Bacon dumped on the doorstep of a mosque may be a ‘hate crime’, apparently. I concede that the act may have been motivated by hatred – or it could have been a practical joke – but where is the crime? No-one was injured, nothing was stolen, no Korans were injured, desecrated or despoiled and the Prophet, peace be upon him, was not depicted in effigy in a sexually compromising position or with a bomb in his hat. There was no crime.

To his credit, the Muslim in charge of the mosque doesn’t seem overly perturbed – perhaps he is a closet bacon lover – but the constabulary, whose cholesterol aversion sensibilities must be more finely honed, are “disturbed” by the incident.

We have progressed to the era of the “I am offended” crime.

From here:

Mounties are investigating the possibility of a hate crime after several piles of bacon were found outside a mosque in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Police say it’s the second such act of vandalism and mischief at the Islamic Society of British Columbia mosque and Islamic centre in the last 18 months.

Muslims consider pork a symbol of impurity.

Society president Saad Bahr says it’s clear the action was intended to offend, but his group would welcome the opportunity to speak to those responsible to have them learn more about Muslim beliefs.

From here:

A cafe owner was ordered to remove an extractor fan because the smell of her frying bacon offended passing Muslims.

Planning officials acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next door neighbour’s Muslim friends had felt ”physically sick” due to the ”foul odour.”

The fan has been in Beverley’s Snack Shack takeaway in the Shaw Heath area of the town for the past three years.

I presume this is the burka syndrome at work in a different form. Delicate Muslim sensibilities are so inflamed by the enticing smell of cooking bacon that, once exposed to it, repressed Muslim men living on a pork hair trigger will succumb to what they secretly dream of day and night: an orgy of depraved gammon gorging. Similar to what could happen on seeing a woman who is not dressed as a sausage – a pork free sausage, of course.

We all have our temptations: for some, today’s turkey titillation could become tomorrow’s bacon binging.

From the BBC:

A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.

Rod Adlington’s attempts to imitate the meat, which Muslims cannot eat because of their religion, has seen a Muslim scholar voice concerns that it could lead to people eating real bacon from pork.

Maulana Naveed Ashrafi, a Muslim scholar from Blackburn, said he was concerned as to where eating the turkey bacon rashers could lead to for other Muslims.

“It can ultimately lead to people who only eat halal food ending up eating the real bacon – bacon from pork,” he said.