This was the poster intended to advertise a trade fair for meat products. But the local mayor decided to scrap it.
And, curiously, it was more the non-Muslim councillors in the mayor’s entourage who strongly opposed it rather than the elected officials of Muslim culture.
The mayor, Gérard Hamel, made a decision, choosing a poster without a pig on it, driven by what one of his colleagues described on the social networks: “No problem organising a festival on the theme of Alsace in a town with a 55% Muslim population. But he judged that the pig would be a “provocation”.
Nothing curious at all about the non-Moslems being the ones to self-censor, rather than Moslems demanding the censorship. This is how all these ‘hate speech’ laws are designed — to encourage self-censorship even before speech, or even thoughts, are voiced aloud or in one’s own mind. Self-censorship becomes a Pavlovian response. What one cannot, or should not, say aloud will eventually result in one failing even to think it because the vocabulary, the facts and the willingness of society to hear it will be missing.
“Evil speech” — Lashon Hara in Judaic Halahka (Law): Nothing should be said, heard or even thought — even if it is true — if, by so doing, one brings harm or disrupts the social cohesion of one’s group. This came down through the centuries, amongst jewish communities, in keeping silent about activities which the larger society would be disapproved of and taken action against or would have highlighted what judaism actually taught, rather than what it obfuscated or lied about to the non-jews. It has come down in the modern world, through the activities of jewish led Communism and its useful tools in the West (the ‘Frankfurt School’ academics who left Germany when the NSDAP was in power and ‘migrated’ to the US, Columbia University, Princeton et al) as “political correctness”, speaking only approved speech and ideas.
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