British Banks Ban Piggy Banks
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This isn't tolerance, this is servile dhimmitude. And it will lead to problems, terror attacks not the least of them.
What would be tolerant is the Muslims recognizing that there are certain cultural differences between the way they live their lives and the way the rest of the world does. After all, Jews don't eat pork either, but we rarely see any concessions like the one above being made for them.
The Age - 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.
This isn't tolerance, this is servile dhimmitude. And it will lead to problems, terror attacks not the least of them.
What would be tolerant is the Muslims recognizing that there are certain cultural differences between the way they live their lives and the way the rest of the world does. After all, Jews don't eat pork either, but we rarely see any concessions like the one above being made for them.
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