Scottish Bacon, Pigs, and Muslims

Scottish Bacon, Pigs, and Muslims

 

In Edinburgh, Scotland, Chelsea Lambie, 18, and two older friends were convicted of threatening and abusive behavior and sentenced to a year in jail last Friday.  Their threatening and abusive crime?  Throwing uncooked bacon at the window of an Edinburgh mosque in January, 2013 and then having the audacity to wrap raw bacon around the mosque’s door handles.

Lambie’s evil associate, Douglas Cruikshank, was sentenced to nine months in the clinker because he copped a plea and another accomplice in the Great Scottish Bacon Scandal, Wayne Stilwel, pled guilty and received 10 months behind bars.

Muslims and traditionalist Jews, of course, aren’t big fans of bacon or any other pork products and both prohibit the consumption of meat from a pig for similar but different reasons.

As spelled out in the Old Testament (Leviticus 11:7-8), “And the pig, because it has a cloven hoof that is completely split, but will not regurgitate its cud; it is unclean for you. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.”  

More indulgent Islamic law, (Quran, Al-Baqara 2:173), states that, ”He has made unlawful for you that which dies of itself and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which the name of any other than Allah has been invoked. But he who is driven by necessity, being neither disobedient nor exceeding the limit, then surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.”

In other words, Jews reject pigs due to their cloven hooves, their failure to vomit, and the fact they are dirty whereas Muslims frown on the pig because it “dies of itself,” (whatever that means–perhaps that they’re suicidal?)–but, in a pinch, Muslims are forgiven by merciful Allah should they eat a pork chop or two as long as they don’t make a habit of it. 

Apparently, Ms. Lambie, a proud member of the Scottish Defence League, and her fellow swine were oblivious of the Quran’s ancient rules and regulations, or they didn’t give a damn about them and were pissed that Muslims had taken control of huge swaths of the United Kingdom.

 

Either way, at their trial, security guard Usman

Mahmood testified concerning the offensive nature of the bacon attack, noting, “It is against our culture and our religion. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37848.)