On Tuesday, the all-Muslim city council of Hamtramck, Michigan voted to allow city residents to conduct animal sacrifices at home. Dawud Walid, the head of the Michigan branch of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), hastened to assure anyone who may have found this odd or alarming that it was really no big deal. “It’s not something new or novel,” Walid claimed. “This is when Muslims recognize Abraham sacrificing a sheep instead of having to sacrifice his son,” and Fox News added helpfully that this was “an apparent reference to the Quran and Old Testament passage.” See? It’s just like the Old Testament. Relax and accept it, or face charges of “bigotry” and “hate.”
In the same vein, the Detroit Free Press said supporters of the new law in Hamtramck asserted that “some in the Jewish community perform animal sacrifices during holidays, including a group of Orthodox Jews who travel to Hamtramck every year on the eve of Yom Kippur to slaughter chickens at a halal butcher run by Muslims.” The Free Press’ hopelessly biased and dishonest far-Left “journalist” Niraj Warikoo, however, failed to note that taking chickens to a butcher is quite a different matter from slaughtering animals at home.
Yet animal slaughter at home is what the Hamtramck city council approved. So what’s coming? We got a hint back in August 2020, when Breitbart reported that “a Muslim resident of the southern French city of Nice recorded himself slaughtering a sheep in his bathtub for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday and posted the video on social media.” The legalization of animal sacrifice at home in Hamtramck opens up all sorts of possibilities as America descends further into the wonder world of multiculturalism.
Some people were apparently aware of some of the possible darker implications. Warikoo somehow summoned up the minimal decency to note that “some residents and animal rights advocates have expressed opposition to the ordinance changes, saying they will lead to animal cruelty and sanitation problems in Hamtramck, one of the most densely populated cities in Michigan. They said they worry about people being traumatized by seeing the throats of goats, lambs and cows being slit in backyards, with blood splattering and entrails falling out.”
Another possible problem comes from a news item in 2013 from, oddly enough, the far-Left Guardian: the animal sacrifices, the paper reported, “will also generate an extraordinary cash windfall for some of Pakistan’s most dangerous militant groups….‘For us it is second only to Ramadan for our income,’ says an official from the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF). FIF is the charitable wing of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), itself the reincarnation of one of south Asia’s most dangerous militant groups, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a banned organisation dedicated to fighting jihad against India.” Surely there won’t be any connection between jihad groups and the sacrifices in Hamtramck, right? Such a connection would be inconceivable!
None of that came up, of course, during the Hamtramck City Council meeting, where Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Mohammed Hassan said: “If somebody wants to do it, they have a right to do their practice,” and added reassuringly that the city would not “blow up with the nasty blood, contamination.” When the city council voted to approve the practice, Walid stated: “We welcome the Hamtramck City Council’s vote, which blocked those who sought to place undue burden on Muslim residents who uphold their sincerely held religious practice in conjunction with Eid al-Adha.”
Well, that’s just wonderful. We certainly don’t want to place an undue burden on anyone who upholds his or her sincerely held religious practice. But the false equivalence with Jewish practice was either based on sloppy reasoning or ignorance, or was deliberately misleading. Nonetheless, the measure has passed now. So what’s next? Will Hamtramck authorities, however, be vigilant regarding animal cruelty and hygienic issues? Will they enforce ordinances concerning those matters, or would that be “Islamophobic”? Will they be paying attention to where the Eid al-Adha money is going, or would that be “Islamophobic” as well? In “diverse” America, such questions will not even be asked of Hamtramck city council members, as they would be “Islamophobic” in themselves. So we’ll just all lock arms and march together into the glorious multicultural future.
PETA, ASPCA, ADF, anyone?
Leftists sequester themselves far from the consequences of what they bring in. Hence, Martha’s Vineyard ejected a mere 48 low-lifes within 48 hours. When leftists spend enormous amounts of our tax dollars to actively bring them in, it’s to dump ’em in OUR neighborhoods – not theirs.
Only danger a leftist encounters from an immigrant is when they trawl the streets/bars for ’em & then invite ’em home, like Paul Pelosi did with the Canadian liberal.
(Legal immigrants that spend 10 years & over $10,000 to come in must feel like dupes.)
However, the DNC is on alert for character traights they find repulsive in any asylum seekers . . .
Such undesirable qualities were found in the Romeike family from Germany, as the family was guilty of being ¹in tact, ²hard working, ³protestant Christian, ⁴fluent in English, ⁵not on welfare, ⁶well educated, ⁷white, ⁸employed, and ⁹home-schooling their children (two of which were born here. So much for the “anchor baby” argument.)
“Wing-man” Eric Holder spent millions of taxpayer dollars to get ’em out. Perhaps if they had ties to ISIS or MS-13, Holder wouldn’t have been so eager to deport them.
