Florida Politician Attempts to Block Islamic Animal Slaughter Ceremony
- Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:30am by
Billy Hallowell
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A Florida city commissioner is cracking down on the Islamic slaughter of lambs and goats. Sunrise Commissioner Sheila Alu has attempted to block a Muslim religious ceremony that involves the ritualistic killing of these animals this upcoming Sunday.
Muslims from various mosques in the area had planned to come together at a farm to participate in the religious slaughter. The festival, called Eid ul-Adha, or the “Festival of Sacrifice,” honors Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son (although, as the story goes, God ended up providing a lamb for sacrifice instead).
In addition to commemorating this event, the day also marks the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are encouraged to make during their lifetime. However, the ritualistic murder of animals was too much for Alu to bear.

Sunrise Commissioner Sheila Alu (Image Source: Sun Sentinel)
On Wednesday, she discussed her efforts to squash the event. ”Yes, I was trying to stop it,” she said. “It’s shut down. I’m trying to protect innocent animals. This is not an appropriate setting for the slaughtering of animals in an open field in a city that’s as populated as Sunrise. Usually these religious ceremonies take place in a rural area.”
While some may assume that her actions are rooted in anti-Islamic sentiment, she explains, ”I have no ill will toward the Muslim faith. I’m just an animal lover.” She continues:
“I don‘t want to interfere with anyone’s religious beliefs, but if you want to slaughter animals it should be done in a slaughterhouse. They stab them in the throat. It’s horrible.”
Nezar Hamze, the executive director of the South Florida Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is less than content with her decision. “This is very upsetting,” he said. “I’m very disappointed in that. We asked for permission and went through the proper channels and now it’s off because a commissioner has a problem with it.”
Hamze claims that the sacrifices are done according to both state and Islamic law. He characterizes the practice as “humane” and claims that the animals’ throats are slit very quickly and that they do not suffer during the process.
After she learned that she couldn’t legally prevent the ceremony, Alu decided to call someone who works for the farm’s owners. She claims the man told her that the owners weren’t aware of the event that was going to take place and that permission had improperly been given.
Despite Alu’s efforts to derail the slaughter, Hamze claims that a new, undisclosed venue has been found and that it will be proceeding as originally planned. As for his opinion on Alu, whom he has spoken with, he claims that he believe‘s she’s simply a big animal lover and that he doesn’t think she has any malice toward the Muslim community.
(H/T: SunSentinel.com)





















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Comments (126)
don young
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:05pmPeta cant help they are for sharia law they are most likely all muslim.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:07pmWhy non-Muslims should avoid halal food
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:44amMurdering animals is NOT LEGAL HERE. This is not SHARIA LAW HERE YET. PROSECUTE THE MUSLIM MOFOS TO THE HILT.
Report Post »Edct
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:56amPETA, you hipocrites….why aren’t you all over this to stop these infidel pigs.
Report Post »majahn
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:51pmI agree 110%. If they kill an animal, shoot them on the spot. These inhuman things need to be stopped one way or another. Stop letting them do what they want and maybe the sand ni**ers will go back where they came from.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:25pmLast time I went to the market killing animals seemed perfectly legal to me. How do you think that meat gets in the freezer.
If God didn‘t want us to eat animals He wouldn’t have made them out of meat. :-)
Loosen the PETA belt around your head.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:53pmJews are also well known for their barbaric butchering processes.. Was a big deal back in Europe in the early 20th century and it’s a big deal today in Europe. Maybe Beck and the Blaze will educate Americans on their rituals??? I once tried showing a video of it but you know the Blaze blocks anything that’s deemed derogratory towards Israel. Very unfortunate but true.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:07amtechengineer11
Anti Semite Alert!!!
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:12amWhere is PETA ???
Report Post »America First
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:09amThis is sickening. If the Islam faith thinks they have to do this in America then they’d better leave this country. This is not a ritual that Americans condone. Cut off heads, kill their own children, what next? Again, this is NOT the American way.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:27pmI guess you hate hunters too.
