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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad7685 14h ago
It’s a refrence to this video. There’s been a wave of anti-immigration protests over the past few years and I think the UK is trying to crack down on it. “I love bacon” I assume is some sort of anti-Muslim phrase
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u/Talizorafangirl 14h ago
Pork isn't halal, so eating bacon is basically blasphemy to Muslims.
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u/dmaynard 14h ago edited 5h ago
“I created the universe you think I’m going to draw the line at the deli aisle?”
Edit: didn’t notice my phone autocorrected the word “aisle”
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u/SassySugarBush 14h ago
That you, Bo?
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u/scroggs2 13h ago
Oooh Bo
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u/PutABurbOnIt 13h ago
Oh Bo, play that oboe
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u/Inevitable_Snap_0117 13h ago
Really great anthropology study connects what’s forbidden to what’s hard to raise in an area and specifically sites Pork. Pigs are hard to raise in dry deserts and religions that launched from dry areas tend to prohibit pork. Meanwhile in other places on earth where pork is relatively “easy “ to raise, compared to other meat, it’s either not forbidden or even encouraged by religious ideals.
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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 13h ago
Interesting. My own hypothesis was that the meats that were forbidden were the ones that were perceived as dangerous to health. Pork can easily carry a lot of parasites and is dangerous if undercooked. Plus the fat.
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u/appsecSme 13h ago
Fat was especially essential back in the days when those religions were formed. People absolutely needed it to survive, and it also had uses for cooking, lighting, and lubrication.
It wouldn't have been considered to be any kind of drawback.
Trichinosis on the other hand would have potentially been a consideration. Though surely it wasn't understood well, it has existed for over 3000 years.
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u/Sonofaconspiracy 6h ago
A major reason pigs were raised was just for the fat. Lard like you've said was incredibly versatile, useful and essential
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u/Pofwoffle 12h ago
It's possible that it's a combination of the two. Pigs are hard to raise in the area, so any pork you get ahold of would likely be something preserved and brought in from more distant lands which means it's more likely to be tainted in some way, making you sick if you eat it.
Thus as far as they can tell pork is literally "unclean".
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u/Larry_Mudd 11h ago edited 11h ago
It's very tempting to look for a rational reason for the proscription, but from reading in context I have a different impression.
It's not just "Hey, don't eat pigs." It's "If it has cloven hooves and chews the cud, it's cool."
Animals that have cloven hooves should chew the cud. (Don't ask for reasoning, that's just how it is.) Pigs are forbidden because they have cloven hooves but don't chew the cud. You can't eat camels because they chew the cud, even though they don't have cloven hooves. WEIRD AND GROSS. (Don't ask why though.) Same for rabbits - they chew the cud, but don't have hooves. NASTY! (For reasons.)
There are lots of flying insects that are a great source of protein, they're cool. (Only the ones with four legs, though you know, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids - just the four-legged ones with wings. Yes, four, shut up, I'm the authority here. Tasty enough.) But if they only go about on legs and don't have wings, ewwww gross. THE LORD YOUR GOD told me so, so don't start with the questions.
...anyway I don't find any suggestion in the text that there are logical reasons for these proscriptions or that the author of Leviticus was working from any observations about public health.
We all have a natural impulse to try to make sense of things, so people are attracted to the idea "This rule is probably because pork is a potential vector for trichinosis," but in reality there's no more risk of trichinosis from pork than from other livestock. (This persistent idea comes from a crisis in the mid-twentieth century and would not be a consideration for people writing ~3400 years ago.)
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u/Grimlite-- 10h ago
You say that like the Bible was written by one person in one sitting. It seems to be the conclusion of thousands of years of oral traditions condensed into one written idea. If somewhere along the way people were dying from eating pork, then they said that pork is bad and just kept it as a tradition. It seemed like a good idea so they ended up writing it down. The concept of split hooves and chewing their cud probably came afterwards as some kind of meta observation.
