Yes indeed PM, agree with your points. I'm sure it is insulting to you, as indeed it would be to anyone else with a brain. I read on QL some time ago that pork fat was being used in soaps and cremes being sold in the Middle East, and that was the reason children were disrespecting their parents, and that there was immoral adultery!!!
Agree also that the reason not to eat it is just 'it's a religious rule', and through a desire to respect that, not as a way of proving that every other non-Muslim on the planet is misguided and foolish, which is the undertone. It is almost vaguely jihadi-ish and certainly very irritating to the rest of us. It's the same as those silly threads about 'scientific proof that the Koran is written by God', which we have seen recently.
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KellyHeros - Don't get me wrong here - I love a sensational 'end of civilisation' story as Breaking news on my TV just as much as anyone else - but the lives of millions are NOT at stake!!! you are falling for the hype. We consider that we are consumers of the Media but actually it is the media which consumes us! Watch this issue disappear way down the TV and computer screens which represent our global consciousness by the end of next week. Pig flu will lose its traction very soon - mark my words. Then we will be left with facts which put the whole thing in proportion; such as - 1,000 people die in British hospitals of the MRSA superbug EVERY WEEK. So far, 8 people are sick in the entire U.K. and lying in bed with a fever and a sore throat! And will recover, even without medicine! Only the elderly and infants are really at risk from this.
Yes indeed PM, agree with your points. I'm sure it is insulting to you, as indeed it would be to anyone else with a brain. I read on QL some time ago that pork fat was being used in soaps and cremes being sold in the Middle East, and that was the reason children were disrespecting their parents, and that there was immoral adultery!!!
Agree also that the reason not to eat it is just 'it's a religious rule', and through a desire to respect that, not as a way of proving that every other non-Muslim on the planet is misguided and foolish, which is the undertone. It is almost vaguely jihadi-ish and certainly very irritating to the rest of us. It's the same as those silly threads about 'scientific proof that the Koran is written by God', which we have seen recently.
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KellyHeros - Don't get me wrong here - I love a sensational 'end of civilisation' story as Breaking news on my TV just as much as anyone else - but the lives of millions are NOT at stake!!! you are falling for the hype. We consider that we are consumers of the Media but actually it is the media which consumes us! Watch this issue disappear way down the TV and computer screens which represent our global consciousness by the end of next week. Pig flu will lose its traction very soon - mark my words. Then we will be left with facts which put the whole thing in proportion; such as - 1,000 people die in British hospitals of the MRSA superbug EVERY WEEK. So far, 8 people are sick in the entire U.K. and lying in bed with a fever and a sore throat! And will recover, even without medicine! Only the elderly and infants are really at risk from this.