Saturday, January 6, 2007

Stand Still, Achmed

Fox News reports:
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.
[Snip]
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.

Reading the Fox report and this one, I think the group seems more motivated by petty indictiveness than charity. I wouldn't insist that a Mormon drink wine or a Jew eat pork, so how is a Muslim different, exactly? With apologies to Pink Floyd:

If you don't eat your pork, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your pork?