No riots? No calls for execution of the store clerk who offered hams for Hanukkah?
A posh food store in New York's Greenwich Village has found itself red faced after offering hams for sale with the slogan "Delicious for Hanukkah," the current Jewish religious holiday.
The non-kosher labelling was spotted at the weekend by Manhattan novelist Nancy Kay Shapiro, 46, who decided instead of alerting management to take a picture of the unorthodox sign and post it on the Internet.
"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way. I just thought, here's somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat."
Contrast this to the Islamist treatment of schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons for allowing her students to name the class teddy bear "Mohammed."
But in America, people are capable of cutting one another some slack for inadvertent religious offense.
There's this bizarre notion that it's more important to live in peace with one another than to take offense at every opportunity.
"I just though it was funny," she said.
Funny? What a concept!
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