A couple of weeks back an anti-Muslim Facebook group called the Aussie Infidels told its followers to send Christmas cards “smeared in bacon fat” to the local Muslim association.
The Lakemba mosque has issued a statement not to wish anyone a Merry Christmas. Anyone who would like to send a Christmas card smeared in bacon fat to Lakemba, here the address:Lebanese Moslem Association71-75 Wangee RoadLakembaNSW 2195
It’s unclear what provoked the status. There are no recent public statements from the Lakemba mosque or the Lebanese Muslim Association about Christmas.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1155407184575696&set=a.353875768062179.1073741827.328911403891949&type=3
People are having a wonderful, humor filled time, happily mocking the idiots who couldn’t think of a single thing to do this solstice, other than to try and spread hate and fear. You can see a whole lot of the responses at BuzzFeed.
Many thanks to Intransitive for this one, cheered my day!
Bigots have zero understanding of what halal and kosher actually mean. Of course, bigots seem to have little to no understanding of anything about the real world.
Kengi:
That’s a fact. As one of the respondents pointed out:
A form of protest against harmufll aspects of Islam this ain’t. I think silly and petulant are the right words.
I love their reply. That’s some positive trolling if ever there was.
Giliell:
Yep, and I’d bet it tweaked the seldom used brains of the Aussie Bigots. Bigots are notably bad at responding to people who have actual wit.
Hate: it’s the reason for the season.
Not sending mosques Christmas cards smeared in bacon fat is just conceding to superstition!
I can’t figure out if the answer should be “It’s not racial profiling because islam is a religion not a race”, or “Religion doesn’t deserve your respect anyway”.
racial profiling = racism, for what it’s worth…
Nobody tell them that the beloved Ur-German Company Haribo has a halal range…
I have no idea how reliable the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is, but apparently, back in 2012, there was a post on the Lakemba Mosque’s farcebork page “warning followers it was a ‘sin’ to even wish people a Merry Christmas.” Exactly why that happened isn’t clear, with the article only saying:
I only stumbled across the above whilst looking for images of the mosque (it’s rather impressive). (Ye Pffft! of All Knowledge only cites that the same SMH story, and so does not provide any independent confirmation the incident really happened.)
Sending Wishing You a Merry Bacon cards is still juvenile, and it sounds like the absurdity is being well-handled.
Even if there was a brief post, which was taken down, as you note, that was four years ago. A little stupid to use that as an excuse to hate.
Also, look at the context. It’s a minority group saying to its own members, within its own circle, not to wish Merry Christmas to people.
Christians not being wished Merry Christmas by people of another religion and Muslims being sent something to their property covered in a pork product are very different.
There’s also the fact that these bigots are occupying themselves with reading a Mosque’s facebook page. Why in the hell would you do that? I don’t go reading Christian church fb pages, or any other religious group. Seems to me they were looking for something to pretend outrage over, some sort of cover for their hate. They figured out the bacon card business first, then went looking for some sort of justification.
Caine
You know when they’re accusing us to go “out of our way to find something to be offended about”? That’s a textbook case of projection…
A fact! Citation needed.
What’s quoted in the OP simply says “The Lakemba mosque has issued a statement…”. The article cited in @11, as you know because you read it, is mostly about the Muslim community’s own reaction — “harsh condemnation” — to that farcebork post at the time (2012).
There is no information at all, known to me, about what the bigots are yammering about. However, the 2012 incident does seem to match (compare the OP’s “…not to wish anyone a Merry Christmas” with the initial quote in @11). And that was in 2012, and it was deleted, making it improbable the bigots read the post now.
Speculation: What’s quoted in the OP does have its origins in the 2012 incident, but is based on something circulating in bigotnet, possibly some form of the SMH@11 article. The date is either missing or ignored; in either case, the bigots who started the current baconcard silliness don’t care / failed to check.
The unreferenced fact essentially disproves my above speculation, so the citation for what is clearly labeled a “fact” would be very very interesting.