French Shari’a Watch
Charles Johnson
Sat Jan 31, 2004 at 10:06 pm PST • Views: 229
This year the Paris suburb of Evry will televise the mass ritual sacrifice of sheep for the Muslim Eid festival: Paris Suburb to Televise Slaughter of Sheep. (Hat tip: Hulugu.)
PARIS, 31 January 2004 — The Paris suburb of Evry, which has one of France’s largest Muslim populations, has decided to install video screens to enable the local faithful to watch some 3,300 sheep being slaughtered for Eid this year.The televised ritual slaughter which will take place in a large mobile abattoir is the idea of a local meat wholesaler.
“If the idea succeeds this year then it’s likely to become a permanent fixture of Eids in future,” a local municipal spokesman said.
Meanwhile, at Le Mans, west of Paris, the local authorities have decided to build a “hard” structure in which the sheep belonging to local Muslims can be killed.
“If this works out,” says an official for the prefecture which is overseeing the development, “then it’s an idea that will probably be tried elsewhere in France.”
The new approach to the slaughter of the Eid sheep comes after years of difficulties for French Muslims who, having bought a sheep for Eid, thought it was their right to see them killed in a local slaughterhouse.
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