Posted on 01/06/2007 7:52:31 AM PST by ZGuy
A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don't eat pork because of their faith.
Judge Christian Vigouroux of the Council of State, the country's highest administrative body, said late Friday that such giveaways by the far-right group Solidarity of the French threaten public order.
His ruling approved a decision by Paris police to refuse permits to the group on the grounds that such handouts could spark angry reactions.
France is home to more than 5 million Muslims and some 600,000 Jews. Both Islam and Judaism prohibit eating pork, and Vigouroux said the group had shown "a clearly discriminatory goal" with its charity.
Solidarity of the French was just one of several far-right groups that began distributing pork soup across France over the last four years.
Critics contend the giveaway of pork soup is a far-right ploy to draw support for their efforts to defend against perceived threats to European culture.
Far-right groups defend the soup as nothing more than an age-old staple of the rural heartland from which all the French, at least in the national imagination, are said to spring.
"Pork-fat soup is traditionally the soup of the poor because it provides complete nourishment," said Bruno Le Griel, a lawyer for the group.
Le Griel argued that no needy Jew or Muslim was forced to consume the pork soup. But the judge said the group's Web site indicated it was a policy to refuse dessert to anyone who did not eat some soup first.
Just more proof, if needed, that the French have no sense of humor whatsoever.
Heck, maybe they'll ban just thinking about pork.
I guess in France beggars can be choosers.
Why don't they just pick out the pork and eat the rest ?
May I assume then that no meat will be distributed in any form, as that would discriminate against Hindus?
"Pork-fat soup is traditionally the soup of the poor because it provides complete nourishment," said Bruno Le Griel, a lawyer for the group.
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man, i'm not a muslim, but i sure wouldn't eat pork FAT soup!
yuck!
LET 'EM EAT CAKE! (I couldn't resist.)
Apparently it is now a crime not to appease Islam in France.
when I was growing up, my mom always, always, always gave us two choices for dinner..take it, or leave it..if we left it, which was rarely unless she made beef liver, we went hungry (although we did munch on apples and stuff)..
it seems to me this is along the same lines..if you don't want to eat pork soup, don't eat it..find another handout somewhere..
Besides, the issue is not the soup, it's control. As it always is with Islamderthals.
get hungry enough, you'd eat it..you may not like it, but it's food..
well, maybe i would take the pork fat soup, use it to trap a stray animal or a rat, and barbecue the animal.
i would prefer barbecued rat to pork fat soup.
and if i were THAT hungry, i would probably beg in the street for money to buy bread, rather than eat the pork fat soup.
yuck!
I often start a soup by rendering a nice piece of salt pork, which is almost entirely pork fat. I serve the soup with plenty of bread so that every drop of broth can be sopped up.
Dish washing on soup night at the Magslinger Compound is a breeze!
It gets better:
Note in last lines;
No dessert for those who don't clean their plates.
Now that's what I'd call hard line!
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Nope. Read this:
But the judge said the group's Web site indicated it was a policy to refuse dessert to anyone who did not eat some soup first.
No cake without eating your pork fat soup.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
"I often start a soup by rendering a nice piece of salt pork, which is almost entirely pork fat."
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i have no problem with anyone else eating pork fat, or liking pork fat.
i actually got hungy when i was watching the indiana jones movie where they were eating snakes and monkey brains, or whatever it was, and went for a snack.
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