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| Court rules pork soup kitchen not racist |
| 2007-01-02 |
| A FRENCH court ruled on Tuesday that an organisation 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 organisers 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 organised 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 said on France Info radio after Tuesday's court decision. |
| Posted by:Threns Crineque4808 |
| #13 A tempest in a soup pot. Don't they realise the pig is a wonderful, magical animal? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-01-02 23:20 |
| #12 What a waste of time and french taxpayer's $$$. I figured by the title this was a 9th circuit classic. Same sh*t, different country. I'm sure that soup kitchen offers an alternative to pig soup - it's called broth. If you don't want it you ain't that hungry as my ma always used ta say. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-01-02 22:17 |
| #11 "hey, you buy a hat like that they give you a free bowl of soup." -Rodney Dangerfield |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-01-02 22:14 |
| #10 excellent toon knowledge TW |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-02 21:40 |
| #9 Jeckle, surely, Frank G. 'Cause Heckle always stood to the reader's left, looking rightward toward the other one. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-02 20:20 |
| #8 An administrative justice official just failed Dhimmitude 101...great! No need to re-take. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2007-01-02 20:06 |
| #7 What the hell kind of bird is that?! A crow? yep. Heckle or Jeckle, can't tell which |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-02 19:55 |
| #6 "Police banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds." Let them eat cake. |
| Posted by: Marie A 2007-01-02 19:38 |
| #5 What the hell kind of bird is that?! A crow? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2007-01-02 19:17 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-02 17:24 |
| #3 Ironically a muslim is allowed to consume pork if faced with starvation... |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-02 16:52 |
| #2 No beggars can be choosers in France and the rest of the EU since the French designed it. EUrocratic socialism is necrotising and stands sanity on it's head daily. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-02 16:45 |
| #1 So beggars can be choosers, they just cannot be dictators. Shop around for a free meal that meets your needs. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2007-01-02 15:51 |