Wine and Sausage party in Paris shut down by government over fears of disturbing Muslims - Polidicks

[quote= Yahoo News] PARIS (Reuters) - A giant "sausage and wine" party planned later this week in a Paris neighbourhood with many Muslim residents risks sparking disturbances and will therefore be banned, police in the French capital announced on Tuesday. The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook late last month, had drawn growing criticism from politicians and civic groups in recent days as its page containing barely disguised anti-Muslim slogans attracted over 7,000 members. The event, called an "apero geant" (giant cocktail party), was due on Friday, a date seen as highly provocative because that will be the day of the weekly Muslim prayer and the World Cup soccer match between England and majority Muslim Algeria. It is also the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's famous 1940 "Appeal of June 18" from London calling on the French to resist the German occupation of their country. "This open-air event creates serious risks of disturbances to public order," the police said in a statement, noting the symbolism of the time and place chosen for the flash mob-style party. It also said counter-demonstrations were planned. The main organiser, Sylvie Francois, wrote that she wanted the event to be "a joyous protest" against the closing down of roads in the Goutte d'Or neighbourhood every Friday by Muslims praying in the street outside the overcrowded mosque there. MAYOR CRITICAL The Facebook page also appeared to signal the party's thrust with appeals to "native Parisians" and complaints about "the resolute foes of our local wines and pork products." In a statement before the ban was announced, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said the party was "clearly inspired by extreme right-wing movements" and seemed to be "designed to degenerate, possibly into violence." Fadela Amara, secretary of state for urban policy and a practicing Muslim, denounced the planned event as a bid by the extreme right to spread hatred. "I'm all for people getting together, having a drink and a good time, but when it's organised like that ... it's very dangerous," she told RTL radio. After the ban was announced, supporters of the event wrote on the Facebook page that they would still gather on Friday in Goutte d'Or, a poor mixed-ethnic area of northeastern Paris. "It's official -- Muslims can pray in the street but we don't have the right to eat pork there. France is now ruled by sharia," one supporter named Antoine wrote. The "apero geant" plan, a takeoff on flash mob drinking parties that have become popular in France, recalls earlier events such as winter soup kitchens serving only dishes containing pork so neither Muslims nor Jews would eat them. The Paris event page also carried announcements of similar "sausage and wine" parties in Lyon, Toulouse, Brussels and London, where the event is called a "bacon and beer" party.[/quote] [url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/odd/7405467/paris-bans-sausage-wine-party-over-muslim-concerns/]SOURCE[/url]

Wine and sausage? :crossarms:

Those people really are so whiners (wieners)

God damn it.

For fuck's sake, that is ridiculous. Let's stop eating beef, for fear of offending those who think cows are sacred next.

i love sausage parties

They should stop wining and put a sausage in it.

Sounds like, [I]they annoyed some Muslims with their wine and sausage party[/I]

The fact that people planned an event to celebrate each others' company with culturally French food is determined to be racist? Well, then I'll start protesting the wearing of cultural Islamic clothing as "Disguising" one's identity. It's unreal, why can't people just accept other cultures without degenerating into vague attempts to find racism everywhere they look? You'll find whatever you want in anything one wants, I suppose.

Unacceptable.

[QUOTE=Machk;22778912]The fact that people planned an event to celebrate each others' company with culturally French food is determined to be racist? Well, then I'll start protesting the wearing of cultural Islamic clothing as "Disguising" one's identity. It's unreal, why can't people just accept other cultures without degenerating into vague attempts to find racism everywhere they look? You'll find whatever you want in anything one wants, I suppose.[/QUOTE] because obviously that's racist :downs:

Huh. Frenchies...typical.. [/joke]

I'm typing this as I eat the delicious plate of eggs bacon and sausage I prepared a few minutes ago.

[quote] Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said the party was "clearly inspired by extreme right-wing movements" and seemed to be "designed to degenerate, possibly into violence."[/quote] Of course, that's the only logical explanation.

[quote]as its page containing barely disguised anti-Muslim slogans attracted over 7,000 members[/quote] wait, so this whole party was done entirely to piss-off Muslims? i mean it's an anti-Muslim group throwing a party in a neighborhood with many Muslims i mean that's like the KKK having a party and burning crosses in the streets of Detroit

[QUOTE=JerryK;22779048]wait, so this whole party was done entirely to piss-off Muslims? i mean it's an anti-Muslim group throwing a party in a neighborhood with many Muslims i mean that's like the KKK having a party and burning crosses in the streets of Detroit[/QUOTE] Why Detroit? That place is already a shithole.

[QUOTE=The Mighty Boatman;22778762]For fuck's sake, that is ridiculous. Let's stop eating beef, for fear of offending those who think cows are sacred next.[/QUOTE] well if you go to India you probably won't find many shops that sell beef

France :rolleyes: :france:

[QUOTE=Ishmael12;22779082]Why Detroit? That place is already a shithole.[/QUOTE] i was using it as an example as there are a lot of blacks in Detroit

Goddamnit, I would want to go to a wine and sausage party. :(

Here's how I see it as an Indian Immigrant: If you immigrate to a country, they're nice enough to let you in, give you benefits, treat you equally. Your response sure as hell shouldn't be bitching and demanding changes to make the country adapt to your wants and needs.

[QUOTE=bugfix;22779018]Of course, that's the only logical explanation.[/QUOTE] Never heard of right-wing protesters attending French cocktail parties.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;22780006]Never heard of right-wing protesters attending French cocktail parties.[/QUOTE] Silly you. People who [I]dare[/I] to enjoy the traditional cuisine of their country and do not take the feelings of the Muslim population into account [I]must[/I] be racists.

I mean the guy you quoted was saying it was instigated by the extreme right, which is funny because a cocktail party is the last place I would expect to see a rightist. They would probably be in a church, or training militias in the forest.

So wrong. [editline]07:41PM[/editline] People are way too afraid of muslims now...

muslims are taking over europe!!! these islamaphobes are fucking retarded

Bullshit, everyone else has to live with everyone else's customs and parties, why cant the ... ugh I don't want to be banned, so, why cant they go about their business, how is it even offensive in the first place?

[QUOTE=PyromanDan;22780138]how is it even offensive in the first place?[/QUOTE] That was the purpose of the event.

OH NO, I PUT A MEAT ON MY MENU, I MUST BE ANTI SEMITIC. really, if they dont want to go because of that fuck them. religion needs to get over itself

No. Just.. just no. We're going in the completley wrong direction here.