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Banks fear piggy banks offend Muslims
Religion News ^
| October 23rd, 2005
Posted on 10/24/2005 10:20:06 AM PDT by laney
Bristish banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.
Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reported today.
Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.
Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.
"This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said.
However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics.
"The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity," the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said.
"I doubt some Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: celebratediversity; cravencowardice; dhimmitude; diversity; eurabia; insanity; jihadineurope; pcinsanity; piggybanks; sensitivity
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:20:06 AM PDT
by
laney
To: laney
Muslims: GET A LIFE!
Limp-wristed PC bank directors: GET A BACKBONE!
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:21:11 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Blessed Pius IX, pray for us!)
To: laney
next thing we will be banning Christmas trees - Not in America, it's not next, it is now.
To: laney
Has anyone stopped to think about all the promotions that offend CHRISTIANS? Like condom ads etc, etc?
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:21:39 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: laney
Aaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!! I need duct tape for my head!!!! This has to be a joke. Right??????
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:21:52 AM PDT
by
murrie
To: laney
So, they never feared ofending Jews, but MUSLIMS, boy that's a no-go.
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:21:54 AM PDT
by
Andyman
(Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.)
To: laney
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Wonder what the medical term for a "fear of Piggy Banks" is actually called? :)
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:22:00 AM PDT
by
bonfire
(dwindler)
To: laney
How come banks never feared offending Jews with piggy banks for the last 100 years?
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:22:12 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: laney
To paraphrase: Let them eat spam
To: bonfire
Its called piggybankaphobia. I need duct tape....my head is going to explode....
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:04 AM PDT
by
murrie
To: laney
Muslims need to learn that pigs are not impure animals. Muslims on the other hand are impure animals and I'd rather they not be in my sight.
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:08 AM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: bonfire
I don't know but what about a "Hog"?
12
posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:16 AM PDT
by
laney
(little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
To: laney
Islamists -- The world's newest oppressed class.
13
posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:24 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: laney
Give 'em a faux 'Explosive Belt' instead.
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:24 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: laney
Bristish banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. So what if they do? What in the name of everything that is sacred, are these people afraid of? Losing a few customers? The Piggy banks are not made of pork products.
Surely, Muslims do not make up a very large percentage of potential customers for these banks.
What the hell is next? Banning photos of Kevin Bacon?
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:32 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
To: laney
I swear, I think my head is going to explode.
Don't mind me.
BOOM!
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:35 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Hypocrite opportunist. Don't infect me with your poison.)
To: murrie
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:23:45 AM PDT
by
bonfire
(dwindler)
To: CzarNicky
DO they make Muslim Piggy Banks? HAHA
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:24:04 AM PDT
by
laney
(little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
To: laney
Isn't that special!
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:24:10 AM PDT
by
airborne
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
To: laney
Wow, the Brits are certainly PC, nothing short of trashing
the whole place will make the Islamists happy.
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posted on
10/24/2005 10:24:13 AM PDT
by
Hans
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