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Exposing the halal meat scandal has certainly hit a nerve. The Soros hugely-funded smear machine, Media _antiMatters, has gotten in on the action and is obfuscating and conflating the labeling deception with the Campbells boycott.

The well-paid tool, Solange Uwimana, practices anti-journalism.

Media Matters (below) is trying to claim that I contradicted myself on the Butterball and Campbells boycotts, when I have been entirely consistent.

The problem with Campbell's was that Hamas-linked ISNA was doing the certification, not that the soup line offered a halal choice.  The headline in that post was perfectly clear: Boycott: Campbell's Complicit Collaborators with Hamas-Tied ISNA -- and see also this: M-M-M-M-M-Muslim Brotherhood Good?

The problem with Butterball is not that they produce halal meat, but that some halal meat and poultry pieces are not clearly labeled as such.

Perhaps they are twisting and misinforming because they don't want folks to know. Typical of our domestic enemies.

Creeping Halal Outrage: Pam Geller Style Solange Uwimana, Media Matters

Why is anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller suddenly raging against halal meat when just a year ago, she had no problem with it?

The week of Thanksgiving, Geller went on a rampage against halal turkeys in an effort to expose what she called the "meat industry's halal scandal: its established practice of not separating halal meat from non-halal meat, and not labeling halal meat as such." She went on to warn Americans about the "march" of "Islamic supremacism" and called for a boycott of Butterball for supposedly selling "stealth halal turkeys."

Geller wrote:

In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter.

Halal slaughter involves cutting the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein, and letting the blood drain out while saying "Bismillah allahu akbar" -- in the name of Allah the greatest.

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Across this great country, on Thanksgiving tables nationwide, infidel Americans are unwittingly going to be serving halal turkeys to their families this Thursday. Turkeys that are halal certified -- who wants that, especially on a day on which we are giving thanks to G-d for our freedom? I wouldn't knowingly buy a halal turkey -- would you? Halal turkey, slaughtered according to the rules of Islamic law, is just the opposite of what Thanksgiving represents: freedom and inclusiveness, neither of which are allowed for under that same Islamic law.

Ruth Nasrullah at the Houston Chronicle sets the record straight, pointing out that the practice of halal is neither shocking nor outrageous. In fact, she writes, Geller "seems unaware of how similar kosher, the traditional Jewish way of preparing food, is to halal." Indeed, as Jeffrey Goldberg noted at The Atlantic:

The method used to kill a bird according to halal requirements is also the method used to slaughter a bird according to the dictates of kashrut, or the kosher laws. Geller's statement that "Jews are less likely to be exposed to such meat because they eat kosher" has to count as one of the most ridiculous things she has ever said. Jews who observe kashrut are eating birds whose tracheas have been cut. It's as simple as that. Her desire to blame Islam for anything and everything she dislikes blinds her to the contradictions, fallacies and lies built into her arguments.

Nasrullah also wrote:

The halal certification that prompted her rant may not actually reflect Islamically correct slaughter. I confirmed with a Butterball consumer affairs representative (as did one of Geller's readers) that their "whole turkeys are halal." I pursued the issue by asking if that meant their turkeys are slaughtered individually following Islamic guidelines, beginning with saying Bismillah (in the name of Allah) over them.

I have not been able to get a response to this question, despite trying throughout this afternoon and evening through Butterball's consumer affairs department and media relations representatives.

I would love to be told that mass-produced poultry are slaughtered humanely, but I find it impossible to believe. Meat production is about making money, and doing individual slaughtering with care and attention, as Islamic law requires, is not the way to minimize costs.

Geller's outrage seems especially curious considering that in October 2010, she stated: "I'm not against halal food any more than I'm against kosher food." She was discussing her boycott of the Campbell Soup Co. for rolling out a line of halal soups in Canada certified by the Islamic Society of North America. The Washington Post reported at the time:

Blogger Pamela Geller began calling for a boycott earlier this month via her widely read site, Atlas Shrugs. Other bloggers soon joined in.

The halal soups, designated with a special label, are available only in Canada. The company has no plans to offer a similar line in the United States, said John Faulkner, a company spokesman.

In an interview, Geller, who was instrumental in whipping up opposition to an Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, said she has no objection to the halal certification itself. Rather, she said, she opposes Campbell's decision to have its Canadian products certified by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization that government prosecutors alleged had ties to the terrorist group Hamas in a 2007 conspiracy case.

"No one is suggesting they refrain from this line," Geller said. "No one is suggesting they not have halal food. I'm not against halal food any more than I'm against kosher food. My issue is who's doing the certifying."

Of course I left a comment over at Medai anti-Matters but they didn't run it :)

Comments

[uncle joe mccarthy]

goldberg is wrong...and i can show him vids of muslims slaughtering animals that prove he is wrong

[armaros]

Solange Uwimana ?

who TF is that?

A relative of Obama?

[Jolene]

The record that needs to be set straight is Butterball's.

Butterball's not notifying the consumer that the birds are killed "BISMILLAH" is considered a non-issue? Here in the USA where we typically demand more product knowledge than we can even understand?

