Piggy banks offend UK Muslims

Cyburn · 25-10-2005, 10:09 AM

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/...006056771.html

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British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.

Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.

Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.

Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.

"This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said.

However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics.

"The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity," the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said.

"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."

Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.
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"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said.

"I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks."

This is what we get for voting New Labour

John Carter · 25-10-2005, 10:18 AM

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Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.

"We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said.

Good on that man!

Shame on the banks in question.

C_steam · 25-10-2005, 10:23 AM

To be fair, Mahmoud normally talks sense.

smooveOp · 25-10-2005, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyburn

This is what we get for voting New Labour

Sorry to disillusion you mate but Labour do not actually run our high-street banks - they're private companies.

What those banks have done is not good but if you really want to do something constructive about it, instead of spouting complete tosh, why don't you complain directly to the Halifax and NatWest banks?

*good idea* 8)

Cyburn · 25-10-2005, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by smooveOp

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Originally Posted by Cyburn

This is what we get for voting New Labour

Sorry to disillusion you mate but Labour do not actually run our high-street banks - they're private companies.

What those banks have done is not good but if you really want to do something constructive about it, instead of spouting complete tosh, why don't you complain directly to the Halifax and NatWest banks?

*good idea* 8)

But maybe New Labour, influenced these banks, just like their did with freezing the BNP bank accounts

smooveOp · 25-10-2005, 10:43 AM

...I wondered when the BNP would get a mention here :roll:

mkpdavies · 25-10-2005, 02:53 PM

I hope anyone who banks with such a bank, will now be shutting down their account and moving it elsewhere.

C_steam · 25-10-2005, 02:58 PM

Oh no! after the success of burger king, I feel another pledge approaching....

mkpdavies · 25-10-2005, 03:03 PM

Well, I don't want to become the anti-PC man alone. Though it is tempting.

UKIP MAN · 25-10-2005, 03:03 PM

I stopped banking with nat west after they paid out a standing order two days early and because my pay was not in there to cover, it bounced, so they charged me £29.00.

It was their fault but they would not pay me the money back.

so I closed the Account..

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25-10-2005, 10:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
C_steam Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Paddling up 5hit creek..... Posts: 7,504	To be fair, Mahmoud normally talks sense.

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C_steam Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Paddling up 5hit creek..... Posts: 7,504	Oh no! after the success of burger king, I feel another pledge approaching....

25-10-2005, 03:03 PM	#10 (permalink)
UKIP MAN Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,897	I stopped banking with nat west after they paid out a standing order two days early and because my pay was not in there to cover, it bounced, so they charged me £29.00. It was their fault but they would not pay me the money back. so I closed the Account..