Halal lunch for non-pork eating police officers okay, says minister
Police in Gelderland can continue to hand out halal lunches to workers who don’t want to eat pork products, home affairs minister Piet Hein Donner said on Tuesday.
MPs from the anti-Islam PVV had called for the special lunches to be scrapped because they represented ‘unacceptable Islamisation’, the Telegraaf reported.
An increase in demand for vegetarian lunches did not mean the Netherlands is being ‘vegetarianised’, the paper quoted the minister as saying.
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