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Alabama Store Owner’s Sign Reminds That BBQ Restaurants Are “Safest” Because Of Lack Of Muslims

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And here’s our offensive sign of the day. An Alabama store owner known for putting jokes up on the billboard outside of his electronics store has found that the response gets chillier when you decide to use racist jokes. The quote Chuck Biddinger used instructs drivers that the “BBQ Pork Restaurant Is Safest. No Muslims Inside.”

In some ways, I applaud Biddinger. I’d love to see more jokes next time I’m driving down the highway. However, just because something one of your dumb buddies sent you in an email was funny, it doesn’t mean it needs to go up there. Here’s a good test to keep in mind. Next time you’re considering a new joke to use, take a friend out to a public place and tell it to them loudly. If you feel the need to look over your shoulder and see who’s around before you start telling it, then it’s probably a bad joke to use.

Probably the most disheartening moment in the video below from ABC 3340, is when the news crew interviews local residents on whether they find the joke funny or not and half respond in the affirmative. Fortunately, it appears they only asked two people at a gas station while on the drive back to the station. Let’s hope the rest of the town has better stats.

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  • Big Eddie

    He does sewer cam repair ? Do sewer cams break down a lot ?

  • Atticus Draco

    “Alabama Store Owner’s Sign Reminds That BBQ Restaurants Are “Safest” Because Of Lack Of Muslims”

    WHOA!,,, LMAO!!
    That’s a helluva marketing scheme you got there doc!

    “I want free advertising dang it”

  • Big Eddie

    Are there people who watch banks of sewer cam monitors , or do they just record everything and compile discs of the daily highlights ?

  • TristramShandy

    Only a cretin, someone like… say Jon Bershad, would find that sign offensive. Like everyone else, I find the sign hilarious!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Maybe if Muslims stopped blowing themselves up or trying to blow themselves up nearly every single day, peopel wouldn’t be as apprehensive about them?

  • Atticus Draco

    TristramShandy said:
    Only a cretin, someone like… say Jon Bershad, would find that sign offensive. Like everyone else, I find the sign hilarious!

    LMAO,,, damn right it’s hilarious

    “WHAT?!,,, WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY SIGN?!?”

  • Pablo

    Big Eddie said:
    Are there people who watch banks of sewer cam monitors , or do they just record everything and compile discs of the daily highlights ?

    I think you want to watch them constantly. You never know what might turn up.

  • lonestar77

    Jon,
    You need to change the headline of this story. He’s not saying BBQ restaurant’s are safest he’s saying BBQ PORK restaurants are safest…you know cuz muslims don’t eat pork…that’s the punchline. Oh, and it’s pretty darn funny. It must suck to be a liberal like you, going through life inventing new ways to be offended. There are so many better uses of your time. Maybe you should invent airplanes made from pork. Those of us who fly a lot would be greatly appreciated.

  • Thelonious Funk

    It’ll at least be safe on Friday’s, because the IRA won’t be there.

    Mocking culture is fun.

  • Big Eddie

    Pablo said:
    I think you want to watch them constantly. You never know what might turn up.

    Yeow . Thought Steve McQueen destroyed that creature back in the fifties .

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/

  • Tricky

    “Let’s hope the rest of the town has better stats.” Can’t put my finger on it, but somehow I doubt it.

  • CosmosDan

    I sense the old “bomb in the slaw” plot coming.

  • Harry Flashman

    Yeah, that’s pretty tasteless all right.

    We all know Muslims are way too busy creating massive children’s charites like St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital or winning all those Nobel prizes in medicine and research like those evil Jew scientists in Israel and creating huge institutes of higher learning like Notre Dame University or works of art or great books or music to ever do something like strap a bomb on themselves, walk into a busy restaurant or wedding, and kill people just minding their own business, don’t we?

    Yeah, the Muslim achievements in thiose areas are indeed impressive. Wouldn’t want to offend them seeing how much they contribute to the human race, would we?

  • JP

    ” An Alabama store owner known for putting jokes up on the billboard outside of his electronics store has found that the response gets chillier when you decide to use racist jokes.”

    When are you idiot journalists going to learn the English language? Making a joke about Muslims is not RACIST.

    It’s anti-religious, but Muslims are not a RACE. White is a race. Native American is a race. Asian is a race. I guess if the guy put up a sign making fun of Catholics eating fish on Friday that would be RACIST too? Yeah, I thought so.

    I think it’s hilarious. Get off your high-horse jackass.

