This Little Pig went to Market

This Little Pig stayed home

This Little Pig had roasted corn

This Little Pig had none

And This Little Pig went weeweewee, all the way home.

So goes the children's rhyme as the dad pulled on each toe and then tickled the foot with the last little piggy.  Much to the delight of little children everywhere, if not in the tickling of the foot, then in the anticipation of the d'enouement!

Perhaps more famous is the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf who huffed and he puffed and he blew down the houses made of straw and sticks of two of the little pigs and was foiled by the stone/brick home of the wise, perhaps older, and better financed third little pig.

Other pigs who have achieved fame and star quality lives include Looney Tunes Porky,  and most certainly

Christopher Robbins friend Piglet

and the ubiquitous Piggy Bank.

One of my favorite eateries as a youth visiting my grand parent's in San Antonio was the PigStand, a drive-in, always crowded, always smelling of Bar-B-Qued pork and serving Bar-B-Qued pork sandwiches to die for.

Which brings us to a post by my friend Always on Watch in which she decries the blindsiding of the story of the Three Little Pigs for an award, because it might offend Muslims or Asians (which is Brit-speak for Muslims).  Well, golly Molly, what is going on here? 

We have the "Human Rights Commission" in Canada investigating a magazine publisher for publishing copies of the Mohammad Cartoons.  Remember them, those Danish Drawings that caused riots all over the world because MoHAMmad had been made fun of?  And that marvelous Mark Steyn daring to print some phrases that might disturb the little darlin's.  One of our favorite commenter's Pat Condell had something to say about that:

Pork products have been pulled from school lunches because Muslims might be offended.  Banks have stopped handing out Piggy Banks to children because some Muslim might be offended.  Muslims rioted because a teacher allowed a class of Muslim students to choose a name for the class mascot a Teddy Bear and the students chose Mohammad.  The rioters wanted her executed for that effrontery.

All of this hoopla will cost a great deal.  It will cost you the freedom to say what you want because someone else might take offense at your words.  It will cost you the freedom to eat what you want because someone else doesn't eat the same thing.  It will cost you the freedom to publish what you want, because someone might take offense reading your publication. 

I'm willing to put $20.00 (not much, but all I can afford) up if someone can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that some governmental agency required a school or other publicly funded institution to pull pork from the menu so as not to offend Seventh Day Adventists or Jews who also have religious proscriptions against eating pork. 

All this has a price and the price of this constant capitulation to the demands of Islamofascists is the loss of freedom.  Whether it be the loss of freedom to say or print something, the loss of freedom to choose what you wish to eat for meals or the loss of freedom to worship as you please.  What's that you say?  This isn't about freedom of worship?  Nonsense, when one freedom goes down the tube, it doesn't take much for the rest of them to slide away also. 

And why are we doing this (mostly) to ourselves for not standing up united and saying "Bull Shit!"  Is it because the strictures of political correctness and multiculturalism demands it?  Is it because at bedrock all cultures are equivalent and we MUST make accommodations for all that come to our various nations?  Is it because... 

Truth be known, it is strictly and solely because other groups don't riot and demand things that they are not willing to do on their own.  When was the last time you saw a Muslim nation demand that Saudi Arabia allow Christian or Jewish worship in Saudi Arabia, let alone the building of a Christian Church or Jewish Temple?  When is the last time that you saw a mainstream Muslim organization such as say C.A.I.R. demand that Muslim Imams stop saying vile things about Christians and Jews?  When is the last time you saw huge Muslim demonstrations against honor killings or female genital mutilation?

What?  You haven't?  Imagine that! And yet we are being hounded to make allowances for Muslims, to drop cultural props (piggy banks for Pete's Sake) because someone might be offended.  Well, I really don't give a damn if someone is offended by something I hold dear or say, or print, or publish, or think.  When a backward culture which essentially hasn't moved forward since the 8th Century can demand allowances solely on the basis of getting upset and rioting can dictate the mores and practices of much more advanced cultures than something is seriously wrong here. 

In Canada and in some places in the United States Muslims are demanding the right to institute Shari'a law to deal with Muslim issues.  How stupid is that?  To subvert the existing laws of a country so that laws based on the ramblings of a 7th century "prophet."  And yet, there are actually intellects that wonder if this would be an OK thing for us to do.  I submit that it is not.  I submit that if I move to another country it is my job, my obligation to assimilate to the extent that I don't smother my own identity.  Could I live under German law?  Of Course.  How about Russian, Mexican, Bolivian, Saudi laws?  You bet, as long as that is something I choose to do.  But I don't have the right to move to Germany, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia or Saudi Arabia and demand that they change their culture and laws to suit ME!  What is it about that concept that the PC'ers and Multi-Culti's don't understand?

