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."
It aint for a lack of them trying.
I have a feeling they gonna be packing up in lifeless sized boxes when they finally do get another one in on US.
LOL! So true.
I'd be interested to know what the fallout is to the two banks involved. I know that if I were a customer I would move my account immediately. Why? Because I wouldn't feel comfortable with a mamby-pamby wienie watching over my money.
LOL! Great idea. Hope it catches on. Be enough for it to go through a bank here in the good old USA..we do have some domestic rag wearers who are trying to cause trouble (CAIR).
Didn't I hear about a muslime business owner that fired a woman for eating pork? We need to get a handle on this PC nonsense immediately.
Who doesn't like Chicken Legs?
I'll kill the infidel!~}
Only thing i'm really worried about:
Do we have to quit using one of Hillary's nicknames; PIAPS (Pig In A Pants Suit), because it is offensive to muslims???
F#$% the muslims. Beheading innocent victims offends me.
We sure do cater to those violent and irrational thugs who worship a homosexual child-molester.
The banks eliminating piggybanks isn't even slightly surprising in consideration of the fact that the British government has requested police officers to remove their shoes before entering Islamic homes while conducting investigations.
~ Blue Jays ~
Did you ever wonder why its called a piggy bank? Dogs bury bones. Squirrels gather nuts to last through the winter. Camels store food and water so they can travel many days across deserts.
But do pigs save anything? No! Pigs save nothing. They bury nothing. They store nothing.
So why do we save our coins in a piggy bank? Because someone made a mistake. During The Middle Ages, in about the fifteenth century, metal was expensive and seldom used for household wares. Instead, dishes and pots were made of an economical clay called pygg.
Whenever housewives could save an extra coin, they dropped it into one of their clay jars. They called this their pygg bank or their piggy bank. Over the next two hundred to three hundred years, people forgot that "pygg" referred to the earthenware material.
In the nineteenth century when English potters received requests for piggy banks, they produced banks shaped like a pig. Of course, the pigs appealed to the customers and delighted the children.
Sorry, wrong answer:
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.
There is a quote from a muslim below that thinks it is ridiculous but that is nothing new. There are plenty of muslims who are for and against suicide bombings too. The point is, the banks did it and at least some muslims think it's a good thing.
swinophobia is the fear of pigs.
This isn't about whether some Muslims think this is stupid. They think we're all stupid for giving up our culture without a serious fight. Rather, this is about those of our culture who succumb to pressure from the culture of death with absolute idiocy.
Does presage an anouncement that they will not be giving employees a Christmas ham this year?
I have some of those!
One is a Klingon; one is a Ferengi, one is...oh. You meant severed, as in chopped off. Never mind.
You ride a Hog to Sturgis; you ride a pig...
Uhm, where's the locker room, so I can finish this?
Why do some leaders in power give a Shiites about what offends the few?
Where were these people when the English starved the Irish or when the American Tribes were wipe out or when the Communist killed 60 million.
Give the Muleslims Camel Banks.
Rare Oriental Camel Cast Iron Still Bank
Next they will be banning images. The Muslim religion doesn't hold with images of people, animals, etc.
To paraphrase a GREAT man: You'll have to pry the bacon from my cold, dead hands.
hehe. Liberals are a funny bunch. They support anything not traditional American. Wait until these ladies fully empower Islam and must walk behind their man, be beaten if they don't, must cover up, and homosexuals be stoned to death. Liberals are always an ignorant, emotionally driven bunch.
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