Liberal dishrag posing as a conservative doesn’t fool me.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:56amIf these neanderthals want to slaughter animals, let it be swine. But, not during a full moon on a Tuesday. That’s when the swine turn back into Congressmen.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:34amPlease..fight with all your might.. its unfortunate that you allowed these people into your community.. or for that matter into our country… it is time to put up the good fight. This isn’t some middle eastern country, this is America.. and in America we do not kill sheep as a sacrafice.. muslim or not. In the scriptures God did away with sacrificing.. This is America, it was founded on Christian ideals.. this is not Iraq, or Afghanistan.. it is America! Stop the madness.. God in Heaven please help us!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:50pmYou are 100% correct. This is just more of the efforts of Islam to take over country. Muslims do a lot of things in their religeon that we don’t want here in this country. This is another step in their jhad, forcing their rituals in America in the name of religeous freedom.
Report Post »cwrink
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 12:22pmAmen to that. Christ was the sacrifice putting an end to sacrificing animals. This IS a Christian nation.
Report Post »gemologist
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:32amI think this is wrong. Who cares if the killing is ritualistic, I doubt they are just going to throw the meat away, and you can’t eat live meat… you keep having to catch the animals, then you have to keep re-seasoning the meat… just too hard.
There needs to be a public outcry against this, we are supposed to have freedom of religion, and muslims ritualistically killed animals back when the founding fathers were around, so this is precisely what they were protecting.
Only in a crazy world could the majority side with a soulless animal over the deeply held beliefs and freedom of human beings who have to answer to God.
Report Post »SnowBun
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:06amThis is NOTHING that our founding fathers wanted to protect idiot. Our founding fathers were Christians, and in no way in Hell did they ever think our constitution would be protecting muslims (who at the time were kidnapping white Christians for slavery). The freedom of religion clause was instituted to stop government from creating it’s own religion and forcing the community to adapt that religion, not to allow a bunch of muslims to commit animal sacrifice. Get a life, read an effing book, don’t speak about things of which you apparently know nothing.
Report Post »gemologist
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:50amYa, Even in the way back times of the founding fathers people sacrificed animals, and yet there was no law against it dating back to those time, yeah it;s an argument from silence, but it’s backed up by logic.
I will defend their right to sacrifice animals even though I think they are sacrificing it to the devil
If we don’t rally support for the those we disagree with in their religious practice, when we become the religious minority they will also have no thought for our religious rights.
Call it Karma, call it the golden rule, call it cosmic quid pro quo, it happens, take a larger view of history and you can see it, focus in too close and you miss it.
Judge not, lest ye be judged, For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again
There is the Bible (KJV just in case)
We MUST defend them or we will not be defended. If I have to stand alone on this I will, just as I will defend Israel’s right to exist, even though I find it distasteful, this country is supposed to be about freedom for people, not freedom for animals.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:21amThey’ll probably go after Jewish Kosher ceremonies as well…
Report Post »Wringeaux
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:32pmThis is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
Report Post »Kosher (Jewish) slaughter
Mammals and fowl must be slaughtered by a trained individual (a shochet) using a special method of slaughter, shechita (Deuteronomy 12:21). Among other features, shechita slaughter severs the jugular vein, carotid artery, esophagus and trachea in a single continuous cutting movement with an unserrated, sharp knife, which is intended to avoid unnecessary pain to the animal as consciousness is lost quickly due to loss of cerebral blood pressure.
I prefer the bolt through the brain method. It’s instant death. A captive bolt stunner is applied to the livestock so as to produce immediate unconsciousness in the animals before they are bled.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_slaughter#United_States
SnowBun
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 8:07amThe government is not trying to stop HALAL or KOSHER butchering. They are trying to stop a bunch of animal sacrifices done in the streets by individuals. Do any of the idiots posting here understand the difference?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:16amBefore the Eid-ul-Zuha festival, every Muslim father brings home a baby goat (kid) and tells his child to play with that kid. As days pass, the child grows fond of the goat-kid for some days and when the day of Eid-ul-Zuha comes when the child is shocked to see that his pet goat is slaughtered in front of his entire gleeful and cheering family. The child feels guilty, he cries and asks for his friend (the goat-kid) to be spared. But when the goat is slaughtered in spite of this, and the child is told that this is part of Muslim tradition – the child is bewildered.
