Has your Thanksgiving turkey been sacrificed to idols?

WorldNetDaily ^ | November 21, 2011 | Drew Zahn

[DetroitRight]

Apologies if this has already been posted

As you sit down with your family on Thanksgiving and consider offering a prayer of gratitude, be aware the turkey at the center of the table may have already been "blessed" – in the name of Allah.

Customer service representatives from Butterball, one of America's most popular Turkey brands, confirmed to WND that the company's whole turkeys are – without being labeled as such – slaughtered according to Islamic "halal" standards.

"Halal slaughter involves cutting the trachea, the esophagus and the jugular vein and letting the blood drain out while saying, 'Bismillah allahu akbar' – 'in the name of Allah the greatest,'" explains Pamela Geller, author of "Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance." "Many people refuse to eat it on religious grounds. Many Christians, Hindus or Sikhs and Jews find it offensive to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic ritual."

[Kenton]

Make sure you have some cheese with that, as well, just to be sure.

Wow. Bacon and cornbread WITH CHEESE... my head is spinning. We just invented a new comfort food!

[PA Engineer]

I got a better idea; how about Jews and Muslims leave our Christian Holidays the hell alone?

I don't see where the "joos" are involved in this. You are very new here. Maybe you can spell out some of your motivations for your comments. Try to read what you are posting on rather than projecting your desires for religious Balkanization.

[Tax-chick]

Attempting to care ... attempting to care ... FAIL.

[DuncanWaring]

That woulda been my suggestion.

[Manic_Episode]

We will be eating a 23 lbs Buttetball that we will give thanks to Jesus for.

[Hot Tabasco]

the turkey at the center of the table may have already been "blessed" – in the name of Allah.

Turkey is turkey as far as I'm concerned.....If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't have known and Thursday I'm gonna forget about it.

[buccaneer81]

I got a better idea; how about Jews and Muslims leave our Christian Holidays the hell alone?

Jew-bashing, especially when it's an outright lie just proves what your purpose is here. Your thread baiting is beyond obvious.

[Ramius]

What a bunch of nonsense. Kosher and Halal butchering practices have more to do with cleanliness and sanitation than anything else. This is just a load of agitprop.

[buccaneer81]

Oh, and you’re a stupid putz.

He was baiting like this last night. His posts reek of retread lefty plant.

[RoadGumby]

Correction. A Trinity that is One. Three separates that are all one and the same.

[SERKIT]

Man! An employee of ButterBall who is an Islamic member of PETA must REALLY be conflicted! But rest assured, there are 5 breaks a day to point their asses to the west.

[buccaneer81]

See post #49.

[ejonesie22]

I will just fry the “halal” out of my turkey to make sure...

Braise Allah!

[AppyPappy]

God, I hope so. It makes them so much tastier.

[Kandy Atz]

1 Corinthians 10 is a good guide for Believers.

If this is true, I doubt I would buy Butterball products if there was a quality alternative. But I’m not one for the knee-jerk reaction either. I would be SHOCKED if Turkey farmers and/or processing plants in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas etc are chanting some voodoo while they slaughter birds. I would like to see something more definitive than a WND article before I grab the pitchfork.

[allmendream]

Thanksgiving is an AMERICAN holiday.

Words said over a dead bird don’t make any difference to anybody but those who think the words are magical.

I don’t think their words have any magic in them.

[Beagle8U]

“Has your Thanksgiving turkey been sacrificed to idols?”

Only if you take it and donate it to a homeless shelter. Those lazy bastards are idle all the time, that is why they are homeless!

[muawiyah]

Let's take it in order. First place in the United States where "they" celebrated Thanksgiving (of which there is a record) is Santa Fe, New Mexico ~ 1598!

Maybe the next year, 1599, Thanksgiving was once more celebrated in the United States at Bar Harbor, Maine.

Notice ~ those ol'boys were ALL Catholics (at least nominally although I suspect most of the guys at Bar Harbor may well have been French Protestants.)

Then, Virginia ~ and we swing back to the Catholic pole here since at that time in those days (1609 or thereabouts) the folks who adhered to the Church of England could have sat down in a Catholic church and followed the order of worship perfectly.

Then, next one up was Plymouth ~ once more a Protestant service. All the same the folks at Santa Fe didn't stop celebrating it, nor did the guys at Jamestown, and the guys in Nova Scota (they moved there from Bar Harbor) didn't give it up ~ so even today we have foreigners, in Canada, doing Thanksgiving!

For a lot of folks it's real easy to figure out when their family members first began celebrating Thanksgiving ~ friend of mine's wife's family were among Schindler's Jews ~ they could tell you down to the minute eh! But there are others for whom it's a many generation sort of thing and actually wanders off into the unwritten past of the United States.

Those FOUR Thanksgiving I mentioned above had write-ups at the time. They told you who was there, when it was held, what was served and how long it took.

Decades passed where the last Thanksgiving was the only news, but it was news, and it's still news.

[LadyBuck]

>>Thanksgiving is not only a Christian holiday. Why are you kicking us Jews out?<<

I’ve always thought it was an American Holiday.

Back when I was in high school, my visiting grandmother called our relatives in Italy to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving...and couldn’t understand why they were all at work or doing their usual sloughing off....

And to think she grew up there....

Man, I hope senility isn’t hereditary :-)

[PA Engineer]

He was baiting like this last night. His posts reek of retread lefty plant.

I didn't check that far on this one. I see halal black cinder in this poster's future.