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OP, its called religious freedom, you might want to look into it sometime. the practice had been around since before the islam religion was created. every culture has certain dietary laws they follow per their religion.
in the end however, butchering any animal is a messy business, be it cattle, deer, or what ever. if you dont like seeing it, seeing where the meat you eat comes from, then dont watch it and go on with you life assuming that your meat comes from the supermarket.
Oh look a sympathizer
I’m no animal rights activist but they should be killed instantly with the bolt
I’m no animal rights activist but they should be killed instantly with the bolt
Do you object to Jews doing it to be kosher, or only Muslims to be halal? It's the same thing. And many Muslims will accept the stunning. Jews will not at all.
Do you object to Jews doing it to be kosher, or only Muslims to be halal? It's the same thing. And many Muslims will accept the stunning. Jews will not at all.
OK, just checking because many in this thread are making it all about Muslims. For me, on this particular issue, I appreciate that many Muslims seem to understand the intent of their ancient law (humane for the animals) (and therefore accept stunning) whereas Jews are stuck on the letter of the law, which annoys me.
Developing compassion rarely occurs as a blanket application. It usually starts around a single event/experience. As such, it's foolish to tell someone, "Well, who are you to talk? Look at all the other ways you're ignorant of the suffering of creatures!"
How about praising people for recognizing and condemning this savagery and then encouraging them rather than shaming them into opening their eyes to other ways we needlessly force animals to suffer?
Shaming them? People eat meat. As long as there is a market for meat, there will always be cruelty to animals.
As long as there is a market for war, open eyes ...
People do not want to open their eyes, cause that might mean they may have to do something, least of all what they want to do and that is change.
Saying the Muslims may have been acting in a cruel an inhuman manner does not negate the fact that all people are subject to dish out acts of cruelty in all degrees, to all inhabitants of this earth. As people evolve from the things they learn, perhaps this will become a thing of the past. One can only hope.
The act of cruelty to animals is against Islam and thus Muslim culture. In learning this, it posses a question of how and why this video is being circulated and to the validity of its nature. Perhaps some one else is more deserving of shame.
Today a growing number of Muslims throughout the world are practicing vegetarian lifestyles, not only in the West but in traditional Islamic environments as well. The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia-Pacific has launched, at the suggestion of its Muslim members, a website on Islam and vegetarianism.5 In Turkey, which has several national vegetarian organizations, an old Istanbul neighborhood known as “Non-meat-eater” (Etyemecz) derives its name from the vegetarian practices of a Sufi sect. Iran has at least one registered vegetarian society, the Sana and Shafa Vegetarians’ Association, based in Tehran.
A simple but defining question is, can you be a vegan and veggie and Muslim?
For Elysia it’s a clear cut answer: Yes, absolutely. There is nowhere in the Quran where we are obligated to consume meat or animals. “As a Muslim we should know how our meat is produced; where our food comes from and how it’s treated. You could ask yourself the following: Would the prophet (phub) be a vegetarian if he knew in this day and age how the meat industry operates?”
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