Scottish Muslims

Photo from Scottish Tayside Police

When I first saw the headline on FoxNews.com, I couldn't help but giggle:

Ad Featuring Popular Police Pup Sparks Anger in Scottish Muslim Communities.

Muslims in Scotland. Hmmmm... I'd always considered England, Scotland, and Ireland hotbeds for confrontation between Protestants and Catholics. With the inundation within Europe from the Middle East, these nations find more and more they must deal with those who don't want to play by the rules of Western civilization.

The article details the offense taken by Muslim immigrants over postcards sent out to let folks know the new phone numbers for the local police. The problem: the pooch in the picture above. Dogs are to Muslims what pigs are to Jews (or Muslims, for that matter), pinstripes are to a Red Sox fan, or cheeseheads to a Viking fan. Horror!

Now wait a minute. Whatever happened to "when in Rome?" I'm not calling for Muslims to breed poodles or chihuahuas (considered torture in any culture), but when you move to a land that serves tripe and haggis, what do you expect?

Here is the problem with tolerance: you lose your cultural identity. Nature abhors a vacuum. You cannot be so tolerant of everything that you stand for nothing. The power that then asserts itself will rule the day as Islam is doing in Europe (ref. America Alone by Mark Steyn). It has gotten so bad that in England, a recently constructed cemetery has all the graves pointing toward Mecca in accordance with Islamic law (link here), and it is not even a Muslim cemetery! The Brits simply feared offending Islamic corpses.

In our history, did Jews boycott Piggly Wiggly? Did Asians push for chopsticks in all restaurants or pudgy Buddhas in all our parks? It's time to stem the tide of accommodation. If you don't like it here, don't come here (a used-t0-be Christian nation). If my puppy postcard offends you, pitch it or amscray! If you're coming to America, learn the language!

If I were to gripe about anything Scottish, it would be dudes wearing skirts and tams with long chops playing bagpipes (unless of course it's Amazing Grace which is phenomenal with the pipes).