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Poland: Agriculture minister says he won�t ban religious slaughter

Poland: Agriculture minister says he won�t ban religious slaughter Via JTA (h/t Al-Kanz ): Poland's minister of agriculture said he will not bow to activists and ban ritual slaughter in the country. Polish Agricultural Minister Marek Sawicki said May 16 that banning ritual slaughter would be contrary to the Polish Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion. "Under European Union law, ritual slaughter is acceptable and there is no reason to prohibit it," Sawicki also said.  ( source )

Ireland: Al-Qaeda targeting Irish for conversion

Ireland: Al-Qaeda targeting Irish for conversion Via the Irish Examiner : Details of the plan emerged in a letter from American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn to an unidentified recipient. The correspondence was found in the house in Pakistan where al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was shot dead by US forces last year. (...) "This was after I noticed the sympathy of the Irish people to the Palestinian issue, and the soft treatment by the Irish judicial system of the Muslims accused of terrorism, and also not participating with its troops in Bush�s crusade wars. "Also, what helped to prepare the message was the last economic crisis that affected Ireland a lot, thus forcing its youth to look for sources of living in the outside. The other matter is the increasing anger in Ireland towards the Catholic Church after exposing a number of sex scandals and others. The people there are moving towards secularism, after it was the most religious of atheist Europe, and why do not we face t...