Posted on 09/27/2015 2:45:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
school in central France has hailed back to the Middle Ages this week, after forcing Jewish and Muslim students who do not eat pork, as well as vegetarians, to wear red and yellow discs around their necks.
The Piedalloues primary school in Auxerre, in Burgundy, forced eighteen students to wear the discs, in order to ensure that cafeteria workers did not give them pork or meat.
The practice was withdrawn this week after outraged parents and local officials compared the practice to wearing yellow stars, as mandated by the Nazis, the Telegraph reports.
The mayor immediately ordered the practice be halted after one day, Christian Sautier, director of communications in the mayor’s office, confirmed.
“When we learned about it, we fell out of our chairs,” he added.
France has a long history of forcing Muslims and Jews to wear distinct garb. Along with the yellow star, the discs are perhaps most reminiscent of the "Jew hats" in Italy and France during the 11th and 12th centuries; the pointed caps were mandated by the Fourth Council of the Lateran of 1215.
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They have a long, long, history of dealing with non French.
Europe is beginning to see itself as Europe again.
In your experience, how many Jews who keep strict kosher send their children to public schools anywhere?
I know your English is non-native, so I understand you were not trying to be offensive, but that phrase would be better rendered as "Jewish cousins."
But I understand your main points and agree with you. We should not be surrendering our culture or habits to Muslim invaders. They should assimilate to our culture or go home. I think Jews are not a problem in this regard -- they assimilate into the culture and are, for the most part, patriotic citizens of their country.
If a Jew were mistakenly given pork, it would be accepted as a mistake and forgotten. There would be no violence, no jihad. You should not equate the two peoples, Muslim and Jew. There really is little comparison.
In my experience, a number of them.
They are often very vocal in demanding concessions from the school. Things like limiting the meat (face it, government lunches are in no way Kosher), changing what can or can not have cheese in it, etc.
However, most I knew either brought their own lunch or didn’t tell Mom about the pizza.
Seems like just trouble-makers, not people concerned about religion.
That’s OUTRAGEOUS!
Muslims should be wearing GREEN discs, not red!/s
I’d bet that a parental complaint started this whole thing so the school, finally, put the cafeteria in charge of making sure the little darlings stick to their parents’ dietary rules.
Planned parenthood carries out the deed.
Planned parenthood carries out the deed, the Democrats support baby killing. The Vichy government, traitors and scums that they were, probably didn’t know Jews were being slaughtered — they knew they were being taken to work camps (which is pretty bad enough)
Planned parenthood carries out the deed, the Democrats support baby killing. The Vichy government, traitors and scums that they were, probably didn’t know Jews were being slaughtered — they knew they were being taken to work camps (which is pretty bad enough). this doesn’t exonerate the Vichy government, nor condone, nor lessen their complicity in aiding the Holocaust, but it does state that they didn’t actually do the deed as stated in the previous poster’s post
Well, were the disks just something you put on at the serving line for convenience in the cafeteria, or something you were supposed to wear all day?
It makes a difference.
If it’s just at the cafeteria, it’s like having a colored card for the vegetarian plate so you don’t have the serving people (who might not speak the local language well) trying to ask each people over and over what they want.
Importantly, I bet that the Muslim parents objected because they want to force *all* schoolchildren into eating food acceptable to Muslims. This is a typical trick, to force infidels to do things “the Muslim way”.
It is cultural imperialism.
Well said.
I think they should all be forced to eat pork, pigs are running wild all over the world and people won’t eat them.
Pigs can help solve world hunger, they eat anything.
The gov t-mandated weaering of these discs immediately brings to mind the yellow stars imposed by the Nazis, who cannot be brought to mind without also bringing to mind the death camps and ovens and gas chambers, and all. As a Norhetorical device it is fair for posters to use.
Norhetorical should just be rhetorical.
I disagree with you. They aren’t being made to wear it because they’re Juden, but due to dietary restrictions. Muslims will wear the same things.
That said, I think this is a bad idea. Have the foods be marked Kosher/Halal, or better yet, bring your own food.
Indeed. I am certain that is exactly what happened.
The way the posted article is written, my mind immediately thinks of the yellow stars imposed by the Nazis. Maybe it’s just me.
I’m sure it isn’t just you. Though, I don’t see how France grouping Muslims and Jews together, for their dietary restrictions, is remotely similar. To each his own.
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