Posted on 01/03/2007 7:18:39 AM PST by presidio9
A French court ruled Tuesday that an organization with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist.
Police banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds.
The administrative court said the distribution was "clearly discriminatory," but could not be stopped because the organizers offered to feed anyone who asked for help.
The mayor of Paris condemned the ruling and urged the police to appeal the ruling.
"Faced by this initiative which stinks of xenophobia, I want once again to express city hall's desire to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism," mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement.
The food handouts are organized by a nationalist group called Solidarity of the French (SDF). It says its "pig soup," which uses pork fat for stock, is country fare much loved by French traditionalists.
"No-one has ever been able to prove that anyone has been refused soup or clothes on the grounds of their religion or race," SDF lawyer Frederic Pichon told France Info radio after Tuesday's court decision.
The mayor of Paris is a socialist. That explains his opposition to the matter.
Let's see now, is there a soup kitchen that offers meat-free meals to Catholics during Lent?
Doesn't have to be. A Catholic who is poor enough to go to a soup kitchen doesn't have to obey the rule about no meat on Friday during Lent.
Uh-oh - watch out for more "teens setting cards on fire"...but now they will be joined by the now "alienated" French Jews...
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I would bet that not a single Jew has lined up for soup at this place, except perhaps left-wing traitor activists on purpose to generate controversy. Yet they lead with "Jews" and mention "anti-Semetism" as a cover. This is all about Pisslam. Nothing else.
Alcohol.
I have always felt that if the average Muslim schmo could have a shot of Whiskey or a pint of ale they would be a lot less "enraged" all the time.
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherf*#@%r. Pigs sleep and root in sh*t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
Wouldn't soup with meat in it be discriminatory against vegetarians? We couldn't have that.
Finally a pork barrel project I can support. Where do we send donations?
Many drink anyway. In the Gulf, they go to Bahrain to party. One Saudi I knew went to Florida to party and drink every year. Others just said they drink, but that's an issue between them and their god (Allah is merciful, he'll forgive my weakness, etc.).
Note to the prohibitionists: If a mandate from God can't keep people from partaking in their favorite mind-altering drug, do they think a simple law will stop it?
What in the world is PORK SOUP?
"My religion states I can only eat fillet mignon and lobster."
Need any converts? :)
Any meat that would otherwise be halal, except that it was slaughtered by a rabbi, is forbidden to Muslims according to one imam I've seen cited on the internet.
So pretty much any kosher meat.
I once met a guy from Turkey who said that many muslims in Turkey believe eating shellfish is against Islam or at least against local religious/superstitious beliefs and customs.
He said many people in Turkey viewed shellfish as being connected (in some way) to "the devil", as he put it.
Personally, I love all quality food and drinks, for many reasons. The desire to eat and drink well is a healthy one and just like a great American named Benjamin Franklin claimed that "Beer is the evidence that God loves us and wants us to be happy", I believe everything edible and likewise palatable around to be a true blessing, at least while consumed in limited amounts.
By the way, in my home country, Sweden, we have a long tradition of eating soup containing pork meat, in resemblance to the French.
This culinary tradition is, in fact, perhaps the oldest one existing in Scandinavia, a part of the world which richness in the field of cusine can't be compared to that of the southern European countries in general.
The tradition of Swedish Pea soup - Ärtsoppa - is even older than the viking culture (which existed around 700-1000 AD). Scientists have actually traced it back to the Scandinavian Stone Age. The dish is surrounded by a rich flora of stories and traditions, for instance we nurture this idea of Pea soup being a thing you eat especially on Thursdays and most Swedes have heard the story of our King Eric the XIV who is supposed to have been killed in the year of 1577 by poisoned pea soup.
About halal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal
Concerning kosher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_Food
Regarding Taboo food and drink in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink
Swedish Pea soup info and recipe:
http://www.soupsong.com/rartsopp.html
It'll be a short-lived faith, as its adherents will all die of scurvy.
Does that come with an automatic Vow of Poverty?
I would think any food prepared according to kosher law by a Rabbi would be kosher, but certainly not halal.
Sometimes it's a hate thing, donchaknow.
"It'll be a short-lived faith, as its adherents will all die of scurvy."
Wait...I assumed there would be lemon-butter.
How did the eskimos ever manage to reproduce for ages then?
Their language contains more than 1000 different words for snow, 29 different words for shit, but not a single one for scurvy.
Of course, I'm sure there are plenty of muslims who would not be blinded by hate in this hypothetical, and would eat the food prepared by the rabbi.
It depends on the individual, and who is making the declaration of halal (madman or reasonable one).
The skin of marine mammals, particularly whales, is a significant source of Vitamin C...which isn't found in either filet mignon or lobster, to my knowledge. The Inuit get their vitamin C from whale skin.
Relax. There are worse ways to go.
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