Stop the presses; the War on Christmas is passé. We now have the Islamic takeover of Thanksgiving.
RW darling Pam Geller is calling for a boycott of Everybody's Favorite Bird, Butterball, to prevent the Muslimification of America's holiday:
In my book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance, I report at length on 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. And back in October 2010, I reported more little-noted but explosive new revelations: that much of the meat in Europe and the United States is being processed as halal without the knowledge of the non-Muslim consumers who buy it.
I discovered that only two plants in the U.S. that perform halal slaughter keep the halal meat separated from the non-halal meat, and they only do so because plant managers thought it was right to do so. At other meat-packing plants, animals are slaughtered following halal requirements, but then only a small bit of the meat is actually labeled halal.
And folks like Bryan Fischer are doing their part to spread the news via Twitter:
Be advised: every single Butterball turkey sold in America this Thanksgiving has been sacrificed to Allah first.
Geller goes on to say:
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. Many people refuse to eat it on religious grounds. Many Christians, Hindus or Sikhs and Jews find it offensive to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic ritual (although observant Jews are less likely to be exposed to such meat, because they eat kosher).
So according to Geller, halal slaughter is torturous and evil -- but I found that the slaughter of animals for kosher purposes (shechita) has much the same description:
Shechita is the ritual slaughter of mammals and birds according to Jewish dietary laws. The act is performed by severing the trachea, oesophagus, carotid arteries and jugular veins using an extremely sharp blade ("chalef"), and allowing the blood to drain out.
Only difference I can see? The uttering of the word "Allah". (Perhaps the person doing the slaughter for kosher purposes utters a blessing to YHWH silently.)
We won't even get into some of the practices of the standard factory farms.
So, is Butterball a Muslim front? Hardly. What they are is a corporation. They're out there for one thing -- to make money. And if they can make money selling frozen turkeys to observant Islamic families, then that's good for their profits and their shareholders.
So, Pamela Geller, Bryan Fischer, and all the rest of you religious nut jobs, I've got two questions for you:
Why do you hate capitalism?
Why do you hate America?