Prison Newspaper Featuring Bearded Pig in Turban Pulled

Alan Gardner Published: June 23, 2009 Updated: September 18, 2026 1 minute 4 comments

Fifty thousand copies of a prison newspaper were pulled after “diversity chiefs” became “extremely concerned” over a cartoon sketch of a sneezing, bearded pig wearing a turban was found accompanying an article by an inmate who “suggested that swine flu was the result of a failed plot by Osama Bin Laden to “eradicate every pig in Christendom”

Officials worried that it might offend Muslim prisoners.

(Hat Tip: Rob Tornoe.)

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Stephan Pastis

Damn. There goes that idea.

Shane Davis

Would have been better had it been a rat?

Darryl Heine

The banned pig cartoon looks like it is drawn in the style of MAD Magazine cartoonist/Rankin Bass animator Paul Coker, Jr.!

Garey Mckee

Imagine pigs in cartoons. Tasteless.

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