American Thinker
Sept 19 2010
Halal to the Queen? Britain’s Stealth Halal-ization
Andrew G. Bostom
Creeping Sharia has already extended to the dietary practices of
British dhimmis, who are involuntarily consuming meats ritually
slaughtered and prayed over in good Islamic practice.
Although this Daily Mail investigation of the stealth Islamization of
the British meat industry is largely fixated on the “animal cruelty”
aspect of the story, the findings provide another disturbing example
of Britain’s steady Islamization, as evidenced by its “stealth
halal-ization”:
….[S]chools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues such as
Ascot and Twickenham are controversially serving up meat slaughtered
in accordance with strict Islamic law to unwitting members of the
public. All the beef, chicken and lamb sold to fans at Wembley has
secretly been prepared in accordance with sharia law, while Cheltenham
College, which boasts of its `strong Christian ethos’, is one of
several top public schools which also serves halal chicken to pupils
without informing them. Even Britain’s biggest hotel and restaurant
group Whitbread, which owns the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre chains,
among many others, has admitted that more than three-quarters of its
poultry is halal.
For those obsessed with the animal cruelty aspect of the story, I am
more concerned about how this “ritual slaughter” is eerily reminiscent
of what was inflicted en masse to the hapless Armenians by their
“Muslim brethren” neighbors during the pogroms that culminated in the
World War I era jihad genocide of the Armenian Christians. Here is a
description of the halal slaughter of livestock, from the Daily Mail
story:
Sharia law expressly forbids knocking the animal out with a bolt gun,
as is usual in British slaughter – houses. Instead, it must be sentient
when its throat is cut, and the blood allowed to drip from the carcass
while a religious phrase in praise of Allah is recited.
And here is an account by Lord Kinross (pp. 669-70) of the human
ritual slaughter of Armenian Christians at Urfa during the 1894-96 era
of pogroms under Abdul Hamid, which saw the massacre of some 200,000,
and because of the abject failure of the West to act against these
atrocities, gave the Turks predictable impunity for their subsequent
genocidal massacres during World War I:
Cruelest and most ruinous of all were the massacres at Urfa, where the
Armenian Christians numbered a third of the total population. Here in
December 1895, after a two-months siege of their quarter, the leading
Armenians assembled in their cathedral, where they drew up a statement
requesting Turkish official protection. Promising this, the Turkish
officer in charge surrounded the cathedral with troops. Then a large
body of them, with a mob in their wake, rushed through the Armenian
quarter, where they plundered all houses and slaughtered all adult
males above a certain age. When a large group of young Armenians were
brought before a sheikh, he had them thrown down on their backs and
held by their hands and feet. Then, in the words of an observer, he
recited verses of the Koran and “cut their throats after the Mecca
rite of sacrificing sheep.”
Returning to the salient feature of the Daily Mail story — Britain’s
“stealth halalization”, as another aspect of its seemingly inexorable
Islamization given the country’s cultural relativist malaise, the
report further reveals, “…[t]he extent of halal meat consumption,
even in areas of Britain with a very small Muslim population.”
Moreover, the Daily Mail juxtaposes this story line, appropriately,
with Pope Benedict’s recent visit to Britain, and the Pontiff’s stern
warning:
[The] Pope, on his first visit to Britain, expressed fears that the
country was not doing enough to preserve traditional Christian values
and customs. In a strongly worded speech to Parliament, he said:
“There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals
such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief
that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.”
In light of such alarming revelations by The Daily Mail, it is worth
reviewing these observations by the late respected British scholar of
Islam, Dr. Mervyn Hiskett, in Some to Mecca Turn to Pray, first
published in 1993.
Hiskett noted (p. 235) the prevailing opinion among leaders of the
British Muslim community (i.e., already, almost two decades ago) that
unless Muslim immigrants to Britain were allowed unrestrained access
to Islamic Law, Shari’a, in all aspects, Britain was to be regarded,
Dar-al-Harb, or the House of War, i.e., the target of jihadism. Citing
what he characterized as “a more urbane but some may consider ominous
statement of the Muslim intention to brook no opposition,” Hiskett
quoted Zaki Badawi (d. 2006), a Muslim scholar, and former Director of
the Islamic Cultural Center, London, who was made an honorary Knight
Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in 2004, and also appointed by
The Duke of Castro as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of
Francis I. Incidentally Badawi never became a British subject although
he had lived in the country for more than 30 years, and had received
all manner of honors there. Badawi opined,
A proseltyzing religion cannot stand still. It can either expand or
contract. Islam endeavors to expand in Britain. Islam is a universal
religion. It aims at bringing its message to all corners of the earth.
It hopes that one day the whole humanity will be one Muslim community,
the `Umma’
Badawi’s “vision” for British society — so recently deemed
unthinkable — now seems eminently plausible, as “British humanity”
appears well on its way to full integration into the Muslim umma.
Hat tip to The Religion of Peace, the most comprehensive clearinghouse
of jihad-related news.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/halal_to_the_queen_britains_st.html