Oxford University Press bans use of pig, sausage or pork-related words to avoid offending Muslims

anything I don't mind said:
They are magic books and everyone did believe the earth was flat and anyone who disagreed was put to death for witch craft or blasphemy.

magic: the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

supernatural metaphysical entity aka god wrote the books through humans, by talking to them in their sleep or by appearing to them in fire or in a bush etc.

exodus 3. god appears in a bush.

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
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Almost no one believed the world was flat, that is an internet myth.

The ancient greeks even worked out the diameter of the planet!
 
chief barker said:
Personally I think Muslims should be more offended about the way they kill animals than they do pigs.
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Slitting a throat is a pretty quick and humane way of killing an animal if you don't have ready access to electrical stunning guns. There's also the question of whether sending thousands of animals by truck to a slaughterhouse where they are crowded in towards an area where they can hear others being killed is more humane than taking an animal out into a field and slitting its throat...

Obviously you're not suggesting that in the UK they don't stun them before slitting their throat, as that myth has been debunked countless times?
 
spoffle said:
No they aren't and no they didn't. Oh lawd, it thinks it's people.
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Come come now, they are books which describe events that can reasonably be described as magic, even if they are not magical books in and of themselves. They also describe a range of things, seemingly presented as factual, that are factually incorrect. This hardly helps their credibility in areas such as veterinary care and food preparation. Even where they are not flat wrong on these areas, it would be foolish to disregard centuries or millenia of progress in making cullinary decisions.
 
Moses said:
This isn't a blanket thing, is it? It was guidance to a specific author writing for a specific project? 'Cause that's understandable, if for example it's a book aimed at the Middle East/Indonesia/whatever. Recently I read about a publisher providing geography textbooks to the region with an 'interesting' take on Israel/Palestine... I'll find the article... but that doesn't mean all atlases around the World will have a warped view of the facts on the ground with Israel/Palestine.

Edit :: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/04/israeli-palestinian-textbooks-borders

Harper Collins, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-used-by-children-in-middle-east-9951550.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...amid-accusations-of-antisemitism-9953993.html
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So basically just another opportunist looking to have a rant about Muslims over nothing. Not to mention these conditions were not demanded or expected by Muslims but rather a decision made by an organisation with their own free will (and a poor one at that given it isn't even remotely offensive)
 
Amp34 said:
Slitting a throat is a pretty quick and humane way of killing an animal if you don't have ready access to electrical stunning guns. There's also the question of whether sending thousands of animals by truck to a slaughterhouse where they are crowded in towards an area where they can hear others being killed is more humane than taking an animal out into a field and slitting its throat...

Obviously you're not suggesting that in the UK they don't stun them before slitting their throat, as that myth has been debunked countless times?
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Well i've seen a video of two people trying to kill a camel by slitting it's throat and it wasn't pretty, maybe this was an exceptional occurrence though?

And no i'm not saying this happens in the UK.
 
Craterloads said:
So basically just another opportunist looking to have a rant about Muslims over nothing. Not to mention these conditions were not demanded or expected by Muslims but rather a decision made by an organisation with their own free will (and a poor one at that given it isn't even remotely offensive)
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As a Muslim would you have preferred they didn't do this about a matter that is sensitive and that they had thought this through or contact the Muslim council about whether it was a) appropriate and/or b) appropriate to to do it at this time?

I guess I am really asking is this actually harming relations and the current dynamic for something that may not actually be warranted or requested.
 
D.P. said:
Almost no one believed the world was flat, that is an internet myth.

The ancient greeks even worked out the diameter of the planet!
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The church believed that the earth was the center of the universe and put galileo to death for showing with evidence that the sun was the center of the solar system. 17th century. Not very long ago. Witch hunt and trials was also not very long ago. I think you may have a misunderstanding of history if you think that the church did not murder people for not agreeing with the bible.

Most people believed the earth was flat. It was not until much later on that it became accepted mainstream opinion.

by 6th century they realized that the earth was not flat, but in ancient times when the bible was written by humans they had zero scientific knowledge and understanding and most people believed the earth was flat because that is all they could see.
 
anything I don't mind said:
The church believed that the earth was the center of the universe and put galileo to death for showing with evidence that the sun was the center of the solar system. 17th century. Not every long ago. Witch hunt and trials was also not very long ago. I think you may have a misunderstanding of history if you think that the church did not murder people for not agreeing with the bible.

Most people believed the earth was flat. It was not until much later on that it became accepted mainstream opinion.

by 6th century they realized that the earth was not flat, but in ancient times when the bible was written by humans they had zero scientific knowledge and understanding and most people believed the earth was flat because that is all they could see.
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:(
 
Xordium said:
I guess I am really asking is this actually harming relations and the current dynamic for something that may not actually be warranted or requested.
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Indeed.

Although harming relations is a bit of a stretch as I imagine the people who are "concerned" are just looking for fuel for the fire anyhow.
 
DangerMoose said:
Come come now, they are books which describe events that can reasonably be described as magic, even if they are not magical books in and of themselves. They also describe a range of things, seemingly presented as factual, that are factually incorrect. This hardly helps their credibility in areas such as veterinary care and food preparation. Even where they are not flat wrong on these areas, it would be foolish to disregard centuries or millenia of progress in making cullinary decisions.
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Well now this is quite the response to something I didn't say.

Cool.
 
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