In
today’s edition of “This didn’t really happen, did it?” we have an Englishman
arrested for expressing a fondness for bacon. You read that correctly. A young
English man was recently taken into custody outside of the soon-to-be South
Lakes Islamic Center, a $3.35 million Mosque set to open in Cumbria in 2026. There
are already three Mosques in Cumbria, a small town of less than 8,000
residents.
On August 16, hundreds of folks, fed up with the
construction of yet another Mosque in their area, protested near the
construction site. Peacefully. And that is when the young man stated "We love bacon." Two police offers, no doubt a
brace of England’s finest, rushed in to arrest the pork-loving protester. Allah
be praised!
According to Blaze media, when the man asked why he was
being handcuffed, “one of the officers informs him that he is being arrested
under Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 1986, which prohibits the use of ‘threatening
or abusive words or behavior, or disorderly behavior’ within ‘the hearing or
sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm, or distress thereby.’”
Blaze media: “The arresting officer suggests in the viral
video of the incident that the expression ‘we love bacon’ might be ‘perceived
to be racially abusive.’”
“We love bacon” is “racially abusive?!” Britain is
toast? (Is that still okay to say, I mean toast is often served with bacon for
breakfast?) What if the man had said “We love Kevin Bacon?” He probably
still would have been arrested in today’s ever-less United Kingdom. Scotland
Yard isn’t what it used to be. Neither is England.
The number of people in England and Wales identifying as
Christian plummeted from 59.3% in 2011 to 46.2% in 2021, a truly staggering
drop. During that same 10-year stretch, the number identifying as Muslim rose
from 4.9% to 6.5% — an increase of over 1 million people. Ironically, when it
comes to procreation, native Englishmen are laggards while Muslims are “makin’
bacon.” As mark Steyn says, “demography is destiny.”
What if protesters in England started chanting the famous
Black Lives Matter phrase so often used in America, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em
like bacon!” Would the local constabulary arrest said protesters for
threatening them or for offending Muslims by uttering the word “pig?”
Will folks be arrested for asking those at the
construction site, “Care for a pork rind?” For saying, “Dang it, I think I
pulled my ham string?” or “Wanna walk my dog?” How about, “Sex, drugs,
and rock and roll forever, am I right?” Or “Excuse me, where is the nearest gay
bar?”
Seriously, will advertisements for bacon-- and
pork products-- eventually be banned in formerly Jolly Olde England in
keeping with the no-offense laws?
Does it work the other way? Because some of us are
offended by the behavior of certain Muslims and the tenets of Islam itself.
In any case, this is the question that begs to be asked:
“Is it too late to save England’s bacon?”
Sadly, it just might be.
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