Halal burgers are discrimination - France

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Supreme said:
Yeah, it should be changed to:

Snails! Islamophobia! Surrender!
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France has gone off the deepend, they blame their loss of identity on a minority when in reality it's globalization and their kids just not caring about French values anymore. Everybody should move to Canada, we are somewhat free here...
*lol at the snails
Salam
 
Supreme said:
Yeah, it should be changed to:

Snails! Islamophobia! Surrender!
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That was quite funny..
you should include something about the Olympics in there.. they are really such sour crouts when they lose .. everyone else gets up congratulates the winner, smiles is a good sports except for the french!
 
France needs to stop whining and start having more babies if they want France to still have French people. Minorities are having 5 or more kids. French couples have either chosen not to have any or have 1 to 3.
 
Dagless said:
It would be annoying but we'd just go to another shop. If there is a market then someone will be selling it. Discrimination doesn't come into it.
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I don't know man, you'd have to be pretty rigidly nonchalant to still believe that in such a kind of scenario, where Halal products have been withdrawn afer years of sales, the local Muslim community would simply say "oh well, it was good while it lasted" and move on to other outlets without at least raising some sort of formal complaint about it. I do agree with you that discrimination doesn't really come into it, it was a decision taken by the company in question to enhance its profit margins, but for the locals it would be quite difficult to conceive of it that way.
 
nocturnal said:
I don't know man, you'd have to be pretty rigidly nonchalant to still believe that in such a kind of scenario, where Halal products have been withdrawn afer years of sales, the local Muslim community would simply say "oh well, it was good while it lasted" and move on to other outlets without at least raising some sort of formal complaint about it. I do agree with you that discrimination doesn't really come into it, it was a decision taken by the company in question to enhance its profit margins, but for the locals it would be quite difficult to conceive of it that way.
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Stuff like this has already happened though. Some supermarkets here stocked halal meat and then stopped. Nobody said a word.
I used to love a particular type of sweet when I was younger, but my newsagents stopped stocking it. I didn't take it as a personal insult.
 
french complain about halal burgers

Salaam to all. I recently read an article below on the BBC:

A French council has lodged a complaint against a fast food chain that serves only meat that conforms with Islamic dietary laws at a local branch.
The mayor of Roubaix, in northern France, said the halal menu constituted "discrimination" against non-Muslims.
The Roubaix branch is one of several restaurants at which the chain, Quick, took non-halal products and pork off the menu in November.
In Roubaix, Mayor Rene Vandierendonck, a socialist, called for a boycott of the Quick branch, and the town council has filed a complaint for discrimination with a regional court in Lille.
"I'm not bothered by the fact that there is a halal menu," Mr Vandierendonck said.
"But this is going too far because it is the only menu on offer and it has become discrimination."
Quick decided to take a bacon hamburger off the menu at eight of its 350 branches, replacing it with a halal version that comes with smoked turkey.
It said the move was designed to test the "commercial interest and technical feasibility" of introducing halal menus.
The Quick manager responsible for the Roubaix branch said there had been a slight increase in business after the introduction of halal menus and that he had not received complaints from customers, AFP news agency reported.
France is home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, estimated at more than five million people.
Debate has recently focussed on the Islamic veil, with a French parliamentary committee recommending a partial ban on women wearing Islamic face veils last month.

The mayor says it discriminates against non-muslims. I wonder if the mayor realises what choices muslims have when they go in to McDonalds or other fast food outlets. Even when the vegetarian options are on offer there is still a risk of cross contamination with non-halal foods.

I just feel there is a general feeling of animosity towards muslims. I wonder how others feel and perceive how the media and the non-muslim world portrays Islam.


 
Who cares?

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سم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Bismillā hir Rahmā nir Rahīm
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful​

As-Salāmu `Alaykum (السلام عليكم):

Muslims worldwide should discontinue allowing themselves to become the victim. Who cares what non-Muslims think. The Muslim populated countries have an abundance of wealth and continue to squander on useless edifices, buildings, and materialistic endeavors that fail to benefit the population.

