Ritual Slaughter

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Ritual Slaughter

Matagh

 

You think next they will take up the “ritual mutilation” of boys and girls, aka circumcision?

Below they forget that many Christians , among them Armenians still practice the pagan ritual of ԱՆՄԵՂ ՄԱՏԱՂ/MATAGH, zoh, satak, zatak, zatik, animal sacrifice.

BTW. Do the Armenian clergy "bless" the matagh before it is slaughtred, as in "halal/sanctified " or "haram/sinful/meghq"? Asem MEGHA!

 

What if those innocent lambs and doves had knives and guns?

 

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http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=24280&st=0&p=265182&hl=matagh&fromsearch=1entry265182

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=21588&st=0&p=259295&hl=sacrifice&fromsearch=1entry259295

 

This is very disturbing. Below some facts that we don’ know about. The humane Christian culture and the primitively savage cultures of the Middle East. It is ironic that those cultures are so close to India where all life is sacred, even rats, elephants and ants where cows walk down the main highway undisturbed, unmolested

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See highlights below.

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/dutch-lawmakers-debate-ritual-slaughter-ban-134017211.html\

 

Dutch Jews, Muslims appeal ritual slaughter

 

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Centrist Dutch lawmakers worked behind the scenes Wednesday to amend legislation that would outlaw centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions of slaughtering animals.

Facing a backlash from Islamic supporters for supporting the law change, the Labor Party has said it wants "to improve the legislation in certain areas."

The party has not revealed what changes it wants, but said it still supports the legislation's key goal — making it obligatory to stun animals before they are slaughtered.

As in most western countries, Dutch law dictates that butchers must stun livestock — render it unconscious — before it can be slaughtered, to minimize the animals' pain and fear. But an exception is made for meat that must be prepared under ancient Jewish and Muslim dietary laws and practices. These demand that animals be slaughtered while still awake, by swiftly cutting the main arteries of their necks with razor-sharp knives.

Lawmakers were to debate the bill Wednesday night and were expected to vote on it Thursday or early next week.

The Labor Party's spokesman on the issue, Martijn van Dam, could not be reached for comment ahead of the debate.

The Party for the Animals, the first animal rights party elected to parliament anywhere in the world, proposed the ban on kosher and halal slaughter methods, saying they inflict unacceptable suffering on animals.

Labor is not part of the governing coalition of the free-market Liberal Party and Christian Democrats, but its support is necessary for the legislation to gain a majority in Parliament.

However, Labor has been wrestling with how to balance its commitment to animal welfare with its long-standing support for religious freedoms. Many of its members have criticized the decision to support the ban.

Religious-based parties including the Christian Democrats have refused to support the bill, fearing it will undermine the country's reputation as a bastion of religious tolerance.

Jewish and Muslim groups tried to persuade lawmakers earlier this month that the ban would constitute a fundamental attack on the freedom to practice their faiths.

"If pre-stunning were made compulsory under Dutch law, Jews would be unable to practice a central element of Jewish life which has been continuously practiced for over 3,000 years," Britain's Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, told a parliamentary committee.

Around 1 million Muslims and 40,000-50,000 Jews live in the Netherlands, a nation of 16 million. Many of the country's Muslims are Labor voters.

Muslim representatives have said that if halal slaughter is banned by Dutch authorities Muslims will be forced to buy their meat from neighboring countries such as Belgium and Germany.

If the Netherlands outlaws procedures that make meat kosher for Jews or halal for Muslims, it will be the first country outside New Zealand to do so in recent years. It will join the Scandinavian, Baltic countries and Switzerland, whose bans are mostly traceable to pre-World War II anti-Semitism.

Edited June 22, 2011 by Arpa