Sex-segregated halal restaurant in Lyon closed over health violations

Over in France, a halal restaurant that operated according to Islamic beliefs in sex-segregation was closed in addition to that for health violations:

The Seven Times restaurant in Vaulx-en-Velin has been shut down by the local prefecture, pending the fulfillment of no less than 39 corrective measures for serious breaches of local hygiene rules. But this isn’t the first controversy for Lyon’s “largest halal-certified food court.”

Last December, Seven Times launched an all-girls room, which was finally ended over outcries of discrimination. The restaurant insisted that the “100% girls” area had zero link to Islam. But locals weren’t buying it.

National Rally (RN) deputy Jérôme Buisson at the time denounced the move as “unacceptable and illegal separatism” in a post sharing a TikTok video from the restaurant’s channel that clearly indicates only women may go to the girls-only room (seemingly in the back and completely shut away), while the rest of the restaurant, out in the open, is reserved for men. The man in the video is clearly pleased with the space provided for men, seemingly referencing some sort of cultural norm that this is appropriate.

Unfortunately, this is France, and people responded accordingly.

French law also stipulates that any establishment open to the public, such as a restaurant, cannot deny service or restrict access to specific areas based on sex.

When such an establishment even fails to uphold health standards, you know something's wrong.

Hugh Fitzgerald, commenting on the issue, said:

The case isn’t over, but I think rather than giving the owners of Seven Times the chance to literally clean up their act, given the great number of serious infractions of the code, it will be shut down. I’m guessing the owners will not give up, but move far from Lyons, open another health hazardous restaurant for halal-only clients in, say, Marseille, with its huge Muslim population, and do just fine, until another set of health inspectors from the Mairie comes a-calling, and shuts down that restaurant too.

Marseille is definitely another place that's in serious danger of Islamofascism, and it must be dealt with as soon as possible.