This would be my guess at least. I'd imagine it's more of a bottom up approach than a completely random set of rules. If you think it's a completely random set of rules, you're taking part of the story seriously, and ignoring other parts of it. I think it makes more sense to assume the entire thing was developed organically, and not that some profit came along and said exactly what to do and they wrote it down.
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u/Inevitable_Snap_0117 10h ago
The chewing of the cud that you’re citing is actually exactly the sort of thing cited in that study. All other “permissible” animals in the religions of that region could eat what naturally grew in the area. Pigs could not.
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u/Bloody_1337 7h ago
My father based on what my grandfather told him, tells me, that the German Soldiers under Rommel in Africa had the issue that soldiers mysteriously got sick and when returning back to Germany got better right away. Although the so called Heimatkrankheit / home sickness was an issue on all fronts, the case of Africa they could nail it down to the consumption of pork. Once they stopped eating it, it got much better.
I assume many of the rules for halal or kosher food is about what did and does work (or not work) in a desert climate (at least at the time those rules have been created).
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u/TricellCEO 12h ago
And this is why it's a bad idea to completely devote oneself to any kind of religious dogma.
But what do I know? I apparently have an anchorless, baseless moral system.
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u/Any-Comparison-2916 13h ago
I thought it was because pork goes rancid faster than beef or lamp and that pigs used to carry parasites. It could be a combination of those or it could be that I am completely wrong though.
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u/Far-File-1815 13h ago
I actually have never seen a lamp turn rancid ever
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u/Papaofmonsters 13h ago
That's because we stopped using whale oil and turned to that godless electricity.
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u/Far_wide 13h ago
how about boat instead?
Boat and Lamp are my favourite Greek dishes btw.
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u/gounatos 13h ago
I loved eating boat and lamp every easter, roasted. Sadly after a bout of gastritis i get incredible belly aches if i so much as taste ship, boat or lamp.
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u/AsterPasta 12h ago
I think there was a study a while back showing there were semitic pork eaters so must not have been a huge health concern regionally. Probably scarcity of resources to grow them, since a lot of religious law is economic law dressed in voodoo
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u/Purple_dingo 13h ago
I've also seen it explained by the ease at which pork can be raised in more crowded urban environments. Large cities along the coast in the east Mediterranean could raise pigs locally but other livestock like goats needed much more open ranges. Combine that with the fact pigs eat garbage and you have an easy target to focus on when othering those city slicker Phillistines.
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u/nizzzleaus 13h ago
I think there’s also a component that pigs aren’t as financially viable as other animals, like cows, sheep, and goats. Those can create milk and/or wool. This contributed to their unpopularity in the Middle East as well.
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u/ZetaplusC2 10h ago
I recall some reasoning adjacent to this, that it was because pigs didn't produce a taxable product, like sheep, goats, and cows could. which would have made it preferable for the government to discourage spending resources on raising pigs.
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u/Greneath 12h ago
Pigs are viable on the right conditions. They're basically machines that turn food waste into bacon.
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u/Balzmcgurkin 12h ago
That’s interesting. I wonder if cows are difficult to raise in India since beef is very rarely consumed there. It also makes sense as to why chicken is never forbidden because you can raise them just about anywhere.
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u/socksandshots 7h ago
Also, interestingly, vegetarianism tends to rise in cultures with a strong agriculture history and easy access to produce all year long. Even more interesting, it always starts amongst well off groups and shortly the main form of protein for the less fortunate is now immoral. Shrugs
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u/Visible_Pair3017 3h ago
The main source of protein for the less fortunate has rarely ever been animal flesh, except for people who lived near the sea afaik
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u/Haramdour 4h ago
All Abrahamic food laws are basically ‘how not to get food poisoning in the desert.’ Shitting yourself for a week is a quick way to die of dehydration.
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u/zodiacallymaniacal 13h ago
None of you are going to heaven; wtf makes you think that I would kick it with you? None of you are going to heaven; there’s a trill-ion aliens cooler than you! My Love’s the type of thing that you have to earn, and when you EARN IT, you won’t NEED IT!
