Netherlands to debate banning shechita

[Mediocrates]

Of course they are..... EU Uber Alles.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...161073,00.html

Political support for legislation weakens following international outcry by Jewish, Muslim groups

Political support for a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals without stunning them first, as required by centuries-old Jewish and Muslim dietary traditions, has weakened as the Dutch senate debates the legislation. The ban proposed by an animal rights party and widely endorsed by Dutch voters passed parliament's lower house by a 116-30 margin in June. But after an international outcry by religious groups, several political parties said Tuesday they were reconsidering their positions, citing concerns about whether the ban would violate constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion.

[Mediocrates]

The measure fails. No doubt liberals will it a great triumph of Muslim tolerance at the same time they whisper that the Jews secretly own the government and pull the strings.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...4#.TuoxAXomCSo

[dayag]

update:

Dutch Agriculture Minister Hans Bleker signed an agreement with Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and slaughterhouses which will prevent a ban on ritual slaughter.

Under the agreement signed Tuesday, animals can continue to be ritually slaughtered as long as they lose consciousness within 40 seconds of their throats being cut. After 40 seconds they must be stunned, which is prohibited under both Jewish and Islamic law.

The agreement comes following Animal Rights Party leader Marianne Thieme withdrawal last December of a bill that would have required stunning of all animals before slaughtering, after a majority of senators expressed their objection to the ban on kosher slaughter, or shechitah. The measure had passed the lower house of the Dutch parliament in June 2011.

source: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/...ement-1.434812

[dayag]

update:

The Dutch upper house, the Senate, on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have banned the ritual slaughter of animals and had been criticized by both Muslim and Jewish groups.

The bill, proposed by the small Party for the Animals, stipulates that livestock must be stunned before being slaughtered, contrary to Muslim halal and Jewish kosher laws, which require animals to be conscious...

source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...244734,00.html

further update:

The Upper House of the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday rejected a vote on a bill against kosher slaughter that had Jewish and Muslim communities across Europe up in arms for the past year. The bill was finally rejected after a long debate with a vast majority of 51 members of parliament voting against it, and 21 voting in favor.

source: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/...emium-1.439735