DEAR FRIENDS: Piglet is saved! (via Tammy Bruce).
UPDATE. It seems that the war of the pigs is not finished yet:
British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.Fortunately, there's some voices of sanity coming also from a Labour MP who is a Muslim:
Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.
Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.
"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said.UPDATE OCT 25. Reader Hale emails:
"I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks."
I have never heard any of my Jewish friends criticize piggy banks, and they don't eat pork for presumably the same reason! As a matter of fact, I feel they would think this whole idea is absurd and a little insulting!
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