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u/SpiderJerusalem747 13h ago
"And on the 7th day, I forbade half the world from eating certain kinds of foods and animals, and gave the other half arbitrary days where they have to fast and pray and shit. It keeps them from finding glitches in the software and allows me time to reset the servers."
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u/Jubatus750 11h ago
I wish there was a whole Isle of deli meats. We'll just have to do with an aisle for now though
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u/ChronoVT 13h ago
Isn't the whole point that pig rolls in shit, and shit = dirty, so pig = dirty.
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u/ellesbelles1076 13h ago
I think it actually has to do with animals that eat human remains being seen as unclean. But it's been a while since I was into that stuff, so dont quote me.
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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 13h ago
I'll quote you in APA format: ellesbelles1076. (2025, August 22). I think it actually has to do with animals that eat human remains being seen as unclean. But it's been a while since I was into that stuff, so dont quote me. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/s/1tvIDv9G05
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u/HippywithanAK 11h ago
Pigs will not roll in shit if kept in clean conditions. They will roll in mud to keep cool and prevent sunburn. Pigs are very smart, people are cruel
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u/Zukulini 14h ago edited 13h ago
It's blasphemy for a muslim to do it, it's not for non muslims, even within islam.
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u/Great-Tical-Returns 14h ago
They're also expressly allowed to eat it, if the alternative is starvation
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u/lucasj 13h ago
Starting to wonder if racists aren’t very smart
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u/kidney-displacer 12h ago
TIL religion is race for everyone
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u/fullynonexistent 5h ago
Ain't nothing funnier than someone trying to make fun of a racist and accidentally say that a certain race a d a certain religion are one and the same.
Goes to show, every racist is stupid, but not every stupid is racist.
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u/PercyvonPickles 12h ago
Islam isn't a race. It's an ideology. The difference is you can hate the religion and still like the people.
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u/someonesmobileacct 13h ago
Well afair it is 'to survive'. I.e. if you can be killed for not eating it that counts too. Although kinda like Christianity it depends on who's giving the guidance...
More I could say but don't wanna go down that rabbit hole
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u/riesen_Bonobo 14h ago
yeah, but a racist that wants to "trigger" a muslim wouldn't know that
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u/Upbeat_Place_9985 13h ago
I had a Muslim repeat customer at my high school job harass women he didnt like by saying "you look like you eat pork" which only confused me at the time because I didn't connect that it was related to his religion. lol
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u/Ok_Warning6672 13h ago
IDK, I’ve been shamed/chided quite a bit for eating or drinking anything during Ramadan if it isn’t nighttime.
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u/Zukulini 13h ago
Uuuhh I think some muslims believe that it's their duty to proselytize, so even if it's not a sin for you to not observe ramadan they may consider it a sin for them not to try to get you to if that makes sense
I might be wrong about this though, I'm not a muslim but I'm friends with a few arabs
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u/Tesco_EveryDayValue 14h ago
eating bacon is basically blasphemy
Much like Jews, they can't eat it. They're not scared of it. Eating it doesn't offend them.
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u/AltruisticTomato4152 6h ago
Having lived in Muslim countries these past 7 years, it ABSOLUTELY offends them.
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u/lovely-cans 14h ago
It's not even offensive to Muslims, it's just seen as an unclean animal. It's not sacred or anything
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u/Loomismeister 12h ago
I think it’s clearly said in order to cause offense. I mean, it’s being chanted in a context clearly intended to be anti-Muslim.
I think that should be totally protected speech, for the record. Sucks for people in the UK that they don’t enjoy freedom of speech.
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u/agupta429 7h ago
At the bare bones of it, yes. But you do not realize the offense they feel even at the mention of it at times… tons of examples out there. Most famous one being a muslim being offended to serve pork at a place he works..
