Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Happy Halal Thanksgiving

Halal meat is killed in the name of Allah–no thanks. If necessary, I’ll eat vegetarian and pork for the rest of my life.
Costco in Chicago sells hallal lamb that’s unmarked. Got to zabiha.com to see where it can be found, and avoid it.

Eat meat that is certified Kosher and you don’t have to worry about halal… 😉

We need a non-halal certification??
Unbelievable–well at least out here in the country
we still have a turkey farmer or two! Who isn’t sick and fed
up with the creeping sharia?!

Okay, it’s just going to have to be pork for me. I wonder if turkey is halal to eat for Muslims. There were no turkeys back in Arabia in 600 AD. Unless you count Mohammed and his followers. Is it halal for a turkey to eat a turkey?

I called Linda (she would not give me her name or extension number at Butterball because she doesn’t want to get a lot of phone calls personally) at Butterball and she told me repeatedly that the turkeys are not conscious when the cutting of the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein take place, but that the animals are rendered completely unconscious before any cutting takes place. I pointed out that this is not acceptable for “halal” certification but she did not agree that the animals needed to be conscious when slaughtered to be designated halal. She said that “a tape is played” containing the offending words during the process. When I asked her why this is done, she said that they recently started shipping turkey to the Middle East and that this is being done for their muslim consumers overseas. When I pointed out that the US is their major market and that we should not be subject to the dictates of a minority religion in our food choices, she agreed.
Please call 1-800-BUTTERBALL and register complaints! Let’s tie up their phone lines and disrupt their holiday Customer Service.

I’m planning a vegetarian Thanksgiving at the moment, and will be calling 1-800-Butterball today to politely but very firmly let them know why I will not be buying their products. From now on, I plan to stick to only pork and fish for meat, and an otherwise vegetarian diet. Vegetarianism is better for my rheumatoid arthritis anyway. BUT, that is still no excuse for meat processors in this country to engage in “stealth halal”, no excuse at all! Those of us who don’t want halal meat should not be misled (by false labeling) into buying it! I want no part of that horrifying cruelty, to say nothing of the complete lack of hygiene or any sort of standards of cleanliness or proper sanitation in halal slaughter! Thanks for this eye-opening post, Pamela! I will write to my Congressman for legislation to ban halal slaughter (as halal slaughter is in complete violation of the humane slaughter laws and cleanliness standards in the US) in our country. To me, it is not enough to label the meat halal. We should allow no halal meat in this country. It is processed in an extremely cruel and unsanitary manner. It must be banned. How are we allowing this? We must stop it, and stop it now. Until I can know the meat I am eating is not halal, I’m not eating it.

If and when you call the meat dept at your local market to inquire about this, make sure you let them know you do NOT want halal meats. I’ve had situations where I call and the guy who answers has to ask someone else for the answer to my question. I’ve come to realize that in the process, the person he goes to may have the impression I’m calling because I want halal meat. So I go out of my way to make it clear I do NOT want such meat and if they sell it I expect it to be clearly labeled.

I can’t be satisfied with just labelling. I want it stopped altogether.

Here’s my letter:
To the management at Butterball:
I have heard that you are selling turkeys that have been slaughtered using the “halal” method. I have also heard that you are selling these turkeys in America unlabeled. This offends me completely, as I believe it is inhumane and the practice belongs in a third world country, if it must exist at all.
I am also quite aware of what Islam is all about, and I want absolutely NOTHING to do with it.
I am a CHRISTIAN, and I would never eat specifically prepared “halal” food.
I don’t know how much you know about Islam, but here’s a little introduction for you, and it is NOTHING like other religions. In fact, it shouldn’t even be classified as a “religion” at all. It is a cult, with a narcissist, rapist, pedophile murderer named Mohammed at it’s head….all documented fact. The Koran is not a cohesively written story, the chapters in it are ordered by length, with the longest being the first, so you have either be a historian to put in order, or buy one where that has already been done. Here’s a couple of verses from the Koran for you:
5:51- “O you who believe! Do not take Jews and Christians as friends; for they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend,
then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”
9:29- “Fight those who do not believe in allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what allah and his apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”
Butterball and many other people here in America have no idea what they have let inside our borders.
I would appreciate it if you would stop killing animals in the “halal” fashion, if you want to do what’s good for America.

Brian makes an excellent point.

