Monday, May 04, 2009

My Way News - Egypt's Christians see bias in pig slaughter
AP reports: "The Egyptian government is using swine flu as an excuse to get rid of tens of thousands of pigs raised by garbage collectors who live amid the refuse in Cairo slums. But the move has prompted accusations Monday that Muslims are attacking minority Christians, who breed the animals."

Comment: So there is this religious minority (that happens to be Christian) in a Muslim majority country that is fighting swine flu by killing all the pigs (even though you can't get swine flu from pigs or from eating pork), and it's the Christians who are primarily the pig farmers, and so they are suggesting that this action is inspired more by religious bigotry than science based health policy. It's really hard to imagine how this situation could be interpreted as anything other than a desire to harm the Christian minority.

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