Stun me with a wet fish

Peter Fitzsimons, one of the Fairfax writers who wants us all to hold hands and sing Kumbayah as we are absorbed into a caliphate (sharia law being the spear head), is amazed at the objections that some have to Halal food.

I object!

1. Halal is not just a cute food fashion, 'culture' as the intelligentsia like to think. It is a part of a whole system of law that will reverse the 1000 years of creating the freedoms that we enjoy. Halal doesn't stand alone, it is an integral part of Sharia.

2. Halal certification fees form, in Islamic eyes, a tax we pay for the 'right' to not be Muslims in a Sharia state. It is their way by stealth, and we all dumbly follow, like the animals led to Halal slaughter.

The RSPCA is concerned there are much greater risks of an animal suffering during slaughter without stunning than for conventional slaughter. Slaughtering an animal while fully conscious requires additional handling and restraint and means that the animal will experience pain associated with the throat cut and subsequent bleeding out. For these reasons, the RSPCA is strongly opposed to all forms of slaughter that do not involve prior stunning of the animal.

4. I oppose Sharia, and will happily take up arms against it, if need be (I prefer Metal Storm electronically fired guns myself). I oppose it because I am against governments flogging women for reporting rape, for flogging dissenters who write for freedom, for preventing women from driving, voting, being educated, for stoning adulterers, for giving women no say in legal proceedings, for enslaving people disagreed with, for systematising the rape of women and girls who don't share your views, for making women wear tents (although, granted, for some women this is a decided improvement), for segregating everyday life in public places, for executing homosexuals. The list goes on.

Fitzsimons is clearly selective in his understanding of Sharia, and defective in his understanding of Islam.