Little mosque on the Katy
The Daily Show tackled Katy, Texas, the Houston suburb which welcomed a new mosque with pig races next door:
Katy-ite 1: I personally don’t want the mosque here at all. I don’t want a mosque anywhere.
Katy-ite 2: Probably the major fear is that our kids are gonna have to go to school with them.
Katy-ite 3: Get a rope, find a good tree, there you go.
Rob Riggle: So if these people called you racist, that wouldn’t be accurate, would it.
Craig Baker: No, it wouldn’t be accurate. The correct way to do it would be to… holler out something like ‘You’re a bigot,’ you know. That would be correct.
Quotes from the town meeting:
Do I want the big gold dome thing behind my house? No…
Do I want to keep hearing the call-to-prayer thing? No…
It’s the terrorist connection…
More on the dispute:
A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims. [Link]
The Daily Show comedians are remarkably good at luring people into saying ridiculous things, but in Katy, you get the feeling they didn’t have to try very hard at all.
on Friday, May 18th, 2007, 12:40 pm in Issues, Religion, TV, Video clips › 
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Katy-ite 3: Get a rope, find a good tree, there you go.
Note to self: Dont EVER go to Katy.
i live in katy. most of it has a pretty big desi community. it’s only in certain areas (the more rural areas) that the bigotry is this evident.
there was a recent episode of the colbert report where the outsourcing of town hall meeting reports to india, and he played a hindi film clip.
“racist” vs “bigot” :)
well the man has the right to have pig races on his property.
Just like the mosque group has the right to pray, on their property.
The mans idea was to offend them, and they (muslims) should learn that in US there is freedom of belief, free speech so if
some ones acts are deliberately offensive they can huff and puff about paigambar ki shaan ke khilaf on their property
or better yet make peace with the pigs and become vegans