Everything is Better With Bacon
Except Islamic centers: An Islamic center in South Carolina has been defaced when someone spelled out “PIG CHUMP” in bacon strips, police in Florence said Tuesday. Sometime between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, someone placed the bacon in foot-high letters on a tiled walkway at the Florence Islamic Center, according to Florence Police Major Carlos Raines. Islamic dietary restrictions bar Muslims from eating pork. The bacon has been removed, but Raines said there are still greasy marks on the walkway at the facility in Florence, about 80 miles east of Columbia. The one-story brick building that houses the center has been under renovation for four years, and there is no sign or prayer tower indicating what is operating there, Raines said. “There’s absolutely nothing that identifies it as a mosque,” Raines said. “It’s an insult, and I’m sure that’s what it was intended for.” Bad form, people.
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on October 13, 2010. Filed under