19 September 2010

No pork served in half of Dutch speaking schools

Vlaams Belang checked how many school kitchens have adapted to 'the multicultural context' in the Dutch-language educational system in Brussels. Slightly more than half of the 61 schools they've surveyed do not serve pork, so as not to disgust the Muslim community. 12% of the schools serve halal exclusively.

"Appaling," says Brussels fraction chairman Dominiek Lootens, who calls halal slaughter 'barbaric". Vlaams Belang says it's unprecedented that non-Muslim children are forced to eat halal meat, often without their or their parents' knowledge. [Islam in Europe] Read more