Tennessee elementary school bans pork to avoid offending Muslims

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Every mistake Europe made, we are repeating. Why would a Tennessee school do such a thing? If Muslims don't want to eat pork, that's fine. But why must others adhere to their supremacist ideology?

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They didn't say it was to avoid offending Muslims. They said it was
about avoiding food allergies. But as one parent noted, "I’ve never
heard of a life-threatening pork allergy." And it certainly wasn't to
avoid offending Jews, who have managed to avoid eating pork in the U.S.
for over 200 years without ever demanding that non-Jews eschew it
also.

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School officials rescinded the ban after an outcry, which shows why
it is important for free citizens to be aware and active. "Why Did a
Tennessee Grade School Ban Pork?," by Todd Starnes for Fox News, August 15 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

A Tennessee elementary school banned students from eating
ham sandwiches, BLT’s and anything else made with pork, but eventually
lifted the ban after parents complained.

Third grade teachers at Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn.
sent home an “Approved Snack List” for the school year and it
specifically banned anything that comes from a pig.

“No meats containing pork,” read the memorandum. “Starting Monday,
August 12, 2013 your child must provide their own snack from the above
approved snack list.”

Kids could nosh on raw vegetables without dips or sauces, fresh
fruit, crackers, pretzels, and popcorn – but no ribs or pork rinds.

“Only choose a food from the following list to bring into school for
snack,” the memorandum stated in bold-face type. “No other food items
are permitted.”

One day after the pork ban went into effect, Williamson County
Schools posted a message on their Facebook page telling parents to
ignore the rules.

“Schools should only be offering suggested snack choices, and that
information will be sent home only if your child is in a classroom where
there is a food allergy,” the district stated. “Any reference to not
allowing pork products in school is incorrect. Please disregard.”

The district said the point of the memorandum was to address food allergies and approved snack lists.

The memorandum did not explain why the school had become a pork-free zone, leading to lots of confusion among parents.

“I’ve never heard of a life-threatening pork allergy,” one parent wrote on Facebook.

The no-pork rule generated lots of conversation on Nashville’s talk
radio stations and a number of callers and several hosts wondered if it
had something to do with students who might be Muslim.

“Typical list for a Madrassa,” wrote Nashville radio host Michael DelGiorno on his Facebook page.

“If you think this has anything to do with something besides
appeasing Muslims then you are either stupid or willfully ignorant,” one
of his listeners wrote.

“Is this school system trying to satisfy a religion?” another listener asked. “I see a big red flag here.”

 

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karl anglin
karl anglin
10 years ago

can’t Muslims form their own schools?

Alain
Alain
10 years ago

The parents should tell the school to stuff it. If I were a parent of a child in that school I would refuse to comply.

ala sux
ala sux
10 years ago

It’s pretty sad that the norm for muslims is to presuppose they are prone to riots and jihad beheadings over the slightest perceived insult to their faith. The irony is that CAIR loves to go on TV and spew their Taqqiyah about islam=peace, but then they incite hatred for the USA and non-muslims with faux hate-crimes. BTW, with over 10’000’000 illegal’s in the USA and million’s more as Landed/Documented workers, how the hell does CAIR know that every alleged vandalism to a mosque or alleged anti-muslim slur reported to CAIR must be from a USA born islamophobe. I’m sure that there are thousnads of people that fled those islamic hell-hole for America and are now fed-up to see how Obama has enabled and emboldened the islamic supreamcy thugs to spread the Homophobic/misogynistic Shariah Law in the Schools and work places.
Gee, here’s an idead for muslims, DON’T EAT PORK AT SCHOOL OR BRING ANY WITH YOU.
Build your own schools and pump out anti-social bubble-wrap automotons with no jobs skills other than wife-beati ng and gay-bashing.

M
M
10 years ago

Unionized school teachers just want to control everyone. I don’t just see the pork ban as a problem- certain brands and types of snacks is a bit over the top.
I have no issue regarding food allergies- schools should keep everyone safe.
Muslims did have a hand in trying to ban pork. They should be forced to do it openly, nothing behind closed doors!