  • errxn

    Gee Jon, thanks for reminding me just how much I am dreading having to go back to Alabama for the Christmas holidays. The place is a fucking shithole.

  • CAconservative

    The sign is somewhat funny. I would think a restaurant serving pork would be a target for Muslims. I’ll bet, in the not too distant future, Muslims will start demanding the closure of the types of restaurants in their neighborhoods.

  • Harry Flashman

    “I’ll bet, in the not too distant future, Muslims will start demanding the closure of the types of restaurants in their neighborhoods.”

    That’s already happened in the UK. Muslims demanded the closure of a local restaurant that cooked bacon in the morning. The smell, they said, was offensive.

  • dahni

    Sign a little funny, but I really want to know more about the ‘sewer cam repair’ item! Any more ideas about this? I HATE not knowing about sewer cams!!!

  • Davidod

    Yeah, JP is correct in saying t’s not racist per se, since Muslims are the adherents of the religion of Islam. Thus, it’s religious predjudice or religious intolerance, at best (or should I say, at worst?). It’s a fact that Muslims don’t eat pork, so that’s not offensive.

    The only element of the sign that IS offensive is stating that it’s safer inside BECAUSE there are no Muslims: THAT should be offensive to all Americans, as it implies that Muslims as a group are more dangerous and violent compared to any other group. I dare say Muslims, esp American Muslims, are even a blip on the Police blotter…

    But don’t let the facts stand in the way of Alabama Dude trying to profit off of scape-goating a minority group: he’s well within his free speech rights to do so (as long as his ignorant rancor doesn’t increase, rising to the level of hate speech).

  • Z_man723

    He’s from Alabama, what do you expect?

  • JP

    The problem is, nobody can take a joke anymore. Here’s the definition:

    1. a humorous anecdote
    2. something that is said or done for fun; prank
    3. a ridiculous or humorous circumstance
    4. a person or thing inspiring ridicule or amusement; butt
    5. a matter to be joked about or ignored

    This one falls into the “5″ category. I am sick of people being offended about EVERYTHING. I’m an older guy with no hair. Want to make a joke about baldness? Go ahead. So what! People need to lighten up.

    The sign would not be “funny” if it didn’t portray a ridiculous situation. Most people going to a barbecue joint in Alabama are not going to worry too much about terrorism when they get a pulled pork sandwich. They are more concerned whether the mustard-vinegar sauce has the right “tang”!

  • eingriff

    Joy to the world, except Mohammedans.

    “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
    Ayatollah Khomeini.

    No offense to Islam (not serious).

  • badgerboy

    I agree that this is not a racist joke, it is a religious joke. Arabs are a race. Muslims are practicing members of Islam. Although Arabs are closely tied perception-wise to Islam, so it still has an indirect component of racism to it.

    But it would be somewhat like if this owner put up a sign on Fridays that said, “Come enjoy a Catholic-free Friday pork dinner with us!” I’m thinking some of his customers would fail to find great humor in that. But even that isn’t exactly the same, since it doesn’t equate violence with all Catholics.

  • Arch

    I don’t find it offensive, but I don’t find it funny either. It’s just kind of dumb.

  • jjay7381

    Oh, Alabama. The hilarious gift that keeps on giving. Don’t ever change, you lovable white trash welfare state.

  • HostileLogic

    Freedom of speech.

    Love it or leave it!

  • jjay7381

    HostileLogic said:
    Freedom of speech.

    Love it or leave it!

    Wow, original thought there. You obviously don’t understand what freedom of speech really means. Freedom of speech only protects you from the government. Not from other people who are offended by what you’re saying. Read your constitution, idiot.

  • SpineCrusher

    As their favorite role model says, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

  • Socialist

    Thelonious Funk said:
    It’ll at least be safe on Friday’s, because the IRA won’t be there.

    Mocking culture is fun.

    LOL ..ikr. These things come up often, mocking other cultures, and sometimes ours but meh.. who cares about their offensiveness when they are funny…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Terry-Canaan/666670819 Terry Canaan

    What a prick. Might as well put up a sign that says, “I hate other Americans!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    I think it’s hilarious.

  • CosmosDan

    JP said:
    ” An Alabama store owner known for putting jokes up on the billboard outside of his electronics store has found that the response gets chillier when you decide to use racist jokes.”

    When are you idiot journalists going to learn the English language? Making a joke about Muslims is not RACIST.

