If my bank banned piggies I would close my account immediately and tell them why. The bottom line is money, if enough people protest by refusing to do business with any bank who does this, they will soon wake up.

They are probably too stupid to see it, but Muslims are in the process of arousing a powerful amount of hatred for themselves and the bigoted nonsense they appear to believe.

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I propose a new war strategy: Drop pork-chop bombs. Should result in immediate surrender.

Perhaps someone could mass produce piggy banks as a ‘fight back’ and affix a label saying ‘This little piggy won’t go’.

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then so as not to offend the Hindu population we should ban anything to do with cows

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Skylark,

Of course the Islamofascist pundits could have seen this one coming.

They can get Oinked as far as I’m concerned!

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I think the Hindus (judging by the ones I know) are too sophisticated to be bothered by fluffy cows etc. Muslims appear to be very intellectually unsophisticated and basically unable to accept the beliefs of others. Their mere presence in our world is ruining the the things we have worked for hundreds of years to achieve – the freedom to say or think whatever one believes, rational debate, intellectual curiosity, scientific and mental experimentation, you name it. If you can judge people according to their level, Muslims are barely out of childhood.

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Boz – a t-shirt perhaps with ‘Get Oinked’ ‘Support piggy banks’or ‘Join P.I.G ‘ ( Piggy International Group).

Elmers,

It’s “Q”‘s and “W”‘s in Turkey now

…and soon the letter ‘p’ may have to be banned as pig starts with it.

dee,

Muslims appear to be very intellectually unsophisticated and basically unable to accept the beliefs of others

Of course there are some great thinkers of the past – Averroes and Avicena – but I wish present day Muslims would imitate them. I think those from Muslim countries have trouble accepting pluralistic societies – they want everyone to be the same as they are. ‘Debate’ consists of just contradicting what you say without giving reasons.

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Skylark, I was just watching SBS; George Negus. A piece on Islamisation in Malaysia. One of the “pro” Sharia speakers was, as is usual, banging on about “we used to lead the world in all areas of culture and science and we should do so again”.
I am so sick of the scant few Arabs who dared look outside the tent being touted as world shakers. Taking the spirit of an old joke, I’d like to ask any and all Islamic apologists, “Yeah, but what have you done for us lately???”

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Winnie the Pooh is also officially off the children’s reading list because of his vile assocciation with one Pigglet.
(LINK)

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My nightmare, that Islam be proven right, for all the wrong reasons

Grav – an echo of my own thoughts. When the West fought Islamic armies in the past they had a strong united belief – at Lepanto ( 1573) a small Christian army defeated a Turkish fleet four times as large . I know that the west is more pluralist now but surely we could put forward a common united front of some kind. The Muslims see the west as bikini girls, gay parades and undiluted exposure to pornography. Add to this the deep seated envy of Islam for the successes of the Judeo -Christian West and you get a potent mix. They see their battle as one against an immoral amoral culture and ( of course) conveniently overlook the moral aberrations in their own culture.

Evil and sin? – people are too coMfortable and self assured to give these notion more than a passing glance. Humanist psychology did much to destroy the notion of the “fundamental flaw we are born with but which we can work on and rise above” – that Judeo-Chriatianity taught us about. we have been lulled into the idea that we’re fine and nothing’s wrong at all and the moral relativism that results has been the West’s weak spot.

Anyway thank for you thoughts – they certainly got me going!

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There’s a word for our malaise….sin. That will go down like a lead balloon!

….the inner spiritual sense of the West.

Skylark, Gravel

I agree with you both. While the conventional wisdom that our struggle is a political, ideological or just plain battle against fanaticism…I have a sense that we have brought some of this on ourselves for leaving our spiritual heritage behind. I just saw a Barna poll that North America is the only continent where Christianity is not growing. That’s not only alarming to me but I am ashamed at myself.

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Skylark, with your statement/query “Why can’t we keep something as simple as our Judeo-Christian code of values on a courthouse?”, I think you have nailed our present malaise.
Here’s a thought to consider.
Historically, it has been said, the most pertinent reason for Anti-Semitism is that those damned Jews brought us the realities of Conscience, Morality, Personal Accountability and Responsibility and …. damn it all, God…. and the accursed notion of offending Him, otherwise known as sin.

I think anti-Semetism is still kicking around, even where there are no Jews in sight. Christians, and those shaped in its like, are a good substitute.
We are a Judeo-Christian culture, emphasis Jew; a continuum of the process started with Abraham, our Grandpappy.

What the Jews stated as truth was taken up, and promoted, by a vigorous Christianity. That being that “Some things are wrong”. Licence to thrill…. can kill, in more ways than one! And here we are, for better or worse, having to deal with that as our heritage…..or not.

It’s always been unpopular. It’s THE classic B-B-Q stopper, part of the deadly trio of non-topics we never allow. You know them; never talk about religion, politics or another mans wife! That trio. Note #1. We blog….. because we’d be punched in the face if we said this stuff in public!!!!!!:???:
Despite Social Opprobrium, however, we all know the reality of social responsibility, and quake at the idea of personal responsibility. Gag, actually. We can’t get away from it, no matter how much we rail at the reality and disguise it in politically correct modernities. Jesus called it “kicking at the goads”.

I’ve just been reading an old Christo-philosophic tome, “The Meaning of The City” by Jacques Ellul.
It’s magnificently, deliciously wordy, but nonetheless relevant to today for all that. It’s thesis? That man congregates in societies out of fear. That man hides his general evil in a patina of generalities, called a society. Another way of saying, “We pass the buck”, preferring to dissect another man, any man, and his sins, rather than our own.
It’s true, at our very great cost. We are all moral cripples. No-one really needs to tell us, it’s our usual “last thought” before our nightly sleep, but in this day and age, we certainly need someone/ something to lead us in ways that deal with that reality, don’t you think?
What is Islams bitch? Licentious Godlessness? Does it have any answers? Yep….. kill anyone who questions it.
What does Buddha say? “Stick your head up your arse and say ‘Omm’ and everything will hug you.”
What does secular humanism say? “Fuck it, it doesn’t matter, we’re all just dust”.
What does Christ say?
I bet hardly anyone knows. In a Judeo-Christian culture. Is it any wonder we are a tad aimless these days?

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Bok,
Unfortunately (and I mean it) only the Media Watch is buying this explanation:

It is political correctness gone mad, stormed critics quoted by the paper. But when we ring them, the two banks tell a different story. “We haven’t withdrawn any piggy banks,” says Halifax, adding that it has not used them in its branches for some time.
NatWest also denies the claims. It says pictures of the allegedly offending items did feature in a recent UK-wide marketing campaign which ran until the end of September.

The story was “hogwash”, Media Watch concluded, having obtained denials from the banks involved (which represents something of a breakthrough; on this issue, at least, furiously leftoid Media Watch actually trusts banks). But does Media Watch trust its own viewers? Possibly not, otherwise the program might have shown more than just the headline and first paragraph from the Evening Telegraph’s article. Here’s the entire piece, forwarded by the paper, which stands by its story:

Please visit Tim Blair for more details.

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