French mayor accused of “Islamophobia” for banning pork-free school meals

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Julien Sanchez is being charged with “islamophobia” when all he is trying to do is preserve France’s cultural character. Is it illegal to bring a lunch from home if you don’t like what the school is serving? Demanding that the schools accommodate Islamic food laws is just another declaration of supremacism and demand that Muslims be given special privileges that others do not have. This story says that Jewish parents are outraged along with Muslims, but that is wildly unlikely: Jews have lived in France for centuries without ever becoming outraged over French cuisine, or making demands that everything be changed to accommodate them. Julien Sanchez is right, and he will be reviled mercilessly for it.

“‘Breach of children’s rights!’ Anger as French hard-wing mayor bans pork-free school meals,” by Romina McGuinness, Express, January 9, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

A HARD-RIGHT French mayor was branded an Islamophobe on Monday after he scrapped pork-free school meals.

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Critics said that the decision to stop serving substitute meals “stigmatised” Muslims, and that the mayor could not hide behind the country’s secular laws.

Julien Sanchez, the mayor of the southern French town of Beaucaire, announced shortly before the Christmas break schools would stop serving substitute meals on the first day of the new school term, sparking outrage among Muslim and Jewish parents.

Mr Sanchez, told a local daily when announcing the new menu policy last month, said: “Pork-free substitution meals are anti-Republican.”

The change came into effect on Monday and affects some 150 – mainly Muslim – pupils out of 600 local students in total.

School cafeterias will serve pork on Mondays to give parents the weekend to prepare an alternative meal, Mr Sanchez said.

Parents opposed to the mayor’s decision have called for protests outside the Beaucaire town hall next Monday.

Laure Cordelet, the head of a local opposition group, said that the mayor’s move “breached children’s rights” and “stigmatised the local Maghreb [north African] community”.

The decision, she added, “can in no way be justified in the name of secularism”.

Mr Sanchez, for his part, told France Info radio on Tuesday that he was “not an Islamophobe”.

He said: “If you defend the values of the Republic and fight against communitarianism you’re branded an Islamophobe, which I am not. I’m not scared of anyone but I’m also not looking to stigmatise anyone.

“What’s wrong with pork? If it was a medical issue then I could understand, but the issue we’re dealing with here is religious, not medical… And religion has no place in schools.”…

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Patriotic American
Patriotic American
6 years ago

It’s just like if a politician here or elsewhere in the country decided to institute a ban on puberty-suppressing and/or “transitioning” hormone treatments (treatments which have been linked to permanent infertility, impotence and sterility) and gender reassignment surgery (which is even more harmful) for minors, they would immediately be smeared as homophobes, transphobes, and “stigmatizing” the LGBTQ+ community, as opposed to what they actually are – concerned about our children’s health, well-being, needs and best interests (not to mention innocence), as well as preserving the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of civilized society. That all these things are not only tolerated but permitted is proof positive that children are no longer valued in our leftist, hedonistic-oriented society. We know this is true because of now ex-governors of states like North Carolina who tried to protect women and children in bathrooms from sexual predators and, as a result, were driven from office. “Transgender” bathrooms – a rearrangement of all public restrooms to accommodate a mere 0.3% of the populace – are as much a declaration of supremacism as the pork-free meals this “hard-right” French mayor is out to ban.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

Totally OT http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42728251 I just wonder if the greens will go after the Iranians like they did Esso et al after their “disasters”. Anyone wish to make the odds? IMHO I think that the greens will tell Iran just how sorry they are at the loss of life and that will be it and no countless millions demanded for the clean up etc. You see, NOT being white infidels they can do no wrong.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

The Greens won’t even give it a glance. From what little I could glean, from that article, that spill seems far more devastating than a straight crude spill. China has a disaster on its hands.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The french have become so stupid that they have exceeded the bounties of political correctness, france is grovelling, submissive and an islamic republic.

