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Muslims in Scottish Town Find Police Pup Offensive

Posted by: Mike's America @ 5:41 pm in Uncategorized

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How soon before sensitivity to Sharia Law will become the norm in the West?

“Rebel” poses for police ad

Police in the Scottish town of Tayside apologized to Muslims earlier this week after some complained that a postcard featuring the force’s new Police Dog “Rebel” was offensive to Muslims.

Postcards were distributed in the town with Rebel’s picture to publicize a new telephone number for non-emergency calls. Some Muslim shopkeepers refused to display the card, insisting that dogs were unclean and that even a photo of a cute puppy would be offensive.

The Tayside Police are very proud of their new pup as evidenced by his own page on their web site. Despite the views of Osama Saeed, chief executive of the Scottish-Islamic Foundation (SIF), who said “There isn’t any Islamic basis for taking issue with a simple picture of a little puppy,” the Police felt they had no choice but to withdraw the card and apologize.

This is just another case of where radical Muslims are able to intimidate local authorities into observing an extreme version of Sharia, or Muslim law, by default. We’ve seen the same thing in the United States where women who joined a gym later demanded it ban men at certain hours, or other Muslims demand footwashing stations in airports, or the case of taxi drivers in Minnesota refusing to pick up passengers with liquor or dogs.

Sensitivity is one thing. But appeasement to extremist views of Islam only invites further calls for more appeasement.

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Skye

That pup is lucky it was not impounded for breaking the racial and religious hatred bill

29G Possession of inflammatory material

(1) A person who has in his possession written material which is threatening, or a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening, with a view to—

(a) in the case of written material, its being displayed, published, distributed, or included in a programme service whether by himself or another, or

(b) in the case of a recording, its being distributed, shown, played, or included in a programme service, whether by himself or another, is guilty of an offence if he intends religious hatred to be stirred up thereby.

The pup and the Constables could easily have been cellmates under this Act.

July 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm

Carl

It’s high time for officials to stand up to this ridiculous over-sensitivity and tell those offended “tough cookies”.

July 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Joe

As I noted in my blog about this, its only a matter of time before all of Europe becomes Eurabia.

July 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Dean

That is funny. I love how the liberals are giving in to Islam. I have news for you, conservatives will fair much better under islamic law.

July 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 am

Thomas B.

Is that puppy pooping in the hat?

July 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm

BarbaraS

Isn’t it amazing that these people have come to Britain for a better life and have proceeded to change their new country into the old?

July 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm

Harry Bergeron

This is old news. Banks in the UK used to hand out piggy banks, but gave it up years ago to avoid “offending” Muslims, in spite of the fact that good Muslims do not borrow or deposit where interest is involved.

The image of a piggy bank has not appeared in the UK for years now.

July 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am