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Post by fretslider on Jan 30, 2015 8:15:16 GMT -5
For those who want to persecute Muslims and Jews, but are afraid to be branded racist or anti-semitic, having a go at their rituals provides a perfect cover up
By Cristina Odone
Ritual slaughter is on the rise in Britain. So expect an outcry from the bunny-huggers – and a spike in anti-semitic and Islamophobic attacks. Last year, John Blackwell, head of Britain's vets, called for a ban on ritual slaughter. Blackwell worried about the pain that ritual butchering – which does not stun the animals first – might inflict on animals. I argued that if Britain went down the Blackwell route, it would prove that this country valued its cows more than its Jews. I was branded "inhumane" and "Muslim apologist" as a result. Despite the vet’s proposal, ritual slaughter continues. 2.4 million sheep and goats were killed in halal and kosher abattoirs last year – that marks a 60 per cent increase over the last recorded year.
The obvious reason for this marked increase lies in Muslim immigration – and Muslim birth rates. Of these Muslims in Britain, and British Muslims, a majority will only eat Halal meat: animals that have been killed by slitting their throats and letting them bleed to death.
This ritual is practised by kosher butchers too. And most of the world’s observant Jews, will only eat kosher. Thus, when the gunmen in Paris were looking for Jewish victims, they targeted a kosher deli: "kosher" is synonymous with Jewish, just as Halal is with Muslim. Herein lies the danger: for those who want to persecute Muslims and Jews, but are afraid to be branded racist or anti-semitic, having a go at their rituals provides a perfect cover up.
They can couch their prejudices in animal-loving claptrap and wear an RSPCA badge as a fig leaf. But their victims are not fooled: when the Danes and the Germans tried to ban ritual slaughter, both Muslim and Jewish communities protested vehemently. In Denmark, to no avail; but the authorities in Germany, more sensitive to accusations of anti-semitism, backed down. They realised that an assault on a religious minority can have horrific consequences. I would hope that, in the wake of the horrific carnage in Paris, the authorities in this country will do the same.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11379157/Banning-ritual-slaughter-would-be-a-victory-for-racists.html#disqus_thread
Kosher food isn't easily found. Halal is forced on everyone, like it or not.
So, opposing ritual slaughter makes you a racist? Only in Odone's head.
By Cristina Odone
Ritual slaughter is on the rise in Britain. So expect an outcry from the bunny-huggers – and a spike in anti-semitic and Islamophobic attacks. Last year, John Blackwell, head of Britain's vets, called for a ban on ritual slaughter. Blackwell worried about the pain that ritual butchering – which does not stun the animals first – might inflict on animals. I argued that if Britain went down the Blackwell route, it would prove that this country valued its cows more than its Jews. I was branded "inhumane" and "Muslim apologist" as a result. Despite the vet’s proposal, ritual slaughter continues. 2.4 million sheep and goats were killed in halal and kosher abattoirs last year – that marks a 60 per cent increase over the last recorded year.
The obvious reason for this marked increase lies in Muslim immigration – and Muslim birth rates. Of these Muslims in Britain, and British Muslims, a majority will only eat Halal meat: animals that have been killed by slitting their throats and letting them bleed to death.
This ritual is practised by kosher butchers too. And most of the world’s observant Jews, will only eat kosher. Thus, when the gunmen in Paris were looking for Jewish victims, they targeted a kosher deli: "kosher" is synonymous with Jewish, just as Halal is with Muslim. Herein lies the danger: for those who want to persecute Muslims and Jews, but are afraid to be branded racist or anti-semitic, having a go at their rituals provides a perfect cover up.
They can couch their prejudices in animal-loving claptrap and wear an RSPCA badge as a fig leaf. But their victims are not fooled: when the Danes and the Germans tried to ban ritual slaughter, both Muslim and Jewish communities protested vehemently. In Denmark, to no avail; but the authorities in Germany, more sensitive to accusations of anti-semitism, backed down. They realised that an assault on a religious minority can have horrific consequences. I would hope that, in the wake of the horrific carnage in Paris, the authorities in this country will do the same.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11379157/Banning-ritual-slaughter-would-be-a-victory-for-racists.html#disqus_thread
Kosher food isn't easily found. Halal is forced on everyone, like it or not.
So, opposing ritual slaughter makes you a racist? Only in Odone's head.
