(European Conservative) After a daycare center in Lower Saxony recently raised the hackles of parents by only serving sausages from halal-slaughtered animals, now a school in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhein-Westphalia, is also bowing to the demands of the Muslim population when it comes […]
(Jewish News) The government has rejected a call to ban the non-stun slaughter of animals after defending the right of Jews and Muslims to eat meat prepared in accordance with their beliefs. A Westminster Hall debate took place on Monday after a […]
(NL Times) Dutch authorities have intervened at several illegal slaughterhouses across the Netherlands in recent days, seizing sheep carcasses and rescuing live animals amid heightened enforcement during Offerfeest (Eid al-Adha), the Islamic holiday during which many animals are reportedly ritually slaughtered, AD […]
(Detroit Free Press) In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, the man reached up and pulled away a scarlet cloth, revealing unto the people a sign. It was a cold day, late in winter. Maybe a hundred people […]
(Breitbart) In the wake of the stabbing of multiple prison guards allegedly by the Manchester Arena terrorist, the head of the largest prison officers’ union revealed that the prison was barred from conducting searches with sniffer dogs on Muslim inmates. Earlier this […]
(BBC) Protesters have called for an abattoir to be shut down, after covert footage filmed by an activist showed treatment of sheep which slaughterhouse bosses described as “shocking and disturbing.” Three staff members were sacked after the footage of T&S Abattoir in […]
(Brussels Times) The Walloon government plans to “eventually” ban the home slaughter of pigs, goats and sheep, as it already does for cattle and horses. The aim of the measure is to enforce better compliance with food safety and animal welfare legislation, […]
(Morocco World News) A halal butcher shop in Bobigny, France, has been closed since New Year’s Eve “until further notice,” after food inspectors found wild boar meat on the premises, according to the French media outlet Le Parisien. The shop, located on […]
(NY Post) That’s fowl. A Queens food truck worker captured a pigeon using a plastic bag and ominously brought it back to his cart, according to shocking viral footage of the incident. A commuter waiting for a bus spotted the worker feeding […]
(AFP) Weaving between market stalls in the working-class Brussels district of Molenbeek, Fouad Ahidar likes to remind voters he was a market vendor himself as a teenager — driving home his credentials as a people’s politician. Something of a rising star on […]
(AFP) Muslim voters are increasingly worried about the prospect of a far-right victory less than two weeks before France’s snap parliamentary elections, fearing the possible restrictions that could follow. For Sarah, there’s a “real risk” of seeing the National Rally (RN) win […]
(CBC) Inside a garage in an established Edmonton neighbourhood, animals were being slaughtered and the meat was advertised for sale to consumers, a CBC News investigation has learned. Police entered the rented garage in the quiet residential Woodcroft community in February 2023. […]
(Courthouse News) Europe’s top rights court upheld a ban on killing livestock without first stunning them, finding on Tuesday that animal welfare could trump religious practice. A mixed-faith group of people and organizations brought the complaint to the European Court of Human […]
(Detroit News) At the meat business he runs in Hamtramck, Mo Islam fields requests from Muslims to butcher and prepare animals in the manner their religion requires. He usually expects plenty of business when families ask to process sacrificial meat, often from […]
(Breitbart) A group of around a dozen people in the French department of Essonne are accused of beheading animals in a home to ward off “demons” on Christmas Day, with one man arrested. The group, said to be of Turkish origin, are […]
(Detroit Free Press) After several months of contentious debate and pressure from Muslim residents, Hamtramck City Council voted Tuesday night to allow the religious sacrifice of animals on residential property. Muslims often slaughter animals during the holiday of Eid al-Adha and Hamtramck […]
(Breitbart) A court in Finland began hearing a case of alleged illegal halal slaughter of up to 2,500 sheep this week, with prosecutors claiming the animals were slaughtered without being stunned beforehand in accordance with the law. The animal welfare trial began […]
(Washington Times) An American diplomat said European laws governing the humane treatment of animals must include religious exemptions for Jewish and Islamic slaughtering practices, lest nations be seen as hostile to religious minorities. “Laws limiting Jews from practicing their religion, including laws […]
(Jerusalem Post) The European Commission (EC) will hold an urgent conference on Thursday about religious slaughter titled “Freedom of religion with regard to religious slaughter,” the Jerusalem Post has learned. The participants were asked to keep a low profile and not speak […]
(Breitbart) French authorities have arrested a beekeeper recently expelled from Malaysia where he was allegedly using profits from honey sales to finance terror groups in Syria. The 42-year-old, nicknamed “Abu Bee,” was arrested on October 11 by officials from the French anti-terrorist […]
(JTA) Belgian promoters of a ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals saw their bill defeated in Brussels, the seat of the European Union and the only region of Belgium where the practice is still legal. The vote Friday in the […]
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(AP) As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith and the plates of chicken and kosher sausages […]
(Buffalo News) It looks as though a halal butcher shop for chickens will not open after all in Buffalo’s Fillmore-Leroy neighborhood. The Common Council’s Legislation Committee on Tuesday recommended denying approval for the project. The decision came after opposition from 15 speakers […]
(Politico) Belgian bans on the ritual slaughter of animals practiced by Jews and Muslims risk painting these minorities as “medieval” communities with no respect for animal life, the EU’s top official tasked with fighting anti-Semitism across Europe said. Since 2019, citing concerns […]
