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patgundPig race plan leads to dirty argument
"All snout and tail, the pink and brown pigs contentedly rooting in the wire pen behind Craig Baker's stone shop seem piggishly comic. They're racing pigs, after all, and that's got to be funny.
But few in the sprawling subdivisions along Baker Road are laughing.
These pigs are subtle weapons, here to show the new neighbors — the Katy Islamic Association — they aren't entirely welcome. Tension has been growing in this west Harris County community since September when the Muslim group announced it had purchased 11 acres south of Interstate 10 to build a mosque, school, community center and athletic facilities.."
"All snout and tail, the pink and brown pigs contentedly rooting in the wire pen behind Craig Baker's stone shop seem piggishly comic. They're racing pigs, after all, and that's got to be funny.
But few in the sprawling subdivisions along Baker Road are laughing.
These pigs are subtle weapons, here to show the new neighbors — the Katy Islamic Association — they aren't entirely welcome. Tension has been growing in this west Harris County community since September when the Muslim group announced it had purchased 11 acres south of Interstate 10 to build a mosque, school, community center and athletic facilities.."
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:35 pm (UTC)Then they're being pretty stupid. Even the ones that aren't directly being terrorists were out there cheering and calling out death to America after 9/11.
If a religious group doesn't want to get seen as the same as the terrorist groups, then they need to be standing up and disputing the terrorist fanatics whose religion has the same name.
Until then, this sort of thing won't surprise me a bit. I wouldn't want them in my neighborhood either.
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Date: 2006-12-06 01:51 am (UTC)