Posted on 02/04/2007 12:35:31 AM PST by Int
ON February 18, the Chinese world will usher in the new year of an animal, but its identity will be suppressed.
A billion people will view China's - and the world's - most-watched annual television show, the Chinese New Year's Eve variety spectacular, but the viewers will be no wiser as to which animal is involved.
The Chinese Government has decreed that the Year of the Pig will be celebrated with the least possible offence to the country's 21 million Muslims, for whom the porker is a dirty, offensive animal whose flesh must not be eaten. So this year, China Central TV's big event will be more like a politically correct school Christmas pageant in which participants must not mention Jesus for fear of being seen as biased.
The Shanghai Islamic Association told The Australian: "In the last festival TV show to celebrate this year (12 years ago), the program was full of images of pigs, some of them quite grotesque, and many Muslims were unhappy and complained. "So we're pleased the Government has made this move."
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Even the Chi-coms are knuckling under to the muzzies? Frickin' amazing. Does that mean muzzies are allowed to practice their religion in China, unlike Christians? Wow. One more reason to despise the Chi-coms.
Of course, pigs are unclean food for observant Jews and Christians as well.
Silly Muslims.
Islam is such a screwed up cult.
"Allah" made pigs. Yet Muslim believe that contact with Pigs will send them to hell. I guess that includes licking stamps with images of a pig (lmao).
Just think how much contact with pigs ol Allah had when he was making them?
Taken to its logical conclusion, one can surmise that Islams "Allah" is a denizen of hell..which considering the evil that "Allah" commands Muslims to do, makes perfect sense.
(Note: If you don't already gather, I don't buy for one second that islam "Allah" is the same being as God that Christians and Jews believe in. In fact, I think that Muslims "Allah" hails from a place much warmer")
Silly Muslims.
Islam is such a screwed up cult.
"Allah" made pigs. Yet Muslim believe that contact with Pigs will send them to hell. I guess that includes licking stamps with images of a pig (lmao).
Just think how much contact with pigs ol Allah had when he was making them?
Taken to its logical conclusion, one can surmise that Islams "Allah" is a denizen of hell..which considering the evil that "Allah" commands Muslims to do, makes perfect sense.
(Note: If you don't already gather, I don't buy for one second that islam "Allah" is the same being as God that Christians and Jews believe in. In fact, I think that Muslims "Allah" hails from a place much warmer")
If I have this right, only clean, inoffensive animals should be killed? (And pigs spared?)
You've reminded me that US postage stamps have had "Kosher" adhesive on their stamps for many years!
Jews yes, but I thought Christians were freed from that restriction. Would be news to this one if we weren't.
The food laws in Leviticus still apply. They are just not observed by most Christians.
Christians do not see food as "clean" or "unclean." Biblically there are passages in the Bible that discuss this very issue and Christians are told that they are free from such strictures.
The food laws in Leviticus still apply. They are just not observed by most Christians.
No they dont. For Christians the NT trumps;
Holy Cr@p! A billion-and-a-quarter Chinese are cowed by 21 million in-country Muslims!!?
Geez, I thought the Chicoms were at least a tacit ally against Islam.
Oh well, there's still a billion muzzie-hating Hindus.
Hope so, anyway.
WOW, even the Communists are deferring to "tender muslim sensibilities"??
In the old days when Commies had a pair they would have been killing them by the millions, Stalin must be so sad.
I thought 2008 was going to be the Year of the Pig! ~ Maybe Dick Morris is wrong.
#16 The new year starts on 18 February
What about muslims born in the year of the pig, does that make them unclean? My wife is of the year of the pig, I think they are naturally smarter than most people.
Just a factoid: Pigs have orgasms lasting over 15 minutes!
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