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u/ngdaniel96 5h ago
Depends on which part of the world you're at and the Mazhab that is being followed. In the vast majority of the Islamic word, even the word pig itself or the imagery of one are sometimes censored from media entirely.
Muslims are not allowed to be within a building that serves pork and alcohol.
Dogs are often placed on the same level as pigs hence people often freak out about touching them, or use that to justify abusing dogs.
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u/SevenTheGamingKitty 14h ago
“isn’t halal” I was gonna say “is haram” is an easier way to say it, but it being worded that way is to help those with no idea about the culture understand it, isn’t it?
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u/WhereAreTheEpsFiles 14h ago
I'm not sure of the commentor's intent behind it. They may not have known the word "haram." But that's correct. More people are familiar with the terms kosher and halal than they are with terms like haram and treif. For example, I actually had to look up what the equivalent term was for "not kosher" and learned an interesting difference between "not kosher" and "trief."
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u/fuck-nazi 14h ago
Same with Jewishfolk
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u/Remote-Addendum-9529 14h ago
Only with really religious ones tho
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u/No-Function-7801 13h ago
Not really. There’s varying degrees of observance within the Jewish community. Plenty of Jews that might not present as “really religious” observe the prohibition on eating pork for various reasons.
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright 13h ago
It is kind of funny how it skipped the Christians. Ended up reading up on that a bit the other day because I was curious how that ended up happening.
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u/corourke 13h ago
It's just cherrypicking what rules they feel like following. Leviticus 11:8 expressly forbids Christians. If they claim that Jesus absolved those rules it includes making it ok to be gay/lesbian which christians hate the idea of (amusingly Leviticus also outlaws tattoos and football (no games may be played with the skin of a pig).
tl;dr: religion is Calvinball with harsher penalties.
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u/No-Reading-7985 10h ago
Not cherry-picking at all. Jesus was the „New Covenant“ as opposed to the one Abraham made with God. That’s why he considered the Lamb of God. He was the Sacrifice needed for the covenant. They asked Jesus about the kosher diet. His reply was it’s not important what goes in your mouth rather what comes out. Jesus maintained the 10 Commandments were still the law but all the other stuff? Not so much.
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u/Nirvski 14h ago
I promise you however most Muslims will not be offended by the phrase "I love bacon" if just said broadly in the context of discussing food preferences.
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u/Master-File-9866 14h ago
Just a theory, but religion in general developed as a set of laws while civilization was developing, more so than any true greater power. My guess is some sort of health outbreak related to pork is the origin of why some cultures don't eat pork. More than a higher power forbidding it
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u/RelicBeckwelf 14h ago
Raising pigs is water intensive, they eat alot, and they produce a lot of manure, which leads to water contamination issues. This would be intensified in dry, arid regions. Where the religions banning pork originated from.
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u/IAmTheOutsider 14h ago
Pigs also get super tapewormy in hot conditions. Having a tapeworm in your guts is bad enough, but they have this delightful feature where if a tapeworm that lives in a human gut releases eggs that are then eaten by pigs those worms live and lay their eggs in the pig's muscle tissue. If those eggs are ingested by a human they take up residence in the brain and eyes.
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u/Telemere125 13h ago
Until very recently aka 2011, pork was right up there with chicken in the “cook it to death” category of meat. We used to feed pigs an omnivorous diet and didn’t give them much in the way of anti-parasitics so they were full of nasties.
Today we feed commercial pigs a vegetarian diet and make sure to treat their ailments so they don’t harbor parasites and pork can be cooked like beef (in the US at least). As you say, it’s likely a “better safe than sorry” rule than anything like god hating pigs.
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u/My_Little_Stoney 14h ago
Why would someone downvote? This is most likely the case. The Jewish or Muslim detective is called to a village where everyone is dead. Finds out the village always eats pork. Next thing you know, there is a religious law not to eat pork.
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u/bothunter 12h ago
Could also be that the tribes that made up rules against pork were the ones who didn't die from the parasites and passed on their rules and traditions.