    It’s anti-religious, but Muslims are not a RACE. White is a race. Native American is a race. Asian is a race. I guess if the guy put up a sign making fun of Catholics eating fish on Friday that would be RACIST too? Yeah, I thought so.

    I think it’s hilarious. Get off your high-horse jackass.

    Maybe he could add, “None o dem Jews either” just for fun.

  • CosmosDan

    HostileLogic said:
    Freedom of speech.

    Love it or leave it!

    Yep, Like I said about the KKK snowman, if you want to put up a sign that says, “I’m a jerk” have at it.

  • SarahP

    TristramShandy said:
    Only a cretin, someone like… say Jon Bershad, would find that sign offensive. Like everyone else, I find the sign hilarious!

    That’s only because you are brain dead. No pun intended.

  • tiredofbs

    I don’t give a care who u r ,,
    That is just too damn funny..
    I b et every Muslim passing by LOL
    Get a sense of humor people

  • SpineCrusher

    Isn’t BBQ Pork an Asian dish?

    LFMAO!!!!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Dronetek said:
    Maybe if Muslims stopped blowing themselves up or trying to blow themselves up nearly every single day, peopel wouldn’t be as apprehensive about them?

    kinda like saying “maybe if catholics stopped molesting little boys, people would trust them more.”
    or “maybe if people stopped saying stupid shit, people might listen to them.”

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    jjay7381 said:
    Oh, Alabama. The hilarious gift that keeps on giving. Don’t ever change, you lovable white trash welfare state.

    just another liberal elitist…
    btw, do they have indoor plumbing down there yet?

  • http://none pyrope

    Hilarious.

  • http://none pyrope

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    just another liberal elitist…btw, do they have indoor plumbing down there yet?

    jjay7381 said:
    Oh, Alabama. The hilarious gift that keeps on giving. Don’t ever change, you lovable white trash welfare state.

    Spoken like true northeastern elitist liberals. Aren’t we all supposed to be Americans?

  • http://none pyrope

    Big Eddie said:
    December 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm SpineCrusher(Quote)
    3

    Probably not but you have to keep an eye on those liberals.

  • Not Easily Fooled

    It’s a religion Jon, not a race, and pork restaurant security is howlingly funny, ignoramus.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    pyrope said:
    Spoken like true northeastern elitist liberals. Aren’t we all supposed to be Americans?

    and muslims aren’t americans?

  • ProgLib

    If you ever go to Europe you’d find a large number of kebab joints serving pork because it’s much more readily available, it tastes good, and whatever you think of moslems not all of them are fanatic about their religion. Just like a large number of so called christians lie, drink, cheat and gamble, a lot of moslems in Western Europe will eat the same stuff their neighbors do. Not sure this helped the argument though since you won’t feel safe in BBQ joints from now on.

  • Tomas57

    It’s his restaurant. He can do and say whatever he wants.

    The professional offended class should go pound sand.

    -

  • felixw

    Political correctness is when people get intensely upset over a comment, without paying any concern over its accuracy. Muslim terrorists don’t eat at Alabama BBQ restaurants? Either this is a true statement or it isn’t. If it’s false, disprove it. If it’s true, quit trying to stop someone from saying it. Simple, huh? But not for the Left, which always has higher priorities than the truth.

  • Nahu Tuk

    ProgLib said:
    If you ever go to Europe you’d find a large number of kebab joints serving pork because it’s much more readily available, it tastes good, and whatever you think of moslems not all of them are fanatic about their religion. Just like a large number of so called christians lie, drink, cheat and gamble, a lot of moslems in Western Europe will eat the same stuff their neighbors do. Not sure this helped the argument though since you won’t feel safe in BBQ joints from now on.

    Gotta go with the odds I guess.

  • Nahu Tuk

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    and muslims aren’t americans?

    Not pyrope but some of ‘em are. & some of ‘em try to explode bombs at Christmas tree lightings. Others of ‘em kill innocent people on military bases and others still try to explode bombs at military recruiting centers. Their punishment should be a daily enema with pork gravy ’til it comes out their nose.

  • Sunnyr

    He has a point. Why get your panties in a bunch over this factoid? If it’s politically incorrect, too frickin’ bad.

  • CjSee

    Some day, soon hopefully, people will figure out that they do not have a right to not be offended.

  • Dem4Ever

    I’m a Muslim puke and I was not offended. It was a funny joke and everybody knows it.

  • njoy-d-ride

    lonestar77 said:
    airplanes made from pork

    When pigs fly !!!

