I read something last night
That made me shake my head.

Linky: www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=199398&in_page_id=34

I mean, good grief. Are we going to remove all copies the Three Little Pigs from libraries and bookshops because it might offend the Jewish community?

Gah!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 10:34, 11 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oh Grandad
I read that too.
We just don't seem to be progressing at all.
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 10:39, Reply)

Grrrrrrr
No wonder the BNP are gaining in popularity.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 10:45, Reply)

Decontamination time...
www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/07/02/newsstory11590817t0.asp

It would appear that one nutter person thought that there might be a problem, and his absurd claim was taken as representative of all Muslims. Meanwhile, other Muslims are pointing, laughing, and saying that they don't care.

Result - as suggested here - is yet another reason for nitwits to think that the BNP would be a good idea.

(Something similar happened in some northern town - I forget which - a few years ago. There was a statue of a boar in a park, the boar being the town's emblem, and a white idiot do-gooder decided that that would have to go, because it was offensive to Muslims. Of course, the fact that no Muslims had complained or were even bothered in the slightest - they had better things to worry about than what they accepted was a perfectly legitimate statue - was immaterial. Result - again - massive rise in support for the BNP.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 11:26, Reply)

The Dundee Courier
has several letters about this today. I don't know if they're online or not, but most of them are in the Daily Mail style.

As Enzyme says, most Muslims don't have any problem with this (or indeed any other instance of this sort of nonsense) at all. But it only takes one person to speak out and make up some story about being offended and all hell breaks loose.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 11:31, Reply)

@K2k6
What's sadder is that it is more often than not some non-Muslim numbskull who's getting offended on the Muslims' behalf.

Gah!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 11:34, Reply)

^ This
What saddens me is that the police felt the need to issue an apology, seemingly on the basis that a few shopkeepers had refused to put the postcards up in their windows. Rather than just say, 'OK, fair enough - it's a free country and you don't have to put this up if you don't want to'. When in fact it appears to have sparked 'outrage' because of the comments of one Muslim as being interpreted as 'well, all Muslims must be offended then'.

And it has struck me just now - would there have been a 'furore' if they'd used a kittum instead?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 12:20, Reply)

And yet the article linked by Enzyme
will get little to no mainstream coverage.

Why are the media in this country so intent on stirring up controversy? This story in particular, having not been properly investigated by the mainstream media, will cause massive problems.

However, the actual story will never be unveiled, much like the furore over the Archbishop's Sharia comments.

This trend upsets me.
( Thinker, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 12:21, Reply)

@ Le Penseur
The reason it won't be followed up is that there's nothing to follow up. Nothing much happening does not make interesting news. Same applies to crime stories: "Nothing Happens to Vast Majority" is much less interesting than "Something happens to Someone".
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 12:28, Reply)

also, the purpose of newspapers...
is to sell newspapers and nothing sells like outrage. I mean, frankly, it's outrageous!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 12:58, Reply)

If I went to a Muslim country
I would wear a headscarf, as I respect that that is their tradition. Similarly, if you live in England, accept that dogs are part of British culture.

And grow up.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:09, Reply)

It's not the muslims...
There was the story in the press about an English town council banning St George flags from cabs during the last world cup for fear of upsetting the town's ethic minorities.

The sole flouter of the ban happened to be a muslim immigrant cab driver...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:58, Reply)