Bhopal, Sep 4: A section of Muslims and Hindus in Bhopal have come together to protest against global fast food chain KFC accusing it of hurting their religious sentiments.
While Muslims accused the multinational giant of serving Jhatka' chicken or meat in the name of halal chicken', Hindus have joined the protests to save cows, considered sacred animal by the community.
However, no scientific tests of the KFC food items were done by any of the groups.
KFC spokesperson denied the charges vehemently, saying, “KFC holds the highest respect for the law of the land and complies with all government rules and regulations. These accusations are baseless and seem to be driven with malicious intent to harm our brand.”
“We serve chicken sourced from reputed Indian suppliers like Venky's and Godrej. We are always willing to provide consumers any clarifications they may require on the food served in our restaurants. We will be approaching the authorities to investigate this false propaganda and take appropriate action against those spreading misinformation,” the spokesperson said.
In Islam, meat obtained by severing the head of an animal instantly i.e. jhatka is considered diseased and not fit for eating. They have halal chicken or meat which is obtained by making a deep cut on the neck of a bird or animal from which blood is drained out completely.
On Friday, a joint group of protesters assembled at Iqbal Maidan and launched a signature campaign demanding a KFC-free India', with Shahar Qazi Syed Mushtaq Ali Nadvi and superintendent, Masajid Committee, Yasir Arafat appealing to people to take part in the campaign.
Anam Ibrahim who is leading the campaign claimed they had signatures of 50,112 persons and warned that if action was not taken against KFC, they would protest at the shopping mall in MP Nagar which has a KFC outlet next Friday.
Ibrahim and others had lodged a complaint at MP Nagar police station against the KFC outlet on August 6. However, KFC employees lodged a counter complaint against Ibrahim and others for their creating ruckus at the outlet.
In his complaint, Ibrahim said during Ramzan, when he sought a halal certificate from the KFC outlet, the staff showed him a certificate issued by a mufti in Mumbai Anwar Khan to a company named Venky's, for only 1,000 halal chicken whereas, KFC outlets in the country sold 2,000 to 2,500 chickens per day on an average. It did not have any mention of KFC on it.
Hence, the company did not have any certificate for halal chicken and was cheating customers who might be eating the meat of any animal in the name of chicken, which the company bought from slaughter houses in various states, he said.
Talking to HT, Arun Chawariya of Balmiki Samaj, who joined the signature campaign, said his protest was to save cows.
“We will continue our campaign till KFC closes its chain in the country,” he said.
Nadvi told HT that KFC must declare if it was selling halal or jhatka meat, where it procured the meat, what meat it was, and also if it had any certificate in this regard.
“If they are transparent, we don't have any problem. Then the option will lie with the consumers if they wish to have the kind of meat offered by KFC with a declaration,” he said.
SP Anshuman Singh said police were looking into the complaints from both sides.
He said as far as Ibrahim's complaint is concerned he had also written to the Bhopal collector to see if it was a case of adulteration and violated provisions of Food Safety and Standard Act.
The student-activist, who was allowed to talk on stage, suddenly raised pro-Pakistan slogans. She was arrested by police after All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi snatched her mike.
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Please watch in yt
Why do Muslims eat Halal unbelievable (Watch until the end)
www you tube com/watch?v=eVk8xF179sY
Please watch it to believe it... Dont beat the drums blindly...
Icd is flooded with zakir naiks...only preachings...lol
Dear Chedddis,
I have a few examples of halal, muslims have loats of reason for halal, circumcision & etc. etc.
Suresh,Rahul,Yogesh...first thing is, Why rituals in hindu marriage, mangalasutra, saptapadi, kanyadana. even without rituals also can be done, if you guys are bachelors just remember straight away go to register office and do the required procedures that is more than enough instead of rituals.... animal&bird slaughter in Islam to drain the bloods from veins (coz drinking blood is not permissible in islam ) animals and birds who died in wild cannot be eaten...
Thanks True Indian!
What a reply by true indian. U made my day
Suresh santhosh and yogesh. Here is the answer for ur question bro
I - Halal Method
1. The first three seconds from the time of Islamic slaughter as recorded on the EEG did not show any change from the graph before slaughter, thus indicating that the animal did not feel any pain during or immediately after the incision.
2. For the following 3 seconds, the EEG recorded a condition of deep sleep - unconsciousness. This is due to a large quantity of blood gushing out from the body.
3. After the above mentioned 6 seconds, the EEG recorded zero level, showing no feeling of pain at all.
4. As the brain message (EEG) dropped to zero level, the heart was still pounding and the body convulsing vigorously (a reflex action of the spinal cord) driving maximum blood from the body: resulting in hygienic meat for the consumer.
Many of the five star hotels in india. They cut with halal method only. But looking at the blood. They can find out is the chicken is sick or no.
Mr yogesh and suresh
Ur talking as if u haven't killed a single mosquito. Why god has given both sharp and flat teeth. If he wanted to eat only veg. He would have given flat teeth only. Even plant feel pain.
Coming to halaal. U will be shocked to hear that in proper halal method. Animals will feel zero pain.
When u accidently cut ur finger with blade or knife. U will feel pain after few seconds.
When u slaughter any animal during the halal method. While cutting. the brain connection gets disconnected. Only the body shakes and vibrates. They dont feel pain at all. And science have already proven it.
ALLAH is master he knows everything.
Suresh, don't speak rubbish. Before you say something try to know the scientific reason behind it. Even now science says to follow islamic way of cutting the chicken. In this case am completely against you.
Suresh, you wont understand, when you convert to Islam you will know why is it required to cut chicken or other eatable animals in accordance with Islamic teaching....if you need you can always ask nearest Muslim brothers.....come out of superstition beliefs.....
KFC IS SLOW POISON. MORE DANGEROUS THAN SMOKING CIGARETTES.
MOST OF INDIANS GET PILES. DUE TO EATING KFC.
IN SWITZERLAND FRANCE AND MANY OF THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BANNED KFC. BECAUSE THEY USE CHEAP CHICKEN.
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