Up the Pigs!

They're coming for the pigs. Hide Piglet. Scarf up the bacon NOW. Wrap that ham in tinfoil. Be careful not to be seen using a boar bristle brush on your hair. Mark Steyn reports:

Alas, the United Kingdom's descent into dhimmitude is beyond parody. Dudley
Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and "pig-related items" will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as "unclean", even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.

Cllr Mahbubur Rahman is in favour of the blanket pig crackdown. "It is a good thing, it is a tolerance and acceptance of their beliefs and understanding," he said. That's all, folks, as Porky Pig used to stammer at the end of Looney Tunes. Just a little helpful proscription in the interests of tolerance and acceptance.

And where's the harm in that? As Pastor Niemöller said, first they came for Piglet and I did not speak out because I was not a Disney character and, if I was, I'm more of an Eeyore.

And here's the money quote:

When every act that a culture makes communicates weakness and loss of self-belief, eventually you'll be taken at your word. In the long term, these trivial concessions are more significant victories than blowing up infidels on the Tube or in Bali beach restaurants. An act of murder demands at least the pretence of moral seriousness, even from the dopiest appeasers. But small acts of cultural vandalism corrode the fabric of freedom all but unseen.

This bizarre event has caused a Blogospheric Disturbance. Kathy Shaidle has posted HERE, HERE, and HERE (and that's just today). She has lots of links to the inevitible graphics.

[UPDATE: Wait 'til the Islamists get a load of The Pig Site! Hat Tip to John the Mad. (You know, some of these Canadians are JUST crazy enough . . . .]