Eldorado Posted August 18, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 18, 2019 "A vegetarian GCSE student was disqualified after an examiner took her criticism of Halal meat to be Islamophobic." "Abbey, who is a strict vegetarian, described the process surrounding Halal meat as ‘absolutely disgusting’." Full story at UniLad UK: https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/gcse-student-disqualified-for-criticising-halal-meat-during-exam/ "GCSE student disqualified after 'over zealous' examiner mistook vegetarianism for Islamophobia" At the Telegraph UK: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/17/gcse-student-disqualified-zealous-examiner-mistook-vegetarianism/ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post XenoFish Posted August 18, 2019 Popular Post #2 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Religion is a plight upon this planet. Apparently having an opinion is also a bad thing as well. 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kartikg Posted August 18, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 18, 2019 13 minutes ago, XenoFish said: Religion is a plight upon this planet. Apparently having an opinion is also a bad thing as well. Keep your opinions to yourself. This is something everyone needs to practice these days. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post XenoFish Posted August 18, 2019 Popular Post #4 Share Posted August 18, 2019 33 minutes ago, kartikg said: Keep your opinions to yourself. This is something everyone needs to practice these days. No point in discussing anything if you can't voice an opinion. 10 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rashore Posted August 18, 2019 Popular Post #5 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I think it the better part of wisdom that the decision was overturned. For a lot of vegetarians, most forms of animal farming and killing is disgusting. 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sir Wearer of Hats Posted August 18, 2019 Popular Post #6 Share Posted August 18, 2019 34 minutes ago, rashore said: I think it the better part of wisdom that the decision was overturned. For a lot of vegetarians, most forms of animal farming and killing is disgusting. For most carnivores Halal’s slaughtering process is disgusting. 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rashore Posted August 18, 2019 Popular Post #7 Share Posted August 18, 2019 6 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: For most carnivores Halal’s slaughtering process is disgusting. It is true that some find Halal slaughter disgusting. Some folks find Kosher slaughtering equally disgusting as well. Some folks that do their own small scale farming for their own meats and sometimes local smaller scale processors use similar practices of stunning or not an animal before cutting it's throat or it's head off are also in the disgust category if folks are objectionable to Halal and Kosher slaughtering practices. The religious applications or not, in general cutting an animals throat or it's head off while it's still alive is rather unsavory. Regardless on if it's stunned or not. There are some folks that find industrial scale slaughtering disgusting by comparison to the more religious or smaller scale slaughter practices too. 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep73 Posted August 18, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Where I come from, the examiner would be called a 'halal hippie'. People who are so eager to include all sorts of BS, that they even sell out their own core values. When that is said, vegetarians are nutjobs too. Not as bad as vegans, but close... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoofGardener Posted August 19, 2019 #9 Share Posted August 19, 2019 So wait... if I consider the Halal meat slaughter method disgusting, then I am an "Islamophobe" for holding this opinion ? Am I antisemitic if I hold similar view to Kosher meat slaughter ? (which is very similar) The examiner should have been disciplined and sent for retraining (or simply fired) for adopting this attitude. Was he by any chance muslim ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted August 19, 2019 #10 Share Posted August 19, 2019 The examiner much be a muslim, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashore Posted August 19, 2019 #11 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Looks like the OCR is a board of people that review the papers, not one sole examiner reviewing the papers. And by looking at the most recent 2018 years papers, it seems that the Religious Studies categories are greatly broken down into sections by religion- Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism- so it may be the exam paper was covering Islam specifically so only Halal would have come up instead of also other practices. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted August 19, 2019 #12 Share Posted August 19, 2019 It's a mirror reflecting on a mirror situation... ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xYlvax Posted August 19, 2019 #13 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I guess I'd be disqualified because there isn't one thing about their culture I find gratifying 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerBright19 Posted August 20, 2019 #14 Share Posted August 20, 2019 (edited) Are animal rights activists called Islamophobic and anti-Semitic? What if a farmer sells eggs that are not free range. If activists complain will the media support their cause regardless of the farmer's religion or does that put an entirely different light on the activists? Edited August 20, 2019 by Aaron2016 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztek Posted August 21, 2019 #15 Share Posted August 21, 2019 On 8/18/2019 at 4:27 PM, Sir Wearer of Hats said: For most carnivores Halal’s slaughtering process is disgusting. really? how? i think it is more humane than what we do in slaughterhouses , now that is outright discussing, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hetrodoxly Posted August 21, 2019 #16 Share Posted August 21, 2019 44 minutes ago, aztek said: really? how? i think it is more humane than what we do in slaughterhouses , now that is outright discussing, You must be doing some vile stuff to Animals in America if it's worse than halal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztek Posted August 21, 2019 #17 Share Posted August 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said: You must be doing some vile stuff to Animals in America if it's worse than halal. what is so bad about halal method, can you tell me specifics?? what exactly do you oppose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortugabob Posted August 21, 2019 #18 Share Posted August 21, 2019 The use of sentient beings for food and/or experimentation is evil on the highest level. Kosher and Halil are examples of evil. So is drinking milk, eating cheese or chicken. Most people have been so brainwashed they cannot even recognize the inherent evil of these acts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted August 21, 2019 #19 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Technically, Halal is Kosher except for the technicalities of language and all things cultural, it is the same, its been around before there was Islam... ~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaeton80 Posted August 21, 2019 #20 Share Posted August 21, 2019 On 8/18/2019 at 10:27 PM, Sir Wearer of Hats said: For most carnivores Halal’s slaughtering process is disgusting. Yeah, slitting the throat of an animal is just ab so lutely monstrous. I mean, weve done it since the dawn of Man, but 'were living in the 21st century now', 'we care for animals'. Treating them like disposable products, feeding them into a massive meat industry with the only goal to grow the largest slab of meat.. is fine and dandy! As long as we tranquilize them at slaughter their meaningless and empty, drugged lives are completely redeemed. Religion is not a plight on this planet, WE are. Remove religion, and WE will find another flag to commit our crazy under, you can take that to the proverbial bank. What went wrong here, is the idiot who thought it wise to disqualify the vegan because of her opinion. Thats all, thats it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztek Posted August 21, 2019 #21 Share Posted August 21, 2019 49 minutes ago, third_eye said: Technically, Halal is Kosher except for the technicalities of language and all things cultural, it is the same, its been around before there was Islam... ~ yes they are almost identical, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/kosher-slaughtering-an-introduction/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hetrodoxly Posted August 21, 2019 #22 Share Posted August 21, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, aztek said: what is so bad about halal method, can you tell me specifics?? what exactly do you oppose? Cutting an animals throat and letting it bleed to death, if you're doing worse than this in America you need to stop it. Edited August 21, 2019 by hetrodoxly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztek Posted August 21, 2019 #23 Share Posted August 21, 2019 (edited) 2 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said: Cutting an animals throat and letting it bleed to death, what do you do in America that's worse? yea it is fast and painless death. watch slaughter house documentary, i'm not gonna post details here btw almost 90% of animals are stunned before slitting their throat, as far as halal way of killing Edited August 21, 2019 by aztek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hetrodoxly Posted August 21, 2019 #24 Share Posted August 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, aztek said: btw almost 90% of animals are stunned before slitting their throat, as far as halal way of killing Can i see your source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztek Posted August 21, 2019 #25 Share Posted August 21, 2019 (edited) 2 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said: Can i see your source. yes, give me a minute Edited August 21, 2019 by aztek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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