After the burqa, France is now grappling with the burger. Politicians, media and Paris penseurs have been piling in against Quick, a Franco-Belgian fast-food chain, over its policy of serving only halal meat in eight of its 362 burger outlets. Quick’s popular Strong Bacon burger is out, replaced by smoked turkey at the Islamically correct restaurants at Roubaix, on the Belgian frontier, and in Muslim-dominated suburbs of Paris and other cities. The bacon-free policy has now been criticised by cabinet ministers and the leader of Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement. Some leftwing figures are also upset. RenŽ Vandierendonck, the Socialist Mayor of Roubaix, has complained to prosecutors on the grounds that Quick is discriminating against non-Muslims in his town.
FROM BURQA TO BURGER
FROM BURQA TO BURGER
