrival, the refugees’ children remain “English language learners.”

[Conan the Librarian]

What about Bacon County, Ga?

Can’t break up the breakfast counties of Bacon and Coffee now can we?

[SeekAndFind]

Pork Barrel Spending by Congress will henceforth be called Beef Barrel Spending... (ooops, that would offend the Hindus ).

How about Chicken Barrel Spending?

[hattend]

Excellent idea

[TexasRepublic]

Our local auto mechanic, Dan, has an electronic sign out front of his shop that displays pithy messages, usually of the Christian kind. One day a mudslime woman entered his office and DEMANDED he remove some “offensive” message. Dan told her in no uncertain terms to immediately depart his business and his country. That’s how it should be everywhere.