All the leftist anti Israel Jews their families and their so called 'rabbis' will be on the first plane to Denmark
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Jewish-groups-excoriate-Denmark-over-legalized-bestiality-347467 Jewish groups excoriate Denmark over legalized bestiality
By SAM SOKOL
04/03/2014 18:28
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Ritual slaughter currently banned due to concerns for ‘animal rights;’ PETA calls shechita one of “least humane methods of slaughter.”
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Giraffe killed at Copenhagen Zoo Photo: REUTERS
Several Jewish groups issued statements this week slamming Denmark for last month's ban on Jewish ritual slaughter on the grounds of animal rights despite continuing to sanction bestiality.
Denmark is one of several European countries in which sexual intercourse with animals is permitted by law. The country’s legalized zoophilia has even attracted sex tourists from Norway, the Afterposten newspaper reported in 2011.Related:
European Rabbis call Danish shechita ban cover for terrible animal rights record
Agriculture and Food Minister Dan Jørgensen banned all slaughter without pre-stunning last month. Importation of kosher and hallal meat is, however, still legal.
Jørgensen was quoted by local media as hanging his decision on the argument that “animal rights come before religion,” a statement he later disavowed during a meeting with Jewish and Muslim communal leaders.
Denmark’s legalized bestiality, however, puts the argument that the ban was engineered to protect animals into doubt, several leading European Rabbis argue. Jewish organizations have called Denmark’s animal rights record in doubt before, with the Conference of European Rabbis recently issuing a statement calling the ban “a fig leaf intended to cover the country’s woeful record on animal welfare.”In the statement CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt referred to the recent outrage surrounding the killing of a healthy giraffe and four lions at a Copenhagen zoo, asserting that “as the media continues to report stories about perfectly healthy animals being slaughtered for no good reason, it becomes ever more apparent that this is less about animal welfare and much more about the politics of immigration and integration.”
According to Ben Williamson of PETA UK, an animal rights organization in England, “
Denmark is one of the few remaining NATO countries that still mutilates and kills live animals during medical training exercises.”Williamson did, however, commend Denmark for its ban on shechita, which the organization termed one of the “least humane methods of slaughter.”
In a further statement to the Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Goldschmidt, whose great grandfather served as the Denmark’s Chief Rabbi, called the country’s legalized bestiality “another example which clearly shows that the issue at hand is not the rights of animals but a society set to limit the religious freedom of minority religions at it's midst.”
Denmark, he accused, can no longer lay claim to its past legacy of “tolerance and acceptance towards religious minorities.”
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, President of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, another continental Rabbinical organization, said that the dichotomy between allowing sex with animals who cannot give consent and disallowing ancient religious traditions indicates calls into question the sincerity of those who say that the ban is not anti-semitic.
Those supporting the ban are hypocrites, he added.
“As long as hunting and bestiality are allowed in Denmark, the ban against shechita is populist at best,” Rabbi Yitzchock Loewenthal of Chabad of Denmark remarked.
Rabbi Marc Schneier of the New-York based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, whose European representatives recently met with Jørgensen, called the ban “pathetic,” stating that a country which “legalizes animal brothels” and lacks a “humane factory farming standards” cannot claim the moral authority to ban shechita.
“This ban is nothing more than a political stunt to appease a growing far right faction in Denmark.”
“Denmark was one of the countries that pressured Israel not to move forward on even more stringent legislation regarding sale of furs in our country. How can one lobby for the production and sale of fur and claim to be protecting animals with anti-shechita legislation,” asked MK Dov Lipman. “It is purely about religious practice,” The Danish Agriculture Ministry did not respond to an email request for comment.