Catahoula6
Catahoula6
10 years ago

I looked up the other products on that list and Sunshine, Nabisco, Pepperidge Farms, roldgold and better crocker make halal product.

canadian neighbour
canadian neighbour
10 years ago

What the heck is going on in Tennessee?

Rudy Bowen
Rudy Bowen
10 years ago

Heh, I’d show up to have lunch with my kid-ham sandwiches, of course-and beat the living daylights out of the first lefty ‘teacher’ to raise an eyebrow.

Rudy Bowen
Rudy Bowen
10 years ago

Because they are too stupid. Besides, it’s easier to take over someone elses’.

Rudy Grant from Canada
Rudy Grant from Canada
10 years ago

That’s the last thing you want. Make them attend public schools. How else can we make sure their children see how it is to live in a Secular society that puts individual human rights over religious dogma.

john galtboy
john galtboy
10 years ago

One thing more that parents need to do and that’s go to the school board and PTA meetings. They really need to let it be know they will not tolerate this crap.

fern
fern
10 years ago

The appeasement to Islam is spreading like a cancer wildfire across the Globe. People just can’t seem to do enough to appease this supremacist cult. In years to come, our children and their children will be faced with a much bigger problem. When they draw enough power in, there will be bloody scenes like we have witnessed in the ‘arab springs’ and more recently, Egypt.
Just the other day, in the UK, the Bradford Area Planning Panel at Bradford Council (which is infested with Islamist councillors and islamic appeasers) has just passed planning for a Halal Plant (food firm Pakeezah) to be erected (building previously was a tyre company) literally only feet away from a large and well established Sikh Temple. The Halal plant will be chopping up carcasses of Chicken, Lamb and Beef etc (although the owner of Pakeezah (Tariq Haq) has stated in previous news articles, there will not be any Beef at the plant – yet, in council documents it states clearly that Beef will be included.
Over 2500 people opposed this Halal plant via a petition and many via proper council planning channels, yet the Bradford Area Planning Panel, Councillor Khadim Hussain, passed this plan.
Something truly stinks, and it isn’t just the smell of dead carcasses! But this is how it goes, infiltrate every fabric of your society, and then, well the rest is history……wake up.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10609842.Anger_at____Yes____to_meat_plant_next_to_Bradford_Sikh_temple/?ref=rss

prestigio
prestigio
10 years ago

dogs and pigs
are offended by the
existence of moslems
therefore i humanely demand
the liquidation of
all moslems worldwide
if anyone doesn’t like this statement
they must also condemn at least 99%
of all moslem demands
the reasoning is
exactly the same
you notice i said
reasoning
not logic

Paul from Toronto
Paul from Toronto
10 years ago

Ive really had it with this islamic BS…have no respect for them – their so-called religion – their murdering, pedophile prophet…we had a PUBLIC swimming pool in Toronto ban men from watching their children so the muzzies could do their little islamic swim!…its getting too much folks…thank God we have people like Pam, Robert Spencer, Mark Steyn….we need more of them.

BUTSeriously
BUTSeriously
10 years ago

Christians & Muslims are not sinning by eating pork. The law in the Hebrew bible is people-specific, prefixed ‘UNTO YOU’. Muslims are faking – they have in fact corrupted the laws and teachings of both the Hebrew bible and the Gospels, the reason nothing from the Quran is accepted by non-Muslims.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
10 years ago

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
(Especially if done for muslims.)

