Poor and Muslim? Jewish? Soup Kitchen Is Not for You.

[PsychoDad]

Poor and Muslim? Jewish? Soup Kitchen Is Not for You.

By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: February 28, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/international/europe/28soup.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

PARIS, Feb. 27 — More than 200 political demonstrators defied a police ban here on Thursday, scurrying across Boulevard St.-Germain and under the sycamore trees of Place Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public.

With steaming bowls of the fragrant broth soon passing through the crowd, Odile Bonnivard, a short-haired secretary turned far-right firebrand, climbed atop a dark sedan with a megaphone in hand and led the crowd in a raucous chant: "We are all pig eaters! We are all pig eaters!"

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Identity soup, as the broth has come to be called, is one of the stranger manifestations of a growing grass-roots backlash against the multiculturalism that has spread through Europe over the past 20 years. People are increasingly challenging the care taken in Nazi-chastened Europe, and in France in particular, to avoid the sort of racial or religious insults that led to widespread protests in the Muslim world this month after wide publication of cartoons considered offensive to the Prophet Muhammad.

Made with smoked bacon, pigs' ears, pigs' feet and pigs' tails together with assorted vegetables and sausages, the soup is meant to make a political statement: "Help our own before others."

The "others," Ms. Bonnivard explained, are non-European immigrants who she and her colleagues on the far right say are sopping up scarce resources that ought to be used for descendants of the Continent's original inhabitants. In other words, the soup is meant to exclude those who do not eat pork — for the most part, Muslims and Jews.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. some people

are just ugly inside. :(

[Bridget Burke]

2. If their "brethren" are homeless, more than pig soup is needed.

In fact, one wonders why such superior folk need any assistance at all.

Why do Ms. Bonnivard & her pals claim to be descendants of the Continent's "original" inhabitants? Do they have Neanderthal blood?


During the Nazi occupation of France, the Resistance showed bravery. Most of the French just tried to stay out of trouble. But a few French did, in fact, help the Germans round up Jews.

[Scurrilous]

3. "We are all pig eaters! "

...you are what you eat.

[shenmue]

4. More hate and division...

just what the world needs. :sarcasm:

Let's all throw up.

[The Stranger]

5. But Flemming Rose's Muslim caricatures were about FREE SPEECH!

Don't you know?

:sarcasm:

[tatertop]

7. good point

[Clark2008]

6. I guess if you're Christian and allergic to pork (like I am), then

you're not "worthy," either.

:eyes:

We're not ALL pig eaters. Ingrates.

[PsychoDad]

11. Or vegetarian

:(

I guess they wouldn't consider you one of "their own" either.

Peace.

[Clark2008]

12. I take it you're Muslim (guessing from the avatar).

Funny story: my ex husband is a Muslim Palestinian and my new husband is Jewish. I'm Catholic. Makes for some rather interesting conversations. LOL!

People are always kidding me that, should we be so graced to have Wesley Clark as our president, he should name me the new ambassador to the Middle East. :7

[PsychoDad]

15. Indeed I am....

I'm also hoping that Wes will run again. :)

He will make an excellent President.

Peace.

[tatertop]

8. This is SBWD (Something Bush Would Do)

[bloom]

9. Locally - the prison food service

was privatized and they stopped having meals that were special to religious groups or special diets or vegetarians.

I think that stinks, also.


And how long have Jewish people lived in Europe? Seems like it's been a long time.

The whole world has gone insane.

[PsychoDad]

10. Help our own before others

When will we learn that anyone in need is one of "our own".

Peace.

[ryan_cats]

13. No soup for you!

No soup for you! Well, someone had to say it.

[PsychoDad]

16. LOL

A new twist to "soup nazi".

Peace

[RB TexLa]

14. at least the Whig comeback isn't confined to the US

maybe the left/right Whig coalition here will try to have a "Baltimore pig party" and dump pig parts in the harbor.

[Sensitivity]

17. Our world is splitting apart as never before