• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

French pork soup kitchen racist and xenophobic

W

wazzledoozle

Golden Member
Those damn soup nazi's are at it again :|

PARIS (Reuters) - 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. ...Full story
 
Your link died. Here's another one for the story.
French court: Pork soup kitchen not racist

Police banned soup kitchen last month, arguing handouts discriminated against Jews, Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds

A French court ruled on 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.

Mayor: Initiative stinks of xenophobia

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.
Click to expand...
Originally posted by: loki8481
in fairness, I'd imagine muslims make up a large portion of france's poor.
Click to expand...
As long as no one's forcing them to eat the free soup, it's up to them whether it's more important to eat in this life or starve their way to whatever next life may or may not exist.

What a predicament... Eat to survive, and you lose all them virgins. 😛
 
Link appears to be busted.

I assume they offered pork soup because neither Jews nor Muslims are supposed to eat pork?

I don't condone what they're doing, but if you're giving stuff away, you should be able to give it away to anyone you want. Beggars can't be... Not sure how much worse this is than Christian charities that bring the full out proselytization blitz to the downtrodden.
 
Hell, even if they ARE bigots, at least they are helping SOME people...which is a lot better than what most people are doing. Still, it seems pretty odd that they'd be willing to give a handout to some people but also willing to make the effort to discriminate...that's some powerful hate there...

And before anyone accuses me of making assumptions, they seem to have violated the Lawyer Rule...
"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.
Click to expand...

In other words, "of course we are doing that, but good luck proving it in a court of law"!
 
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
You gotta love when homeless turn their noses up at food.
Click to expand...

Thats not the point. If I gave out food to homeless people as long as they swore to follow the teachings of Christianity would blame the homeless people for being upset at my blatent discrimination?
 
Originally posted by: blackllotus
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
You gotta love when homeless turn their noses up at food.
Click to expand...

Thats not the point. If I gave out food to homeless people as long as they swore to follow the teachings of Christianity would blame the homeless people for being upset at my blatent discrimination?
Click to expand...

Is that what they were doing .. or were they only serving

Pork Cutlet
Pork Spare-ribs
Pork Loin
Bacon
Pork Sausages

no other meats..

 
I heard that Muslims can eat pork if they're starving and have no other means to feed themselves. Don't know if the same applies to Jews or not.
 
Originally posted by: blackllotus
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
You gotta love when homeless turn their noses up at food.
Click to expand...

Thats not the point. If I gave out food to homeless people as long as they swore to follow the teachings of Christianity would blame the homeless people for being upset at my blatent discrimination?
Click to expand...

That isnt even close to being the same thing. This group is handing out a type of meat which two major religions cant eat by their doctrine. They arent forcing anything on anyone, just offering food to a specific group of people: french christians/atheists?.

If this is discrimination, then we better hurry up and eliminate groups like the United Negro College fund, ethnic food banks, and church-run relief shelters because of their pandering to a specific demographic.

 
Originally posted by: blackllotus
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
You gotta love when homeless turn their noses up at food.
Click to expand...

Thats not the point. If I gave out food to homeless people as long as they swore to follow the teachings of Christianity would blame the homeless people for being upset at my blatent discrimination?
Click to expand...

No one is forcing them to eat.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
in fairness, I'd imagine muslims make up a large portion of france's poor.
Click to expand...

What? France couldn't possibly have poor people with the way their perfect government is set up!!!!
 
Originally posted by: 5150Joker
I heard that Muslims can eat pork if they're starving and have no other means to feed themselves. Don't know if the same applies to Jews or not.
Click to expand...

I heard that people can choose to follow such barbaric measures and if they want to starve by following man-made doctrines then so be it.

Although I do question why they need only serve pork. I'm not sure I like the idea of dictating to charities to limit their actions.
 
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Originally posted by: blackllotus
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
You gotta love when homeless turn their noses up at food.
Click to expand...

Thats not the point. If I gave out food to homeless people as long as they swore to follow the teachings of Christianity would blame the homeless people for being upset at my blatent discrimination?
Click to expand...

No one is forcing them to eat.
Click to expand...

So you claim this is not an intentionally discriminatory practice?

The group is within their rights to do what they're doing, but their motivation is despicable.
 
Originally posted by: Shivetya
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: loki8481
in fairness, I'd imagine muslims make up a large portion of france's poor.
Click to expand...

What? France couldn't possibly have poor people with the way their perfect government is set up!!!!
Click to expand...

and their perfect health care system!
Click to expand...

Why... it's the very socialist utopia we're striving for here!
 
This organization chooses to give free pork to the poor and homeless. Muslims choose to not eat pork. Everyone makes choices, and everyone has to deal with the consequences of those choices. For Muslims, the consequence here is that they cannot eat the free food unless they have no other means to feed themselves.

I really do not see a problem here. Sure, the responsible organization appears to have a political agenda, but so what?
 
Originally posted by: dna
Ahhh.... Now it totally makes sense: if the police is busy busting soup kitchens, no wonder hundreds of cars were torched over the new year.

Man, those French really have their priorities right.
Click to expand...

The French Intifada is somewhat off subject, unless you?re suggesting it?s happening over pork charities. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
This organization chooses to give free pork to the poor and homeless. Muslims choose to not eat pork. Everyone makes choices, and everyone has to deal with the consequences of those choices. For Muslims, the consequence here is that they cannot eat the free food unless they have no other means to feed themselves.

I really do not see a problem here. Sure, the responsible organization appears to have a political agenda, but so what?
Click to expand...

I don't think anyone is arguing that this shouldn't be allowed. As long as all the money is private there's no 'problem'.

But you and everyone else knows they are not giving out 'free pork', they are finding a way to give 'free food' to some people and not to others.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top