The town of Roubaix, located in northern France, has a problem. The problem is turkey bacon. Turkey bacon, it seems, is grounds for discrimination in France. The town council has filed a formal complaint against a chain of fast food restaurants known as Quick that serves only meat conforming with Islamic dietary laws at their local branch. Roubaix’s Mayor declared, “This is discrimination against non-Muslims.”

Witch hunts and Islamophobia are alive and well in the land of Pepe Le Pew. Vive la France!

As it turns out, the Roubaix Quick location is one of many branches that took pork off the menu and made all meat products halal /  kosher.  The chain made the decision to take a bacon hamburger off the menu at several of its more than 300 branches, replacing it with a halal version that comes with smoked turkey. Their target: to test the “commercial interest and technical feasibility” of introducing halal menus in France, home to the largest Muslim community in all of Europe, some five million strong.

Roubaix’s Quick branch has assured council there hasn’t been so much as a single complaint and there has even been a slight increase in business since making the changes.

Regardless, several deputies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy have condemned the decision. Vice-president of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, went so far as to warn France of “Islamisation”.

In Roubaix, Mayor Rene Vandierendonck, called for a total boycott of the Quick branch, and the town council has filed a discrimination complaint with a regional court. Wow… Who knew Turkey Bacon was so dangerous?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Vive Le France!

From David Anthony Hohol…