Pigs Will Fly

Comments

1. 

   February 12, 2004

   mgl

   You’ve got to be impressed by the mindset of people who’d be dissuaded from performing suicide bombings by the prospect of getting pig fat on their scattered remains. And the mind boggles at the image of Hasidic Jews with lard spray.
   “The devious Zionists are packing lard now, Ahmed.”
   “Curses! They have found our only weakness! We have no choice but to call off the operation!”

   Reply
2. 

   February 13, 2004

   timmyhawk

   But actually it might work. About a century ago the British army faced suicide attacks in the Sudan by an earlier form of Islamic radicals. After a while they started burying the remains of the suicide attackers in pig skins, which ended the suicide attacks. I’m not sure whether Israeli, not to mention any other Western societym is actually willing to take such measures but they may in fact prove effective and should not be ruled out.

   Reply
3. 

   February 13, 2004

   mgl

   Oh, I don’t doubt that it may work. I’m just amazed the world is still populated with people boneheaded enough to live in mortal fear of coming into contact with lard, even as a dismembered corpse.
   But hey–if Hamas et al really are that primitive, I encourage the Israelis to take full advantage of their taboos.

   Reply
4. 

   February 13, 2004

   Mick H

   Well I voted “Yes” in the Maariv poll, so I feel that I’ve done my bit. I just hope Tony Blair isn’t missing this opportunity to push British pork: the Israelis presumably won’t be keen on setting up their own pig farms. They want unclean animals – hey, our pigs are filthy.

   Reply
5. 

   February 14, 2004

   tony

   What an apt illustration of the idiocy of the beliefs of those societies, it’s beyond Monty Python.

   Reply