Ohio Caves to Islamic Demands of Muslim Honor Killer on Death Row

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Yesterday I posted the laughable but predictable news story of another Islamic supremacist demand made by a Muslim 'honor' killer on death row: Islamizing Death Row: Muslim Murderer Sues Ohio Prison For Halal Meals

What's not laughable is that today we learn Ohio officials caved. They will remove all pork products from prison menus. So once again, and  inevitably, it is the public square, the secular marketplace that suffers. In this case it's the pork industry that takes the hit.

Ohio's response to Muslim lawsuit over prison meal preparation riles state pork industry Thanks to many Atlas readers who sent this in

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A decision by Ohio officials to remove all pork products from prison menus in response to a lawsuit by Muslim inmates is not sitting well with the state's pork producers and processors.

Both promise action of their own, including a possible counter lawsuit, to address what they consider an unfair and illogical decision.

"We really think it's not in the best interest, frankly, of the whole prison system," said Dick Isler, executive director of the Ohio Pork Producers Council. "It seems like we're letting a small group make the rules when it really isn't in the best interest of the rest of prisoners."

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Pork is inexpensive and nutritious and compares well with other lean meats, he said.

Ironically, the inmates' lawsuit doesn't involve pork at all; it demands that non-pork meats like beef come from animals slaughtered according to Islamic law. But the prisons system responded by simply removing pork as an option altogether.

Assistant prisons director Steven Huffman has spoken with Isler, but the system isn't changing its mind, spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said Wednesday.

She said she couldn't comment on the lawsuit specifically, but said removing pork assures that inmates' religious practices aren't jeopardized by pork coming into contact with other food during preparation….

In a federal lawsuit, death row inmate Abdul Awkal complains that the state is restraining his religious freedoms by not providing meals prepared according to Islamic law, known as halal, while at the same time supplying Jewish prisoners with kosher meals.

But murdering your wife and brother-in-law is ok according to Islamic law, eh, Abdul?

Awkal, joined by a second inmate not on death row, says the vegetarian and non-pork options aren't good enough. The inmates say food must be prepared in specific fashion, such as ensuring that an animal is butchered by slitting its throat and draining its blood, to conform to Islamic beliefs.

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vlparker
vlparker
12 years ago

This is ridiculous. The pork industry has to suffer because of Islamic murderers. I’m writing governor Kasich right now.

salvage
salvage
12 years ago

>They will remove all pork products from prison menus.
And if it were Jewish prisoners making the same demands?

Dina
Dina
12 years ago

What about those inmates who haven’t killed their child “for honor” and would love to eat pork? It’s too bad they murdered! Murderers lose their so called rights.

salvage
salvage
12 years ago

>throat and draining its blood, to conform to Islamic beliefs.
Uh, that’s how it’s done to make the meat kosher… is your rabid hatred of all things Muslim so truly blinding or are you just that insane?

Spiritof1776
Spiritof1776
12 years ago

Why is he even alive to complain?
Didn’t he murder 2 people?

Phillip
Phillip
12 years ago

need to have one of the inmates do the same thing to get pork put back on the menu.

D
D
12 years ago

I guess the point must be made to all people in that state, do NOT do the crime if you don’t want to have to eat prison food!
Frankly, I don’t think any of them should be getting more than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for all meals. this is stupid and
I think the rest of the state should insist on NO special meals, none for Jewish prisoners, none for Muslims, eat what is served that day or go hungry

max power
max power
12 years ago

put the freak in with the others ..the ones who can’t have bacon and eggs tomorrow morning.

lonestar
lonestar
12 years ago

If John Kasich doesn’t overrule this, he isn’t the man I thought he was. And this country is f**ked.

dan
dan
12 years ago

sick…. bowing to terrorists and woman killers. Send the governor this link.
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnBarnhardt?feature=mhum#p/u/20/vRTLT8MKz5w
Let him see what they are. Its not a religion. It is a totalitarian system with a religious component.

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