Alwaght- A school in central France has provoked outrage for making Muslim pupils wear a red disc around their necks at lunchtime for the ostensible reason was that canteen staff would not serve them pork during lunchtime.
The Piedalloues primary school in Auxerre, in Burgundy, gave red discs to non-pork eating Muslim and Jewish pupils and yellow discs to those who do not eat meat.
Of the 1,500 students at school, only 18 were made to wear the discs but it caused outrage among parents and community leaders.
The town’s mayor has ordered a probe into the incident and passed on the responsibility for this outrageous act onto canteen staff.
He said the decision was made without the authorities’ knowledge and it has been withdrawn but tried to justify the act by saying the canteen staff were only trying to be careful so as not to serve pork to students that did not eat it.
If there are 18 students that did not eat pork, why was it not possible for these students to sit together in one area so that there would be no confusion?
France claims to be an egalitarian society proclaiming such values as “liberty” and “fraternity” but the establishment insists on imposing its values on others.
The French Far-Right Nationalist leaders in past have tried to force school canteens from serving non-pork meals to students.
State schools in France have banned headscarves and the French government imposed a ban on wearing the niqab in public in 2011. While France claims to represent freedom and respect for others, the pork scandal is the latest of its racist, Islamophobic acts.
A report published in July by the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), documents a 23.5 percent rise in "Islamophobic acts" - physical assaults, verbal abuse, and damage to property - since January.
The report contains numerous cases of Islamophobia: a security guard at a Paris airport who was denied work because "his behavior and morality" did not meet "necessary safety requirements"; a young woman working in a shop in a Paris suburb who was told by her boss, after her contract was abruptly terminated, “I cannot put my team at risk”; a Muslim schoolgirl who was lectured in front of her class by her teacher on the “principles of secularism and France’s wars of religion” because she was wearing a long skirt.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said recently that “Islam will be a central issue in the 2017 presidential election”.
Vall’s remarks, which were leaked to the French press, indicate that the election, like others across Europe, is likely to turn on debates over “values and identity”. Discussing Muslims and French identity is a convenient way for politicians to shirk from addressing the economy. Recent campaigns in US presidential elections have also seen a rise in candidates trying to win voters by issuing inflammatory remarks against Islam and Muslims.
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