Zafir Posted January 26, 2006 PARIS -- Pig's tail, pig's feet and other pig parts, all tossed into a pot with turnips, carrots and onions. Perfumed with smoked bacon and served steaming hot. Delicious! But there's trouble brewing in this broth. Small groups linked to the extreme right are ladling pork soup to France's homeless. Critics and some officials denounce the charity as discriminatory: because it contains pork, the soup is off-limits for Muslims. Critics view the stew - dubbed "identity soup" by its cooks - as a cynical far-right ploy to penetrate the most vulnerable level of society while masking their intentions as humanitarian. The associations offering the soup are satellites of Bloc Identitaire, a small, extreme-right movement that defends the European identity and, as its leader Fabrice Robert said, "the rights of the little whites." "It's not that we don't like Muslims. It's a problem of critical mass," Robert said in a telephone interview. "Just 1,000 Muslims in France poses no problem, but 6 million poses a big problem." www.seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ 1103AP_France_Pork_Soup.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