The flower of Islam. Animal sacrifice and ritual child abuse all rolled into one happy holiday.
Islam = FAIL
Report Post »gemologist
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:39amI agree, their religion is horrifying, Just unimaginably cruel and completely backwards, I could neither condone it, nor would I allow my children to come into close contact with the believers of that religion. BUT many of them believe they are honoring God by what they are doing.
IS THIS AMERICA? Do we have the freedom to follow our beliefs about God? Or is it only the ones that middle-class white people have? What if the majority decided it was sick and wrong for a pastor on a stage to preach every sunday and the govt stopped that? Try to think about this a little harder. What we allow ourselves to do to them will happen to us as their number comes closer to parity with our own (see mark steins book). You are thinking selfishly if you think we do not need to stand up for their rights, and if we behave as a selfish people God will judge it.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:41amNo question McDonald’s slaughtering of cattle and chickens on the alter of capitalism, oh sorry feeding the planet is a much higher calling. Its all about context and about which one is self serving to the ideology of the beholder. Too many Americans don’t want to think about the little cute chickens that grow up and get slaughtered. Like there are nice ways to kill animals. Turkeys volunteer for Thanksgiving, Pigs volunteer for Christmas.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:54amIt is not the sacrifice so much, but the social context in which it is carried out.
It teaches the child that their culture is based on deception on death.
Killing animals for food is somewhat different than sacrificial killing in praise of a deity.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:56amAllah is a deity unrelated to the God of the Bible. Mohammed, after his rejection by the Jews and Christians of pre-Islamic Arabia, usurped the Allah, a deity worshiped at the Kabbah, and positioned him as God.
Allah is not God. Muslims sacrifice to Allah not God.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:32pm“Killing animals for food is somewhat different than sacrificial killing in praise of a deity.”
Are you unaware of the entirety of the Mosaic Law that is built upon animal sacrifice. God required sacrifice numerous times before that in the OT. If you blame Muslims you indict what God did.
That seems to me both arrogant and foolish.
But look at it this way, since they have animal sacrifice built into their religious consciousness we can explain to them the sacrifice that Christ made, and how that is superior to all of their sacrifices. That’s what the author of Hebrews did.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:05pmMuslims present their deity to me and tell me it is the God of the Bible. They tell me I must sacrifice animals to Allah. That is the problem I have. That their sacrifice to Allah is presented to me as a sacrifice to God. It’s not the killing of animals I find reprehensible, it is the deception and lies inherent in the Islamic culture.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:35pmHave you never spent time on a farm? You have never sat down to a chicken dinner only to later find your favorite hen is missing? Or be in 4H and raised calfs which are sold to slaughter. Come on, at least be consistent in your argument.
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:13amThis is not true. What kind of news reporting agency is this? Christian propaganda? And who are these idiots making comments? You people need to grow up and get a “edumacation,” because the only things I see here are high school dropouts who drink too much beer and smoke too much dope and run to church every Sunday asking Jesus to talk to his Daddy so they won’t go to hell.
Report Post »sandyrags
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:11amWhere is Cas Sunstein and his lawyers for animal rights?
