Good news for a change, more to come hopefully.
France's National Front Leader demands 'No Pork Alternatives in Schools'France's Front Nationale (National Front) leader Marine Le Pen has urged that French schools should no longer present a religious food option, claiming that "there is no reason for religion to enter into the public sphere."Le Pen's remarks to RTL radio came after her right-wing populist party made significant gains at France's local elections last month.
The Telegraph reports:
School canteens will no longer offer non-pork meal options in towns where France's anti-immigration far-right Front National (FN) party won local elections, its leader Marine Le Pen has said.
Mrs Le Pen reignited debate on a sensitive issue about the substitution meals targeting mainly Muslim and Jewish pupils for whom pork is taboo.
"We will accept no religious requirements in the school lunch menus," Mrs Le Pen told RTL radio. "There is no reason for religion to enter into the public sphere."
She defended the decision saying it was necessary to "save secularism".
The FN, skilfully rebranded as more than just an anti-immigrant party, won control of 11 towns and more than 1,400 municipal seats nationwide in recent local elections, easily its best ever performance at the grassroots level of French government.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/06/Marine-le-pen-says-religious-meals-should-go
