He was charged. They weren’t. He is, quite rightly, claiming discrimination. “Mr. Scissons sold them live sheep — what they choose to do with them after that point is really up to them.” So why weren’t the Muslims who actually illegally slaughtered the sheep charged? Would that have offended the multicultural sensibilities of Canadian authorities?
“Ottawa sheep farmer faces charges for slaughter on his land,” CBC News, June 23, 2014 (thanks to Brian):
An Ottawa farmer claimed discrimination in court Monday after he was charged with operating an illegal slaughter plant without a licence while the Muslim men who bought and killed his sheep were not.
Anthony Scissons sold live sheep to the men in October 2012 from his farm in the rural community of Dunrobin, west of Kanata.
The three men who bought the sheep admitted to slaughtering the animals on the farm in a ritual called Dhabihah.
Scissons was charged under the Food Safety and Quality Act with operating an unlicensed slaughter plant.
Kurtis Andrews, the lawyer representing Scissons, said his client isn’t Muslim and under Islamic law is forbidden from taking part in the slaughter.
“Mr. Scissons sold them live sheep — what they choose to do with them after that point is really up to them,” said Andrews.
“It’s just a totally absurd allegation,” he said. “There’s no slaughter plant on the farm… there is simply no way they can prove it.”
Andrews said the government wasn’t about to charge the three other men even though they carried out the slaughter.
He also noted the act does have exemptions about slaughtering that are sensitive to the traditions of Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.
Scissons is also charged with selling and distributing uninspected meat.
If convicted, Scissons could be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to two years in jail for each charge.
St. Michael Defend Us says
It just seems as though, whenever a person deals in any way with muslims, it will come back on them and bite them.
Mirren10 says
Indeed. Never, ever, ever have **anything** whatsoever to do with them, if it can possibly be avoided.
DhimmiNot says
There is likely more to this story…
1) What prompted the authorities to visit his farm at that time?
2) Who reported this incident to the authorities?
3) Has this farmer done this before?
4) Why did the farmer allow the Muslim men to slaughter the sheep on HIS property?
5) Did the farmer watch from a distance? If so, he is complicit?
6) How often does this occur on other sheep farms?
Nowadays, many grocery stores seem to be selling lamb with a Halal sticker. Most non-Muslims seem to be uninformed about how the animal was slaughtered. Consumers need to request non-Halal lamb, as a routine.
gama says
Around ramadamn the demand for sacrificial meat goes through the roof.
Modern western abattoir techniques require stunning the animal prior to slaughter, with halal-ritual-slaughter the ‘ sacrificial ‘ animal needs to be conscious while it slowly bleeds to death , the sacrificial animal, whose throat is slashed while conscious , is under extreme duress, stress and pain, slowly bleeding to death all in the name of the most merciful the most benevolent .
This ‘sacrifice’ of animals is growing exponentially in the west ,to satisfy a holy-fix .
How’s your appetite for sacrificial meat…….. A bonus in the sacrifice of animal industry is only practising Muslim men can work in a sacrificial abattoir { job security exclusive for the ideology of the pure }
and an imam gets a fee for blessing every sacrificed animal { nice shake-down } , that sacrifice of animals remains demonic no matter how much you pray over it .
Mullah Gitawny says
The landowner should have known better than to let them slaughter the sheep on his land. This outrageously stupid law deserves to be challenged if it’s not legal to slaughter livestock on your own farm in a rural zone. The argument may be that since he sold the live animals, he was then allowing a third party to slaughter their livestock on his land.
ploome says
next time don’t sell live animals to barbarians
what dis he think these barbarians would do with/to live animals
Arjay says
The way First Nations (American Indians) hunt deer or caribou… Metis trapping rabbits or Eskimo/Inuit catching seals or harvesting fish… IS NOT THE SAME THING AS HALAL SLAUGHTER. Kosher butchers to provide Kosher meats for delis, restaurants and the Jewish Canadian consumer IS NOT THE SAME THING AS HALAL SLAUGHTER.
Halal is the cruel way to slaughter animals, contaminating the meat with biochemical and hormones of animal dying, the animal dying in agony as Muslims do their religious rituals and prayers to Allah.
What is the point of Canada (or Australia, or Britain or New Zealand) having first world standards in agricultural production, livestock health care and nutrition, veterinary medicine and clean butcher shops that have health codes on the way meat is handled….
What is the point if all that is looked the other way to appease Muslims.
Or… why sacrifice Canadian lives in WWII when EVEN BEFORE THE WWII HAS PASSED TO HISTORY… you surrender to Islam? Why do Canadians pay taxes, keep up first world standards and promote a civilized society when in the 2010s to give it all away to Muslims?
I can replace Canada with England, Norway, France, New Zealand, Australia… and any other nation.
The fact that a farmer punished and the Muslims are not… well, if the farmer had REFUSED TO SEE HIS LIVESTOCK TO MUSLIMS… WOULD HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED FOR RACISM OR SUED BY THE MUSLIMS FOR RACISM?
dumbledoresarmy says
Arjay
you make an interesting point there – “if the farmer had REFUSED TO SEE HIS LIVESTOCK TO MUSLIMS… WOULD HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED FOR RACISM OR SUED BY THE MUSLIMS FOR RACISM?”
I speak as an Australian: many livestock farmers in our country (as also in NZ) are falling over themselves to sell sheep and cattle – *live* sheep and cattle – to Muslim Indonesia and to the Muslim Middle East. Even after it’s been revealed that these poor animals have been subjected to all manner of gratuitous cruelty.
Business is business…except, it shouldn’t be.
There’s a lot of work to be done, yet, to educate people as to why it is such a bad idea to hop on the halal bandwagon.
mark says
Let’s have equality of justice! Put these Muslims in jail right now!
