(RAIR Foundation USA) The Muslim-controlled City of Hamtramck, Michigan, approved the slaughter of animals at residents’ homes for “religious reasons.” The City Council, whose members are all sharia-compliant Muslims, approved the torturous, inhumane, unsanitary Sharia practice that among other Islamic causes, helps aid Islamic terrorists, 3-2, last Tuesday.
Hamtramck has one of the highest percentages of Muslim residents among cities in the U.S. Last December, the Council voted to keep a ban in place, but after fierce objections from resident Muslims, the issue was revisited.
During the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, Muslims perform ‘Qurbani’ (barbaric live animal slaughter). The holiday is celebrated by Muslims worldwide and highlighted by torturing and killing terrified animals in the public square. For Hamtramck residents, this means they will slaughter large animals barbarically in their backyard yards or inside their homes.
Muslims prefer heavier sheep, goats, lamb, buffalo, cattle, and camels to slaughter for this holiday. The weights of the animals for slaughter should be heavier than 60 pounds.
The revised ordinance requires those who barbarically slaughter the animals to “notify” the City ahead of time and to perform their slaughter in a way more or less compliant with health regulations. The City has also over-written many health codes by allowing the slaughter of animals in the Halal fashion at a person’s residence.
The City requires that Muslims block the viewing of the slaughter from members of the general public who do not wish to see the dying animal suffering. So instead, the public will be treated to listen to the screams of the animal dying, no matter how they feel about the Islamic practice.
Halal
The animals that Muslims slaughter for the “celebration” must be Halal. An Islamic practice and “certification” that has been weaponized to spread Sharia throughout the world.
Halal, which in Arabic means lawful or legal, is a term designating any object or action permissible according to Sharia (Islamic Law). In the context of food, halal meat is derived from animals slaughtered by hand according to methods stipulated in Islamic religious texts.
Sharia bans the practice of stunning the animals before they are slaughtered. This is because pre-slaughter stunning renders the animals unconscious and thus is said to lessen pain.
Muslims slaughter the animal facing Mecca. Halal slaughter involves cutting the animal’s trachea, esophagus, and jugular vein. Muslims hang the tortured animals by their back feet while they let the blood slowly drain from their writhing body while praying and saying “Bismillah Allahu akbar” — in the name of Allah the greatest. They have to say this prayer about Allah being great and greater than all other gods.
It is important to highlight that according to the Quran, halal meat is not even strictly compulsory for Muslims. If it isn’t available, they can eat non-halal, and Allah will forgive them. So there’s no good reason why we should import it into our society when it violates our most basic standards of animal welfare, which are not particularly high in the first place.
Islamic Halal Certification
Furthermore, for a food or product to be labeled “halal,” it must be certified by Islamic organizations. The majority are Muslim terrorist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. One of the halal certification organizations, for example, is the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial because it was tied to the terror group Hamas, which is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Various Muslim Brotherhood front groups have devised this lucrative racket of certifying non-meat foods as halal and major companies have been lining up to pay them handsomely for certification. This is effectively an Islamic tax on food that funds the further expansion of Islam into western society.
Halal food is a brilliant political and economic strategy for Islamic terrorist groups.
It is little surprise that terror-tied groups like the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) fought for halal animal sacrifices in residents’ homes. The Hamas-linked group has been celebrating its sharia victory:
Backdoor Sharia
In America, a great deal of meat sold is halal but is not labeled as such. As journalist Pamela Geller explains, meat packers generally do not separate halal meat from non-halal meat and do not label halal meat as such. Despite her many attempts to right this wrong, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has for years ignored, shelved, or just plain refused to rule on her petition to have Sharia meat food labeled, so it is not forced on non-Muslims.
Some Christians see it as a religious issue, given the warning in Acts 15:29 to “abstain from food sacrificed to idols.” Other religions do not want to eat meat sacrificed to Muslims’ idol, Allah unknowingly and with Allah’s name prayed over it. Outspoken American pastor Mark Biltz has sounded the alarm for Christians to be aware of the Islamic influence he calls “backdoor Sharia” spreading across the West.
Pat Robertson, an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, and former presidential candidate, discusses Halal not being imposed on Christians and its ties to Islamic terrorist groups.
Halal Jihad across the West
The issue of Halal slaughter and Muslim home slaughtering within Western countries has been simmering for over a decade since the massive mass-illegal invasion of Europe took place. However, the halal issue is about more than just meat; it is also about a dangerous ideology and financing of Islamic terror.
As Gatestone reported, some analysts say halal is a tool that the Muslim minority is using to impose aspects of Sharia on the non-Muslim majority in the West. Others say Islamic leaders use halal to prevent Muslim immigrants’ integration into the West.
French anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler in her book, “Le marché halal ou l’invention d’une tradition” (“The Halal Market or the Invention of a Tradition”), exposes that “halal” food was just “recently invented” as a label and as a potential commercial market, in collaboration between Iranian terrorists and multinational agrifood businesses.
She explains that the halal market never existed in the Muslim world until food ‘big business’ created and exported it. The halal convention was born in the 70s and 80s. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, halal became a fundamentalist food requirement habit, sanctified by economic interests. In the 1970s, Iran and Saudi Arabia, which were engaged in a competition to spread their vision of Islam throughout the world, found help from multinationals such as Nestlé, which had in mind the creation of the large global halal food market.
The needless cruelty of Halal slaughter is being allowed to bleed into western society not only by the current progressive consensus that all cultures are better than ours but by food producers and retailers eager to grab the Muslim market and who need to be reminded that the Muslim market is still a minority market and that the rest of us have more buying power.
Take Action
Contact Hamtramck’s Islamic City Council and voice your concerns:
To stop the expansion of Islam into the West, make sure that whatever you buy does not have a Halal label. Learn to recognize it on food packaging and menus; when you see it, do not buy it. See some examples of the halal labels to look for:
Learn more
Below, RAIR Foundation USA has listed a series of videos dealing with the conflicts and use of Halal food as a weapon against societal norms of Western Civilization.
The following is a segment from a 2018 astonishing Israeli documentary, “B’zehut B’duyah” (“under a false identity”), about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence over the Islamification of the West. The following short clip deals with Halal as a weapon in France:
