A school in the village of Arveyres in the Gironde region of south west France has declared that from this month onwards, it would no longer offer meat alternatives to children who did not eat pork. This decision was brought about after the mayor of Arveyres, Benoit Gheysen, made a statement to AFP that the cost of providing alternative meals was expensive and yet most of the food was going to waste. He said that many times the children who did not take the substitute diner complained as well and left the pork, leaving the staff distressed on the amount of food going to waste.

The mayor has however, vowed that the children would get all the protein they needed because vegetables, lentils and salads would be offered whenever pork was on the menu. He also believes that the school in Arveyres is not the only one in France that is facing the same dilemma; he added that pork was served no more than once a week.

Since pork is forbidden under Jewish and Muslim dietary laws, some parents have offered to pack for their children lunch from home. This gesture has however, been brushed away by the mayor who says that it would be logistically hard to implement and ethically shocking.

There will be 30 children out of 180 who will face the effects of this change.

In France, the issue of halal meat is often a controversial topic which has been used as a political football especially with approaching elections.

Before last year’s presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the anti-immigration National Front party launched a row when she claimed that all meat from abattoirs in the region of Paris was prepared using Islamic halal traditions hence misleading non-Muslim consumers in the capital.

Wading into the war, former president Nicolas Sarkorzy suggested that meat would be labeled to tell consumers how the animal was slaughtered, but the Muslims and Jews rejected the idea fearing it would lead to their being stigmatized.

At that time, Claude Gueant, former Interior Minister under Sarkozy said that halal meat was one reason why the government opposed Francois Hollande’s plan to give foreign residents the vote in French local elections. He said that as an example we don’t want foreign local councilors making halal meat obligatory in school canteens. Hitting back however, the French Council of Muslim Faith slammed what it said was the use of Muslims as scapegoats in the election campaign.

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Attack on the United States embassy on September 11, Obama administration has not taken a back seat but has confronted all the legal ways to reshape the terrorism inquiries into the region.  Obama administration is trying hard to find the responsible persons who made an attack on the US mission in Benghazi.

The killing of the 4 Americans in Libya provoked the FBI investigation, although the investigation is on initial stages and nothing has been gathered as yet but FBI is still on the roll to get the findings regarding the whole incident

President Obama has vowed to “bring to justice” the killers of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.  But around a month has gone by but nothing has come on the hand regarding the reports of the killing of the Americans in Benghazi.

FBI is swinging between the slow processing and the governmental support as the regions are quiet unsecure. “The White House is not ruling out any option, an administration official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the evolving policy, said the involvement of the FBI at this stage should not be taken as evidence that the administration plans to prosecute any suspects in U.S. courts.”

The major question of the discussion that whether the American will consider it that act of crime or war against the killing of it’s of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. “It brings into sharp focus a number of issues that the government has been dealing with since the beginning of the so-called war on terror,” said Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law. “It clarifies so beautifully all of the hard issues we’ve had to confront over the last 11 years.”

The government in Libya has said to be transitional who has no full hold on the working of the investigation of killing of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Much of the support is yet to be needed by the United States so that the FBI can perform its works up to great extent.

The ties of tensions are shooting up into the region, as United States remain answerless to the rest of the world that how and why Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed during the protest. The protest was provoked by the making of an anti-Islam film “innocence of Muslims” which outraged the sentiments of Muslims as the film was based on the profanity and mockery of the religious personages. Muslims around the world protested into their respective regions against the making of that film. Similarly in Libya protests were called, embassies ere stormed and the US flags were burnt. During the same incident Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were also shot down.

Many believers have the opinion that Al-Qaeda must have been involved into the killing of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The investigation prevails and results are yet to be gathered.

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