�Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.�
Yakov Litzman is clearly a balloon. Pigs are not offensive to Muslims or Jews. Only the consumption of their flesh is deemed to be �offensive� (and even that is open to interpretation). As far as I�m aware, most Muslims and Jews do not recoil in horror at the sight of a pig; nor do they call for all pigs to be destroyed.
It�s amazing that in the event of a potentially deadly flu virus sweeping the globe, some people seem to be far keener on scoring political points by grandstanding to the world�s media, pontificating on this particular virus�s name, than they are about protecting people�s health.
Prat.