Sovereign Man says
Poor farmer. If he refused to sell the sheep he could be charged with racial discrimination, so he sold the sheep and gets charged with something else. What a ******-up ridiculous country we have become. Any law that makes a law-abiding citizen going about his usual business become a criminal with no ill-intent and no victim is by definition unlawful. The “Justice” system is one of the rotten roots of the disease currently destroying Western civilization.
Kepha says
My sympathies are 150% with Mr. Scissons, and I hope that the lawmakers who interfered with his rights to buy and sell–and his customers’ right to eat as they see fit–melt into piles of their own excre–nt. Come to think of it, if the Muslim customers were the sorts who plan to live peaceably among the Canadian Kufr rather than send their young men off to join ISIS or groom local Kufr girls for rape, I have sympathies for them, too.
My quarrel with Islam isn’t over halal slaughter of animals. When I had the space in which to do it, I used to be a fairly good amateur bookbinder and did some work in Morocco leather (very fine and durable stuff); probably from goats that were killed in the halal manner. In some quarters of Taiwanese cities and in the Golden Triangle area of Thailand, I myself ate in halal restaurants. It’s over its doctrine of Islamic supremacy, its misrepresentations of biblical figures, and its system of ethics that seems to bless all the vicious lusts of dominant males that leads me to reject Islam as a religion.
However, I have a big quarrel with lots of Western post-Christian professional busybodies, too. They’re the selfsame sorts who want to rid our societies of every vestige of personal and public morality, turn vulnerable children into commodities for the sake of their homosexual friends who want recruits for their despicable lifestyle (under guise of adoption, or custody battles in which some creep is allowed to drive a child’s other-sex parent out of his/her life), and help leave the West open to predation by the sorts we read about in most JW posts.
But I will hazard the guess that the enforcers went after Mr. Scissons because if they went after the guys who actually did the slaughtering, they’d be labeled ‘Islamophobic”, “racist”, and every other cuss word in the pseudo-progressive playbook. I hope Mr. Scissons’ lawyer takes the Food Safety and Quality enforcers by the heels and sweeps the floor with their hair (figuratively speaking).
Mirren10 says
” In some quarters of Taiwanese cities and in the Golden Triangle area of Thailand, I myself ate in halal restaurants.”
Quite apart from the vile **cruelty** of halal slaughter, it also involves the animal being prayed over, **in the name of allah**.
Don’t you, as a Christian, have any problem with that ?
David Hollaz says
St. Paul dealt with that in 1 Corinthians. Since there really is no ‘Allah’, whom Mohammed / Moslems invented idolatrously, then the lambs are just lambs, created by Christ along with all other animals. Their empty rituals do nothing to he lamb, and ultimately it still belongs to Christ as Creator. The only problem comes if eating meat sacrificed to idols involves either participation in the ritual itself, or if eating such harms the faith of another believer, or inhibits an unbeliever coming to faith in Christ, because it potentially could imply approval of the false ritual. But the lamb is just lamb, since Mohammed’s ‘Allah’ is a non-existent false idol, like Zeus of old.
RG says
Allow me to suggest that allah is not “non-existent” and as such he is actually a demonic entity. That’s why the apostle Paul forbade the eating of meats ‘sacrificed to idols’. Of course the Name of Christ renders him powerless, but that does not mean that he doesn’t exist. Allah is by no means, a non-existent god, he is the very one who will soon manifest himself as the anti-christ! That’s why Christians are to reject all collaboration with muslims and their dark ways!!!
ploome says
islam has no system of ethics
just haram….that which is epressly forbidden
or
halal ….everything and every behavior NOT forbidden
Nan says
Kepha,
Why on earth would you eat meat slaughtered in the name of the Muslim god if you’re not Muslim?
warren raymond says
This illegal slaughter is going on all over Europe. In Moscow they even slaughter in the streets, much to the chagrin of the authorities. I would be surprised if Putin succeeded in banning it. The halal is less important than the thrill of the kill, after all the Muslim children must be taught how to cut the throat of an infidel; and what better opportunity than to practice on some sheep or goat?
To charge the Canadian farmer rather than the halal butchers just goes to show how dhimmified the ‘authorities’ in Canada already are.
Jan Sobieski says
Just have the authorities demand the video of the slaughter — seems no real moslem would slit the throat of a sheep unless his brave deed was memorialized on film.
D J says
Just more of the unraveling of what once was called Christendom. There will be a big price paid one day if we in the West do not stop this now, it still isn’t too late. That includes ZERO immigration of Moslems. They have an agenda, and while the vast majority are not terrorists, the vast majority seem to always wind up supporting terrorists. If we refuse to learn from the history of Islam we are destined to relive the misery of Islam.
harbidoll says
vast majority not terrorist but they admire their “prophet “, who Was a terrorist. & admire those who copy his ways. All are curious about what will happen if/when the caliphate arrives. they think it will benefit them in every way.
Mackykam says
I’m sorry, the article isn’t clear. Did the muslims slaughter the animals with a knife or did they slaughter them through multiple acts of bestiality? Did they sex the sheep to death?
lohah smith says
Canadians are to mandate total ban of islam via the people’s civil laws, and all other laws, governing over Protection of Canadians from all and any threats
and without threat , interference from anyone, anything in or out of Canada
islam = jihad foreign political ideology, as stated all thru out the islam jihad ideology book, Koran..
details
islam Illegal and Criminal status, intent against Canadian govt, laws, rights, freedoms , to over throw Canadian govt and replace with islam jihad ideology
and islam details as well
islams Hatred against All Humanity in Canada, to the pt of death to all non followers in Canada
all muslims practice islam jihad ideology, at every given second, every day
islam is foreign political jihad ideology , with foreign leaders
meet together , make it happen , Canada wide