Offended by a piggy bank? Oh good grief.
Posted on 10/25/2005 12:01:43 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
British 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 reports here.
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 many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks."
If the Muslims don't like it, LET THEM GO ELSEWHERE.
Since when was not ever being offended some kind of bloody right? Hell, having to put up with Islamists calling for violence and then being told that Islam is a "religion of peace" offends me! So ban Islam already!
Allowing Islam at all offends me, knowing what that religion teaches its followers.
Islamic extremists offend me. When will they be banned? BTW, I have TWO PIGGY BANKS next to my desk. I think I shall name them, "Mohammed" and "Abdul".
I agree. What say we notify the UK government of this? They seem to be hypersensitive to not wanting to offend anyone. Maybe we'll hit the jackpot.
heheehe....
This sickening PC $hit must be stopped. Where is the line going to be drawn?
I named mine "Allah" and "Akbar."
LOL!! Nice picture....
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
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Even better names...
Anything to upset Mohammed is fine with me! :)
And the dar al-Islam claims a bank. This time without any heads having to roll.
Allahu akhbar!
What kind of banks do Muslim children use??? ...other than the West Bank....
I named mine "Allah" and "Akbar."
How about "allah" and "fubar"?
I'm sure next, we're going to have a new fairy-tale: three little homicide bombers: one building his bomb out of dynamite, one out of primacord, and one out of Semtex.
There once was a pig named "Abdul",
Who thought his owner a fool.
Each day he would wait,
Afraid of his fate.
For the farmer loved bacon and drooled.
(OK, it's lame and I've had a martini. Declare a fatwa against me.)
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