Just a little helpful proscription in the interests of tolerance and acceptance.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and 'pig-related items' will be banned. Among the items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a representation on Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.

"Councillor Mahbubur Rahman is in favour of the blanket pig crackdown. 'It is a good thing, it is tolerance' he said.

Is it really a victory for "tolerance" to say that a council worker cannot have a Piglet coffee mug on her desk? And isn't an ability to turn a blind eye to animated piglets the very least the West is entitled to expect from its Muslim citizens? If Islam cannot "co-exist" even with Pooh or the abstract swirl on a Burger King ice-cream, how likely is it that it can co-exist with the more basic principles of a pluralist society? As A A Milne almost said: "They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace/ Her Majesty's Law is replaced by Allah's."

From The Telegraph: Making a pig's ear of defending democracy by Mark Steyn.