[Revnant Dream]

Keep it flowing Pamela , the appeasers are drowning in the flood of lies they make up for their real Masters. Anyone who trusts the media these days has to have been lobotomized.
In so many ways have they compromised, lied for, & than did harm to North Americans own interests. You could fill as libation with their special brand of leftist ideological fanaticism.
The Elitists of social porn.

[sucre blew]

Of course I left a comment over at Medai anti-Matters but they didn't run it :)

too many four letter words? TOOL comes to mind.

(j-o-b-s is three, right, jo?)

[Darlene]

They are so confused that they dont realize the more they whine the more publicity they give to you amd the more hits your blog gets. Keep it up liberal-muslim fascist you are helping to make Pamela famous.

[Paul]

Long live Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders and everyone that can actually read and understand the evil that are the teachings of the Koran. The brainwashed and blinded followers of a mass murdering, mass raping, slave driving pedophile are pawns in this terminal game of supremecy that will lead to World War 3 with the rest against Islam. Until someone has the balls to re-write that crock of shite that is the Koran we all need to do our bit to get rid of Hala meat productionl, ISlamic schools, mosque building anywhere outside an Islamic country and defend CHristian persecution with absolute force in any ISlamic country that it occurs in, thats just about all of them! These intollerant brainwashed, brainless muppets need to be stopped NOW!!!

[Underzog]

Pamela; et. al.,

Keep in mind when reading Media Matters to keep in mind this quotation from Brock himself (as reproduced from "Slate" and NRO):>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When Blinded by the Right appeared, Timothy Noah, the liberal "Chatterbox" columnist for Slate, wrote that "Chatterbox yields to no one in his eagerness to believe the awful things Brock is now saying about himself and the conservative movement in America. But the more Brock insists that he has lied, and lied, and then lied again, the more one begins to suspect Brock of being, well, a liar." <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

David Brock admitted he is a liar and is still one today.

[Jolene]

I wonder how much it would add to the price of these birds if each one had a designated representative of Christendom say, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit?" This could be recited either before of after "Bismillah" as far as anything would really matter. Yes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitarian_formula

[Average American]

Ms. Geller,

I applaud what you are doing and alerting the general public to this blatant abuse. You also need to review this article from Family Security. It also deals with the HALAL problem not just with Butterball, but with several corporations. I am a appalled and do not want to be exposed to such idol worship (i.e. a blessing facing a rock in the east said over my meat at the time of slaughter, what a joke!). I have said grace before my meals but this is taking that to new heights, where are the atheists on this matter? They sure complained about kosher meats and foods. What about Halal?

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10912/pub_detail.asp

[KC]

Gotta love the fact that you're "giving them something to write about" which means essentially YOU Pamela, are letting them keep their liberal, uninformed, crap jobs.

BTW, Jeff Goldberg is an idiot. I read his piece and he's just plain, misinformed, stupid or both. And he gets paid to be!!!

[Jolene]

Average American -- we can all become Super Americans simply by speaking English. Any uninformed (misinformed?) poultry production managers will have complete and immediate knowledge of how "Bismillah" actually translates.

IMO, the Trinitarian formula should recited in English. Though the argument could certainly be made that it first be recited in Greek, and also Latin just for good measure. After all, this is America.

[Jolene]

Also Average American, in the linked article Gadi Adelman says:

"So in order for an animal to be slaughtered according to halal, it or the butcher must be facing Mecca and the Black stone, the very definition of idol worship."

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I would take exception to defining idol worship as facing Mecca, etc. To my knowledge, every synagogue is oriented to face Jerusalem. Jews face Jerusalem from wherever they are -- and pray as if they are standing at the Western Wall, the only wall still standing from the second Temple. [Know Before Whom You Stand http://www.oztorah.com/2007/06/know-before-whom-you-stand-ask-the-rabbi/]

As to kissing the stone...Jews kiss their tzitzis -- as well as the Torah and other sacred writings if they are dropped; every generation of Catholics kiss their respective pope's ring as well as rosaries and crucifixes I think; Protestants kiss each other a lot; kissing Ishmael's and Abraham's stone should be the least of anyone's concerns -- it may actually help to hasten peace in its time.

>>>Whatever it takes<<<

[dg]

I posted this in the other butterball thread; but since this has turned to the question of idol worship and so forth, i think I will repost it here;

I am always really confused when Christians say that Muslims are idolaters, considering the Rambam himself clearly stated that the Ishmalites are not idolaters and that they "attribute to God a proper unity". Since we talk about a Judeo-Christian tradition, does it make sense that Christians should at least be open to the words of one of the most influential and important rabbis? Or do the Christians of today know more about theology than the Rambam?

I am honestly curious about this, I know in his Epistle to the Jews of Yemen he did call Muhammad a meshuggah; but the words he reserved for Jesus were even worse (which the great Rabbi followed his name with "may his bones be ground to dust"; So before someone starts quoting the rebuttal that David Yerushalmi offered the "Rabbi" who liberally quoted the Rambam....