Muslim dominated countries who allow their leaders to squander the wealth need to create private halal restaurants. If non-Muslims don't want to eat at restaurants with halal menus it is their choice. The only reason that these non-Muslims are able to protest is because this is a public company.

Just very disconcerting that Muslims have some of the most intelligent, wealthy, faithful, strong willed people and we allow those with less attributes to dominate, alter how we think, feel or control what we do.

abdulali not directed at you but in general.
 
Re: french complain about halal burgers

I appreciate your reply. Yes you're "who cares". long as muslims have faith and don't bow down to demands that compromise islam.
 
Dagless said:
Stuff like this has already happened though. Some supermarkets here stocked halal meat and then stopped. Nobody said a word.
I used to love a particular type of sweet when I was younger, but my newsagents stopped stocking it. I didn't take it as a personal insult.
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I think you're looking at this in a very over-simplified manner. We cannot apply the social contexts within which such situations occur here in the UK, and use that to try and make sense of what happend in France. The social dynamics there are significantly different.

Under Sarkozy and his UMP administration, things have taken on a pointedly ardent pro-secular turn. It's evident in the ban on Hijabs in public schools, the move to legislate against the Burkha and now attempts to rein in the activities of business enterprises like the one in question.

If you were to put yourself in the situation of those who are complaining, i personally would see it fit to at least lodge a complaint or petition my local MP which is what many of the locals have done. I suppose the equivalent here would be a local chain like Subway or KFC that without giving notice, withdrew a substantial part of their popular menus that invariably included haram products like bacon, introduced a Halal menu and in one hit marginalized a huge segment of its customer base. I certainly wouldn't think of it as being just a business decision, because businesses in this day and age have corporate AND social responsibilities and they have to be careful to keep in mind local sensibilities.

So to say "just deal with it", isn't really a credible arguement. It's like the local Socialist MP said, no one is asking them not to retail Halal products, but not to do so at the total expense of everything else, including very profitable other products. Even a sort of vestigial amount of the previous offerings would have presumably mollified the local residents.
 
Silly isnt it.
Plenty of burger places for the secular or christian french to go to.

Outright case of discrimination to the shame of France.
Oh by the way, is there any Islamic prohibition on a kuffar eating halal if they wanted to?
 
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Oh by the way, is there any Islamic prohibition on a kuffar eating halal if they wanted to?
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Nope. Everyone can eat all the halaal food they want. As long as you are paying for it and not stealing it :p.
 
barney said:
Oh by the way, is there any Islamic prohibition on a kuffar eating halal if they wanted to?
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aamirsaab answered your questioned but I just wanted to make a grammatical correction. You meant Kaafir which is the singular. Kuffaar is plural.
 
nocturnal said:
If you were to put yourself in the situation of those who are complaining, i personally would see it fit to at least lodge a complaint or petition my local MP which is what many of the locals have done. I suppose the equivalent here would be a local chain like Subway or KFC that without giving notice, withdrew a substantial part of their popular menus that invariably included haram products like bacon, introduced a Halal menu and in one hit marginalized a huge segment of its customer base. I certainly wouldn't think of it as being just a business decision, because businesses in this day and age have corporate AND social responsibilities and they have to be careful to keep in mind local sensibilities.

So to say "just deal with it", isn't really a credible arguement. It's like the local Socialist MP said, no one is asking them not to retail Halal products, but not to do so at the total expense of everything else, including very profitable other products. Even a sort of vestigial amount of the previous offerings would have presumably mollified the local residents.
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Subway and KFC can do whatever they like as long as its within the law. If this decision brought corporate gain and was within the bounds of the law then I don't see an issue. If enough people are outraged then they should do what is necessary; get a petition, have a rally, whatever. The point is that they do it for the right reasons, the reason here is not "discrimination against non-muslims". For me that is an outrageous accusation and one which would need proof to substantiate.
 
I remember a few years ago Muslims (I think it was them, it could have been the lefties though) complained when a charitable organisation started giving up pork soup to homeless and poor people in winter time.
 
The French mayor trying to claim discrimination for non-muslims against a fast food outlet that stopped selling pork etc and only selling halal burgers has failed :statisfie I see common sense has prevailed.
 

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