View Full Version : Texas Man Stages Pig Races to Protest Islamic Neighbor's Plans to Build Mosque
Team Sergeant
01-05-2007, 11:25
LOL, this is funny! Go get'em Craig Baker!
Way to go Texas!
KATY, Texas — When an Islamic group moved in next door and told Craig Baker the pigs on his family's 200-year-old Texas farm had to go, he and his swine decided to fight back.
In protest of being asked to move, Davis began staging elaborate pig races on Friday afternoons -- one of the Islamic world's most holy days.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241897,00.html
Bwahahaha! Watch the video!:D
Get some, Mr. Baker. :lifter
CPTAUSRET
01-05-2007, 12:40
F***! mr fotouh! And the pig he rode in on!
"Mr. Fotouh said it would be a good idea if I considered packing up my stuff and moving out further to the country."
The Reaper
01-05-2007, 12:53
That is like building homes next to a range or an airport and demanding that they close down.
Who was there first?
TR
That is like building homes next to a range or an airport and demanding that they close down.
Who was there first?
TR
I like what that one talking head said in the video....."It's like building an AA meeting hall next to a Bar." ...... Bwhahahahahahaha :D
82ndtrooper
01-05-2007, 13:17
Next the Muslims will want every religious denomination to induce a "Karan Sensitivity" program into their sunday mass and services.
Those that forge their own chains.
resctech
01-05-2007, 14:06
The Baker family was there first, since the 1800's, it's an old ricee farming community and now suburb of Houston. After the Muslim group bought the property, they asked the family to relocate according to local reports.
LOL good on him!
Considering the farmer has had that property in his family for a couple of centuries it's obvious that the group is trying to stir the pot.
incommin
01-05-2007, 14:42
When they start building, he should open up a BBQ..... the workers would be bound do get some good old pork juice in there somewhere....
Jim
Monsoon65
01-05-2007, 14:55
I love that. "Hey, buddy, I know your family has been there for 200 years, but you mind moving into the country a bit further so you don't upset us? We don't like your swine."
Ought to let one loose in the mosque.
Team Sergeant
01-05-2007, 15:35
Ought to let one loose in the mosque.
Better yet, I'd let it slip that my family was burying dead pigs on "their" property for centuries, until it was sold to them of course.;)
incommin
01-05-2007, 15:41
You could always send a welcome gift.....a Koran bound in pig skin!
Jim
Monsoon65
01-05-2007, 16:17
Better yet, I'd let it slip that my family was burying dead pigs on "their" property for centuries, until it was sold to them of course.;)
Considering that they've had their farm for 200 years, you might not be far from the mark!!
bandycpa
01-05-2007, 16:50
"Pig racers, pig racers, let us in.
Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chins..."
Here's hoping that Mr. Baker has enough support to keep them from blowing his house down.
Bandy
CoLawman
01-05-2007, 18:00
Every once in awhile I find a new hero. Go get 'em Mr. Baker.
Beach Bum
01-05-2007, 18:10
More power to the little piggies!!! :)
Better yet, I'd let it slip that my family was burying dead pigs on "their" property for centuries, until it was sold to them of course.;)
Devilishly clever, TS!
NousDefionsDoc
01-05-2007, 19:50
Good folks those East Texas boys, huh AM...
Better yet, I'd let it slip that my family was burying dead pigs on "their" property for centuries, until it was sold to them of course.;)
I would just name all my pigs muhamid 1-30 or how ever many i had. Muhamid would always win the race every friday.
NousDefionsDoc
01-05-2007, 20:52
http://www.americanpigrace.com/
Ambush Master
01-05-2007, 21:35
Good folks those East Texas boys, huh AM...
Ya'got that right!!!
If I were him, I'd go out and buy all of the "Expired Shelf Life" Fried Pork Rinds that I could find, spread them, packages and all,then disc them into the ground!!!! All of the bags would identify what was there!!!!:D :munchin
Can we say "Porked Earth"!!!!
Who really cares about Texas muslim sensibilities anyway? I'll put $20 on Porky in the 3rd.
Note the veiled threats of violence if the neighborhood near the planned mosque doesn't "treat the issue right."
Not Ground Zero, but Katy mosque also stirs passions
Some residents oppose 'radicals', noise problems
By CINDY HORSWELL
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Sept. 7, 2010, 10:24PM
It wasn't your typical Friday night in Texas spectator sport.
