I'm Gonna Buy Me Some Wooden Shoes!

You have got to love the Danes! I mean really! While I was revealing the role played by Michelle Malkin in the Cartoon riots (as per the progressive blogger), I went to look at her site (with fear and trembling - see earlier post). While there I saw this article she had written. The Danes have offered only pork-free lunches for their school children since 2001, out of respect for the Muslim children attending the schools. I guess they aren't going to leave out the other children anymore and are going to allow them to eat pork. From Jyllands-Posten article dated February 7, 2006, translated and reported by NeanderNews and passed on by Michelle Malkin

THE SCHOOLS OF COPENHAGEN WILL NO LONGER SERVE ONLY HALAL-BUTCHERED MEAT IN THE STUDENTS HOT LUNCHES

The article states in part:

Students in the Copenhagen council schools shall no longer be denied the choice of pork when they buy their daily hot lunch in the school’s canteen. Out of consideration to pupils with a moslem background there is presently only halal-butchered meat - and no pork at all - in the daily hot meals which are offered at a price of 15 kroner (appr. 2,35 US $) in the canteens of the 49 schools run by the council of Copenhagen. A political majority in the council’s committee for children and youngsters now demand that porkchops and meatballs be introduced on the menu. “We need to see more freedom of choice in the canteens. It’s fine with me that the ethnic minorities can have halal-meat but those who want pork should find it available. When it comes to food there are many minorities and they should all be accomodated”, says Jan Andreasen, spokesman on educational issues for the [ruling] Social Democrats.

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Liberal and conservative politicians are in favor of pork and other non-halal dishes being on offer in the canteens every day.

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Conservative council leader Majbritt Mamsen would rather that no halal-meat at all was served. “It just is not right that my own and other children should eat food which has been processed in accordance with the rituals of a foreign religion. As a minimum we ought to be able to offer pork or other sorts of non-halal meat to the children of non-moslem background”, Majbritt Mamsen says.

Now I'm going to polish up those shoes an start clogging .....