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2010-12-26 Europe

Sweden's Christmas Ice Pig damaged by man of Middle Eastern descent

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Posted by tipper 2010-12-26 09:38|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 I'm guessing that the Koran just says that pigs are dirty animals or some such thing.

To me, that means to just stay away from them and not eat them.

Of course, there are those who feel that they are now going to be more holy or some such crap if they kill any pig they see and destroy any likenesses of pigs.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-26 10:24|| 2010-12-26 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The Jewish people say that pigs are not kosher. However, some will eat pork; others will decline. Muslims seem to go bonkers over anything to do with pigs--you can't even mention the word pig or seething, rage, collective insanity, and violence begins.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-12-26 10:56|| 2010-12-26 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The Jewish people say that pigs are not kosher. However, some will eat pork; others will decline.

It's the same with Muslims, JohnCC. It's just that we only hear about the Muslim seethers. The Jewish seethers are told by their community to shut up and stop being unrealistic.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-26 11:15|| 2010-12-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Many food prohibitions are/were very valid in societies without refrigeration or canned storage technology or where fuels are not available to thoroughly cook the foods to rid them of parasites. Many foods will kill you if not properly prepared or stored. Most Americans don't seem to be aware of the dangers any longer.

Posted by tipover 2010-12-26 11:45|| 2010-12-26 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 TW tell 'em about the juice hawg farm... I mean, it's an entire new meaning to parts is parts.

:)

Hawgs are just primary school Schmoos.

Posted by Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-12-26 13:08|| 2010-12-26 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 tipover: the trichinosis argument was used by the German High Critics many, many years ago, to rationally explain why Jews refrained from pork.

However, it was later roundly refuted by Hebraic scholars, who explained that it was the swine's behavior and class of animal that made it unclean.

Interestingly, some religious scholars have suggested that a modernist reason for rejecting pork, is that swine are too intelligent of an animal, so eating pork is a bit too much like eating human.

As an aside, the intelligence scale is currently: humans, apes, dolphins, pigs. Dogs are about 13th.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-26 13:19|| 2010-12-26 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 We have a university basketball coach who happens to be Jewish. He was at some breakfast function at the athletic club or some such organization--maybe it was a university function. He was going through the breakfast buffet line. He came to the bacon and held up a piece of bacon with a pair of tongs and said: "The Jewish dilemma, free bacon." Man did he ever catch a lot of flack for saying this.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-12-26 13:41|| 2010-12-26 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 "The Jewish dilemma, free bacon."

Gotta love a guy that can poke fun at the stereotypes that abound...... especially when his culture is at the center of them.

Posted by USN,Ret 2010-12-26 13:59|| 2010-12-26 13:59|| Front Page Top

#9 "You'll have to pry my KC style BBQ Ribs from my cold dead hands!
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Posted by borgboy 2010-12-26 16:51|| 2010-12-26 16:51|| Front Page Top

#10 partial to Phil's here in San Diego. No burqas allowed

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-26 16:59|| 2010-12-26 16:59|| Front Page Top

#11 TW tell 'em about the juice hawg farm... I mean, it's an entire new meaning to parts is parts.

I don't know about that one, dear Goldies Every Damn Where, although I've heard about salt farms... Actually, when Daddy lived (briefly) on the moshav in what was then Palestine, they grew rabbits for food, what with everyone being poor, hungry, secular Zionists (the poor religious Zionists lived elsewhere). But to protect the sensibilities of those who were sensitive, they referred to the rabbits as "zebras".

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-26 17:32|| 2010-12-26 17:32|| Front Page Top

#12 I've always wondered about the herd of swine that Yeheshua sent the demons into. If Pigs are so un-kosher what was a herd of swine doing there?
The best BBQ in the US is at The Smokey Pig in Phoenix City Alabama.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-12-26 17:54|| 2010-12-26 17:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Deacon:

that event takes place on the east side of the Jordan outside of Judea in a Gentile area.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-12-26 20:48|| 2010-12-26 20:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Pig farms were extremely important as a meat source between 1948 and 1963 in Israel, a lot of the secular kibbutzim had swine herds. In 1963, the Israeli government passed laws against pig farming in Israel with certain exceptions for Christian villages, and medical research animals.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-12-26 22:26|| 2010-12-26 22:26|| Front Page Top

#15 ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > "CHRISTMAS IS EVIL": UK MUSLIM GROUP [banned] LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE POSTER CAMPAIGN AGZ FESTIVE PERIOD.

You name it, SANTA + RUDOLF + XMAS + JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, etc. CAUSED IT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-26 23:48|| 2010-12-26 23:48|| Front Page Top

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