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Ham? Don't Mention It!
Power Line ^ | December 21, 2010 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 12/21/2010 12:09:10 PM PST by yoe

It sounds like parody, but (this story) from Spain is evidently true:

The parents of a Muslim boy who attends a secondary school in La Línea, Cádiz province, have reported their son's teacher for an incident in the boy's geography class which the child said caused him offence as a Muslim.

The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, with more than 20 years in the profession, was explaining to the class how the cold climate in Trevélez, Granada province, aided in the curing of the village's most famous local product, jamón serrano. The boy told his teacher that hearing the word 'ham' in class was offensive to him because of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence.

El Mundo newspaper reports that the boy's parents then reported the teacher to both the National Police and to the courts. They placed a denuncia against the teacher for psychological ill-treatment in the context of xenophobia and racism.

One assumes that the boy and his parents had help from the Spanish equivalent of CAIR in pushing his "xenophobia" complaint. It is a great illustration of the effort to create a little bubble of walking sharia around each Muslim that we also see in the U.S.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: ham; muslims; napl; offended; spain
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To: yoe

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41 posted on 12/21/2010 6:19:54 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: yoe

42 posted on 12/21/2010 6:51:38 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: yoe; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
The boy told his teacher that hearing the word 'ham' in class was offensive to him because of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence.

"Pork you."

[Thanks to ADemocratNoMore for the ping!]


43 posted on 12/21/2010 8:02:36 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Honorary Serb
Note that it is the Muhammadans who object to the mention of ham/jamon, while the Jews stay silent. That says it all!

Jews have a sense of humor.


44 posted on 12/21/2010 8:07:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Islander7

Yes! SPAM bomb is the answer.


45 posted on 12/22/2010 5:00:29 AM PST by TheOldLady ("I WILL PLANT. I WILL HARVEST. I WILL RESIST WITH FORCE...ANY ATTEMPT TO STOP ME." - Lazamataz)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I never-sausage-a-controversy...


46 posted on 12/22/2010 7:34:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: MarineBrat

It’s taken all day, but I finally got on to tell you that your rebus is brilliant!

There is no mohammed without ham, LOL!


47 posted on 12/22/2010 1:10:39 PM PST by TheOldLady ("I WILL PLANT. I WILL HARVEST. I WILL RESIST WITH FORCE...ANY ATTEMPT TO STOP ME." - Lazamataz)
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To: TheOldLady

48 posted on 12/22/2010 1:15:42 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: yoe

Islam, it’s a war plan.


49 posted on 12/22/2010 1:20:24 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: yoe

I’m too busy to care about this. I’ve got to go home and coat all of my ammo with bacon fat.


50 posted on 12/22/2010 1:24:12 PM PST by CholeraJoe (Eat moer DUCK! War Eagle!!!!)
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To: TheOldLady

Thanks! It’s one of the very few that I actually conceived of and made myself. Now I’m going to be insufferably smug the rest of the day! :)


51 posted on 12/22/2010 1:26:38 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: SparkyBass; MarineBrat

That’s a good one too. I see your point. It’s Ed, not Art, but the Art one can still be understood if one is an old fart like me and remembers the Honeymooners.


52 posted on 12/22/2010 1:40:56 PM PST by TheOldLady ("I WILL PLANT. I WILL HARVEST. I WILL RESIST WITH FORCE...ANY ATTEMPT TO STOP ME." - Lazamataz)
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To: Islander7

LOL!


53 posted on 12/23/2010 5:56:09 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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