Whatever you do, don't mention the cured meat
A high school geography teacher in Spain recklessly told his class that the region of Tevelez in Granada Province has a cold climate that favors curing ham.
A Muslim student complained on the grounds that the mere mention of “ham” is offensive to Muslims. Okay, high school students often say intemperate things. But here the student talked it over with his parents – and the parents filed a complaint with the National Police and the Court.
According to sources, the complaint isn’t likely to go very far. But the high school and the teacher will nonetheless have to spend time and effort in getting it dismissed. The very fact that adults seriously think that the word “ham” should be banned in Spain – in Spain! – gives us a glimpse of the tyranny of “cultural sensitivity.” (h/t Volokh Conspiracy). Calling Mark Steyn - help!
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Aug '10
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Ham in Spain is a traditional symbol of Christian victory over the Moors. Or so I have heard.
Dec '10
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This incident happened at Menéndez Tolosa High School in the southern Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción. I wonder what will happen when the kid and his parents find out what the name of their place of residence means:
"La Línea de la Concepción (more often referred to as La Línea) is a town in Spain, in the province of Cádiz in Andalucia. It lies on the eastern isthmus of the Bay of Gibraltar on the border with the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, with which it has close economic and social links. It is situated on the sandy isthmus which unites the Rock of Gibraltar with the coast in the eastern flank of the Bay of Gibraltar, between Sierra Carbonera and the Rock of Gibraltar.
"The town derives its name firstly from the línea or boundary line separating Spain from Gibraltar and secondly from the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Its people are called in Spanish linenses."
Dec '10
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The common use of pork products and the use of cheese in meat dishes along the European shores of the Mediterranean provided a useful way to keep the Muslims and Jews apart from the Christian population. Aside from being incredibly delicious, that is.
May '10
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This reminds me of companies settling lawsuits because it's too expensive to prove their innonence. Mere accusations are enough to do irreparable financial harm, let alone harm to one's reputation.
Our society can't function if refusing to investigate every claim of offense or abuse is legally unacceptable. This is yet another way that government needs to get out of our lives. Our legal code needs to be trimmed.
Aug '10
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Another warning from Europe about Islamocorrecto speech laws. Can't you just see the CAIR guys in the States, rubbing their hands together thinking McRibs ?
Aha ! now we can go after McDonalds ! They need to call Jesse Jackson and get some pointers on politically correct extortion.
Thankfully, Jimmy Dean has passed and won't hear about this.
Jul '10
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I wouldn't want to be a ham sandwich up in front of a Muslim grand jury....
Dec '10
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The Islamofascists better not glom onto this as a tactic. It's one thing to intimidate media figures into censoring images of Mohammed -- but the moment a fatwa comes down on the mention of the word "bacon" as an insult to Islam, the American people will rise up en masse to defend their beloved smoked cured pork belly. Bacon has almost achieved the status of America's national food, and beer our national beverage, and I think most Americans see any attempt to mess with those two staples as a serious assault on the American way of life.
Aug '10
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I suggest some one sit that young man down and have him watch Jamon Jamon .
A strong dose of the young Penelope Cruz will sort him out quick, fast and in a hurry.
He will see Spain, ham, and she-infidels in a whole new light.
Better than Coke and Levi's...
May '10
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Adam Freedman:
A Muslim student complained on the grounds that the mere mention of “ham” is offensive to Muslims. – and the parents filed a complaint with the National Police and the Court.
The very fact that adults seriously think that the word “ham” should be banned in Spain – in Spain! – gives us a glimpse of the tyranny of “cultural sensitivity.” (h/t Volokh Conspiracy). Calling Mark Steyn - help! ·
Oh, brother, here we go again: another offended Muslim. Yawn. When do non-Muslims get to be offended by Muslim practices i.e. polygamy, consanguineous marriage, slavery, terrorism, etc., and have their concerns attended to with the same exquisite obsequiousness? Cultural sensitivity must become a two-way street or the West is doomed.
Up with ham! Down with National Police!
Dec '10
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Louie Mungaray: I suggest some one sit that young man down and have him watch Jamon Jamon .
A strong dose of the young Penelope Cruz will sort him out quick, fast and in a hurry.