Alan_McIntire
Alan_McIntire
6 years ago

My wife is Filipina. Having pork free menus is a deliberate attack on Filipino culture.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Alan_McIntire

As it is for Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, all Asian societies east of Bangladesh (including strangely Indonesia and Malaysia both of whom catered for their Chinese) and traditionally pork was the primary meat of ALL the white barbarian tribes who hit Europe from 100BC onwards as well as the Greeks and Romans. Banning pork is CULTURALLY offensive to well over half the word’s population. But let’s not allow this to worry the left.

pipo
pipo
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

I do not eat pork because I will get spots. Only kosher or halal meat. Call it vanity.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Why not offer an EXTRA meal for Muslims? -> cause https://quran.com/9/29

“islamophobia” doesn’t kill
— Muslims ‘kill’ https://quran.com/4/89 (‘turn away’, ex-Muslims) https://quran.com/9/5 (unbelievers who don’t accept the invitation 9/6 of allah) https://quran.com/8/17 as mafia godfather’s ‘TEST’

Fox5live
Fox5live
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

And why in God’s name should they? What happened to bringing your own lunch bag, fool?

Tm.
Tm.
6 years ago

If you cannot, for whatever reason, hang on to your identity, your essence, your culture, then hand over your country’s keys to your “guests.”
He who embraces liberalism, or who quietly accepts it, without question, will one day ponder deeply his decision.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

I really don’t believe you should be eating pig meat. The Bible calls it UNCLEAN. Have you ever read why pigs can eat garbage, rotted food, spoilt crap and not get sick?

You should read about it and find out why Yahusha sent a pig farmer’s pig into the river.

Fox5live
Fox5live
6 years ago

That was way before they made pork safe to eat…or are you, too, living in time past..like mosseslimes do?

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago
Reply to  Fox5live

The Bible says Yahuah never changes. If He said pork was unclean yesterday, it means today, it means forever.

Pig meat is unfit for human consumption. Because HE said so, not you.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

By the Old Testament, the Jewish are not supposed to indulge in pork. It was Jesus who taught that eating swine was OK. Now, I have never known a Jew to complain about pork products being on any menu. If it is there, most Jews simply never mention it one way or another. Muslims, on the other hand, are nothing more than trouble makers.

And that is my opinion, whether you agree with it or not.comment image

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

It is only OK if you ask God to bless and sanctify it.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago
Reply to  iprazhm

Mark 7:19 – (KJV) “Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?”

Jesus said nothing about blessing the meat.

mrcatman
mrcatman
6 years ago

Congratulations to Mayor Julien Sanchez. He is the example all mayors should follow. islam is the ultimate evil upon earth!

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago

the mayor is right. Soon they will add “racist” and “Bigot” to the “Islamophobe”

Mike Pope
Mike Pope
6 years ago

Why does any Western Country feel obligated to give up it’s cultural Identity such as food clothing & religious beliefs to satisfy these invaders if they do not want to assimilate they need to leave & return to the 3rd world hell hole’s they came from why should we change?

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

Some American schools met with parental protest after school administrators banned pork to please jihadis. Protesters were able to return it to the menu. This will change if we continue to allow muslims in our country.
We will not only become France, but much worse.
As the most powerful country on the planet, if muslims win here, the entire world will become slaves and victims of islam, under the threat of the most powerful armies and weapons.

Carol
Carol
6 years ago

Oh my. They only have a weekend to prepare a non pork meal for their children.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

“Laure Cordelet, the head of a local opposition group, said that the
mayor’s move “breached children’s rights” and “stigmatised the local
Maghreb [north African] community”. Hmm……how that “stigmatizes” a certain group, seems quite a stretch. Here’s a very complicated solution to the muslims: ‘Don’t eat the f*cking pork.’

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Where’s the beef-free meals for the Hindu minority? Hmmm…?

Jhn1✓ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ ??globalists
Jhn1✓ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ ??globalists
6 years ago

Meet them halfway.

Have a vegan food option. Use plastic utensils and either different colored dishes for the vegan option only, or disposable plates.
It is not kosher violating (that meets orthodox kosher requirements as I understand it)
It is not halal violating
It is lactose intolerant compatible
If the protein is beans, it is certainly cheaper as well.

One option takes care of ALL nonmedical food option requirements and lactose intolerance too.

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