[cookcounty]

While in Jewish belief, pigs are not to be eaten, they are creatures of God's creation and there is nothing inherently offensive in them any more than horses, dogs, cats, monkeys or geckoes.

Not sure what the muslim objection is to the depiction of pigs, can someone enlighten us?

[livius]

The Muslim objection is that it is something done by non-Muslims - and for some reason, they have found that we are easily intimidated on this one. They object to ALL figurative art, so theoretically, any drawing should offend them and probably does, since the ideal Muslim world is dark, gray, without music, without art, and filled with furtive sex with anything but adult women, and daydreams of those 72 raisins.

Sounds delightful, no? Somebody please tell me why we are kowtowing to these insane people and their death cult.