Or as the commercial promoting pork says “put some pork on your fork”
WAY TO GO QUEBEC.......
MAYOR REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU... EXPLAINS WHY
Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb.
The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval,has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why...
“Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate.
“They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec.
“They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them.
“They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants).
“That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture.
“And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners, but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole.
“Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.
The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia.
“For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada, there are 57 beautiful ?? Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Shariah.
“If you left your country for Canada, and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere.
“Ask yourself the question, just once, “Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from?”
“A canteen with pork is part of the answer.”
Comments
I agree with the sentiment that, while cosmopolitan society should try to accommodate ethnic minorities, it should never allow any ethnic group to impose on the rights of others and especially not to impose on the cultural heritage of the host country.
However this particular story seems to be inflammatory propaganda rather than fact:-
The Truth:
These chain emails tell a good story but, with such a theme, are no more than inflammatory racial propaganda. There are undoubtedly narrow-minded extremists of every faction and it's quite possible that one such bigot hatched this myth with malevolent intent. We owe it to ourselves to validate these claims or we become guilty of the kind of racial intolerance that the story indignantly blames on others.It’s not true that Muslim residents asked Quebec Mayor Régis Labeaume to remove pork from school lunch menus.
The eRumor first surfaced in 2013. The original version falsely claimed that the mayor of Ath, Belgium, had resisted requests from Muslims to remove pork from school lunch menus.
“Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Belguim, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that’ where they chose to immigrate,” Ath Mayor Marc Duvivier allegedly said.
However, Duvivier dismissed the claim as “completely wrong” and said nobody had requested that pork be removed from school cafeterias, according to a Belgian newspaper report.
A modified version of the eRumor re-surfaced in November 2014. The new version was exactly the same as the old version, except references to “the mayor of Ath” were changed to “the mayor of Quebec.”
There haven’t been any credible reports of Muslim parents requesting that pork be removed from schools in Quebec or Belgium.