Mentions of pork banned in schoolbooks, could offend Muslims or Jews

[I.R.A]

Yes the Jews are mentioned. But I don't find Jews going around the world gunning innocent people down and strapping explosives to their torsos and finding the most crowded marketplace to blow themselves up in, all to avenge some "offense."

If you cannot see the temporal relationship between events in the way they are unfolding worldwide, you are either not looking, have your eyes closed, or do not want to see.

Of course the lunatics amongst you want all of us to accept Allah and pray to him. Even the super devout so-called moderates and liberals amongst you do. Some say so openly, some not so openly. But its there.

And the Jews do not get invaded every now and then and bombed or droned either, instead what Israel does in Palestine is very well known.

I know world is being divided into us and them. I guess you just look at what suits you, and close your eyes otherwise.

And lunatics amongst you do not conduct Ghar Wapsi on mass basis? For me forceful conversion to Islam is totally wrong and useless.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

The UK. Always one step ahead when it comes to giving up.

 

[doppelganger]

And the Jews do not get invaded every now and then and bombed or droned either, instead what Israel does in Palestine is very well known.

I call this the BUT paradigm of the muslim world. It's never really your fault is it? There's always a qualifier.

I know world is being divided into us and them. I guess you just look at what suits you, and close your eyes otherwise.

I look at and perceive things from where I stand. Because it is where I stand that will cause me to get gunned down or blown up.

And lunatics amongst you do not conduct Ghar Wapsi on mass basis? For me forceful conversion to Islam is totally wrong and useless.

What is ghar wapsi? It is the allowance for those of Indic blood who have left the parent faith (either recently on their own or their forefathers some time ago) to come back if they so wish.

Where is the killing or violence in it? Where is the force?

Are you telling me muslims do not convert? Then why the crocodile tears?

 

[Selous]

Yes the Jews are mentioned. But I don't find Jews going around the world gunning innocent people down and strapping explosives to their torsos and finding the most crowded marketplace to blow themselves up in, all to avenge some "offense."

If you cannot see the temporal relationship between events in the way they are unfolding worldwide, you are either not looking, have your eyes closed, or do not want to see.

Of course the lunatics amongst you want all of us to accept Allah and pray to him. Even the super devout so-called moderates and liberals amongst you do. Some say so openly, some not so openly. But its there.

Palestine!

The word pig is mentioned in the Quran...this is a conspiracy by Oxford to make Muslims look foolish.

 

[Tshering22]

n attempt to avoid offending Muslims and Jews, Oxford University Press are planning to ban authors from referring to “anything pork-related” in their school textbooks.

The UK's leading educational publisher, Oxford University Press, are planning to ban references to sausages and pigs in their books.

A spokesperson from the publisher defended the move, claiming books needed to be “acceptable in other cultures” for them to be exported.

Educational materials produced by the publisher in the UK are sold in over 150 countries. The spokesperson said they need to “consider a range of cultural differences and sensitivities.”

These editorial guidelines are intended to make sure the materials can be “disseminated to the widest possible audience.”

On BBC Radio 4's Today program on Monday, presenter Jim Naughtie said: “I've got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people.”

“Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by OUP was the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which could be perceived as pork,” he added.

Naughtie described the recommendation made by OUP as “ludicrous” and “just a joke.”

Muslim Labour MP Khalid Mamood said: “I absolutely agree [with Naughtie]. That's absolute and utter nonsense.” Khalid said when political correctness goes too far, it brings the whole discussion into“disrepute.”

Furthermore, he doubts that Muslims or Jews would be offended by mentions of farm animals in a children's book.

A Jewish Leadership Council spokesman said: “Jewish law prohibits eating pork, not the mention of the word, or animal from which it derives.”

“How on earth can anyone find the word 'pig' or 'pork' offensive?” asked Conservative Party MP Phillip Davies.

“No word is offensive, it is the context in which it is used that is offensive.”

“One good thing to come out of the Paris terror attacks was a groundswell of support for freedom of speech,” he told the Daily Mail.

“The political correctness brigade appear to have taken control of our schools,” he added.

Davies believes the Secretary of State needs to “get a grip over this” and hopes the “ridiculous ban is stopped at once.”

Mentions of pork banned in schoolbooks, could offend Muslims or Jews — RT UK

this is too much political correctness. @SarthakGanguly , @DRAY , @levina , @thesolar65 , @Syed.Ali.Haider and others.

UK has surrendered its nation to a foreign group.

Shameful and sad.

 

[I.R.A]

I call this the BUT paradigm of the muslim world. It's never really your fault is it? There's always a qualifier.

Okay what exactly is my fault then? Please enlighten me.

I look at and perceive things from where I stand. Because it is where I stand that will cause me to get gunned down or blown up.

