POLICE are understood to have confiscated a collection of porcelain pigs from the front window of a woman's house in the same road as Leicester's main mosque following a complaint from local Muslims that the display was offensive.
Nancy Bennett, a 49-year-old foster mother from the Highfields area of Leicester, said the complaint about the pigs was made after she went to the police to report harassment.
She has alleged that she has been targeted by local youths since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, when she decorated her house with red, white and blue bunting. It is understood that the pigs were displayed alongside a quote from the Koran which said: "Let there be no coercion in religion."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/polic ... 57337.html
Ceramic pig watch: Offensive speech in Britain
posted at 6:25 pm on June 11, 2012 by J.E. Dyer[ BBC ]
Ever since the case of the offensive ceramic pigs in 1998, the British have been assiduously refining their methods for dealing with offenses to Islam. Earlier this year, Bruce Bawer at Frontpage recounted the tale of David Jones, who was going through security at Gatwick Airport when he made a stray comment that brought down the full force of the Speech Policeon his head
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