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State Blocks Muslim Celebration Involving Animal Slaughter
WRAL.com ^ | Anne Leake

Posted on 12/16/2007 10:28:47 AM PST by jern

Smithfield — A judge has told a Johnston County farmer that he cannot open his farm to Muslim families planning to slaughter lambs as part of an annual religious celebration.

The judge issued a 10-day injunction Friday, meaning that about 250 Muslim families in Wake County will have to make other arrangements for slaughtering lambs they bought in advance of the three-day Festival of the Sacrifice, which begins on Wednesday.

Kenneth and Eddie Rowe have tangled before with the state over the mass slaughter of lambs on their 300-acre farm. They said they have been conducting the slaughtering in their 80x100 barn for the past six years.

In 2005, the Rowes preserved their right to carry on the tradition. The state Department of Agriculture fined them $10,000 for the practice the same year, but the Rowes have not yet paid it.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: agri; animalsacrifice; farm; immigration; ranch; usda
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To: FormerACLUmember

The article ends: “Eddie Rowe said sending the lambs – which cost around $32,000 – to slaughterhouses is not acceptable option, because the families then could not watch.”

Why not give each family a DVD of their lamb being slaughtered? They could watch it every year.

Do the children also watch this? It’s a wonder that they don’t turn out twisted. Or do they?


21 posted on 12/16/2007 10:45:08 AM PST by docbnj
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To: ClearBlueSky

Gov’t is way more dangerous in this case.

The next step will be outlawing Muslim homeschool, then Christian homeschool. Ya get the picture?


22 posted on 12/16/2007 10:46:12 AM PST by BGHater (If Guns Cause Crime Then Matches Cause Arson?)
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To: Clemenza

On the one hand, if they have lambs to slaughter, maybe they’ll leave us infidels alone (cathartic release.)

On the other hand, what if they are merely PRACTICING??!!!!


23 posted on 12/16/2007 10:46:33 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: live+let_live

And require all animal shelters and dog pounds to go ‘no-kill’.

Maybe even ban killing babies? No, never mind that wouldn’t be enlightened.


24 posted on 12/16/2007 10:46:33 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: Yorlik803

Where’s PETA?


25 posted on 12/16/2007 10:46:56 AM PST by donna (Obama on cocaine: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.")
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To: Jeff Chandler

Same reasons pagans can’t sacrifice animals...


26 posted on 12/16/2007 10:47:16 AM PST by EBH (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: jern

First lambs, then goats — NEXT US. If they want to live like this, they should return to their natal and ancestral hell countries and get the hell out of here.


27 posted on 12/16/2007 10:47:36 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: jern

Free The Lambs...Kill the Rats.


28 posted on 12/16/2007 10:48:19 AM PST by Gator113
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To: ClearBlueSky

This isn’t a progression where first they slaughter lambs, then things suddenly grow and they start slaughtering their children. The two are independent of each other. If they kill their own daughter, the a-hole should be arrested, tried for murder, and given a just sentence. If they want to slaughter lambs on their own private property, so what.

Historically Christians sacrificed lambs too. Would this judge put a stop to that as well?


29 posted on 12/16/2007 10:49:16 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: sinanju

So it’s not the slaughter itself, but the magnitude of the slaughter and the public health ramifications.

[Note: ramifications is the appropriate word to convey the intended meaning, and is in no way intended as a sheep pun.]


30 posted on 12/16/2007 10:50:07 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: G8 Diplomat
Historically Christians sacrificed lambs too.

Uh, no. Animal sacdifice is not part of the Christian faith.

31 posted on 12/16/2007 10:51:21 AM PST by don-o (Do the RIGHT thing. Become a monthly donor. End Freepathons forever)
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To: G8 Diplomat
Historically Christians sacrificed lambs too.

The very first Christians did, but I am not aware of that practice carrying forward to the Gentile Christians.

32 posted on 12/16/2007 10:51:38 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: jern

Allow them to do that and they’ll want to chop heads off and not be arrested for it. Wait, they already do!


33 posted on 12/16/2007 10:51:46 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: don-o

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to test his faith, so he tied him to the alter but an angel stopped him before he did anything. Afterwards, he found a ram caught in the bushes to sacrifice instead.

That’s what I was referring to.


34 posted on 12/16/2007 10:54:48 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I meant the very first Christians


35 posted on 12/16/2007 10:55:14 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: jern

Is the restriction because the Rowes don’t have a licensed abbatoir?


36 posted on 12/16/2007 10:56:09 AM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: docbnj

If Orthodox Jews can find a way to slaughter animals that meet both State and Jewish law I am sure Muslim can find a way as well.


37 posted on 12/16/2007 10:58:06 AM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

sometimes the jokes write themselves....


38 posted on 12/16/2007 11:00:48 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Please dont drag your filth into my swamp...........)
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To: Clemenza
And this is bad, why? When the animal is "sacrificed" it is EATEN by all involved! They make it sound like they are torturing kittens or something... I am not a fan of Islam (as a matter of fact, I despise that faith), but this is ridiculous. Let them enjoy their mutton!

Me thinks ist's about time for them all to move back to whatever backward country they are from where they would have the freedom to do their thing. I'll get them a one way ticket.

39 posted on 12/16/2007 11:03:32 AM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: ClearBlueSky

So many virgins, all at once!


40 posted on 12/16/2007 11:05:00 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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