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Speaking of the war Islam is raging against the West, have you been paying attention to the uproar over pigs and pork, and what some communities are doing about it?  If this doesn’t get your blood up, you’re dead, or worse…

The practice of political correctness may soon be tallying another casualty: the pig. Increasingly, as America and the rest of the Western world continue accommodating Muslim religious demands, pork food products are being singled out for removal from dining tables and pig-related trinkets banished from the desks of office workers.
If this continues, good ol’ American food, such as barbeque replete with hot dogs and ribs and the typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausage, might be seen as the equivalent of political poison. Could outright censorship of pig depictions in drawings, pig references in literary works and pig portrayals in movies be far behind? Could the well-known, cartoon figure Porky Pig become a cultural embarrassment of our unenlightened past as we fear to utter the “P” word?

Political correctness taken to absurd lengths. The abolishment of free practice of religion. Surrendering the public square to the invaders. Do you think I’m exaggerating? Consider this

In October of 2005, the United Kingdom, clearly further along on the road to dhimmitude due to its proportionally large and more radical Muslim population, banned piggybanks as promotional gifts from its banks. At about the same time, government social welfare offices called for the removal of all pig paraphernalia, including pig calendars, toys and accessories from employee desks.

Oh, you say, that’s in Europe, that’s in Britain. They’re hopeless, but it’ll never happen here. I’ll bet you a pork chop sandwich we’ve got the same problem here in America. Don’t believe me? Try these on for size

Meanwhile, in the United States in 2007, several school districts removed pork products from their cafeteria offerings. Dearborn, Mich., schools banned pork completely to avoid the possibility that Muslims students might unknowingly eat it. The district later added special halal foods to its menu to cater to the demands of its Muslim population. An elementary school in San Diego that offers Arabic, single-gender classes and Muslim-only organized prayer, no longer offers pork to any of its students. And in Oak Lawn, Ill., where the administration is debating elimination of Christmas holiday celebrations, pork has already been banished from the school lunchroom.

That’s only the schools, you say? You just bought me another sandwich

Last year, Somali Muslim employees at a St. Louis Park, Minn. Target store refused to handle pork products, citing religious reasons. Target made special allowances for Muslim employees, who now scrutinize customer purchases and can call for assistance when a pork product appears at their check stand. Presumably, the Muslim employees knew they would be encountering bacon and pepperoni pizza when they signed on for their jobs and have no problem collecting a salary paid out of profits from pork sales.

Cabbies refusing patrons with alcohol or service dogs fit into this story too. The West has got to grow a spine here real soon, because this is not about being tolerant of someone else’s beliefs, it’s about handing over liberty and giving up. Pay attention here folks… “first, it was only in Michigan, and we laughed. Then it happened in Minneapolis, but I didn’t know anyone there, and I thought they were kinda wimpy, so hey, that’s their problem. Then it started happening in Seattle. It’s a little late to do anything about it now, isn’t it? But you know, my sister looks kinda good in that berka.”

I heard Rush interview Andy McCarthy yesterday about his new book “Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad”.  It was an interesting inteview, and they touched on a lot of important things about the war against the jihadis, or more correctly, their war against us.  Rush noted the book has three main themes

There are three themes in Andy’s book, folks.  The first theme is that a foreign threat to national security is fundamentally a political issue of self-defense that would involve military. It’s not a legal issue involving lawyers and criminal law.  The second theme is that we have been at war with these people — declared by them — since the late eighties, early nineties, and it wasn’t taken seriously until 9/11.  The third one is what’s fascinating to me.  I can’t wait ’til we get to that portion. It’s “You Can’t Take the Islam Out of Islamic terrorism.” 

These things are all swirling around right now because of the election coming up. The Democrats as a whole, and many Republicans (Bush included) seem to want to continue believing that it isn’t about religion, we’re not at war with them, and we’d be better off dealing with them in the courts. In other words, more of the same head in the sand approach that has worked so well for us up to now.

RUSH:  All right. So what are the numbers?  Through the Clinton years and even prior to that, we sought to deal with this threat via the courts, indictments.  How successful have we been?

MCCARTHY:  Well, if your point of reference is national security, it’s an abysmal failure.  Most of the time when I talked about this it turns out to be at law schools, where what they’re interested in is due process, and they look at it and say, “But look, you convicted everyone. You know, you batted a thousand,” which obviously you can’t do better than that. But in point of fact in eight years we took out 29 people, which, when you consider the fact that, you know, between the time the trade center was bombed in ‘93 — which I think is the declaration of war — and the time it was destroyed on 9/11, we had an enemy that was growing bigger and bolder, attacking us about once a year, and our response to it — even as the attacks became more ferocious — was essentially to add more counts to the indictment, which is really not impressive to people who are willing to immolate themselves in terrorist attacks.

Great interview, and the full transcript is up at Rush’s. McCarthy was real interesting to listen to, and when the pile of books by my bedside shrinks enough for me to add another one (without the fear of the whole thing toppling over on my head in the middle of the night) I think I’ll look to buy this one.