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."
OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!
The reason they ban piggy banks for fear of offending muslims but not jews is that muslims tend to blow things up when offended. Jews don't. It really is that simple.
I think we all agree with that statement!!
Maybe they need to ban the toilet paper in the Men's restrooms too!
my hubby came up with an even better idea for fighting the islamofascists......suicide pigs. rofl
Jews [most] are not demented.
We don't eat pork but neither a piggy bank nor pigskin nor the story of the three little pigs nor Miss Piggy offends us.
Jihadist Moslems (in deeds or thoughts) offend us.
Ahhh... Ya beat me to it!
Since they are soo behind the rest of the world, muslims have found promoting a culture of victimhood is the only way they can compete and gain sympathy from idiot liberals and the MSM. The whole "plight of the palestinians" is a perfect example. The only plight is the one they create for themselves. But the MSM and pillow bitting liberals buy it hook, line, and sinker.
Another example of the "when we immigrate to a country, we expect the country to conform to us, not we conforming to the country" agenda that the politically correct crowd and guilt ridden liberals promotes and people like muslims abuse to spread their ideals.
"Th'-th'-th'-th'-th'-th'-that's All, Folks!"
This is just sickening. The Brits whjo don't want to convert to islam should all just emigrate now and just turn the country over to them. With this kind of leadership the country is going to islamic in a few years anyway...why stick around and endure the pain of the changeover?
Would "HOGZILLA Banks" be offensive too?
Kamikaze pigs. I'm likin' it!
I ain't going to change my screenname!
No problem... We can offr the jihadi banks. Kinda like the motorized coin banks from a few years ago, but the gears and motors are *secretly* made of C-4. Drop a penny & GO BOOM! They can "save up" for their 72 raisins!
I find your screenname extremely offensive to islam. Hold still while I strap on my bomb belt.
Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.
No ever seemed to care that JEWS don't eat pork. This is just over the top.
Why are they not concerned about offending non-muslims?
(Other than the obvious: absence of fear)
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