Gary
Gary
10 years ago

The Media missed the irony over this. Muslim women feared that a non-muslim male in the bleachers that was watching HIS 10 year old daughter swim…could be a potential pedophilia ogling the islamic girls.
Hmmmmmmm, so the Niqab clad women that practise islam would also Ban Muhammad from being there with 9 year old Aisha which Muhammad was already having sex with as he was 54 years old.
So basically, the infidel Dad with a daughter the age of Muhammad’s wife Aisha,is the one they fear is the pedophile while their very own Quranic text exposes their Prophet for approving wife-beating as Aisha experienced,and because of that we have islamic nation today that sanction child-brides which is illegal in canada.
WOW, muhammed being told he not only that he couldn’t enter that swimming pool as a 54 year old pedophilie, BUT…he would be refused entry to canada for his child-abuse and child rape criminal history.
This is the typical muslims double-speak to attack the infidels first to be seen as the victim of islamophobia, then make sure the media stays ignorant over the possible lesbians in Niqabs looking at little girls, or let the Media know about Muhammed’s sexcapades that ended with a child-bride.
I find it odd how devout muslim females go to the beach areas in Tornoto to profess their modesty among the filty infidels, but they don’t mind seeing little boys in tight swim suits or teen boys as well. Hmmmm, can’t tell if they are plain pedophiles lusting for fresh teens, or maybe they are closet lesbians enjoying the pedophilia by looking at have naked teen girls.
Either way, the Hijab/Niqab clad women that want special rights to enter the pool at Sunnyside fully dressed to be with their child,makes no sense because she get to see all those men in swim suits and suddenly offends allahs to view infidels exposing skin.
My bet is that it’s a Political statement forced on them by the thugs at Palestine House or ISNA and the Muslim Brotherhood in canada. Plus, since muslims are now known to be predisposed to violence and terrorism by their own actions and public threats to canada from the Mosques on fridays, it’s easier to tolerate the brain-dead islamic supremacy thug that thinks they are the SUPER-Race destine to rule the earth for allah by Shariah law.

fern
fern
10 years ago

Wahabism Influence Pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YtpCaiAzGs&sns=tw
[worth watching]

Revnant Dream
Revnant Dream
10 years ago

You know for over 300 years with Jews living in North America, there is not one incident of them trying to force banning pork on anyone.Let alone Religion or dress. I could say the same of Chinese, Irish, Scottish Russian, Italian, Amish. In fact any immigrant group that came here for a free life.You name it. Except perhaps in their own communities like the puritans. Which you expect. To keep cultural cohesion.
Yet Muslims presume to tell all others, how to even eat.What to dine on. How we should dress. What God to worship by force. Invading our private lives. Changing our laws to persecute others.
Than the eternal whine of being victims, while blood from millions drips from their hands.
Even our children are just sexual prey to this Cult. Say no to Islam!!!

Yoda
Yoda
10 years ago

How about banning Muslims and stop offending Porkie the Pig
This cowtailing to Muslims is ridiculous, don’t these morons realize that this is part of their plan, they infest a host, and slowly but surely infect the whole host
When will the majority wake up and say no more, either you like it or lump it, who (besides Obama) gave them the right to decide to not have pork, what about the rights of the Western Kids that love eating pork

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

your child must provide their own snack from the above approved snack list.
These are the kind of ignoramuses who purportedly teach children the English language.

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

Make that:
These are the kinds of ignoramuses who purportedly teach children the English language. :>)

Radegunda
Radegunda
10 years ago

I was wondering why the list was so specific about brands. There’s the answer. Luckily I don’t buy any of those brands.

Radegunda
Radegunda
10 years ago

Not a good idea. When they do, the schools teach hatred of infidels and all the Islamic nastiness. It facilitates their aim to build parallel, sharia-controlled little societies as stepping stones to taking over.

Love Pork!
Love Pork!
10 years ago

From me with “love”, to you followers of disgusting islam satanic cult
Pork Bullets Designed to Shoot Muslims
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNCwvyQ2zA
Enjoy your Pork you filthy animals!

SuperSwede
SuperSwede
10 years ago

This is so offensive. I am incredible tired of this “respect for other religions” that only goes one way.

