Posted on 03/06/2016 2:39:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
In a move that endangers a major sector of German agriculture, there is an effort to ban pork sausages from public cafeterias in schools, hospitals, nurseries, and elsewhere. Judged as a portion of tax revenue, pork agriculture accounts for nearly a fifth of the local economy in Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein region. Pork sausages are at the very heart of Germany’s traditional cuisine. Yet the decisions have been made in many parts of Germany to simply remove pork from public life.
There is some opposition to the move to strip pork sausages from Germany.
“The protection of minorities – including for religious reasons – must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by ill-conceived consideration,” said [parliamentarian Daniel] Guenther, as quoted by Deutsche Welle, arguing that tolerance must mean “the appreciation and sufferance of other food cultures and lifestyles.”
In the face of similar pressures, a city in Denmark recently passed a law that mandated pork be on the menu in public spaces. The Danish government says that this is to protect its traditional culture, including its food culture. Muslim advocates say that it is to try to limit Islamic immigration to the city by creating a hostile environment.
The moves to get pork removed from the menus of public cafeterias are either a case of self-censorship by Germans, or a case of civilizational jihad. If they are self-censorship by German institutions, they may still be motivated by advice from branches of the Muslim Brotherhood received at the highest levels of the German government. In either case, the move serves the purposes of civilization jihad: it prepares the German people to submit to Islam. They are becoming conditioned to living under sharia law — in this case, to accepting the absence of pork from their menus, even though it means disposing of aspects of their traditional culture that they may quite value.
For some reason, no one describes this as “creating a hostile environment” for Germans or Danes. When someone moves to create a public space in which core expressions of your traditional culture are banned as offensive, that someone has engaged in a hostile act. If a Western government were to go to an Islamic country and ban some traditional aspect of the culture, we would describe it as “imperialism” or — for those most committed to the idea that this is wrongful behavior — “cultural genocide.”
For some reason, when our own government does it to us, we accept it as justice. Must our traditional cultures be dissolved to make way for Islam?
Yes, they did have a kosher dining room.
But my best friend at the time, a Jewish guy, invited me to his house for thanksgiving.
He had... gulp, bacon in his fridge.
At first I was surprised.
I didn't know until then that unless Jews keep kosher, they just don't care about eating pork.
This is so obvious just WHO the Germans are trying to appease.
It ain't the JOOS.
Never met a Jewish person who cared what *I* eat.
This is EXACTLY what is happening in various US prisons, where supposedly the prisoners "voted" to not have pork products on the menu.
I call BS.
It's the limp-wristed, politically correct, pu$$y wardens who pushed that nonsense.
Got better things to do and topics to discuss of my choice rather than the Trumped up bs tossed at me by people personally fascinated with me.
Thank you.
Germany was a collection of Germanic people; as they disappear, so does “Germany”. Happening all over western Europe, and happening in the United States as well. In another dozen years tacos, burritos, and hot sauce will be considered “American” food. Many fast food chains have already adapted their menus to reflect this; they know many of their current customers, and most of their future customers, will not be “Anglos”.
Merkel has destroyed Germany. They're done.
I hear ya. Soon, there will be many cities across the nation that have the name....Greaseville.
Such a huge difference. Jews don’t care one bit if other people don’t keep kosher. You should enjoy your shrimp, please! The only thing Jews hope for is proper labeling of food. So we can choose what we need. I can’t help but think it says a lot about a religion when they want to control what non-co-religionists eat.
I would say the most non Orthodox Jews don’t keep kosher! Most of my relatives do not. Some don’t eat pork but they would eat lobster or a cheeseburger.
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