I guess it wouldn’t matter much if you didn’t care that the animals were tortured to death or that the meat was blessed (cursed) in the name of a foreign god or that much money was being funneled to muslims who were funneling it to lord knows where. Nah, nothing much of concern to a freedom , animal , god loving person. /sarc off

Butterball turkeys are “halal” – meaning they have been slaughtered according to Islamic religious rites. Muslims are idol worshippers. Five times a day, they pray towards Mecca, no matter where they may be living. The penultimate religious act for Muslims is to make a pilgrimage to the Grand Mosque in Mecca. They circle around this structure called the ka’ba, which contains nothing religious except a black stone about the size of a football. Muslims pay homage to this black stone by kissing it, following the example of their Prophet Muhammad in the 7th Century. (See Bukhari, Vol. 2, No. 667)
The first Christians were Jews who were adamantly opposed to any form of idolatry. One of their prophets had warned the Jews, “What’s the use of an idol? It is only something that man has made, and it tells you nothing but lies. What good does it do for its maker to trust it – a god that can’t even talk! You are doomed!” (Habakkuk 2:18) Later, when “Gentiles” were being converted to Christianity, there were only four rules they were required to follow: ”eat no food that has been offered to idols, eat no blood, eat no animal that has been strangled, and keep yourselves from sexual immorality.” (Acts 15:29) Furthermore, the Apostle Paul instructed Christians, “But if someone tells you, ‘This food was offered to idols,’ then do not eat that food. . . .” (I Corinthians 10:28) As a consequence, Jews and Christians cannot eat halal turkeys because they have been “offered to idols” by means of the Islamic prayer recited over them – “Bismillah allahu akbar.”
Butterball brand turkeys are a well-known brand in the United States, but sadly, that brand name could be universally associated with the halal ritual of offering the turkeys to the Islamic idol, and thereby making them unacceptable to Jews and Christians. Producers, merchants, and consumers should be aware.

These companies must understand that they themselves are tarnishing their own brands. They need to know how offensive their actions are. Profitability is the language they understand.

Eventually, to enforce Sharia law, Butterball (and other companies) will ONLY have Muslim butchers to slaughter the animals halal. U.S. citizens (non-Muslims) need to be aware that they can file complaints with the EEOC for religious discrimination (i.e., being fired or not hired because they are non-Muslim butchers) and the EEOC is obliged to investigate. We need to be willing to stand up for our Constitutionally protected rights or they will be taken from us.

I object, in principle, to having my food sacrificed to a Satanic entity.
If you are a believer, simply reverse the “spell” by praying over your Thanksgiving meal and dedicating it to whichever benevolent entity in which you believe. But Zilla’s idea sounds like a plan to me; not to mention the fact that it’s tasty!

Coca-Cola is also Halal. As are the vast majority of processed foods sold here in the good ole US of A. You guys should also start a campaign against them and can research the particular brands here:
http://www.muslimconsumergroup.com/products_list.html.

Just to let you guys know, if you ban halal slaughter you also ban kosher slaughter.
The ritual differs, but both involve cutting with a non serrated knife and letting the animal bleed out.
If you try and ban the halal type of slaughter it will affect kosher food as well.
The Netherlands is contemplating banning halal slaughter since they consider it inhumane but it has met with a lot of complaints from the jewish communities there.

@Someone… – “The most ignorant thing” you’ve heard all day, is your own presumptions…
This article points out just one more avenue in which the US, like much of the world, is submitting to Islam. And it’s ironic that the word “islam” is arabic for “submission” when, as much of the world sees things, it’s the non-Muslim world that is being forced/scared into submitting to them.
But *you* don’t have a problem with Muslim ideologies being pushed down our throats (yours too, whether or not you care to notice) – so naturally there’s “nothing to see here… move along.” Fellow countryman indeed. Consider believing in something other than yourself. You aren’t as great as you think you are.

Grumbly, the issue is labeling. We have the right to make food-purchasing decisions based on objections to the method of slaughter, especially if we consider it to be barbaric or inhumane. Appeasing musloids by simply acquiescing to their barbarism without giving the majority of society – and we *are* the majority – the ability to accept or reject certain practices with regard our own moral and ethical standards denies basic consumer rights.
The company is free to employ halal slaughter methods, musloids are free to purchase halal products, but we are/were being forced to purchase and consume food products without the disclosure necessary to make an informed decision. With efforts such as this one, that is changing.

You morons. Halal and Kosher dietary laws have the same Old Testament source (throw in Ital for good measure). A bird slaughtered Kosher is the same as a bird slaughtered Halal, regardless of what meaningless words are used in the process.
A better question for you white bread idiots; why do you bother with crappy factory farmed Butterballs to begin with?

Thanks for the heads up, going to baptize that bird in the sink, and instead of rubbing the bird’s skin down in olive oil, I’m going to lay BACON strips all over that sucker… Next year go hunting and shoot my own bird….

How is this any different than meat products labelled kosher?