After a Texan called their bluff - and they even APOLOGIZED:
"A Muslim group said it is no longer offended as Katy resident Craig Baker made good on his promise to stage Friday pig races next door to an 11-acre property the group has purchased to build a mosque....
A spokesman for the association, Yousef Allam, said members are no longer offended by Baker's decision to race pigs, a forbidden meat in the Muslim culture, despite a Dec. 1 letter an attorney for the group sent to Baker demanding that he immediately remove the pigs from his own property....
Baker, 46, said his intention is not to offend anyone with the races but to make clear that he will not be forced to move or relocate his marble-fabricating shop as he claims a member of the association previously urged him to. "I am just defending my rights and my property," Baker said. "They totally disrespected me and my family."....
Allam said if any interaction between the group and Baker was interpreted as a threat for Baker to vacate his land, it was unintentional. "If we somehow communicated that to him, then we apologize," Allam said.
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