Teachers says "ham", student gets offended.

biko

http://thereader.es/en/spain-news-stories/5553-Muslim-pupil-calls-police-after-teacher-talks-in-the-region-ham-in-class.html

A SCHOOL pupil of Muslim origin has put in a complaint in the region his teacher because he was talking in the region ham.
The teenager, who attends school in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) was in a geography lesson when the teacher explained to the class that the bloodless climate of Trévelez in Granada favoured the curing of its locally-produced ham.
According to the school, the pupil asked the teacher, “do you mind not talking in the region ham in front of me?”
The police attended the school after the boy's parents put in an official complaint.
Ramón Pérez Maura, who has the full support of the ministry of education, said he did not consider that the other 29 pupils in the class should adapt to one student's way of thinking, but that this one student should attempt to fit in with his class.
The ministry says the complaint is 'ridiculous' and 'unfounded'.
Despite this, the boy's mother announced on Punto Radio today that the incident was a case of racism.

Arrg, PC goes mad and suddenly it's racism when sensible people doesn't comply to Islam. Islam isn't a race and neither are its followers.
It's a man-made religion just any other crap that's out there.
Muslims, stop being so fecking sensitive. That goes for you Christians too.

*awaits reported posts by religious people *

prinz

In fairness that's a pretty poor translation of what may have gone down.

If it is true then it is absolutely ridiculous.

AntiMatter

Rasherism rears it's ugly head, once again.

Berty

I typed this a number of different way all politically correct but instead

FVCK THEM!!!

fakearms123

They must hate this man!

FearDark

All religion is bóllocks. But this is just redicilous. Some people need to just stfu and get on with it.

jimthemental

I think that the teacher was being pig ignorant.

curlzy

hahahahahahahaha ****ing LOL, thanks op, funniest thing I've heard in a long time!!!

WindSock

He needs to be cured.

pawrick

Can't figure out why it would be offensive to speak of ham - they weren't trying to make the person eat it after all! Doesn't matter what religion you are there are equally daft people out there under ever banner.

jester77

rasher sambos.... they have no idea what they are missing out on

Refugee from RealLife

Rashers are sizzling away. Yummy.

That is all.

Cookie_Monster

Expel the kid for wasting class time, troublemaking, unfounded allegations, ridiculousness, and general stupidity.

If they really are offend by all that stuff why don't they just fuck off back to a muslim country?

Canis Lupus

French baguette, philadelphia and serrano ham...... I think tonights snack has been established.

Amber Lamps

region ham

Cantona's Collars

Should've said "hang".

MagicSean

So that's how suicide bombers are made. The little fellas mother obviously doesn't understand the difference between race and religion.

Cookie_Monster

Lets just ban it in Europe and be done with it, islam that is, not ham. You could never ban ham, its just too tasty.

AntiMatter

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Lets just ban it in Europe and be done with it, islam that is, not ham.

Face-parma.

Marcus.Aurelius

If ham (and indeed bacon) is so tasty, why did God forbid its consumption?

More man-made religion gone mad in a world gone mad with its love of multiculturism, surely the only enshrined legal imperative for real racism.

Procasinator

I actually did lol over this one. The school should have a pig as a mascot.

CreepingDeath

I hope that muslim family get swine flu.

storm2811

Oh for fcuk sake..
Does he complain to supermarkets if he sees ham on the shelf?
Does he give out to pig farmers?

I honestly don't see how that could be considered racism or even offensive..

prinz

Caesar Augustus wrote: »

If ham (and indeed bacon) is so tasty, why did God forbid its consumption?

There was more than likely an element of public health about it originally.

amacachi

From that translation I'm not going to condemn what either of them did because there's no way to know what actually happened.

Mr Melon

I think it became taboo to eat pork back in the days of human and animal sacrifice after people noticed it tasted similar to human flesh...

Caoimhín

fakearms123 wrote: »

They must hate this man!

They must really hate Kevin Bacon!



Ill get my coat..

MagicSean

Caesar Augustus wrote: »

If ham (and indeed bacon) is so tasty, why did God forbid its consumption?

He didn't ban ham. He banned 4chan but was misheard.

sensibleken

Jaysus. An annoying kid and his ma do something stupid and thousands of miles away people are going mental 'ooooh typical' 'argh PC gone mad!!'

no, just 2 feckin eijits, thats all.

I wonder if people in madrid are talking on elboardio.sp about the gob****e woman who put her baby in the bagging area of one of those self checkouts in tesco last night and didnt understand why she couldnt work it anymore.

