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In a comment on an earlier post, Dan Kaufman of Committees of Correspondence points out that Muslims think dogs are far more unclean than pigs. Yet pigs are the target of the current campaign in Britain. Why not dogs?
One wonders if this is a campaign of incremental intimidation. First, they got after pigs. Not too many British folks own actual pigs, and they're all out in the countryside. So, as stupid and humiliating as it is, the authorities may think they can go along with banning pictures of pigs in hopes of mollifying the Islamists.
Are dogs next? LOTS of Brits own dogs. They love and adore their dogs. Sheep dogs, poodles, dachshunds, bull dogs, boxers, Scottish terriers, great Danes, you name it. The press fawns over the royal family's Corgis. Man's best friend and all that. A dog ban would be difficult to push on the British, I would think.
Advocating a ban on dogs as a first step would be too brazen. So, we'll start small: pigs. Maybe the reasoning is: If they fall for a pig ban, we can go for dogs later, after they been softened up on this animal-banning business.
It's like the old story about the frog in a pot of boiling water. If you try to throw a frog into boiling water, it'll jump out right away. But if you put a frog in a pot of cold water and turn the heat on high, it won't jump out. It'll stay there until it's boiled to death.
Britain, you are now in the pot and the heat is being turned up. What are you going to do?
(By the by, my mother's maiden name is Bull, so I feel very strongly about John Bull and his bull dog and their importance as national symbols of Great Britain.)
