Flanders: Vlaams Belang campaigning against halal

Vlaams Belang will be conducting a campaign in the upcoming weeks to inform Flemish consumers about the increasing supply of halal products. "Consumers against Islamization" doesn't support a boycott, emphasized Filip Dewinter in a press conference. The growth of halal products does fit in with the radicalization of the Muslim movement.

Vlaams Belang is focusing on halal meat, where the butcher must be Muslim and follow strict regulations during the slaughter. The party says that according to some Muslim authorities the animal must not be anesthetized, and according to other Muslim authorities is is allowed, as long as its reversible.

Dewinter recognizes that not all Muslim strictly follow the halal regulations, and many don't consume halal slaughtered meat, as long as it's not pork. But for the past few decades the Muslim community has been radicalizing, the Quran is used as an authority and the Muslims in the ghettos are required to follow the Muslim behavior code more and more strictly.

According to Vlaams Belang this radicalization is also noticeable in consumerism. In many branches of the big warehouse stores there are halal products and food firms produce special halal brands. Dewinter says that giving in to the sharia demand concerning food open the door for further Islamization. He also points out that slaughter without anesthesia conflicts with the western ethical norms and more specifically with the law regarding animal welfare.

Source: HLN (Dutch)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doesn't halal mean that they kill the animals by slitting their throats and letting them bleed to death?

Esther said...

In quite a few European countries, halal slaughter is done after anesthesia, in which case it doesn't matter how long it takes the animal to die.

Abdalhamid said...

If you knew the toxicity in the blood of animals, after any method of slaughter with or without stunning, you would understand the wisdom of draining as much blood as possible from the animal before eating it. Once the throat is slit the animal does not feel anything. Scientific tests in Germany have proven this. http://www.halalfocus.com/artman2/
publish/science/Hannover_University_
Stunning_versus_Slaughter_research_
report.shtml