Z3N0M0RPH

Ok, I'm no expert but do they mention ham or pig meat in the Qur'an and if so, should Muslims stop reading it then?? :rolleyes:

It's all a bit mad if you ask me.

freckly

I actually encountered something similar (minus the police) while teaching abroad in a Christian country. Mentioned ham and bacon in a food lesson and largely Muslim class went mad...I also mentioned lamb, beef etc and no vegetarians were offended. Cue letters from parents asking me not to mention it again. The same bold kids were free to call Jews all sorts of names, call me all sorts of names and were never dealt with, as it was a case of dont mention the war! Im all for multiculturalism and freedom to practice beliefs, but this is crazy stuff. Surely I cant demand that a home ec lesson in Dubai teaches the Christian kids to make pork pie

jkell061

Aw some people's/religion's stupidity and attitudes get on my tits sometimes! Hey islam, liven the f^*k up, or p!ss off and quit getting offended by peoples' perfectly normal appetites!

prinz

It's not Islam it's certain numptyish individuals.

biko

Found a video about it on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzLbfuBu9I

AntiMatter

Let's ignore the fact that, if you scroll down the article, the president of the Spanish Federation for Islamic religious Entities, a Muslim, called the kids actions a 'case of sovereign stupidity', and let's rail against all Muslims, calling for Islam to be banned in Europe.

Talk about hamming it up.

candy-gal1

Is she a pig?!

sensibleken

AntiMatter wrote: »

Let's ignore the fact that, if you scroll down the article, the president of the Spanish Federation for Islamic religious Entities, a Muslim, called the kids actions a 'case of sovereign stupidity', and let's rail against all Muslims, calling for Islam to be banned in Europe.

Talk about hamming it up.

absolutely.

obviously the kid giving out about ham being mentioned is not racism.

but people taking his idiotic statement and applying to a whole group of people....hmm...whats that called again?

MagicSean

AntiMatter wrote: »

Let's ignore the fact that, if you scroll down the article, the president of the Spanish Federation for Islamic religious Entities, a Muslim, called the kids actions a 'case of sovereign stupidity', and let's rail against all Muslims, calling for Islam to be banned in Europe.

Talk about hamming it up.

It's the wider Muslim communities lack of action against these minorities that put them in the firing line.

scientific1982

This is why I have a problem with religion. If it was left up to these fcukers we'd be going back to the stone age.

prinz

Telling the kid to "go back to his own country" puts a very different slant on things. In that case both the kid and the teacher were in the wrong.

AntiMatter

k_mac wrote: »

It's the wider Muslim communities lack of action against these minorities that put them in the firing line.

:pac:

sensibleken

k_mac wrote: »

It's the wider Muslim communities lack of action against these minorities that put them in the firing line.

does that mean were all responsible for every stupid gob****e that calls into joe duffy?

prinz

AntiMatter wrote: »

:pac:

Don't know what you are :pac: about because k_mac hit the nail on the head. Far too often this kind of thing gets explained and excused away by others instead of condemned for what it was, a stupid thing to say.

scientific1982

prinz wrote: »

It's not Islam it's certain numptyish individuals.

If the kid wasnt a muslim, do you think he would have a problem with the word ham. No, didnt think so.

Zombienosh

http://demotivational.ca/haters-gonna-hate/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/haters-gonna-hate-pig.jpg

biko

prinz wrote: »

Telling the kid to "go back to his own country" puts a very different slant on things. In that case both the kid and the teacher were in the wrong.

This is a only claim from the kid. Of course he wants to the teacher to appear racist by claiming that.

Andrew42

That's gas, what's the name of that city in the north of England with the huge Muslim community? Leeds?, Bradford? no, Birmingham!

Voodu Child

The kids mother wrote:

"Never in all my life have I had any trouble with pigs, on the contrary."

Now im not prejudiced against pigs, but...

sensibleken

prinz wrote: »

Don't know what you are :pac: about because k_mac hit the nail on the head. Far too often this kind of thing gets explained and excused away by others instead of condemned for what it was, a stupid thing to say.

anti matter pointed out that it was described as stupid by a muslim leader.

anyway why should anyone have to stand up and condemn what some eeijit of a teenager says in school?

can you imagine brian cowen condeming some irish kid in school in britain because he made a fool of himself

prinz

scientific1982 wrote: »

If the kid wasnt a muslim, do you think he would have a problem with the word ham. No, didnt think so.

....and? I have had a Muslim housemate who had no issue with the rest of us, keeping, cooking and eating ham, rashers, pudding etc and the word ham meant nothing to him whatsoever.

The kind of kid in this case is one of those people who will look for something to complain about tbh.

Cookie_Monster

prinz wrote: »

....and? I have had a Muslim housemate who had no issue with the rest of us, keeping, cooking and eating ham, rashers, pudding etc and the word ham meant nothing to him whatsoever.

surely it means "ham" to him too
:pac: