Once again.... Gullible's Travels:
>> As the excerpt above clarified, the purported “ban” in actuality merely referenced new voluntary guidelines proposed by London-based
interfaith group
Coexist House. Not only were details of the guidelines not provided for review (calling into question whether they even strongly emphasized sensitivity to Muslims over other faiths), but even the nebulous description provided of them in no way described any form of “ban.” No government agency in the U.S. or UK had a hand in the development of whatever the guidelines contained, nor was any individual or workplace in any way obliged to abide by them.
The rumor about workplace pork bans is one of several that leans on the specter of “offended Muslims” imposing their faith’s tenets or conventions upon Westerners in the United States and Europe (despite the fact such claims are rarely rooted in the tiniest bit of fact). Prior to the rumor’s appearance, social media were entranced by a video inaccurately described as depicting
Muslim teens beating a Dutch girl because of her immodest dress, a viral distortion that claimed KFC “banned
hand wipes” because they violated Islamic belief; a
Daily Mail piece that duped social media users into claiming Muslims had tried to dig up someone’s
grandfather, a popular rumor holding that Muslim
nurses were exempt from washing their hands in clinical settings, one other that suggested “pork” and related words were harangued out of the
dictionary by Islam’s adherents, and yet another positing that schoolchildren would no longer learn about the
Holocaust because those lessons were offensive to Muslims.
As with the earlier rumors, the workplace pork ban was based upon snowballing outrage in response to the interfaith-promoting suggestions of one man stationed with one interfaith organization in one city (in the UK, not the United States). Those guidelines appeared to have been drafted as part of a project to simplify religious diversity in the workplace, and in no meaningful way constituted a bank on pork products in British (or American) offices. --
Snopes
Yanno, the completely-unlinked attribution only to "CoExist House" should have been your first clue.