  • Thomas the Catholic

    I have visited Hindu temples, synagogues and, of course, churches, whether Protestant, Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, etc. I have never visited a mosque because infidels are simply not allowed and, frankly, I do not regard it as a religion and do not want to go. It is the last standing order of a long dead general; kill or convert to the cause. But, I digress. This man’s sign is not in poor taste. It is funny and, most likely, true. It seen as racist because of this pernicious tyranny of political correctness.

    I have been to Saudi Arabia and seen the mistreatment of the Philipino maids. At the hands of the Saudi masters, they were meted brutal treatment and sometimes killed. They were buried in the sands of that truly beautiful country. These people go there only for work, G-d bless their souls. This is what they do to strangers and the media covers this, instead. How I truly hate the media.

  • The ReaI Royal King

    Silly twit. Doesn’t he know that the only religion you’re supposed to make fun of is Christianity?

    The Muslims may actually come after you.

  • The ReaI Royal King

    SarahP said:
    That’s only because you are brain dead. No pun intended.

    Good. Because that wasn’t a pun, Tumbleweed.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact:

    Ten Obvious Reasons Why
    Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace

    #1 14,000 deadly terror attacks committed explicitly in the name of Islam in just the last eight years. (Other religions combined for perhaps a dozen or so).

    #2 Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had people killed for insulting him or criticizing his religion. This included women. Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad.

    #3 Muhammad said in many places that he has been “ordered by Allah to fight men until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.” In the last nine years of his life, he ordered no less than 65 military campaigns to do exactly that.
    Muhammad inspired his men to war with the basest of motives, using captured loot, sex and a gluttonous paradise as incentives. He beheaded captives, enslaved children and raped women captured in battle. Again, Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad.

    #4 After Muhammad died, the people who lived with him, and knew his religion best, immediately fell into war with each other.
    Fatima, Muhammad’s favorite daughter, survived the early years at Mecca safe and sound, yet died of stress from the persecution of fellow Muslims only six months after her father died.
    Fatima’s husband Ali, who was the second second convert to Islam and was raised like a son to Muhammad, fought a civil war against an army raised by Aisha, Muhammad’s favorite wife – and one whom he had said was a “perfect woman.” 10,000 Muslims were killed in a single battle, waged less than 25 years after Muhammad’s death.
    Three of the first four Muslim rulers (caliphs) were murdered. All of them were among Muhammad’s closest companions. The third caliph was killed by allies of the son of the first (who was murdered by the fifth caliph a few years later, then wrapped in the skin of a dead donkey and burned). The fourth caliph (Ali) was stabbed to death after a bitter dispute with the fifth. The fifth caliph went on to poison one of Muhammad’s two favorite grandsons. The other grandson was later beheaded by the sixth caliph.
    The infighting and power struggles between Muhammad’s family members, closest companions and their children only intensified with time. Within 50 short years of Muhammad’s death, even the Kaaba, which had stood for centuries under pagan religion, lay in ruins from internal Muslim war…
    And that’s just the fate of those within the house of Islam!

    #5 Muhammad directed Muslims to wage war on other religions and bring them under submission to Islam. Within the first few decades following his death, his Arabian companions invaded and conquered Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian lands.
    A mere 25 years after Muhammad’s death, Muslim armies had captured land and people within the borders of over 28 modern countries outside of Saudi Arabia.

    #6 Muslims continued their Jihad against other religions for 1400 years, checked only by the ability of non-Muslims to defend themselves. To this day, not a week goes by that Islamic fundamentalists do not attempt to kill Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists explicitly in the name of Allah.
    None of these other religions are at war with each other.

    #7 Islam is the only religion that has to retain its membership by threatening to kill anyone who leaves. This is according to the example set by Muhammad.

    #8 Islam teaches that non-Muslims are less than fully human. Muhammad said that Muslims can be put to death for murder, but that a Muslim could never be put to death for killing a non-Muslim.

    #9 The Qur’an never once speaks of Allah’s love for non-Muslims, but it speaks of Allah’s cruelty toward and hatred of non-Muslims more than 500 times.

    #10 “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”
    (The last words from the cockpit of Flight 93)

  • stublore@

    “…
    found that the response gets chillier when you decide to use racist jokes.”
    Remind me again, HOW IS MUSLIM A RACE???
    Idiotic.
    Muslims are not a race, islam is a CHOICE.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rebecca-Gavin/1151983040 Rebecca Gavin

    It all depends on how you define “safe”, doesn’t it? It’ s not safer if what you are afraid of is, say, Trichinosis. Am I wrong?.

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