Just like Saud above said,

Is it possible that it's not political correctness and just that the banks PR dept. has said

"How about we get rid of the pig....... it will make us look as if we are sensitive to Islamic concerns and we may get more Islamic business".

I believe much of the stuff done in the name of Political Correctness is just trying to manipulate a situation to appeal to a large minority to generate more business.

It has nothing to do with Muslims asking for it - if they didn't like the pig they wouldn't bank there - it's just marketing spun into caring - this way the bank hopes to get more Islamic business. So don't blame followers of Islam, blame the companies who do things like this as they are only doing it to try and get more money!

Does that work as an idea??

Toby, London,

Omigawd! Will Kermit eventually cast Miss Piggy aside for a more politically correct companion?

Ridiculous!

Liuboyen, Oakland, CA

This is the kind of political correctness garbage that will cost the civilized world our freedoms. What will be our concession in the United States? Maybe we should stop eating pork. Maybe a ban on stuffed animals that look and sound like pigs. Would that be a good start? How about a ban on walking your dog down the street, because in Iran walking your dog gets four months in jail and thirty lashes. Here is my advise to countries who are civilizied and do not want to live in the stone age, wake up before it is to late and we all wind up living under Sharia law.

chris kenyon, gloversville, United States / New York

Well!!??? Let's see. Hmm! How about a "Camel Bank"?
Seems logical, right? Hee! Hee! The kind made in China; they are cheaper. Caution: May contain lead.

What a world I live in...

Steven Thompson, Los Angeles, USA

You change, bend, a culture by continually extracting one concession after another no matter how small each one is.
Concessions are being extracted by Muslim/Islamists; continually playing the victimhood card, veiled threats and intimidation. So far it is working as Liberals and Leftists around the globe cannot say no out of phony guilt and fear.

John W, Fort Worth, USA

Liberalism is a mental disorder!

Joe , New York, USA

Thanks,Stuart Murray,someone from Canada makes a mistake and you take a cheap shot at the U.S.
classy!

NR, Phila, US

Its am amazing that a bank or indeed any government or local council for that matter is willing to bow down to any monority who wish to impose their own standards or ideals onto the general populus.

I am for tolerance until it starts getting ridiculious, where does it stop? It wont until stop until the majority shout loud enough in an organised fashion that enough is enough.

For a multiculture society to 'get along' and be truely tolerant all must understand that somethings will offend you, changing something to suit a minority compounds the problem by alienating them as it shows that the minority are not tolerant themselves - the benefits of the free west is that you have a choice, you dont like something dont chose it or ignore it. Governements etc have made race, religion and political correctness an issue themselves by making differences an issue rather than understanding them. The source of a lot of racial tension therefore could be political correctness itself

Rich mathews, Edinburgh, Lothian

When will the western world say enough catering to muslims. islam has spread thru fire and sword for centuries, now the PC crowd is handing the world to them.

Jeromey Lange, Dallas, Texas USA

I agree with most people as I have both Jewish and Muslim friends who have no objections to piggy banks. Let's stop this nonsense now. We have stupid teachers and councillors banning the three little pigs stories now this rubbish. Those PC idiots should get their facts right as Jews and Muslims do not EAT pig flesh but do not find the image of a pig offensive.

George, Glasgow, UK

Six percent of the population? Did anybody realy notice the offending Piggy? Just take the money. This is enough to start the PC squealers jumping on to their soap boxes.
Leon. Italy

Noel Harris, Rome, Italy

Sir,
Remember the case of changing the Barclays eagle symbol, ABN AMRO, Netherlands and appeasing Jews - Double standards?

SC, London, United Kingdom

I came on to make a simple statement but George has anticipated me in a way. Still, to strengthen his argument:

If you have clients who eat piggy banks then you need to get new clients.

