بولندا: المسلمون يؤكدون أن حظر التذكية الشرعية يخالف القانون الأوروبي

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكدت "الجمعية الإسلامية البولندية" أن الجدل المثار حول حظر التذكية الشرعية، والذي أثار حالة من التوتر الشديد محليًّا وخارجيًّا - يخالف قوانين الاتحاد الأوروبي.

وأشارت "الجمعية الإسلامية" البولندية إلى أن الأمر التوجيهي الخاص بالاتحاد الأوروبي يسري على "بولندا"، ويحل محل القانون الدولي، وذلك طبقًا لتصريحات السيد "تومساز ميسكيويسز" - مفتي "بولندا" - والذي استند لكلام خبير قانوني.

وقد لقي الحظر ترحيب منظمات حقوق الحيوان، وذلك بالرغم من اعتراض المسلمين واليهود، معتبرين ذلك انتهاكًا للحريات الدينية، وكذلك انتقاد الفلاحين الذين يحققون تجارة سنوية تبلغ 460 مليون دولار نتيجة بيع اللحوم الحلال للدول الإسلامية وغيرها؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Polish Muslim Leader: Kosher, Halal Slaughter Are Legal

The head of Poland's Muslim community says a ban on halal and kosher slaughter is invalid under European law.

Poland's Muslim community on Tuesday said a controversial nationwide ban on halal and kosher slaughter, which has spurred intense debate at home and abroad, was invalid under European law, AFP reports.

The EU directive "applies in Poland and in this case it supersedes national law," Poland's top Muslim leader, Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz, said, quoting an expert legal analysis commissioned by the Muslim community and the meat industry.

Animal rights activists have hailed the ban, but Jewish and Muslim leaders in Poland argue that it violates their religious freedom.

Farmers and exporters of meat to Israel and Muslim countries, who exported up to 350 million euros ($460 million) worth of kosher and halal meat a year before the ban, have also condemned it.

The Jewish community has asked Poland's Constitutional Court to rule whether the ban violates their religious freedom, but Miskiewicz said there was "no need" for such a ruling because European law trumped the ban.

The practices of Muslim halal and Jewish kosher slaughter are therefore "legal in Poland since January 1 and can be conducted in slaughterhouses," he told reporters in Warsaw, according to AFP.

European Union rules on the slaughter of livestock are designed to minimize the animals' suffering, but religious groups are exempted from a requirement that animals be stunned before death.

Kosher and halal slaughtering were banned in Poland on January 1 after the Constitutional Court deemed it incompatible with animal rights legislation.