(Anadolu) The Muslim community in Belgium will appeal at the European Court of Human Rights against the ban on ritual halal animal slaughtering. “The Belgian Muslim Executive and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium will challenge at the European Court […]
(JTA) The highest court in Greece has ruled against allowing ritual slaughter, fulfilling fears that some Jewish leaders voiced last year after the European Union’s top court ruled in support of such bans. Last December, the EU’s highest court upheld the bans […]
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(Brussels Times) In a ruling on Thursday, the Belgian Constitutional Court supported the judgment of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) last December on banning animal slaughter without stunning. The ruling follows a request from the Belgian court to CJEU for clarification […]
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(Breitbart) Police arrested four men in Nantes after they allegedly slaughtered a pair of sheep in the middle of a street during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival. The four men were taken into custody on Tuesday at around 11:25 a.m. in the Bellevue district […]
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(AFP) Social media posts and online articles claim France will ban the halal slaughter of chicken. This is false; the Ministry of Agriculture said there is no ban, but a November 2020 directive clarified the rules around the religious exemption from European […]
(Brussels Times) The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg has upheld a ban by the Flemish government on animal slaughter without prior stunning. The court was responding to a request from Belgium’s Constitutional Court for a ruling on a point of […]
(JTA) The Polish government has scrapped a bill that would have banned the production of kosher and halal meat, but vowed to introduce a new one. Agriculture Minister Grzegorz Puda announced Wednesday that the bill, already passed by parliament, will not be […]
(JTA) Poland’s senate passed a law that will end its $1.8 billion kosher and halal meat export industry in 2025. Religious communities will still be able to slaughter meat without prior stunning, as is required by Jewish and Muslim law, as long […]
(JTA) Poland has moved a step closer to terminating its $1.8 billion industry of kosher and halal meat for export — one day after a parliamentary committee had removed language about a ban in an animal rights bill. On Thursday night, the […]
(JTA) A ban on the for-export production of kosher and halal meat in Poland is off the table for the parliament there. An amendment to the draft of the Law on Animal Protection introduced Thursday by the agriculture committee omits the ban […]
(Brussels Times) The Flemish minister for animal welfare, Ben Weyts (N-VA), said he is “fundamentally in disagreement” with the opinion handed down yesterday by the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice, declaring a Flemish ban on ritual slaughter illegal. Flanders has […]
(Courthouse News) In a legal test case pitting animal rights advocates and far-right politicians against Muslim and Jewish religious leaders seeking to protect halal and kosher meats, a magistrate for Europe’s highest court on Thursday said bans on the ritual slaughtering of […]
(JTA) Poland’s ruling party said Tuesday that it will introduce a bill to make kosher and halal meat permissible for Poles but not for export. “This is an act that will be supported by all good people in Poland. I am convinced […]
(National-UAE) A charity that certifies halal products in Britain won a legal fight after being accused of unfairly controlling the market by insisting its members sold meat only from animals that were slaughtered under its strict code. The Halal Monitoring Committee persuaded […]
(Brussels Times) About 10 [sheep] were seized on Friday by police in the Brussels-Midi zone (Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles, Forest) in three raids conducted in connection with the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Adha, according to the Help Animals association. The association had requested the intervention […]
(Courthouse News) Religious groups argued their case against a Belgian law banning ritual animal slaughter before the European Union’s highest court on Wednesday, while Belgium denied the law infringes on religious freedom. The law, which requires that animals be stunned before being […]
(Jewish News) Senior Jewish and Muslim leaders this week issued a joint plea ahead of a European Court of Justice hearing into the legality of a Belgian ban on religious slaughter. Standing together on the issue were Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president […]
(AAP) Australia could be a regional leader in Islamic finance but tax issues are holding the sector back domestically, advocates say. The worldwide Islamic finance industry is estimated to be worth $US3.5 trillion ($A5.2 trillion) by 2024, according to a report launched […]
(CBC) The Green Party has turfed one of its Ontario candidates over an old social media post in which he spoke about sending a pig carcass to Muslims. Erik Schomann, who was the party’s candidate in Simcoe North, posted a photo of himself […]
(Politico) It is the last year that Mohamed Bouezmarni can help sacrifice around 200 sheep in a southern Belgian slaughterhouse for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. From September 1, the French-speaking region of Wallonia will be the second Belgian authority after […]
(Breitbart) Blind people with guide dogs are being refused service by Muslim cab drivers in Innsbruck, Austria, because they regard the animals as “ritually unclean.” Some 80 per cent of cab drivers in the Tyrolean capital now have a migration background, the Tiroler […]
(Breitbart) A pair of Tunisian migrants are under investigation by Italian authorities for animal cruelty after allegedly slaughtering sheep in a parking lot. The pair slaughtered two sheep in the village of Bentivoglio in Bologna as part of the annual Islamic festival […]
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