Ian, Solihull, UK

once again it islamophiba. its not that "muslims are demanded it but bank have taken step.

muhammed, london, UK

When I lived in Oman I once got some leather wallets sent out from the UK as corporate gifts. To my horror I realised they were made from pig skin. I asked a senior Omani what should I do? Don't worry he said, we promise not to eat them! Problem solved.

George, Wrea Green, UK

For our Canadian readers Holland is not in England. But it is the sort of action our Government would take.

Mike, Devon, UK

MGW in Canada - were you educated in the US? I ask because the Netherlands in not England as you seem to suggest and Winston Churchill wasn;t from the Netherlands either.

Stuart Murray, Amsterdam, Netherlands

'Pigs are considered an unclean animal by Muslims' is another non sense people believe about Islam, all animals are considered innocent and like my jewish friend pointed, prohibition is in eating pork flesh, everything is else fairy tales, and we know dutch and Danes are good in them.

Adam, watford, UK

Sad pathetic England. This is not the country of Winston Churchill anymore. He would be turning over in his grave if he could see this poppycock.

MGW, Vancouver, Canada

I think he'd be pretty pleased with a bloodless anexation of the Netherlands though...

George, manchester,

"Pigs are considered an unclean animal by Muslims and Jews"

Oh, please don't go pinning this one on Jews. Jews may not eat pigs, but they don't have this phobia of them that some Muslims seem to have. I don't know a single Jew who'd have a problem with a piggy bank.

Nathan, New York, USA

Absolutely RIDICULOUS.

Allan, Girona, Spain

Sad pathetic England. This is not the country of Winston Churchill anymore. He would be turning over in his grave if he could see this poppycock.

MGW, Vancouver, Canada

Kim Dobson-Abrahams is so right. Just boycott every business that behaves in such a cravenly appeasing manner - that will soon snap them back to reality!

David Russell, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

is it not time that Barclays bank ditched the eagle motif as i believe
as a birdwatcher that it is an exploitation of the species?

the dutch need to get a grip of themselves ,because if they do not
then others will quickly.

paul kelly, limehouse, england

If there had been “a number of reactions to the pig” the bank should have been big enough to say sorry you don't like it - but millions of our customers do...

To anyone who encounters a minority group having a whine about their sensitivities , I would encourage you to say YASAM...You Are Still A Minority. TASAM They Are Still A Minority is the response when someone offers up the PC argument. This sort of cultural cleansing is only possible because we allow it. I have already boycotted supermarkets, pharmacies and other businesses - and written to their head offices to let them know of my objections - that I find bending-over-backwards-while-on-their-knees to (mainly Muslim) minority whingers and tricksters, unacceptable for the majority, and I urge you to do the same!

Kim Dobson-Abrahams, Manchester, England

Can you say independence is next? Yep, I knew you could.

Scott G., Tri-city area, Canada

You'll notice they aren't banning the pig out of deference to jewish sensibilities, or cows out of deference to hindu sensibilities.

Also, calling the Freedom Party 'far-right' is frankly a slur, and worse, makes genuinely far-right groups like Vlaams Belang seem more legitimate...

Adam, Bristol, England

I've had piggy banks (non-Fortis) since I was a kid and I'm proud of my collection. No political correctness is going to change that. Nor do I see any need to cater to someone sensitivities over it. You don't like it, don't look at it.

Lily Lania, London, England

just remember it is the bank who decided to do that NOT the muslims -----it is a business descion by the bank

saud, riyadh,

No one apparently supports this sort of nonsense - not even the minorities. So why do our societies sleepwalk towards obliteration of indiginous culture to accomodate alien peoples?

Business seems to be a major culprit taking such cack handed decisions to protect their businesses from some perceived backlash which in all likelihood would never come, but in the process acelerates the 'need' for such steps by other businesses and further erodes European norms.

God help us.

Jonathan, farnham, england

It's scary to see how political correctness has taken over Europe, eventually the people will have enough of this nonsense;hopefully.

Jacob, London, UK