YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP:

Muslims have complained over a police advert featuring a puppy sitting in an officer’s hat. A police force has apologised to Islamic leaders for the “offensive” postcard advertising a new non-emergency telephone number, which shows a six-month-old trainee police dog named Rebel. The German shepherd puppy has proved hugely popular with the public, hundreds of who have logged on to the force’s website to read his online training diary. But some Muslims in the Dundee area have reportedly been upset by the image because they consider dogs to be “ritually unclean.”

Sadly, you don’t have to. It’s amazing what a combination of PC multi-culti guilt and a credible threat of violence will get you, though I’m guessing that it’s mostly the credible threat of violence that’s doing the work here. Nice incentive structure they’re setting up.