Oxford University Press bans pork and pigs from children’s books (borders, boycott)

[SHABAZZ310]

Originally Posted by Idon'tdateyou

There is a mosque about a half hour from me that tunnels money to terrorists and I have thought of selling bacon sandwiches near there. Or maybe a few of my friends can dress up as pigs and eat bacon there. This would be funny.

Have you reported this to authorities?

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by SHABAZZ310

Have you reported this to authorities?

It's really soft dirt, so the tunnel keeps collapsing. Without the tunnel, the authorities can't do much.

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

Originally Posted by MIKEETC

The large funnel at the back door that says, "Deposit money here for terrorists."

[it's obvious!]

So you are going to take a photo of that to show us right?

[Fox Terrier]

Originally Posted by Scotty011

And the beat goes on. This country is going to hell in a hand basket. Thank you liberal America.

Liberal America is influencing a business/university in England?

[texdav]

basically just more think that if we do certain things they would attack us; wrong.

[Scotty011]

Originally Posted by Fox Terrier

Liberal America is influencing a business/university in England?

The same liberal mess is going on in this country. You see it every day.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

I think every church should party with bacon... esp after a sermon involving Deuteronomy or Leviticus. That would be so much like the Christian "Race"!

Party like a Blasphemer.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by legalsea

What a story!

Here is another link: Oxford University Press bans use of pig, sausage or pork-related words to avoid offending Muslims - Telegraph


Note this:

"Muslim Labour MP Khalid Mahmood said: "I absolutely agree. That’s absolute utter nonsense. And when people go too far, that brings the whole discussion into disrepute."

Don't they publish a dictionary? Would they remove 'pork' references from that?

They probably have Moslem CDPOC version with little asterisks to cover the dirty parts.

[Fox Terrier]

Originally Posted by Scotty011

The same liberal mess is going on in this country. You see it every day.

Ha ha. You didn't even know the incident was in England, nor did you know that Oxford University is in England. All you read was the headline.

[legalsea]

I will say that if a book publisher (like Oxford) were shipping books to certain countries (Saudi Arabia, etc), then it would be wise to, perhaps, not ship books that may be patently 'offensive'.

I do take some comfort in the fact that the one Muslim leader quoted (in my link) said this was all silly. Oxford should listen to such voices of reason.

One cannot reason or appease nutters. For instance, if one tries to satisfy Islamic extremists, then they would also demand no books showing women driving, women wearing 'normal' clothes, women working, or, really, anything dealing with women. much less pigs.