Go, piggy, go!

Here's another good reason not to move to Texas. It looks like Shrub's home state is still having trouble overcoming its bigotry. The latest example is a batch of yokel rednecks in a town called Katy, outside of Houston. These poor dumb bastards are all up in arms because a Muslim group purchased some land and (gasp!) wants to build a mosque!

What were they thinking?

From the AP:

Many neighborhood residents claim they have nothing against Muslims and are more concerned about property values, drainage and traffic.

But one resident has set up an anti-Islamic website with an odometer-like counter that keeps track of terrorist attacks since Sept. 11. A committee has formed to buy another property and offer to trade it for the Muslims' land. And next-door neighbor Craig Baker has threatened to race pigs on the edge of the property on the Muslim holy day. Muslims consider pigs unclean and do not eat pork.

Besides keeping track of the running total of post-Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Web site provides home addresses of some association members and advises people who see anything suspicious to contact the FBI. Many people have sent anti-Islamic e-mails to the site.

Cynthia Blackman wrote Radack that the center was a security risk: "Would you and your family safely and comfortably live next to this 11-acre Muslim mosque and facilities?"

The resident who's promised to start pig races, one Craig Baker, has apparently realized that his anger over what he thought was a Muslim attempt to take his land was erroneous, but has concluded that it's too late to pull back now, because "I would be like a total idiot if I didn't. I'd be the laughingstock now because I've gone too far."

I guess the bill of rights doesn't apply in shrub-country. Y'know, freedom of religion and all that jazz?