A dead sheep was hung at the site of a new mosque in the Dutch city of Roosendaal, police reported Saturday. The animal had ‘no mosque’ written in green on the fleece. The sheep hung at the site of one of the largest planned mosques in the Netherlands, which has already seen incidents of arson…
On the occasion of the first day of Eid al-Adha, the Bardot foundation critiqued President Nicolas Sarkozy for not having created more parameters around the slaughter of sheep. Every year members of the foundation go to certain slaughterhouses to survey; they claim that more than 70,000 sheep were illegally slaughtered.
An initiative organizing the donation of meat from the Eid al-Adha festival is gaining populatity in the Netherlands. The Joint Muslim Aid Organization (SMHO) collects meat during the festival and distributes it to the needy in the Netherlands. During the festival of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his…
Switzerland will hold a referendum on banning the construction of new minarets on November 29 in response to a petition for a popular vote on the issue, the government said. A group of politicians from the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and Federal Democratic Union gathered enough signatures last year to force the referendum, but the…
In cities all over Europe, mayors are fretting about the coming religious festivities. No, not just Christmas lights. They want to ensure hygiene and order in the slaughter of sheep for the feast of Eid al-Adha on December 8th. This remembers the readiness of Abraham—the patriarch revered by all three monotheistic faiths—to sacrifice his son….
