Halal

A group of Turkish background 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.

A food bank has complained at a lack of “culturally appropriate” food, noting around 80 per cent of those who use the food bank are Muslim. 

The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.

Two Belgian Muslim organisations have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge a ban on ritual slaughter.

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 UK will look to ban the boiling of lobsters alive, however, the government has refrained from imposing similar restrictions on Halal.

Malaysian “halal activists” – ostensibly groups that pressure vendors into selling food that complies with Islamic dietary laws – on Wednesday announced a boycott against Coca-Cola and other companies seen as supporting Israel during its clash with Palestinian terrorists.

European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General Gerard Hogan has stated that a ban on ritual Halal slaughter in the Belgian region of Flanders violates European Union law and should be overturned.

A Muslim resident of the southern French city of Nice recorded himself slaughtering a sheep in his bathtub for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday and posted the video on social media.

Belgian authorities seized around 70 sheep in total in the provinces of Brabant and Hainaut, preventing the animals from being illegally slaughtered for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.

New York City will provide over 500,000 free halal meals to Muslims during Ramadan, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced this week.

A “devastated” Muslim man is demanding an apology and compensation after McDonald’s served him a “diabolical” Sausage McMuffin in Birmingham, England.

A judge has expressed her “abhorrence” at foster parents caring for children taken from an abusive Muslim household, because they Westernised and ate bacon.

A concerned mother is challenging an all halal-certified meat policy imposed by the Michigan public school district that includes the Dearborn region, dubbed the “Arab capital of North America,” Breitbart News learned from conservative commentator Pamela Geller.

A butcher shop in Australia has refused to change signage that declares its products are “not halal certified,” in defiance of advertising authorities alleging it was “inciting hatred” towards Islamic people by advertising its wares in such a way.

South Korea is planning a series of events to promote halal restaurants in a bid to boost Islamic tourism, the Korean Tourism Organization announced on Wednesday.

School examiners failed a 16-year-old vegetarian for remarking on her negative view of halal slaughter, claiming inaccurately that she had made “obscene racial comments… throughout an exam paper”.

A pair of Tunisian migrants are under investigation by Italian authorities for animal cruelty after allegedly slaughtering sheep in a parking lot.

British public health officials are concerned by the number of Muslim parents who could refuse to let their children receive the flu vaccine after the Muslim Council of Britain ruled the drug to be ‘non-halal’ and forbidden by Islam.

Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) preemptively shut down what was expected to be the opening of the first-ever “halal” pop-up nightclub in the conservative Muslim country, arguing that it had never given the green light for the event in the coastal city of Jeddah.

A British teenager claims he has been suspended from university for describing halal slaughter as “inhumane” and saying immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free, and cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training. 

TEL AVIV — As Belgium ushered in the New Year last night, an edict went into effect officially banning kosher slaughter in the country’s Flanders region, where about half of Belgium’s Jewish population lives.

More than 4,000 people have signed a local petition demanding an end to schools serving Sharia law-compliant “non-stun” halal meat “without the knowledge or consent of the majority of pupils and parents”.

Many children in Indonesia are missing out on crucial vaccines because of a “vaccine fatwa” imposed by power Islamic clerics, Science Magazine reported on Thursday. 

Around one in 10 UK councils are supplying sharia law-compliant halal meat to schools produced in a way considered cruel by all major animal rights groups.

Meat killed according to Islamic sharia law, in a method considered cruel by all major animal rights groups, “should be labelled in shops”, a Liberal Democrats peer has said.

French police in the heavily migrant populated suburbs of Paris have seized 32 sheep that were found in the garage of a pizzeria ahead of the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival in which Muslims sacrifice animals.

While Flanders and Wallonia are set to ban unstunned Islamic ritual slaughter in 2019, the practice will remain legal in the Belgian capital of Brussels.

The government has been accused of relaxing animal welfare standard in order to ramp up sales of Islamic Sharia-law compliant halal meat to Saudi Arabia.

British vets are demanding the production of halal meat is properly recorded, as well as calling for the amount produced in the UK to be cut as exports of the Sharia-compliant meat to Saudi Arabia have increased.

A pair of Halal slaughtermen who inflicted “extreme” suffering on sheep have escaped jail, with a further two suspected of similar crimes escaping justice by fleeing the country.

The British government is seeking to use Brexit as an opportunity to introduce the long-discussed labelling of meat to indicate whether the animals were humanely stunned before slaughter, or whether this treatment was withheld for religious reasons, it said Wednesday.

After Brexit, the government will seriously consider ensuring the clear labelling of un-stunned Halal and Kosher meat, which is widely considered to be cruel to animals.

A democratic decision to ban the sale of non-stun halal meat in Lancashire schools could be blocked after Muslims threatened a judicial review, forcing its continued supply for the time being.

Ali Abdelaziz sees children as a “gift from God”, so much so that he has 10 of his own, even as Egypt’s government struggles to stem a “catastrophic” population boom.

A halal shop in Colombes faces closure after the landlord won a lawsuit against the grocer for lease violations for refusing to stock alcohol and pork.