SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) - A hog farmer in Smithfield is gearing up for a growing market: raising lambs and goats to be slaughtered according to Muslim tradition.
Johnston County commissioners recently approved the rezoning request Kenneth Rowe needed to build a slaughterhouse on his Princeton hog farm to slaughter animals according to guidelines known to Muslims as hilal.
In a hilal slaughter, an animal's throat is slit using a sharp knife and cutting both carotid arteries. The death is quick and accompanied by a prayer.
The Rowes decided to build a 200-thousand dollar slaughterhouse where they will butcher meat according to hilal standards, including hiring a Muslim to say a prayer for the animals.
Muslims will be allowed to perform the killing themselves.
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RIYADH, 11 May 2005 — The Ministry of the Interior said yesterday that a wanted militant, Abdul Aziz ibn Rasheed Al-Inazi, a Saudi national, had been arrested. Al-Inazi was arrested after being injured by security forces in a gunbattle on Monday. The statement made clear that the gunbattle involved only one militant even though earlier reports had said the number was three.
“The suspect is one of the promoters of deviant ideology. He had a major role in promoting takfeer ideology (branding other Muslims as infidels) and is a member of the so-called religious committee in the deviant group,” the statement said. “Because the suspect has a university degree in religious studies, his colleagues have made him a major promoter of their sick ideology and have used his statements to justify their corruption and criminal acts,” it added.
The statement also said that the militant’s preaching and statements were used to defame peaceful Islamic principles for evil purposes; he said it was permissible to shed non-Muslim blood and accused other Muslims of being infidels. The suspect also preached that in Islam it was permissible to kill security officers on religious grounds. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the suspect used the Internet as a tool to publish his statements.
Al-Inazi was not on the Kingdom’s most wanted list of terror suspects.
