The Soup Nazi

Fun story from France. A group has set up a charitable Soup Kitchen for the homeless and poor in the city of Nice. Some people are complaining. Why? The Soup contains Pork... From Reuters:

French Christmas soup not for Jews or Muslims
An extreme-right French group has found a way to distribute Christmas cheer only to a chosen few by offering homeless people free hot soup containing pork, which observant Jews and Muslims do not eat.

The soup kitchen, set up at the harbour of this Riviera town, draws about as many protesters as poor people. Police stand guard between it and a Catholic charity group distributing vegetable soup outside their church.

Dominique Lescure, head of the small ultra-nationalist group distributing the soup, disputed charges by angry protesters on Wednesday evening that what he called his "patriots' soup" was meant to exclude Jews and Muslims.

"I don't see why I should not be able to put pork, which has always played a major role in my country's cuisine, into a traditional soup that I want to distribute, admittedly, to my compatriots and European homeless people," he argued.

"I'm not excluding anyone," he shouted in a heated exchange with a handful of jeering protesters. "We're tired of being treated like little Nazis. If a Muslim comes, I'll serve him, but the real poor these days are our people."

And a bit about the nationalist far right group:

The nationalist far-right is a strong fringe group in France, where its supporters feel under threat from Europe, globalisation and the country's five-million-strong Muslim community, the largest Islamic majority in Europe.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigrant National Front party, finished second in the first round of the 2002 presidential election, stunning the country and knocking Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin out of the race.

Emphasis mine -- so this is not some minor fringe group, this is a perfect example of the media bias. The media is spinning this "National Front party" as a minor fringe group and then France is Shocked, Shocked I Tell You when they finish in second place. This is a group that makes up a good chunk of the French population and their numbers seem to be growing. And the money quote:

A local left-wing militant said the protesters did not want Lescure's soup kitchen to operate unopposed.

"This pork-based soup kitchen is pure discrimination, it's an in-your-face way of telling people who don't eat pork -- you can stay in your cardboard boxes and starve," said Teresa Mafeis, holding back tears of anger.

"After the holidays, we're going to set up our own soup kitchen and there will be shorba for everyone," she said, using the Arabic word for soup.

Holidays? What holidays... If you are claiming to be Islamic, your major holidays are as follows:

• Eid-al-Adha (10th Zul-Hijjah) January 21
• Isra/Me'raj (Night after 26th Rajab) September 01
• Nisfu Sha'ban (15th Sha'ban) September 19
• 1st Ramadan (Fasting Begins) October 05
• Lailatul-Qadr (Night after 26th Ramadan) October 30
• Eid-al-Fitr (1st Shawwal) November 04

(the dates for the 2005 celebrations - they are based on a lunar calendar and are flexible) If you are really serious about this, start your Soup Kitchen NOW! If you are actually non-Islamic, stop whining and eat your tasty Pork Soup. Hat tip to my beloved and treasured Jen for the link -- Merry Christmas!