“According to the public prosecutor’s office, 213 sheep were slaughtered without the prescribed stunning.”
That’s just standard halal butchering practice. Soon the Austrian authorities will back down, release these men, and apologize for their “Islamophobia.”
“213 sheep illegally slaughtered: Six Viennese Muslims in court,” translated from “213 Schafe illegal geschächtet: Sechs Wiener Muslime vor Gericht,” by Michael Koch, Exxpress, March 30, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
They call it a “slaughter festival”: Five Turks, an Afghan and the official veterinarian are in Vienna Neustadt in court for animal cruelty because they are said to have caused severe suffering to the animals during the ritual slaughter of 213 sheep.
In the dock of the Regional Court of Vienna Neustadt are five Turks and one Afghan between the ages of 29 and 52 – all from Vienna. And the responsible veterinarian. Together they should be responsible for what angry animal rights activists documented on the occasion of a slaughter according to the Muslim rite in a company in Haschendorf (Lower Austria). Horrible evidence of a bloody ceremonial.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, 213 sheep were slaughtered without the prescribed stunning. The animals’ throats are cut and they are supposed to bleed out slowly. “They were brutally abused and inflicted unnecessary torture on them,” the indictment said. The veterinarian, in his capacity as an officially appointed veterinarian, is accused of knowingly abusing his official authority by not being present during the entire “slaughter festival” and not complying with legal regulations. For example, with the verification of identity and compliance with the animal welfare slaughter rules.
In contrast to the other accused, the veterinarian pleaded “not guilty,” but wanted to take responsibility: “It was eight hours of slaughtering and 213 sheep, and things happened that did not comply with the legal norm,” he admitted. After all, he forbade the men to pull the sheep by the ears into the slaughterhouse.
When asked by the court why he didn’t finish the slaughtering after many things had gone wrong, the accused veterinarian preferred to remain silent.
The verdict is to be made in May, the presumption of innocence applies.
gravenimage says
Austria: Six Muslims in court for illegally slaughtering 213 sheep for Islamic rituals
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Soon just like in Dar-al-Islam Muslims will be slaughtering these poor animals in the streets.
Alena says
Yes presumption of innocence applies …
To the Austrian authorities.
Billy Corr says
I witnessed halal slaughter done right. Having lived in Saudi Arabia, I watched a Yemeni laborer, who was employed on a part time basis by our neighbor in Taif, KSA, kill a sheep for the feast of Eid Al Fitr.
THIS IS WHAT I SAW:
The animal was turned to face Makkah, the Yemeni straddled it, said a brief prayer, tilted the animal’s head back and sliced deeply into its neck with a razor-sharp butcher knife, severing the jugular vein and the carotid artery instantly.
My observation was that unconsciousness and death took no more than four seconds, possibly less; as with a beheaded chicken, there is some movement of the body for a few seconds longer.
That’s all I have to say about that, as Forrest Gump used to say.
Jayell1 says
‘Soon just like in Dar-al-Islam Muslims will be slaughtering these poor animals in the streets……’
That already happened in a back street somewhere in Belgium when a bunch of muslims held a sheep down in the gutter near a drain (for the blood). And here in the UK they’re currently taking over catering establishments to market their repulsive meat produce; for example, a bijou little cafe with a generic Italian name in the equally bijou London suburb of Wanstead, that openly lists half its menu as being ‘halal (I asked the ‘Italian'(??) manager if the shop name was appropriate, to which he replied that most restaurants in Italy were halal!!! Really? That’s not what the Italian catering industry says on their websites!). So, if things carry on this way, the good, respectable, middle-class English citizens of places like Wanstead can soon expect to have ritual slaughter in their picture postcard High Street before much longer. What’s happening around the USA?
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
I do not care if sheep are slaughered alive to get the blood out. When they win this in the courts, Muhammadans will next slaughter Jews and they will claim objecting to it is Islamophobia.
There is no phobia of Muhammadanistm. It is NOT an unrealistic fear. They live above the law in Austria now like the Nazis did in the 1940s.