News Agencies – March 7, 2012 France’s prime minister scrambled to dispel concerns in Jewish and Muslim communities after criticizing the ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat. Halal meat has emerged as a hot-button issue in the campaign for presidential elections starting next month in France. Francois Fillon’s call for religions to…
New agencies – February 21, 2012 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his far-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on over claims that all meat in the Paris region is prepared using Islamic halal methods. Le Pen, trailing both Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande ahead of the April 22 elections, made the claim…
18 January 2012 A man from the province of Breda has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling horse meat imported from South America as Dutch halal meat. The man sold the to French supermarkets in 2007-2008, using falsified certificates claiming it was halal slaughtered beef.
17 January 2012 Cor Bosman, fired from the anti-Islam PVV party last week for referring to a colleague as “a piece of sicked up halal meat made from a Turkish pig”, has retained his seat in the provincial council of Limburg. While Bosman was thrown out of the PVV he has announced that he…
13 January 2012 A provincial councilor for the anti-Islam PVV in Limburg has been fired from the party for his comments describing a member of the Labour party as “a piece of sicked-up halal meat made from a Turkish pig”, Dutch News reports. Cor Bosman made the comment in an email a year ago, which…
