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2007-02-12 China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese TV bans piggies out of respect for Islam
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Posted by ryuge 2007-02-12 07:39|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Free Miss Piggie!!!
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2007-02-12 08:39||   2007-02-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 ... to protect harmony between different religions and ethnic groups”
This goes to show just how effective Muslim backmail is. Who would have figured the Chinese would cater to the koranimals?
Posted by JerseyMike 2007-02-12 08:48||   2007-02-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure 2 billion Chinese, upon reading this said, "Fuck them".
Welcome to the world of the seething, offended muslim...
Posted by tu3031 2007-02-12 08:58||   2007-02-12 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The Chinese aren't catering. They're pandering.
Posted by Pappy 2007-02-12 09:36||   2007-02-12 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I had BBQ pork at a great little Chinese place in Toronto over the weekend. With every mouthful I thought, "F*ck Mohammed."
Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-12 10:05||   2007-02-12 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 And I thought just the West was surrendering like crazy.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-02-12 10:11||   2007-02-12 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 take my muslim PLEASE!
Posted by Rodney Dangerfield 2007-02-12 11:43||   2007-02-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 

As spokesman for the American Swine Federation (AMSWIF), I find this wholly and completely deplorable... The one case where Chinese honor we porques (as we prefer to be known), instead of consuming us, and they ban our images from TV...

Arnold Ziffel,
Chariman,
AmSwiF
Posted by Arnold Ziffel 2007-02-12 12:46||   2007-02-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't expect Chinese Resteraunts to ban them

Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-12 12:58||   2007-02-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Sooie! Here piggy, piggy, piggie. Sooie!
Posted by Evil Elvis 2007-02-12 15:27||   2007-02-12 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 And I thought just the West was surrendering like crazy.

All your pig are belong to me.
Posted by Muhammed 2007-02-12 15:29||   2007-02-12 15:29|| Front Page Top

#12 instead of Muhammed it should be "Mu-hammy"
Posted by Broadhead6 2007-02-12 16:36||   2007-02-12 16:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Im having a hard time understanding why people are surprised or shocked by a restriction on freedom of speech, in, you know, China.

I mean censorship is no biggie there, so why wouldnt they limit something that might insult local or foreign muslims. I mean you folks seem to have the PRC confused with Denmark. If you dont have freedom of speech ANYWAY, limiting freedom on behalf of muslims aint dhimmitude (or whatever)
Posted by liberalhawk 2007-02-12 16:38||   2007-02-12 16:38|| Front Page Top

#14 "For decades, while Catholics were forbidden from going to Rome, the government subsidized Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca."

I'm not Catholic, but one must presume that the Chinese govt. saw one religion as a threat to their totalitarian system, and the other not.

Pretty scary that the Chinese are bowing to Moslem "sensitivities" and subverting HOW many centuries of cultural/religious tradition to strengthen ties with Islamic countries?

It's all about the money. China needs oil, so the pigs be damned!
Posted by ex-lib 2007-02-12 16:50||   2007-02-12 16:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Im having a hard time understanding why people are surprised or shocked by a restriction on freedom of speech, in, you know, China.

Because the Chinese have more words about pork than Eskimos about snow?
Posted by ed 2007-02-12 17:18||   2007-02-12 17:18|| Front Page Top

#16 I want to try that flat pig. Now.
Posted by Shipman 2007-02-12 17:53||   2007-02-12 17:53|| Front Page Top

#17 I think the censors are really screwing themselves. Pork is a fundamental part of Chinese life. Has been since before China was established just over 2000 years ago. By censoring something like this, they are reminding ordinary Chinese that they are not free. At a time when Chinese are increasingly resentful of the perks enjoyed by government officials and less and less fearful of their power.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-02-12 18:38|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2007-02-12 18:38|| Front Page Top

#18 I hope that they don't censor this song, as I remember it.............

FOUR WET PIGS

Here's a little song about four wet pigs
Here's a little song about four wet pigs
Two of'em little and two of'em big
They danced all night at the pig town jig

The two that were little were just half grown
The two that were big were big as a barn
Big as a barn, tall as a tree
Take'em on down to the factory

Slice'em into bacon, cut'em into ham
Chop'em into hotdogs, squeeze'em into Spam
Throw their little eyes out in the rain
Pickle their feet and scramble their brain

Here's a little song about two wet pigs
Leanin' on the slop trough smokin' their cigs
Hopin' to God that they never get big
They danced all night at the pig town jig
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2007-02-12 21:45||   2007-02-12 21:45|| Front Page Top

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