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 3:03pm@CAPITALISMROCKS I understand that 90 something percent of the Constitution has been broken..I don’t believe Obama worries about it in the least…The thing is…I can still remember my grandmother talking about how our rights were being taken away and of course…this administration has been doing it at breakneck speeds. just wait until next year when ObamaCare kicks in…it’s no healthcare system…it’s a Communist system…People will get a rude awakening..That NWO is taking us over quickly…We sure do need a Constitutionalist for President.. a vast majority of the military wants it..Churches in the know want it…but the media isn’t promoting it…not even Fox or the Blaze…We will cease to be any assemblance of what we were…a great nation which was founded under the Constitution..I guess it wasn’t infallible to let trash like this to take us over.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:06amWhy? If its not against any health violations and they do it humanly and if in fact it is a part of a religious ceremony, then they should be allowed, its the slaughtering of chickens and other rituals that other religions and cultures do…
This is where there is a separation of church and state exists, just as Jefferson wrote in his letter to the CT Bapist Church. The government can not interfere with the matters of church/religion
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:36am@CAPITALISMROCKS I was just wondering…does the Constitution allow the takeover of our government by a theocracy? Because that is what Islam is….It is not a religion…it is a government enshrouded in a religion whose purpose is to take over the entire world and kill every infidel…those not accepting Sharia Law which means that they must become a Muslim.. They are infiltrating our government via the Presidency and as I have stated before..after Al Franken lost to the republican senator in Minnesota..and Bill and Hillary went there to find more car trunk votes than people registered to vote in the state of MInn.. old Al ‘s job was to go to Arab countries and offer 300-350 jobs in government to muslims..Then in a bill.. Obama set aside 20 million to relocate Hamas Pakistanis to here… I cannot get a figure on how many black Somali muslims Obama has imported and the Catholic Church has been placing a good many of those… So …how‘s that Constitution thing going to work out for you when Obama has replaced a Supreme Court Justice who is pro Sharia Law and has helped with it’s enforcement in Arab countries and Obama and Hilary used our military to take down dictators (our friends) to prop up Sharia Law in the middle east…. it’s just a short time before it overtakes us. Got any ideas on that Capitalism Rocks?
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:03amWell I have voiced in numerous posts that in fact we need a law passed stating that Constitutional law is the highest law of the land and laws broken that violate national laws may not be exempt due to religious exemptions… its like with polygamy — if its a religious thing to have 5 wifes and they are all under age and so forth and that is part of someone’s religion, well that goes against US laws and they are the highest held, that is polygamy and statutory rape… go directly to jail.
I am not equating a ritual of slaughtering some animals in the same way as an honor killing or demanding my wife walk 5 paces behind me and be wrapped up like a one of the emperor‘s guards from Star Wars in their burkka’s and such.
Report Post »big-jeff
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:05amIf you cut it, grill it and eat it, your good to go. Another Muslim Pitmasters moment.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:01amWell…at least the muslims aren’t sacrificing a woman. It seems the little twits love their goats more than they love their wives.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:56amWhere is the ASPCA or PETA. Why doesn’t some animal lover call them?
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:33amMuslims seem to slaughter everyone quickly except on their videos!
Report Post »robert
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:11am“I don‘t want to interfere with anyone’s religious beliefs, but if you want to slaughter animals it should be done in a slaughterhouse. They stab them in the throat. It’s horrible.”
This country was getting to the point where we were beginning to be more aware of the needless suffering of little animals. Then the doors were opened and in poured third world hordes who practice ritualistic animal slaughter under the guise of some kooky religion, when the fact of the matter is that their disgusting practice came about as the result of their abysmal desire to satisfy a blood lust. In other words they pretend it’s a religious experience when it is obvious they do it because they like it.
How this politician can say she has “nothing against Muslims” after witnessing their barbaric, cruel crimes against defenseless little animals is way beyond me. Obviously, she’s been so thoroughly indoctrinated into the diversity, love and tolerance mode by master propagandists she’s afraid to openly criticise them and their barbaric practise for feare of being called a hater or racist.
It’s like the fool who said, “I don’t mean to sound racist, but I think it’s wrong to stone a woman to death for simple adultery or cutting offhands and feet for petty theft.” In other words the fear of being called names is worse than being guilty of barbaric, cruel practices.
Laws should be passed to stop this kind of criminal behavior by these deranged geeks.
Report Post »tbeachhead
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:31amI’m just an animal lover, so your life matters little. You elected me, and I’ll impose my idosyncrasies as it seems good to me. The little lambs will love me…Vote here out and quickly. . .before she imposes a vegetarian diet on everyone.
Report Post »Milkmom
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:20amInteresting point about PETA – I wonder if they have voiced any concerns over this as well…
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:12amSeems they are slaughtering the wrong animal…………
Report Post »teammommy
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:02amOk Pam Anderson, time for some spotlight media attention….
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:30amJust please tell us she’ll be keeping her clothes on. That woman is NOT aging gracefully at all. Bleh!!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:02amSadly the political correctness foisted upon us by the muslims and caused us to allow other pagans to engage in animal sacrifice. The precedent has been set. The muslims will be permitted to sacrifice the offering on the altar of Allah. Sacrificial blood spilled on the alter of an Alien god masquerading as the God of the Bible.
