Posted on 11/22/2011 9:40:15 AM PST by 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."
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As long as it doesn’t affect the flavor, I could give a rat’s ass.
He should have been gone already with the obvious baiting.
This article had nothing to do with Jews, and everything to do with creeping Sharia -— here, infiltrating our food industry.
You’re brand new, so here’s a lesson:
We don’t care for anti-semites on F.R.
An honest question, how does this differ from Jewish Kosher requirements, other than dedicated to a false diety?
” don’t think their words have any magic in them.”
Of course they don’t. It’s just a sympton of creeping Sharia and an endorsement of the legitimacy of Islam.
As a Christian American, I reject and resist both, and would not do business with this company, just like I won’t do business with banks that offer sharia-compliant “loans.”
Kosher and Halal are pretty much the same, because Mohammed got most of his ideas about food preparation, and which foods to eat, from the Jews and from his imperfect understanding of the Bible.
There is nothing about kosher or halal food that isn’t perfectly OK for a Christian to eat from a physical perspective. The sticking point is blessing it in the name of Allah.
That should be a sticking point for strict Orthodox Jews, as well. When the Book of Acts forbids eating meat that has been sacrificed to idols, it is thinking chiefly of Graeco-Roman practices. But what the Apostles were arguing about, in that chapter of Acts, was which Jewish ritual laws they should retain, and which could be abandoned. They drew the line at meat sacrificed to idols—i.e., false gods.
If Allah isn’t a false god, I don’t know who is. Sure, Islam is Monotheistic, but just take a look at some of the things that Allah orders, and then tell me that he is the same as the God of the Bible. Much of what Allah orders his followers to do is devilish, unfortunately.
Don't insult Jews.
The Jews and the Christians here are allies. We put the "solid" in solidarity.
If you are not cool with that, I suspect your stay here at Free Republic will be brief and quite unsatisfactory.
“Thanksgiving is not only a Christian holiday. Why are you kicking us Jews out?”
Because he’s afraid y’all will want to celebrate Thanksgiving like the Eastern Orthodox. We drink way too much for Protestant sensibilities. Every celebration we have the local Jews show up. Granted, they aren’t the most strict (they eat our food, although they skip the pork), but they sure like to drink our vodka.
Of course we’ve been known to show up at quite a few Jewish events . . . not for the vodka, though. That would be just wrong.
Well said.
I'm not sure, but I think Kosher slaughter just opens the jugular vein. When I was a kid on the farm, we chopped off the bird's heads with an ax.
Agreed. But neither Muslims nor Jews believe in a “Trinity that is One”
That is what my grandfather did to the chickens when they were going to be on day’s menu.
Jews believe in Jehova, YHWH, elohim, the Great I Am. One and the same. Through faith in Jesus, the Messiah (who WAS a Jew), we are grafted into that vine. I’ll lump Jews in with Muslims.
Rofl. You’d be bored 363 days of the year if you look for vodka at Jewish celebrations! You’d best show up at Purim and Simchas Torah: they’ll have what you need. :)
The names are just a short-hand label for God. In substance, the Trinitarian God is the “nature of God” as revealed in the New Testament. The Old Testament prophesizes the birth of the Son of Man and Pentecost reveals the Holy Spirit but neither Jews nor Muslims consider this revelation as true. So there you have it!
I did a little research and found that any moslem over 13 can do halal slaughter, which means a lot of literal “hack” jobs would be done, which are cruel. Also, Moslems permit the use of mechanical whirling knives, while kosher slaughter prohibits anything but hand slaughter by trained adult experts. Kosher slaughter does NOT involve offering the slain animal to a deity, simply the swift and humane dispatch by a swift and continuous stroke by a surgically sharp knife which severs the great blood vessels, esophagus and trachea. This results in very rapid loss of blood—>consciousness—>death.
Wouldn’t blessing the food in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ at mealtime, as many families do, cancel out the halal stuff, or am I bonkers?
PING!
I don’t care because allah is no god.
But, if it bothers your conscience, then by all means abstain from turkey.
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