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British National Party Renews Call

for Ban on Halal Meat

Wed, 17/11/2010
David Hannam

The British National Party has reiterated its call for a total ban on all Halal meat production in Britain. The call comes as months of controversial reports exposing the magnitude and cruelty of the Halal industry in Britain have outraged decent British people.

Earlier this year Exova, a leading testing and advisory service that seeks to ensure high standards of food quality for consumers announced that it would join forces with Halal meat expert Nizar Boga (from the London's Islamic Cultural Centre) to launch a new halal accreditation and inspection service called The Universal Halal Agency.

The Islamic Cultural Centre boasts of having an 'Interfaith' department which provides:

"training for Non-Muslim Professionals, consultation with Government/Non Government organisations on Race Relations, meetings with the Metropolitan Police on Race relations, lectures and conferences on Islam in Universities, colleges, schools, Churches and Synagogues etc."

Aside from the wasteful resources involved in having our police officers attend these multi-faith and Islamic lectures, what is really alarming is that Nizar Boga, Exova, The Universal Halal Agency and an assortment of media liberals think that it is the accreditation/certification of Islamic foods that is the problem.

No, the problem is Halal meat full stop!

The alarming news over the last few months that Halal food has been served in schools, hospitals, fast food chains and public houses all over the UK has reiterated the need for decent people to vocally oppose this barbaric slaughter of animals.

What the media have on occasion tried to do is deflect the issue from one of Islamic barbarism to merely certification of foods and consumer rights, whereas the real issue is that such practises are utterly alien to our British traditions.

British Veterinary Association (BVA) has called for Halal slaughter to be banned as it causes 'intolerable cruelty'.

Daily Mail Reporter Danny Penman illustrated the barbarity of this procedure:

"When I step inside, the first thing that hits me is the overpowering stench - a nasty, fatty smell that sticks in the throat.

And then there's the noise of machinery, interspersed with bleating animals and the slaughtermen uttering prayers.

Hundreds of sheep and lambs are penned up in tiny stalls. From time to time, one tries - and fails - to escape by leaping over the bars of its pen. But then the same would be true of any abattoir.

It is only when it comes to the actual slaughter that the differences become apparent. I watch - and secretly film - as the animals are herded onto a conveyor belt that leads them to the slaughterman, who is wearing a blue hairnet over his hair and beard in accordance with hygiene requirements.

Grabbing one lamb at a time, he pulls back its head and slits the throat with a swift movement from his razor-sharp knife.

Blood gushes everywhere as he recites the Islamic Bismillah prayer in Arabic: 'In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful." Danny Penman.

The British National Party stands for common sense and the banning of the ritual slaughter of animals without pre-stunning, and the sale of such meat.

Britain has always prided itself and has a long tradition of ensuring the least possible distress to animals.

There is of course a very easy answer to the problem. If Muslims have to practise Halal slaughter then go and practise it in any number of Islamic countries. Just don't do it in Britain.

David Hannam's Blog can be found here.

(bnp.org.uk)

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