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
10 years ago

A bit O/T, but nevertheless perhaps interesting.
I happen to be a nutritionist – and I would never, ever feed any children such a lopsided, high-carb, low-fat, utterly unbalanced diet. Don’t these people realize that fats – including animal fats – are considered essential and critical to the proper development of the brain and nervous system, especially in infants? That’s why mother’s milk -the most perfect food in nature for children- is very high in fats (up to 84%) and essential cholesterol.
Perhaps these “teachers” are not only excellent dhimmis but also “progressive” vegetarians. I have nothing against (lacto-ovo) vegetarians, but nutritional science has shown several significant nutritional disadvantages, which can be even life threatening. In fact a very strict (rabid) vegetarian diet in children is officially considered child abuse in many countries for these (and other) reasons.
I see nothing in the diet pictured above that is nutritionally sound or sustaining robust health and development.

SuperSwede
SuperSwede
10 years ago

They can in Sweden and the results have not been very nice. Gender segregation, girls not allowed to participate in prayer if they have their period, not following the curriculum plus the expected religious indoctrination that teaches hate against all kuffars. It’s a mess, don’t go there.

Muslims have low IQ
Muslims have low IQ
10 years ago

Low IQ and Genetic Inbreeding in the Muslim World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3fBijXO_8Y
Let’s hope America wakes up before a blind naivete about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our Christian culture and our domestic tranquility.

Cate
Cate
10 years ago

Thank goodness the parents complained. This crap has to stop.

dad
dad
10 years ago

They will convert the school. Have you read any of the new school books pushing islam?

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
10 years ago

Muslim kids must be able to enjoy food that they seize as tribute from the lunch boxes of kuffar. It’s part of their education in Islam.

Judi
Judi
10 years ago

in reply to fern ….with George Galloway as the MP for Bradford West and David Ward (Holocaust denier) MP for Bradford East, this is to be expected!!

Ric Oestreich
Ric Oestreich
10 years ago

You have to be kidding me, time for some new people in office. Anything else Muslims need?

meira750
meira750
10 years ago

Bad reason but good move. Pork is totally unhealthy and should not even be considered food.

Betty
Betty
10 years ago

you must be the 800 pound Gorilla in the room. and loves the 500 pound muslim.

panos nakopoulos
panos nakopoulos
10 years ago

first fuck them and then pretend that you respect their religion and eating habits.
Isn’t this what your country does 100’s of years now in order to…cover their illegal business???
So why you are amazed by the banning of their food but not by the way your government fucks Muslim today worldwide?
Are you…fat and you worry too much about eating habits or you are a Christian Hypocrite?
By the way… I m a Greek and NOT Muslim
and I will come back to check if you had the guts to publish my comment
Panos Nakopoulos
Sweb Editor

Betty
Betty
10 years ago

in AMERICA every teacher and ever student I want to see a BIBLE on your desk and I want you to PRAY every morning before your meals want you to pledge before the AMERICAN FLAG each morning. take you teacher an apple each week and tell her/him GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THEM. GOT THAT. THAT IS MY ORDER FOR TO DAY I AND I EXPECT IT TO BE DONE. no bowing to and any other god EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST. AND REMEMBER GOD LOVES US EACH AND EVERY ONE.

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

bowing to and any other god EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST
Sorry, Betty, but the USA is a land of religious tolerance. You can worship what god you want- or no god- as long as you don’t try to ram your religious observance down my throat. As Pamela rather colorfully puts it, she doesn’t care if you worship a stone, as long as you don’t try to stone her with it.
I will note that Jews have lived in the USA since colonial days. To the best of my knowledge, they have never tried to impose kosher on non-Jews in government schools. Moreover, the goyim have never felt threatened by Jews to the extent that they thought it would be prudent to subject all students to kosher dietary laws.
An interesting question: how much is America going to kowtow to a new immigrant group? Before WW II, immigrants were expected to adjust to America, not the other way around.
your child must provide their own snack from the above approved snack list
At the risk of being repetitive, the gummint skool teachers- or whoever was behind the letter in question- have not even learned basic agreement of subject and verb in the English language. They purport to teach America’s children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYq2DQG1zI&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

Panos-
A site has to have bad taste- or pathetically low standards of acceptable discourse- to accept your foul-mouthed drivel.

karen
karen
10 years ago

I wondered why only certain brands were allowed! Now I know. I figured they were getting some kind of compensation, this is worse. Is there no end to the deception and greed in this world?

karen
karen
10 years ago

So by proclaiming what brands of snacks can be brought to school, and those are all halal products, it’s almost the same thing as banning pork. It’s still bending to the whims of Muslims. Dang, where are the rights of those who just want to buy whatever brand suits them, not the Muslims?

karen
karen
10 years ago

So by proclaiming what brands of snacks can be brought to school, and those are all halal products, it’s almost the same thing as banning pork. It’s still bending to the whims of Muslims. Dang, where are the rights of those who just want to buy whatever brand suits them, not the Muslims?

