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Originally Posted by frostfire
Speaking of UK...
Jail dog named 'Allah' spells curtains for UK prison officer
Mon, May 26 03:05 PM
London, May 26 (ANI): Naming his sniffer dog "Allah" has resulted in in prison officer Chris Langridge, 28, being shifted out of Britain's top Belmarsh high-security jail.
Though Langridge insisted that his labrador was called Ali, and not Allah, a Muslim inmate filed an official complaint against the the dog handler, and he was promptly shifted.
One Belmarsh officer said: "This is political correctness gone mad."
elmarsh houses some of Britain's most notorious extremist Muslims, including hook-handed Abu Hamza. It also has the highest proportion of Muslim prisoners of any jail in Britain.
"Muslims don't like dogs and it would have been an insult to their religion if the dog had been called Allah, which is sacred to them. It is disgraceful the way the management kow-towed to them despite Chris's denial," The Sun quoted a source, as saying.
Langridge and his dog are now working at the Swaleside jail on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. (ANI)
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I hadn't heard of this, but I'm not surprised. I think the officer at Belmarsh got it right when he said, "This is political correctness gone mad."
There is a campaign going on in the UK AGAINST political correctness because it has become such a big thing recently:
http://www.capc.co.uk/. It includes other examples of UK political correctness; everything from the "Three Little Pigs" offending Muslims to "Baa Baa Black Sheep" possibly being renamed "Baa Baa Multicolored Sheep/Rainbow Sheep."
In the area that I live in, in Birmingham, which has a high population of Southeast Asian ethnicities there had been talk by the Birmingham City Council of renaming Christmas WINTERVAL as to not offend anyone of a non-Christian denomination.
