Austria wants to force meat-consuming Jews and Muslims to register - Polidicks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/19/an-austrian-state-wants-to-force-kosher-meat-consuming-jews-to-register-drawing-nazi-comparisons/?utm_term=.70a319c75c4c Jewish organizations criticized the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), the ruling coalition party in the state of Lower Austria, over pursuing a proposal that would require Jews to register with the government if they seek to purchase kosher meat. The same rules would apply to Muslims. “This constitutes an attack on Jewish and Muslim life,” the Berlin-based American Jewish Committee wrote in a response. “Soon with a star on the chest?” the Jewish advocacy group asked, referring to the Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear during parts of the Nazi era. Striking a similar tone, Vienna's “Israeli Cultural Community” association branded the law proposal an “Aryan paragraph.” Austria's FPÖ has had a number of Nazi scandals in recent years and has been accused of stirring anti-Semitic sentiments, but this time the right-wing populists consider themselves to be treated unfairly by their critics. “This law proposal dates back to 2017, when it was drafted by the Social Democrat during his last days in office,” Alexander Murlasits, an FPÖ spokesman, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “All we're doing now is to follow the rules. This is absolutely not about religion — it's about animal protection,” said Murlasits.

Do people not read history?

evidently not.

They do. If it worked before, it'll work again

Now THIS is far more likely to be something heading towards ethnic violence than what Trump's doing

Meanwhile, the Social Democrats who were voted out of office last year are denying the FPÖ's accusations that they are behind the legislation and say that the law proposal was never meant to apply to consumers, but to butchers slaughtering kosher or halal meat. Kosher and halal slaughtering are an issue to be discussed but this law is very transparently being twisted for racist purposes How can they even pretend that registering consumers of kosher/halal meat will help animal protection in any way?

Austria, we agreed that the US gets to be the Nazis this time.

I don't even see how kosher/halal slaughtering is more inhumane than regular industrial slaughtering. Shit's pretty fucked.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/379915-fbi-hate-crimes-rose-the-day-after-trump-was-elected Hate crimes rose the day after Trump was elected, FBI data show https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hate-crimes-us-trump-election-surge-rise-latest-figures-police-a8055026.html

Jews and Muslims would still be allowed to purchase kosher and halal food, but only if they can prove that they live in Lower Austria and are observant members of their religious communities. Sales would be restricted to a certain amount of meat per week. Effectively, this means that restaurants would no longer be able to offer halal or kosher options, either. Who wants to bet the weekly limit gets set juuust slightly too low to allow for normal consumption?

Yes because making lists based on religious preferences have always benefited a society. /s

Stunning before slaughtering is normally the law in EU afaik, kosher and halal forbid this

Seems like Alexander needs a visit from the Mossad

Lotsa bad stuff going on in the world atm it's like a "we want to be the bad guys" zeitgeist.

The difference here is that the fringe ideas of a far right organization receive scorn in europe. They get into office in America

and still receive scorn because America isn't entirely controlled by the Republicans

The FPO are the junior partners in the coalition government of Austria, their leader is the Vice-Chancellor of the country and they control six government ministries

Well, disregard me then.

You haven't already forgotten about the concentration camps that was made recently, have you?

its a slippery slope down from islamaphobia to antisematism.

They weren't made recently.

Slippery slope? They're both equally bad

Was in the news, then

Yeah, but they weren't made under trump at all. They were constructed during the Obama administration. Not that it's their fault (as that admin fought back against it's creation) but trump is 0% responsible for them existing.

Should ban kosher altogether. It's barbaric.

Maybe worth specifying that you mean Shechita (traditional slaughter), assuming this is what you meant. Unless you really do mean all of kosher, in which case don't let me speak for you.

It's all clear now, Austria is secretly ruled by Nazi vegans

Every branch of the US government is under Republican control. Can you not state outright falsehoods?

Federal government that is. There's still states and territories.

This ain't kosher.