Muslim group: 'Make halal slaughter legal'

by Peter Vinthagen Simpson
The Local
March 31, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1538/muslim-group-make-halal-slaughter-legal

Excerpt:

The Muslim Association of Sweden (SMF) has renewed calls for the legalization of religious slaughter practices such as kosher and halal.

In a letter to the Swedish government, SMF chairperson Mahmoud Aldebe, challenges the government to respect the "democratic rights" of Sweden's Muslims to exercise their "religious freedoms" and find a way to permit the practice.

He points out that all other European Union countries have found a way to permit religious slaughter practices in a way that most religious authorities accept.

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