Imams and Rabbis unite against religious intolerance in Netherlands
The Financial Times this week carries an article on the Dutch parliament which is preparing to pass a law that would end religious slaughterers’ exemption from rules requiring animals be “stunned” or anaesthetised before they are killed which would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter in the Netherlands. The ban would outlaw the only remaining kosher slaughterer, who is the grandson of a kosher slaughterer who died in the Holocaust. The move has seen Rabbis and Imams marching together in protest at the proposals.
The article reports that many Jews and Muslims see the ban as part of a growing European hostility to immigration and diversity.