Some 300 Katy residents would gather to watch snorting pigs in a raucous race around a track.
The weekly event drew national media attention, including a spoof on The Daily Show. That's because it was staged next door to an 11-acre site for a planned mosque for Muslims, who are forbidden from eating pork. The races were held on Fridays, the holiest day of the week for Muslims.
Some Katy residents saw the pigs as a vehicle for sending the message that a mosque doesn't belong in their neighborhood.
The races ended two years ago, and the pigs are gone. Yet signs of division linger today. A "no trespassing" placard is posted at the entrance to the mosque property on Baker Road, and a wooden sign with a large cross and Star of David is staked where the races once were held.
While on far less hallowed soil than the mosque planned near Ground Zero in New York, the Katy mosque's location is stirring passionate debate, as are others across the country. Disputes over proposed mosques have surfaced recently in California, Wisconsin and Tennessee, where a fire that destroyed construction equipment this past weekend is being investigated as possible arson.
In Katy, about 500 Muslim worshippers travel daily down the narrow black-topped road, past several affluent subdivisions, to pray in a portable building temporarily serving as a mosque, and 100 students attend an adjacent Islamic school in another portable. Katy's Muslim American Society, or MAS, needs more money to build the grand white structure with a gold dome and two towers that was originally envisioned.
At the same time, the 150-member group Preserving the Lifestyles and Neighborhoods of Katy, or PLANK, continues to be wary and ask questions. Group members complain about potential troubles with flooding, traffic, noise and light pollution.
Standards exceeded
But the president of Katy's Muslim society, Hesham Ebaid, said his organization has exceeded county planning standards and received a building permit. The Muslim organization already has installed two parking lots to ease traffic congestion and a pond with fountains to help contain floodwaters, he said.
"We are struggling to override misconceptions," said Ebaid, who immigrated here 22 years ago from Egypt and works as a petroleum engineer for Shell. "We have invited the whole neighborhood to share in iftar — a dinner held during a break in our fast for Ramadan. So people will get to know us."
Several PLANK members, including Roy Dotson, accepted the invitation. Dotson used that opportunity to tell MAS members how floodlights from their sports complex on the property were shining through his windows.
While he still doesn't like having a mosque behind his house, he was appreciative that afterward the light was redirected.
"They didn't have to do that," he said.
Noise concerns
PLANK members worry about future noise from speakers that will be installed in the mosque towers to call worshipers to prayer five times a day. They also have photos of flooding from the property and traffic accidents on the shoulder-less, narrow Baker Road that will only worsen as the mosque's membership grows.
But the underlying fears that seem to be driving the neighborhood's concern are questions about security and rumors that their organization may have radical Muslim roots.
"They are part of the American Muslim Society, which has terrorist ties. If this is not the premise of their religion, why are there so many radicals?" asked Laura Hughes, a PLANK member.
She pointed to allegations in news reports that the society has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization branded by some as extremist.
The former president of the Houston Muslim American Society, Ebaid said his organization has never been connected to any radical activities.
'High-class group'
He points to a letter written by U.S. Rep. Michael E. McMahon, D-N.Y., who ran a security check on MAS when it wanted to build a mosque in his area. McMahon wrote that the FBI "gave me no indication whatsoever that the MAS is affiliated with any organization that threatens our national security."
"Most of our members are well established," Ebaid said. "This is a high-class group. We have many Ph.D.s and masters. If the neighborhood treats this issue right, they will encourage the moderate Muslims, rather than bring extremists to us. This rejection of all Muslims does not help. Every group has extremists."
Kamel Fotouh, another Katy MAS member, believes opposition to the mosque is waning.
"There's nothing much going on anymore," he said.
The original pig races were triggered by Craig Baker, a marble company owner, who resented being told by a MAS member that his company next door was not compatible with a mosque and suggested he sell his land to them. Baker, whose family has owned land there since the 1800s and the street bears his name, declined to comment for this story.
But his cousin, Bruce Baker, vice president of the company, said, "Later they came over and apologized if they had said anything to offend. We'd made our point and stopped the races."
cindy.horswell@chron.com
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7190476.html
More power to the little piggies!!! :)
"Piggy Power"....:D:lifter
So..who gets to BBQ the winner...or is that weiner??:munchin