Every day I wake up and tell myself it can’t possible get worse…. and then it does.
…. possibly….
T his is sure to get those idiots from PETA upset we all know how much stuff like t his gets the Animal Rights idiots all worked up
What if it was you they were sacrificing?
But do animals have rights? If they do then to kill an animal for any reason is murder. We would have no right to murder them for any reason whatsoever. We would have no right to murder them and eat them and there should be laws to stop us from violating their right to life.
The only real question is do Objectivists have more rights than the unborn?
Don’t bet on it. Little of nothing is said with regard to this ethnic group for fear of reprisal nor would it fit the narrative of ‘wokeness’ they all profess.
Why do they let these sick people into America if they want to do these things why do they not stay in their country? I wanted to add a lot of adverbs but I refrained myself. 🫣
They do not stay in their respective countries for two main reasons: the first being economic (Muslim-majority countries are hellholes even for most Muslims) and the second being religious – Muslims are commanded by Allah to migrate out of the House of Islam into non-Muslim lands in order to expand Islam’s domains…it’s in the Koran. Of course, this *hijra* (i.e. migration) also has economic advantages for the migrants as well. It’s a win- win for them, and a lose- lose for the rest of us.
They come here because our tax dollars pay them to come here. They stay here for the same reason.
One thing for sure, they’re not coming here to assimilate……forget the Melting Pot thing we learned in school.
Pagan barbarians have been let into the land, it’s the righteous judgment of God for turning away from him and REBUKING HIS WORD AND HIS PURPOSES FOR HIS CREATION. All the abortion, pediphilia, transgender insanity, homosexuality, occult, evil practices, corrupt behavior, and man’s full rebellion against God have caused major problems in the land. God is not going to bless a nation that is in total rejection of His truth.
A NATION UNRAVELS…………… We can watch Europe to see h0w it works
EUROPE INVITED A FLOOD OF MUSLIMS INTO ITS
BORDER, AS AMERICA DID MEXICANS. MEXICO HAS
DESTROYED CA, AND MANY OTHER STATES AND CITIES
ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION. WE CAN SEE WHAT
THE MUSLIMS HAVE DONE TO EUROPE. JUST ASK THE
FRENCH HOW ALL THAT ‘CHEAP’ MUSLIM LABOR
WORKED OUT!
Paris Police Express Concern over Soaring Number of Crimes Committed by Minor Migrants
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
We see the destruction of Europe with only Muslims showing up to plunder the corpse of Western civilization. Here in the US we have both Muslims and anything that can cross the Rio Grande, primarily Latin American but Heaven only knows what else. And as Mr. Swingle points out by citing Heather Mac Donald’s numbers, many of them are criminals.
Fifty years ago, Hamtramck was a very Polish ethnic city. It was to the Poles what Grand Rapids was to the Dutch. Now the Muslims own the former, and the blacks own the latter. Welcome to the Great Replacement.
Jews are on deck. It’s the muslim’s religious right. Just ask the terrorists at the terror org CAIR. They’ll tell you “It’s just the (p)islam.”
What else will this All-Muslim city council approve next? Genital mutilation of girls in Muslim homes? Make no mistake: this is the proverbial slippery slope into atrocities under the guise of “Multiculturalism.”
Crickets. Just crickets, loudly chirping.
The horror. The horror.
When we allow “immigrants” to cut the throat of a cow, goat, or ewe on a city street as her hooves slip in the pools of her own blood when some “imam” howls and cuts her throat and she falls struggling but helpless to the pavement to the cheers of the mob, it’s not “tolerance of a different religion’s customs” or “multiculturalism,” or “Diversity.”
It’s the voluntary, unresisting surrender of our own culture, values, longstanding notions of decency, and indeed our identity as a civilized nation — and their abandonment — to invading cutthroat barbarians.
G*d help us for allowing this obscene, bloody outrage,
But, as I’ve said, here on FPM and elsewhere in many other posts online, my dark fear now is that He won’t give us what we prayerfully ask Him for, but, instead, what we deserve.
I can’t look 😖. I am appalled.
Why should we be surprised when cruelty is in their very nature? Why would they have compassion on animals when they don’t have any for human beings?
What is wrong with the American powers that be for allowing this barbarity.? None of our (more civilised) traditions or habits are allowed in Islamic countries!
“In 2015, about 28.8 million cattle were slaughtered in the United States.”
slaughter: “the butchering of livestock for market”
This is what we do, on an industrial scale. Compared to the killings of Bulls in the Bullring for entertainment/sport, the morality the above is less objectionable. There is a case for PETA values in arguing for Animal Rights. Just sayin’.
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