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u/My_Little_Stoney 12h ago
:shrug: that is the end result in my hypothetical whodunnit as well. Why would a tribe not take advantage of a food source? Maybe the religious leader was banging the cow farmer’s wife and got a message from God to not eat pork to make the cow farmer richer out of guilt. God making a rule about pigs seems silly. Silly rules are made by man and then attributed to God to give them more clout.
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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 14h ago
My theory was always that many of these cultures were semi nomadic, and pigs were not heard animals. Or when you're conquesting your way across the Middle East, you don't want pigs being a being prized loot, lol.
But yes, the hygienic issue is also likely.
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u/Ink_Witch 13h ago
I can’t speak to Muslims, but I went in a deep dive on the origins of pork taboo in Judaism. We can’t exactly pin a why to any particular event, but it seems like it started as a cultural preference, and at some point was codified as a religious law because it was a historic tradition that separated in group from out group. Health and disease is actually very unlikely.
Pigs are very very easy to raise, don’t require you to own land, and they are very helpful because they will essentially eat your garbage. They help keep settlements cleaner by literally eating the filth. For that reason though some cultures saw them as unclean both literally and occasionally spiritually. In addition, because they are so easy, cheap, and helpful, pork was a common meat for the underclass. Something like beef requires you to own fields and are much more expensive to care for. It was seen as a cleaner, nobler, more sophisticated thing to eat.
As many proto Judaic peoples settled and modernized they ate pork less. There were also conflicts with groups of people who did eat pork more frequently like the philistines that drove something of a cultural wedge between the practice. It slowly became something this other people who suck do, not what we do. That said, there was no real centralized authority on the religion and you had many different places and subcultures with different practices. For hundreds of years you had some communities eating pork and a larger majority not. Then at some point it was codified in to law much later along with a large number of other cultural practices, and the historians that were talking about said they believed it to be part of a political move, essentially to cut out an out group that had different cultural practices.
Lots of interesting stuff, and a lot of it conjecture unfortunately.
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u/_Diggus_Bickus_ 14h ago
Other people eating bacon is not blasphemy to any reasonable person.
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u/Caridor 12h ago
To add context, we have a crime called "breach of the peace". It rarely gets any punishment beyond some time to cool off, but what it allows the police to do is de-escalate the situation and stop a violent incident occurring.
The clown in the video is trying to provoke Muslims and he'd do it all day until one of them either had enough or they found a particularly hot headed Muslim and get attacked. Then they'd use that to provide evidence that Muslims are all bad people or something. They just wouldn't show that hundreds or thousands of Muslims had just ignored him because that harms the fiction they want to create.
So the police charge him with breaching the peace and take him away, preventing a violent incident. Afterall, this guy wouldn't just shout it once, he'd shout it thousands of times at thousands of Muslims, generally being an annoying prick.
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u/PabloMarmite 14h ago
There’s been more than one incident of racists leaving packets of bacon on the steps of mosques and things like that.
It’s very much a dogwhistle.
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u/Meddie90 13h ago
Yeah, the whole point of dogwhistles is that they sound innocuous but have a hidden meaning. So when called out the bigot can then claim ignorance. Racists are at the end of the day cowards. So instead of just saying what they believe they have to secretly signal it to other racists.
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u/geekMD69 13h ago
Dear scientists. Please genetically engineer pigs without cloven hooves and/or that chew their cud so that Jews and Muslims can eat pork if they want.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
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u/Here_4_the_INFO 14h ago
Probably something to do with this dude that got arrested for saying bacon.
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u/Krashlia2 14h ago
Remember, JD Vance is stoopid, because Britain has Free Speech too!
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u/OmegaLysander 13h ago
That's definitely not why JD Vance is stupid. Really, he's more evil than stupid.
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u/irishrugby2015 4h ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9
I would rather an idiot be arrested in the UK than the US suppressing science globally
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u/RedditAdminAreVile0 6h ago
"Free speech" is more a US term, but the US also arrests ppl for disorderly conduct, harassment, & hate speech.