He will see Spain, ham, and she-infidels in a whole new light.
Better than Coke and Levi's... · Dec 23 at 4:03pm
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
But what if he becomes so self-hating after feeling all those illicit urges that he decides the only way to purify his soul is by becoming a shahid (martyr)?
It's the Catch-22 of jihad.
Aug '10
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Well you got me there, Stuart.
Any man who has seen Jamon Jamon will tell you, illicit urges are a lead-pipe cinch.
Martin Luther said "God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat."
The right use of young Penelope's overwhelming feminine beauty should lead a man to marriage, not murder. In fact, this is exactly what happened to Javier Bardem, he married Penelope Cruz and they are expecting their first child.
Edited on Dec 23, 2010 at 9:28pmJul '10
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Louie Mungaray: I suggest some one sit that young man down and have him watch Jamon Jamon .
A strong dose of the young Penelope Cruz will sort him out quick, fast and in a hurry.
He will see Spain, ham, and she-infidels in a whole new light.
Better than Coke and Levi's... · Dec 23 at 4:03pm
Pity the local goats and sheep after young Muslim males get a strong dose of Penelope Cruz.
Jul '10
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I think we've completely missed the objective of militant Muslims.
We assume that Muslims agitating in Spain are attempting a reconquest.
We assume that Muslims in Italy are aiming for control of the font of Catholicism, and the prestige associated with Roman imperialism.
We assume that Anwar Al-Awlaki's mosque in the D.C. 'burbs was meant to radicalize the seat of American government.
We are wrong.
What do Virginia, Italy, & Spain have in common?
They were after the hams all along.
Aug '10
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Kenneth
Pity the local goats and sheep after young Muslim males get a strong dose of Penelope Cruz. · Dec 23 at 5:44pm
I keep of thinking of Chandler's blonde, so with apologies to him:
It was a brunette. A brunette to make a jihadi bite hard on a roasted pig's foot.
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While I agree, Adam, that this is an outrage, I must in general celebrate the Muslim (and Jewish) laws against eating pig and pig products for this reason alone: more for us.
And here's a politically incorrect thought: has there ever been a great and powerful civilization or culture that didn't partake of the pig?
The Chinese, for instance, consider the pig the most valuable and efficient animal in the stable. They eat everything but the oink.
Who are you going to bet thrives and prospers in the next decade? The Chinese or the Muslim nations?
Dec '10
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Louie Mungaray: The right use of young Penelope's overwhelming feminine beauty should lead a man to marriage, not murder. In fact, this is exactly what happened to Javier Bardem, he married Penelope Cruz and they are expecting their first child. · Dec 23 at 5:19pm
Edited on Dec 23 at 09:28 pm
The problem is that in many societies, the ardent young Muslim male seeing Penelope Cruz's pulchritude can't readily seek out a marriageable maiden who looks like Penelope, because all he has to go on for judging a potential Muslim bride is what her veil looks like. If he marries a girl and unwraps her to find something rather less than Cruzian beauty, he may go mad and seek to quench his disappointment by, say, blowing himself up on a high street in Stockholm.
Lucky for Javier he had that pneumatic stun gun with which to "persuade" Penelope to accept his suit.
Aug '10
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Those bad boys do come in handy
May '10
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What makes this even more amazing is that probably 50% of houses in Spain will have a Jamon or Paleta (rear leg/ front leg) in their kitchen. I left Spain years ago & I still have one sent from Spain every 3-4 months. Jamon is more than just a food, it is part of the national soul - and a good Jamon Iberica de Bellota (black pig fed on acorns) is one of the most wonderful foods on the planet.
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Rob Long:
The Chinese, for instance, consider the pig the most valuable and efficient animal in the stable. They eat everything but the oink.
"The Chinese eat it" is not an argument for anything. They'll eat anything with legs but a table.
May '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Rob Long:
The Chinese, for instance, consider the pig the most valuable and efficient animal in the stable. They eat everything but the oink.
"The Chinese eat it" is not an argument for anything. They'll eat anything with legs but a table. · Dec 24 at 5:51am
Chinese don't eat uncooked food, much to the surprise of the Japanese. Ever seen a Chinese eat a salad?