If you are free to look at and perceive things as you like, so am I, so please do not lecture me, your perception is simple "Muslim are always wrong" I get it.

What is ghar wapsi? It is the allowance for those of Indic blood who have left the parent faith (either recently on their own or their forefathers some time ago) to come back if they so wish.

Where is the killing or violence in it? Where is the force?

Either you are naive or its your "Indian paradigm" that Nothing bad happens in India?

Are you telling me muslims do not convert? Then why the crocodile tears?

????? Forceful conversion is wrong period that is what I meant.

 

[doppelganger]

Palestine!

So jews are fighting and killing muslims in Israel/Palestine. Where all are muslims fighting and killing non-muslims? And muslims?

When you have muslims killing people of all faiths, the world is not wrong in assuming that it has a muslim problem. Sad bit is that normal muslims will still believe that somehow in some little way the world is still at fault.

The word pig is mentioned in the Quran...this is a conspiracy by Oxford to make Muslims look foolish.

I think its absurd. If true. I refuse to let people of a single faith, and their attendant sensibilities, hold my life hostage.

 

[Sugarcane]

Now that's cheap shot by Oxford

 

[doppelganger]

Okay what exactly is my fault then? Please enlighten me.

Your fault is not being categoric in denouncing muslim terror. But adding a but at the end of it as a form of rationale, justification even. Trying to equal the scores. He did it. Therefore .....

If you are free to look at and perceive things as you like, so am I, so please do not lecture me, your perception is simple "Muslim are always wrong" I get it.

Please do not play the victim. And lets stay to topic. Which is the world buckling, slowly, in pockets, to muslim bullying and fanaticism.

Either you are naive or its your "Indian paradigm" that Nothing bad happens in India?

Bad things happen in India. But they happen to people of all faiths and creeds and ethnicities. We are equal-opportunity in that way.

????? Forceful conversion is wrong period that is what I meant.

Please give me a break. Do you realize that the large proportion of muslims in the world today (including arab muslims) can trace their lineage back to ancestors who converted at the tip of a sword?

I ask you again. Where was the force in ghar wapsi?

 

[Selous]

So jews are fighting and killing muslims in Israel/Palestine. Where all are muslims fighting and killing non-muslims? And muslims?

When you have muslims killing people of all faiths, the world is not wrong in assuming that it has a muslim problem. Sad bit is that normal muslims will still believe that somehow in some little way the world is still at fault.



I think its absurd. If true. I refuse to let people of a single faith, and their attendant sensibilities, hold my life hostage.

Hold your life hostage ? Good one.

 

[doppelganger]

Hold your life hostage ? Good one.

What do you call one faith holding the entire world to ransom over their sensibilities?

Why should we care?

Its your faith. You care. I love eating pork. I want pink sausages in all my textbooks. I see this crap in the club I go too as well, and it really pisses me off.

They used to serve the most divine ham and cheese sandwiches. Their drunken pork platter was to die for. Now a new management has taken over. And when I place my order,sorry sir we do not have pork items!

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If this is not holding my life hostage, what is?

 

[SrNair]

UK was the one used religious difference for their own advantage.Now they should feel the same situation.

 

[psynic]

WTF are they trying to do?? What's next to ban, study of evolution?

 

[I.R.A]

Your fault is not being categoric in denouncing muslim terror. But adding a but at the end of it as a form of rationale, justification even. Trying to equal the scores. He did it. Therefore

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Which Muslim terror? Invasion of Iraq in 1990s? invasion of Afghanistan? Re invasion of Iraq? Bosnia? Kashmir? Palestine? Chechnya? Somalia? interfering in Middle East?

Are these guys in pictures Muslims????

Sorry if Muslims worldwide are not taking it lying down, may be they are not built for it.

Please do not play the victim. And lets stay to topic. Which is the world buckling, slowly, in pockets, to muslim bullying and fanaticism.

Pictures above say a lot about who is fanatic and who is playing victim here.

Bad things happen in India. But they happen to people of all faiths and creeds and ethnicities. We are equal-opportunity in that way.

Sorry but bad things happen to Churches, Mosques and Temples only never seen any image of Mandir being torn down to pieces in India.

Please give me a break. Do you realize that the large proportion of muslims in the world today (including arab muslims) can trace their lineage back to ancestors who converted at the tip of a sword?

Please spare me you ignorance.

I ask you again. Where was the force in ghar wapsi?

Ask the minorities who are being called back to ghar. But they won't speak because they know how their homes, churches, children and villages will be burnt down.

Come back for lecture when you do not have blood of innocents on your hand, may be I will denounce all terrorism then but till then sorry I do not do selective denouncements.

 

[karakoram]

Mentioning of food to fasting people is offending.

Ban reference of all foods.

Why indians butt is on fire ? Their land their rules. And they mentioned jews as well not only muslim.