In Britain, the chickens have come to roost

Legend tells it that Jesse James, when asked why he robbed banks, explained, "Because that's where the money is." He did not bother to say that most bankers are among the least courageous of all the professions. Caution is a second nature. Which only partly explains the latest outrage from Great Britain:

British banks are banning "piggy banks" because they might offend followers of that religion of peace known as Islam.

Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.

Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.

Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.

"This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said.

However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics.

"The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity," the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said.

"We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them."

Almost makes us wish we'd gone to the University of Arkansas. If we had, why we'd fly our pig flag high!

(But we didn't and we won't.)