| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Charles Farley" |
| Date: |
24 Oct 2005 11:29:28 PM |
| Object: |
Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
Associated Press (Australia)
October 24, 2005
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.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four
Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of
one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,"
Mr Mahmoud said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks-offend-UK-Muslims/2005/10/24/1130006056771.html
.
|
|
| User: "Acharya" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 01:46:13 AM |
|
|
"Charles Farley" <CircularErrorZero@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1130214568.675655.159850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Associated Press (Australia)
October 24, 2005
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.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four
Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of
one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,"
Mr Mahmoud said.
that is called pseudo secularism
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks-offend-UK-Muslims/2005/10/24/1130006056771.html
.
|
|
|
| User: "aether" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 02:35:34 AM |
|
|
Britain has been in decline for quite sometime. It's been especially
noticeable since 1945.
Stop referring to Islam as 'fascism' or political correctness as
'fascism'.
Fascism could've saved Europe. Capitalism and Democracy shall end it.
.
|
|
|
| User: "Company Man" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 11:51:16 AM |
|
|
"aether" <vercingetorix@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1130225734.584931.212680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Stop referring to Islam as 'fascism'
What, you prefer the term 'totalitarianism'?
.
|
|
|
| User: "aether" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 04:26:37 PM |
|
|
Company Man wrote:
"aether" <vercingetorix@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1130225734.584931.212680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Stop referring to Islam as 'fascism'
What, you prefer the term 'totalitarianism'?
I'd prefer that morons, such as yourself and other 'conservative'
morons, would stop referring to Islam as 'fascist' or using the
made-up, silly word 'Islamofascism'. When I hear that word, I think of
an individual who should be arrested and placed in an internment camp
for being a) quasi-homosexual, and b) an imbecile
.
|
|
|
| User: "Company Man" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
26 Oct 2005 05:02:31 PM |
|
|
"aether" <vercingetorix@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1130275597.039588.295600@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Company Man wrote:
"aether" <vercingetorix@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1130225734.584931.212680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Stop referring to Islam as 'fascism'
What, you prefer the term 'totalitarianism'?
I'd prefer that morons, such as yourself and other 'conservative'
morons, would stop referring to Islam as 'fascist' or using the
made-up, silly word 'Islamofascism'. When I hear that word, I think of
an individual who should be arrested and placed in an internment camp
for being a) quasi-homosexual, and b) an imbecile
Totalitarianism isn't a made up word, and it describes TROP perfectly.
.
|
|
|
| User: "Charles Farley" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
26 Oct 2005 09:40:43 PM |
|
|
Company Man wrote:
Totalitarianism isn't a made up word, and it describes
TROP perfectly.
As does islamofascism:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fascism
.
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "serebel" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
26 Oct 2005 10:03:15 PM |
|
|
islam has been a fanatical,loonie cause for thousands of years. It is
not a religeon, it's just a bunch of freaks who crave absolute power.
They have no regard for human life what so ever.
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "Screem Mashine" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 12:24:57 AM |
|
|
Oh geez, when will it end.
It's political correctness facism - all to pander to ethnics who are their
to satisfy economic greed of the ruling elite who are detached from reality.
"Charles Farley" <CircularErrorZero@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1130214568.675655.159850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Associated Press (Australia)
October 24, 2005
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.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four
Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of
one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,"
Mr Mahmoud said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks-offend-UK-Muslims/2005/10/24/1130006056771.html
.
|
|
|
| User: "Roger" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 04:39:00 AM |
|
|
"Screem Mashine" <scma@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Jkj7f.290655$1i.196849@pd7tw2no...
Oh geez, when will it end.
It's political correctness facism - all to pander to ethnics who are their
to satisfy economic greed of the ruling elite who are detached from
reality.
Those fucking conservative British bankers.
When will they ever learn?
"Charles Farley" <CircularErrorZero@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1130214568.675655.159850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Associated Press (Australia)
October 24, 2005
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.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four
Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of
one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,"
Mr Mahmoud said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks-offend-UK-Muslims/2005/10/24/1130006056771.html
.
|
|
|
|
|
| User: "Roger" |
|
| Title: Re: Afraid of Offending Muslims, UK Bans Piggy Banks |
25 Oct 2005 04:38:22 AM |
|
|
The free market at work.
Isn't capitalism wonderful?
"Charles Farley" <CircularErrorZero@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1130214568.675655.159850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Associated Press (Australia)
October 24, 2005
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.
"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."
Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four
Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of
one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,"
Mr Mahmoud said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks-offend-UK-Muslims/2005/10/24/1130006056771.html
.
|
|
|
|
|
Related Articles |
|
|
