Neighbor (Freeper I betcha) Threatens Mosque With Pig Races

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/07/national/main2239001.shtml

(AP) A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning that it will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims.

Many neighborhood residents say they have nothing against Muslims and are more concerned about property values, drainage and traffic.

But one resident has set up an anti-Islamic Web site with an odometer-like counter that keeps track of terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001. A committee has formed to buy another property and offer to trade it for the Muslims' land. And Craig Baker has threatened to race pigs on the edge of the property on the Muslim holy day. Muslims consider pigs unclean and do not eat pork.

"The neighbors have created havoc for us, and we didn't expect that," said engineer Kamel Fotouh, president of the 500-member Katy Islamic Association.

religious adherents have similar dietary prohibitions/restrictions. That would be antisemitic.

Jews don't eat pork either.

Obviously, if there's to be a pig race run by this moran, he's the clear gold medal favorite. :P

It sounds just like something an old Texas family would do (and this is a VERY old Texas family), not NECESSARILY just because they don't like Muslims, but if they didn't like their neighbors in general for any reason. Not that I "approve" of this particular circumstance, but to me, religious freedom also means freedom from religion. It's not a bit neighborly or nice. This family would probably do it to me too. And Muslims must understand that we eat pork in Texas and many other places in this country.

I got my flame suit on. Go for it.

is a Mosque and it has been there these many years without one single incident. I don't know what these people's problems in Katy are... Katy is already having problems with Gangs, maybe they should concentrate on that problem, cause this is not a problem....

And he's an idiot, too. His pig races are intended to offend the Muslims, but as the article says, Muslims don't hate pigs; they just don't eat them. So he's just a bigoted dimwit whose intentional harassment will fall flat anyhow. What a dick.

......just comes off as an ignorant redneck.


The dispute began when the group asked Baker to remove his cattle from the newly bought land. Baker agreed but mistakenly thought the group also wanted him off the land his family has lived on for more than 100 years. The rumor spread.

Baker said he got so mad he put up a sign announcing the pig races.

Baker's attempt to offend missed its mark, Fotouh said. Muslims do not hate pigs, he said; they just do not eat them.

Though he now concedes the group probably is not after his land, Baker said he is obligated to go through with the pig races, probably within the next few weeks, because "I would be like a total idiot if I didn't. I'd be the laughingstock now because I've gone too far."


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According to http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/mosques_in_us_that_have_experienced_violent_or_racist_incidents1/0012120">this, there were shots fired at the mosque in Denton, TX... and only five months later, it was firebombed. Mosques in El Paso and Austin have also been vandalized and firebombed.