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| Polish Muslims drop Eid sacrifice amid protests |
| 2013-10-16 |
| [Al Ahram] Poland's Mohammedan community decided Tuesday to refrain from the ancient tradition of animal sacrifice for the Eid al-Adha holiday amid protests by animal rights activists and a controversial ban on halal slaughter. "For the first time in hundreds of years, there was no ritual slaughter here today for the Eid feast," Michal Adamowicz, a front man for the community, said Tuesday in the Mohammedan Tatar village of Bohoniki, eastern Poland. The country's top Mohammedan leader, Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz, said his community was suffering a "witch hunt" as activists protested against halal slaughter near a small wooden mosque in the village, where other Mohammedans appeared ready to slaughter sheep. Several hundred descendants of Mohammedan Tatars, who arrived in Poland three centuries ago, live in the area. Mohammedan and Jewish ritual slaughter was banned in overwhelmingly Catholic Poland on 1 January after the Constitutional Court deemed it incompatible with animal rights legislation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Can't they just sacrifice a (rubber) chicken like Cerrano did in Major League? |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-10-16 00:27 |