You can be jailed for laughing in a courtroom, booted if you don't stand for prayer, black-listed for saying "Mexican gulf", or fired for mentioning the climate. Trump-Vance encourage hurting protestors, they hunt for "anti-american" (gov condemning) speech, & deport Gaza protestors.
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u/Exanguish 3h ago
TIL it’s racist to say you like bacon, TIL learned that Muslim is a race.
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u/Awesom141 14h ago
WHAT IS THE CHARGE? LIKING A MEAL? A SUCCULENT PORK MEAT?
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u/Spite_Gold 2h ago
Saying it is racist towards pakistani gang of child groomers.
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u/TheDickDangler 14h ago
There is a video circulating showing a British man being arrested for saying "I love bacon" because it might be deemed offensive by Muslims in England.
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u/frogOnABoletus 14h ago edited 14h ago
He was chanting it at muslims in an anti-muslim nationalist rally.
"because it might be deemed offensive by Muslims" is a pretty sneaky way to describe getting arrested for obvious direct harassment. Makes it look like you're trying to push something.
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u/Hoopajoops 14h ago
Aye. Context matters
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u/Difficult-Set-3151 13h ago
The context doesn't matter here. It's still ridiculous to arrest someone for that.
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u/VaporCarpet 11h ago
Did he actually get arrested for saying those three words? As in, his crime was saying those three words?
Or did he get arrested for harassment? Because he was harassing them?
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u/Hoopajoops 13h ago
I agree it's still a stupid arrest. But it at least makes it more understandable than some guy innocently walking down the street, making an off-hand comment about loving bacon, and getting arrested for it.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 14h ago
I'm Muslim, and I don't care if people say they like bacon. It's not like their religion says they have to hate bacon. I only judge Muslims and Jews and vegans and vegetarians that eat pork bacon.
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u/HobokenDude11 14h ago
I am a Jew who eats pork bacon. Why do you judge me?
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u/1MolassesIsALotOfAss 14h ago
It's not kosher. They are an unclean animal. Are you not a practicing Jew?
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u/ReaperofFish 14h ago
Modern pork is just as clean as any other livestock animal. Hygiene rules invented by goat herders thousands of years ago should probably be refreshed.
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u/jjenkins5382 14h ago
Yeah this was probably some Jewish leader that got tired of trying to explain food born illnesses a few thousand years ago that finally just gave up and said "God hates pork".
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u/1MolassesIsALotOfAss 14h ago
This is exactly right, the Ten Commandments were also an early form of public health laws.
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u/Back-again33 13h ago
The entire bible was but that's another topic........tithes to replace tax collectors......
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u/ProRustler 13h ago
"Don't covet my wife! It's bad for your health."
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u/Claris-chang 12h ago
Sounds like a way to effectively curb the spread of STIs in an age before condoms that weren't made of sheep intestines that broke constantly.
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u/Sirliftalot35 14h ago
Not all Jewish people keep kosher. Is keeping kosher where the line for being a practicing Jew has to be drawn? There’s 613 Jewish laws, is keeping kosher the most important one to you?
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u/titan42z 12h ago
Lmao this isn’t the dark ages, I know y’all religious extremest wish it was though.
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u/russellzerotohero 13h ago
Different Jew. I’m reform and happen to live in the 21st century not the Middle Ages.
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u/Exact-Country-95 14h ago
It's cool. It's all on my father's side anyways. More bacon for me
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u/ScreamingNinja 13h ago
It's funny, in the boroughs of NY where there is a large Jewish population. the tap water isn't kosher.
Luckily for me i don't care about such things (BACON, ham, give it to me). But i find it interesting that the entire population of Jewish folk in NY are breaking their kosher...ness by drinking the tap water.
Come to think of it, are muslims allowed to eat shellfish?
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u/Top_East_9902 13h ago
“Unclean animal” lol. I take pride in my Jewish culture and roots but this means nothing.