Google up Opa Locka City Hall and be amazed at the architecture.
The House of Saud as established a gigantic silent jihad army on American soil and they press the jihad at all levels and all times. From the “friendly” muslim “school teacher” who “educates” your young, to the muslim leader of the Occupy Miami, to the muslim “soldier” serving in the rank of the US Military.
Wake up people.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:12amAgree with you
Report Post »encinom
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:20amThe First Amendment is not just for Prostestants. Nor is the Muslim practice that differnt from the Jewish one in how animals are slaughter.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:20pmThe Constitution and my Bill of Rights are to be defended from all enemies. They are not to be used a cudgel to beat me into submission or a suicide pact to destroy me.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:53amNah, she was getting her hair done. With what, though, I don’t know.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:40amUh oh, here we go violating freedom of an evil religion.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:06amI hope the commissioner‘s house doesn’t get firebombed!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:37amSounds like a lack of communication to me. The muslims in question should have gone for a rural site to begin with. Could have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:18amThe muslims DO NOT belong here. Their system of social control, based on deception, lies, fear, mutilation, and death, are utterly incompatible with the intellectual empire created by Western Civilization.
The muslims are not here to participate in our culture. The muslims are here to erase and replace it. With islam.
Report Post »jaxson
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:50amIf i build a ziggarat (religious site)and my “relligion” is mayan, can i cut out the hearts of men and throw their heads down the stairway in the 1000s and call it my religious rite….now dont mis understand me….its all in the name of “sacrifice to a god”…whats the difference really, islamic moms sacrifice their sons for jihad for their god, as long as i hide behind the term religion and sacrifice, i can have it all tax free and arrogantly call others who disagree Mayaphobic….then i could sue the pants off everyone who trys to stop me..and whine that im discriminated against..i think people need to really redefine the term religion.. or at least be able to distinguish the difference.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:36amChrist existed before Mohammed… and the Sacrifice of Christ… fulfilled all Sacrifices to GOD… as No Offering can be Equal or Greater… ending Sacrifice! Yet, the Heathens still scrifice!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:12amThe act of sacrifice is not so important as the submission to Allah WE EXPRESS in allowing the muslims to practice it.
Islam is submission. The more we submit to their demands, the more demands they will make.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:33amMike
I believe you are spot on. Every time it is just another “ nudge”. We got them
Report Post »to go for this, now we will try for something bigger “ nudge nudge” and on and
on. Until we have been erased.
rose-ellen
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:35amOf course you’re right on this one. Unfortunately not everyone is a Christian.I believe in fairness-if other faiths are allowed to slaughter animals for ritual purposes in this country-then so too muslims.[santeria-has ritual killings of animals and is allowed in this country].I support all banning of killing of animals for religious purposes.[let them find a substitute ritual].religious freedom ends where cruelty begins. Killing animals -when not for food should be banned in this country.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:45amBread and wine are sufficient.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:00am@ rose What other religion are you reffering to here in the US kills animals?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:46amSo you are making a RELIGIOUS argument as to animal sacrifices should cease? I agree with your argument. But thta‘s because I’m a Christian. But how can we impose that on others who aren’t christian.
As for the manner of killing the goats being cruel? Because they are stabbed in the throat. Give me a break. That is not cruel.Th animal is not made to suffer. It is being slaughtered, and in a way that was considered swift and merciful before huns existed. They’re not burning it alive, like some other pagan religions did.
I don’t like the encroachment of Islam any more than anyone else, and I’m not keen on needless killing of animals. But I am not about to support the erosion of basic religious freedoms on the basis of vague and evolving liberal sensitivies about what is cruel treatment of animals by the same government that won’t do anything about the slaughter of the unborn.
Report Post »DirkPitt
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:35amWhere is PETA in all this. Oh, that’s right……they are lefties.
Report Post »djgoff1222
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:43pmI’m a PETA member, and I’m disgusted by this, but I’m equally disgusted by murder that occurs in “rural areas” and slaughterhouses, for food, fun or sacrifice. I hope one day God treats us all the way we’ve treated the animals.
Report Post »yote hunter
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:46pmDoes PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) feel the same way about unborn human fetuses?
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