Can you imagine the outcry if some Muslim idiot talked about limiting Jewish immigration because Jews turn violent when they get to more than 10% of a country’s population? Yeah, you can imagine anyone making THOSE remarks wouldn’t make it to Melbourne, and if a Muslim group in Australia came out and said “we support our people” then the Murdoch press would be howling for “Moderate Muslims”(TM) to denounce them.

[tags]double standards, antisemitism, prejudice, racism, Islamophobia[/tags]

According to mX (free rag made available on public transport in the city) Red Rooster is going halal! Notable quotes from the article include:

If Red Rooster has made the decision to make all of their chicken halal that’s appalling, because people need choice. … We think many Christians would be offended if they went into Red Rooster and had to eat halal meat. - Australian Christian Lobby spokesman David Yates

I would want to know beforehand and if I knew that any animal was killed with religious connotations I would not eat it. - Atheist Foundation of Australia spokesman David Nicholls who was also reported as saying he would “throw up” food that had been prepared religiously.

I would go so far as to say Halal slaughter in Australia is less cruel than orthodox Western methods. - RSPCA head Dr Hugh Wirth

Largely unbeknownst to the Islamophobes, Nandos already uses halal chicken as does Coles.

The article got the method of halal slaughter wrong though, saying that animals are stunned and then bled to death. Actually, they are supposed to be quickly killed by having their jugular arteries severed, and then the blood is drained. (Not that I am any expert on dhabiha slaughtering.)

A [presumably white, Christian] man has been jailed for 15 months for spitting at a Muslim woman on a train after a 7 July bombings commemoration. …

Michelle Idrees was returning to her home in Luton, Bedfordshire, when Charles Adams began chanting a religious song as he passed her.

He then started verbally abusing her before exposing his chest to show a tattoo of three lions and saying he was of “true British blood”.

Hijab flutter: Islamophobia Watch

A Catholic nun has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping militias kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.