Pazuzu
Pazuzu
10 years ago

And, instead of deporting the inbred savages, we import a million of them a year. SHAME on the Tennesseans who signed off on this. Pork producers unite; we need to get some pork to these kids. Support ALAC!

Sick-of-Taqiyya
Sick-of-Taqiyya
10 years ago

Why are they offended, they aren’t being forced to eat it are they ? Why would anyone capitulate to any 7th century superstition. That they don’t eat it ok.,neither do Jews, or vegetarians for that matter, but they aren’t offended if others eat it.
Muslims are terrified of pork, almost comical , like garlic to a vampire ?
All part of their superior supremacist rubbish. No surrender ! Put the brats at the other end of canteen otherwise, designate a special ” Muslim area”
for them ? I am sure other kids will also be fine with that .
And if they complain about segregation as they always whine, tell them to put up or shut up and learn to integrate.

Larry S.
Larry S.
10 years ago

or vegetarians for that matter, but they aren’t offended if others eat it.
Well I am offended. I also realize there is not a lot that I can do about it. But, frankly, if you are dining on the flesh of tortured animals, I do not want to eat with you.
The factory farm- with its attendant slaughter house- is a mechanized horror for animals for whom every natural instinct is frustrated. It is a shame against our civilization and the religions of the West that they sanction such treatment of sentient beings whose ability to suffer is not greatly different to our own. They suffer not for our needs, but merely our culturally derived taste.

St.Michael defend us
St.Michael defend us
10 years ago

I’m also concerned about halal- I will no longer eat any halal product knowingly. But, what bothers me are the meats which have actually been slaughtered halal, but are not labeled as such for the consumer. We have all kinds of truth in labeling laws, but evidently they do not cover truthful halal labeling. I don’t give a good @#$&*% about that phony allah and the muslim false and useless rituals, but I do resent being taken for a chump.
I’m seriously considering searching out kosher meats, although I am not Jewish.
I searched online for local kosher meats and deli, and- the search results were dominated by halal grocers!!!

AVM
AVM
10 years ago

Either Brentwood Tenn,is a major enclave of white liberals or Middleasterners are being counted as white the area is 90% white according to the census of 2010, there were 37,060 people, comprising 11,791 households residing in the city. The population density was 676.7 inhabitants per square mile (261.3 /km2). There were 12,577 housing units at an average density of 227.7 per square mile (87.9 /km2). The racial makeup of the city was 90.0% Caucasian, 3.0% African American, 0.2% Native American, 5.0% Asian, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.1% of the population.

Jay
Jay
10 years ago

lol@ the fat comments. I eat pork weekly–I mean lots of pork. And I am no where near fat. 🙂 I’m healthy, too. 😉
This is one of the main reasons I choose to homeschool our son. We’ve allowed the government to rule us which it is not supposed to do in America.
Pity the person that tells me what to feed and how to raise my child.

Sick-of-taqiyya
Sick-of-taqiyya
10 years ago

How do you know what I eat Larry? I never preach to others though about what they may or may not eat.
neither am I easily offended, maybe the way I was raised, who knows ?
I am personally more offended by halal slaughter myself.
I would never consider eating with you either Larry, The feeling is mutual !
I don’t know any vegetarian or Jew who is offended by others eating meat/pork.. We all get along fine , no party-poopers amongst them !

Alisia S
Alisia S
10 years ago

If I want to eat a turd sandwich, that’s my biz, not the Islamians’.

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