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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
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?
Gov’t is way more dangerous in this case.
The next step will be outlawing Muslim homeschool, then Christian homeschool. Ya get the picture?
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??!!!!
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.
Where’s PETA?
Same reasons pagans can’t sacrifice animals...
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.
Free The Lambs...Kill the Rats.
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?
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.]
Uh, no. Animal sacdifice is not part of the Christian faith.
The very first Christians did, but I am not aware of that practice carrying forward to the Gentile Christians.
Allow them to do that and they’ll want to chop heads off and not be arrested for it. Wait, they already do!
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.
I meant the very first Christians
Is the restriction because the Rowes don’t have a licensed abbatoir?
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.
sometimes the jokes write themselves....
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.
So many virgins, all at once!
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