More than 200 political activists defied a police ban to demonstrate here last week, scurrying across the Boulevard Saint Germain and under the plane trees of Place Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public.
With steaming bowls of the fragrant broth soon passing through the crowd, Odile Bonnivard, a secretary turned far-right firebrand, climbed atop a dark sedan with a megaphone in hand and led the crowd in a raucous chant: "We are all pig eaters! We are all pig eaters!"
"Identity soup," as the broth has come to be called, is one of the stranger manifestations of a grass-roots backlash against the multiculturalism that has spread through Europe over the past 20 years....
Monday, February 27, 2006
Pig eaters
Frankly, I think this is on a par with the Muhammad cartoons published in the rightwing Danish press (see also the comments to my earlier post at Majikthise).
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Four legs good! Two legs baaaad!
Anyway, of all stunts possible, at least it's not the wurst.
Oh,Murky, you know this is tripe!
It's ham-handed, I'll admit.
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