Three major mosques in France announced their refusal of the ban on animal slaughtering according to Islamic law.
A statement issued by the mosques of Paris, Lyon, and Ivory stated that their administrations met to discuss the circular of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food on November 23 regarding the slaughter of poultry, adding that the ministerial circular is “to protect animals while slaughtering them in slaughterhouses,” stressing that this does not create the appropriate conditions for slaughtering according to Islamic law.
It continued, “It is a bad message for the Muslim community before the great month of Ramadan, as the halal slaughter of poultry will be banned from July 2021.”
Those in charge of managing the major mosques have transferred their complaints about this issue to the Ministries of Interior, Agriculture and Food, without reaching a positive result, stressing that these measures constitute a serious obstacle to the free practice of religious rituals, and that those in charge of mosque management affirm the resort to all measures to regain this basic right.
The statement also affirmed that mosque administrators discussed this issue with the Jewish community in France, calling on the French Minister of Agriculture and Food to accept an urgent meeting with the concerned parties.