Not too many months ago, my beloved and I went on a little mini-vacation to Fredricksburg, Texas where we supped on fine German Cooking, wandered around a town admiring the influence of the German settlers that founded the town.  But despite the German flavor of the town, the laws being enforced were American.  The allegiance was to Texas and the United States.  Police cars were marked Police, not Polizei.  In Paris, Texas the language is not French nor are the laws.  In Neiderland, Texas the customs are pure Texas, not Dutch.  My point, of course, is that we cannot long survive as a people if we give up the right to decide what being part of the people means.  Any modern (and I emphasize the word modern) country with fairly liberal immigration policies and practices, regardless of what the "official" policy might be, cannot long stand without assimilation of its immigrants. 

The rapid inflow of Muslims into countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France has produced an anti-immigrant backlash in many corners.  This is a shame, Canada and the United States were founded on the idea of immigration and assimilation into a new peoples.  Indeed, ethnic immigration produced "ghettos" of immigrants for a generation or two.  Italians banded together in Little Italy in New York.  Germans banded together in places like St. Louis, Mo. and Fredricksburg, Tx.  But in each case, the majority of those individuals adopted their new country with a patriotism seldom seen in family's on the scene for years and years and years.  Japanese and Italian enlistment into the US Armed Forces in WWII proved a boon both to the republic and its military force, but also helped further the absorption of people into the fabric of America.

And this we are being asked to give up to accommodate a backwards culture that thinks stoning to death is an apt punishment for adultery, that hanging is OK for the crime of being gay.  What barbarity this be!

So, in honor of all those who cannot do so because of some fat headed bureaucrat or multi-culti idiot I'll dine on the following:

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Certain Muslims seek out the opportunity to be offended.  In other words, they are opportunists.  And the dhimmis of the West cave into these bullies.  Cowardice?  Political correctness?  Fear of hurting the self-esteem of these whining Muslims?  All of those reasons, I think.

In the process of kowtowing to these bullies, the West is voluntarily giving up our freedoms.

I tell you this....I'm going to be mighty offended if some hijab-wearing muslima refuses to ring up my bacon or ham.  And I'll make my complaints and my sense of umbrage heard far and wide.  You can count on me to cause a scene.  Maybe I'll get into trouble for doing so, but there you have it.

Pork rules!  Bacon, ham, and pork loin roasts, that is.

Posted by: Always On Watch at Saturday, January 26 2008 04:09 PM (bYbHX)

2 Great post GMann. And very timely, with good stuff about how foreign culture has come to the US and become part of the US while keeping their own "culture". Why the Muslims can't seem to do this-- we see here, is because some of US allow excuses and worry about offending. Like you, I say

BULLSHIT

to that.

May the Ham and Bacon and Sausages Be With You.

Posted by: Raven at Saturday, January 26 2008 06:21 PM (gU2pl)

3 GM dear... Amen to the whole thing!!!  I am personally offended by these peoples refusal to be PC with me!  In fact, I think maybe, even if it goes against the grain, the next time I am offended by what some Imam has to say about my faith, I'm going to get a lawyer and sue them over the offense.  You know, my father's family is of German / English stock.  My grandmother cooked in German style, but she spoke and wrote English and said the pledge and allowed other people to practice their traditions, in their ways without offense.  Where's the protest lines for our culture and way of life... I want to sign up for "picket duty" for Freedom!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at Monday, January 28 2008 03:43 PM (f9Dpx)

4 OK, most of what you say is fine, though it may be considered offensive by some. Your main points on the need for assimilation and taking PC to an extreme are valid. Where I have a problem (of course, it's MY problem is towards the end where you declared you were going to eat some meat (I imagine it's pork? it doesn't matter
Instead, why not find other ways to register your protest? Let the poor animal live - or better yet, let the poor animal never be raised in cramped conditions before being slaughtered. Consider being a vegan or a vegetarian for a while. I hope you don't treat this as spam

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Alcyon, I won't treat your comment as spam.  I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the advisability of eating meat.   On the other hand, my wife was raised as a 7th day Adventist and was a vegan till she left college...

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