Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France

[MADem]

81. It's not a question of human rights. No one is stopping people from bringing

their own food on pork days, or on lamb days, if people don't like lamb. No one is being discriminated against--if you don't like that French food, you don't have to buy it and you can bring your own. No one is stopping you. The menu, though, in the French school, will be French food, prepared in the classical fashion.

By overstating the case, you diminish your argument.


I'd suggest you go back to the original argument that the French make, because you seem to have lost the bubble. This is not about "religious freedom." France is a SECULAR state. That's why they won't accommodate religious peculiarities. They'll do things the FRENCH way--and people who don't like it can make their own accommodations.

As I've said, Americans are so accustomed to being accommodated that they think the whole world is like us--it's not. In fact, there are lots of places that have laws that we would consider downright intolerant--but again, as I said "When in Rome..."

The Saudis, though, don't allow people to make their own accommodations, They aren't saying, "Well, we won't provide it, but HEY--BYOB, nothing to worry about!" They are saying the very opposite, that they don't allow ANY alcohol in KSA--because if they are caught, they get hundreds of lashes, or worse. And, FWIW, advocating law breaking as a "solution" to this prohibition is just not on. Total fail, that.