
Gaia and Vlaams Belang protest against halal meat on school.
During school treks children will only get halal meat with them. "Otherwise they won't participate".
ANTWERP. When classes of the Antwerp communal schoolnet do school trips, no pork meat is on the menu anymore. Moreover, meat from other animals is guaranteed from butchering according to islamic principles. "All meat was butchered halal by a recognised company" can be read in a letter to the parents. Town Selectman for Education Robert Voorhamme (socialist party SP.a) argues that in many classes children from [muslim - MFBB] immigrants are in the majority. If schools do not offer the correct meat, they stay at home. Vlaams Belang fraction leader Filip Dewinter reacts furious: "It is a real shame that Voorhamme presses through this far-reaching measure. That a neutral education net bows for islamic food prescriptions cannot be accepted. If we let this reversed integration, this world turned upside down, this overpowering of the newcomers happen, we commit a gigantic error."
Animal rights organization Gaia thinks it's a scandal that children have to eat meat from "animals which have died a cruel ritual death". Michel Vandenbosch of Gaia has protested too at the office of the selectman for Animal Well Being [yup - Antwerp has got that too. For animals owned by infidels of course. - MFBB], Luc Bungeneers (VLD).
"No, we won't butcher not more sheep and cattle ritually. It's about chickens and turkeys which are anaesthesized before being butchered", reacts Bungeneers.
"The imams with whom we have consulted, can live with that."
In the Flemish Parliament Vlaams Belang strongman Filip Dewinter will tomorrow ask Education Minister Frank Vandenbroucke (SP.a) about the matter.
Just imagine your kid sitting lonely, or with perhaps two or three more indigenous Flemish kids, in an Antwerp school class surrounded by twenty-five Ahmeds and Kareems and Ali's. Shudder.
Islam is an atrocious thing, but socialism is worse. Sixty years ago, just before the outbreak of the war, socialist playwright George Bernard Shaw of Fabian Society "fame", said that if the Germans invaded England, he'd be glad to welcome them in and offer them tea. Nothing new under the sun.
Thank God there was a Winston Churchill around then. At roughly the same time as the grossly overestimated loon above, he made the following remark:
We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?
Europe needs another Winston Churchill. Where is he?
MFBB.
N.B.:
George Bernard Shaw in fine company. The dame to the right is Lady Astor. Once the Astors stayed at Blenheim Palace with Winston Churchill, and an argument spun out between her and Britains future Prime Minister, which lasted a whole weekend. Finally Lady Astor exclaimed: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee." To which Winston replied: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."Rightwingers have more sense of humor.
I sincerely hope American voters will in time recognize this BLOODY FOOKIN IDIOT for what he is: a ridiculous Barbecued Air Salesman. One could still dismiss Obama's vows for "a more hopeful America" as the meaningless lapsuses of a rookie. "Hope" seems to be quite the buzzword for this parvenu. Always hope hope hope hope hope hope. The first tinge of unrest I felt about our newest presidential "hopeful" was when, now some two years ago, he was apparently able to lure far too much Americans into some collective yearning for - yeah, for what? Blabbering about "the audacity of hope" he was then, although I never got the foggiest idea what he meant about that. And he was blabbering last week in Springfield, where, sadly, he announced his candidacy for President of the United States vowing to "build a more hopeful America". Personally, I don't see why the US should need hope. The only thing I see is that the rest of the world should hope to become one day like the US.
From what I know about Abe, he would have looked down upon Obama with disgust. President Lincoln had defeats and setbacks indeed. If Barack Obama would have paid attention instead of hopefully looking out the window when his history teacher was talking about Fort Sumter or the Army of the Potomac he might have truly known this. Barack Obama who is today defaming the 3,000 and more dead of the US Armed forces by saying their lives were "wasted", might have known that at the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, President Lincoln "called the living to finish the war that the dead soldiers had begun". He might have known that at the Battle of Antietam, 23,000 men were killed, wounded or went missing in a single day. And he might have known that as late as 1864, the Union's top general Ulysses S. Grant lost more troops at Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor than the Confederates.