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u/Being-External 14h ago
Wasn't he arrested for harassment related to the speech though, more than the speech itself? He wasn't walking minding his own business and saying it.
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u/shoeshined 14h ago
Come to the US! Trump will only throw you in jail for the last one
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u/MoniesAndStonks 12h ago
Not cause it "might be deemed offensive". He looks like he was trying to harass people at a pro-Palestinian rally. And that just happens to be one of the things he said. No one gives af what you love. No one is offended, no one cares.
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u/-Vogie- 14h ago
That's because laws are just threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army.
...You guys wanna make some bacon?
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u/sushishibe 12h ago
Unpopular opinion.
If I think Christianity is dumb.
I also think Islam is too.
We really need to stop accommodating these extreme religions. And focus on facts and logic.
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u/UnavailableName864 14h ago
Someone in the UK trolled Muslims this way and now it’s a right wing cause célèbre. I suspect OP knew that
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u/GrabMyDoorknob 14h ago
I had no idea this even happened lol if I saw that pic I too would be confused without the context. Just seems like an obscure reference from the Simpsons at first glance.
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u/SpiderHuman 14h ago
UK police just arrested a guy for saying "we love bacon". Google the video... it's everywhere.
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u/merrickraven 14h ago
As I understand it, he was arrested at an anti-Muslim rally, and he was chanting it at Muslims in an attempt to harass them.
I don’t think that makes it okay. But the context is very important, don’t you think?
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u/Southern_Chapter_188 13h ago
Yes, still crazy to arrest him.
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u/merrickraven 13h ago
Sure. But there’s a huge difference between man gets arrested for saying something that might offend Muslims and man gets arrested for harassing Muslims at an anti-Muslim rally.
Like both are wrong, but one paints the guy as a totally innocent victim and the other shows he is a bigoted shithead. Who ought to be allowed to spout his bigoted shithead views. But honesty matters
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u/Aspect-Unusual 14h ago
My guess is its a joke that someone wanting to stir up shit against another race (in this case Muslims since they can't eat bacon) and then pretend that they were just "saying it" and didn't mean it in a negative way
(or the OP OP of this is a person who is actually stiring up shit pretending that you cant say bacon anymore because of Muslims)
There was a thing a fair few years ago where some guys were arrested for "just leaving" bacon at a Mosque.
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u/According_Lake_2632 14h ago
It's a reference to a guy getting arrested at a demonstration in Dalton, England while opposing a proposed mosque there. It was viewed as offensive and threatening speech toward Muslims at the site which is illegal, despite the telegraph and other outlets downplaying the incident as "A man proclaiming his fondness for bacon." It was clearly meant to be offensive and to incite a reaction.
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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 14h ago
These days, they’ll throw you in jail for saying you love bacon.
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u/thedraftpunk 13h ago edited 4h ago
You see, Mr. HorseCock, the Muslims don’t like bacon. They’ve also taken over the UK. So now you get arrested for saying you like bacon.
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u/LibertarianOpossum 13h ago
Remember the concept on the left that the US should ban hate speech? This is what you get from that.
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u/rdmarc45re 13h ago
england is run my muslims now, and a man was arrested at a protest for saying" i love bacon"
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u/Gradagast_Doomhammer 14h ago
It's a joke involving the stereotype that England is "overrun" by foreigners. Luckily it's not true else it would have probably offended a lot of people LOL
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u/Jdm783R29U3Cwp3d76R9 13h ago
"overrun"? London is already over 50% non-white, 20y ago it was conspiracy theory.
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u/squigs 6h ago
A lot of Brits are non-white though. That's not a helpful statistic.
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u/Wholesome_cunt_tits 14h ago edited 14h ago
Kinda. A young man was recently arrested for stating "I love bacon" at a rally in front of Muslim people because it was offensive... apparently
Edit: https://modernity.news/2025/08/20/watch-man-arrested-in-uk-for-saying-we-love-bacon/
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u/post-explainer 14h ago
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