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Britain seeking Polish Muslims as halal butchers
AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | Wed Jan 4, 2006

Posted on 01/04/2006 6:49:16 AM PST by lizol

Britain seeking Polish Muslims as halal butchers

Wed, Jan 4, 6:34 AM ET

WARSAW (AFP) - After dentists, nurses, bus drivers, catering workers and handful of plumbers, Britain is now turning to Poland to fill a gap in its market for Muslim halal butchers, an ad posted in Poland said.

The ad, published on the website of Poland's Association of Muslims and in the press in the northeastern Bialystok region, home to a sizeable Muslim community in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Poland, was seeking to recruit "Muslims... who pray five times a day and adhere to the principles of halal cuisine, with no pork or alcoholic beverages."

They were needed to work in traditional Muslim butchers' shops in Britain "for 40 to 60 hours a week for a wage of five to seven pounds (7.25 - 10.20 euros, 8.80 - 12.30 dollars) per hour, depending on experience."

Neither the Polish nor British bureaus of the Polco job agency which posted the ad would comment to AFP on where the jobs were based, whether any applications had been received and what benefits were on offer to successful applicants.

Britain was one of only three older EU members that fully opened their job markets to workers from new member states in the former communist bloc.

More than 290,000 eastern Europeans have applied to work in Britain since their countries joined the European Union in May 2004, figures published in November by the British government showed.

Most applicants were from Poland, accounting for 58.0 percent of the total.

Poland's Muslim community numbers between 20,000 and 25,000 out of a total population of around 38 million.

Around one-quarter of Polish Muslims are descendants of Tatars who fled the Mongol warrior Genghis Kahn over 600 years ago, many settling in Poland's Bialystok region, near the border with Belarus.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europeanmuslims; greatbritain; islam; muslim; poland; uk

1 posted on 01/04/2006 6:49:17 AM PST by lizol
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To: vox_PL; kaiser80; REactor; twinself; Grzegorz 246; Lukasz

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2 posted on 01/04/2006 6:50:08 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

idiots


3 posted on 01/04/2006 6:51:57 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: lizol

I don't quite believe that sovereign states put out want-ads. Something wrong with this story.


4 posted on 01/04/2006 6:54:41 AM PST by agere_contra (A loaf of bread now costs $85,000 Zimbabwean dollars. Wait: that was last week.)
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To: sageb1

Yeah, it's more or less, like recruiting surfing teachers among eskimos. :-)


5 posted on 01/04/2006 6:55:04 AM PST by lizol
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To: sageb1

My grandmother was from Bialystok.....I don't recall her metioning anything about Muslims in Poland. Ever.


6 posted on 01/04/2006 6:56:27 AM PST by DesignerChick
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To: lizol

Yep, import more Muslims. That'll solve th eproblem.

How about this:

A shortage of halal butchers should encourage British muslims to enter the trade, whioch would make them businessmen who had a lot to lose by fooling around with militant Islam, and thus, should pacify them.

Or...

The lack of halal butchers would make Britain less attractive to Muslims and they would stop emigrating, or, convince the ones already there that since they cannot get halal food, perhaps leaving for a place where they can get it is a good idea.

Perhaps we should outlaw halal in this country...


7 posted on 01/04/2006 6:58:23 AM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: lizol

LOL. Next time they will like to get better recruitment results they should ask about Polish rabbis or better black Polish football players (Olisadebe is going to play in Premiership I've heard).


8 posted on 01/04/2006 7:00:42 AM PST by twinself
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To: lizol
Read this:

No Altars: A Survey of Islamic Family Law in the United States

9 posted on 01/04/2006 7:12:05 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

Ufff! I'll be reading it probably until next year :-)))


10 posted on 01/04/2006 7:17:30 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol
"Ufff! I'll be reading it probably until next year :-)))"

lol! Yes, probably, but it's very important. Islamic lawyers are seeking out every avenue and have been for a long time.

11 posted on 01/04/2006 7:20:23 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: lizol

"Britain is now turning to Poland to fill a gap in its market for Muslim halal butchers, an ad posted in Poland said."

Why their own moos can't do that job ?


12 posted on 01/04/2006 7:25:00 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246
"Why their own moos can't do that job ?"

They can. Britain's Muslim population is growing by leaps and bounds - just like in America.

13 posted on 01/04/2006 7:38:10 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Grzegorz 246
They have an aversion to blood maybe?

LOL!
14 posted on 01/04/2006 7:43:24 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

Lamb's blood, to be correct.


15 posted on 01/04/2006 7:44:13 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol
How many islamofacist Pollocks does it take to saw a head off?
16 posted on 01/04/2006 7:45:21 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Base. All Yours = Mine.)
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To: lizol
Guess they solved half the problem.

Halal and Kosher slaughter 'must end' , BBC

Are there really enough Polish Muslim butchers to advertise for them?

17 posted on 01/04/2006 7:49:44 AM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: SJackson

Exactly. See my post #5


18 posted on 01/04/2006 7:53:02 AM PST by lizol
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To: agere_contra
I don't quite believe that sovereign states put out want-ads. Something wrong with this story.

Maybe the Poles placed the ad to get rid of their Muslim population.

19 posted on 01/04/2006 7:59:31 AM PST by Attillathehon
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To: lizol

It will be Poland's gain and Britain's loss!


20 posted on 01/04/2006 8:13:29 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

The only reason that I know that we have Muslims in Poland is these above mentioned statistics. This is good sign and speak well about them. So you need to show more respect for my compatriots I think.


21 posted on 01/04/2006 8:30:49 AM PST by Lukasz
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To: Psycho_Bunny
How many islamofacist Pollocks does it take to saw a head off?

Which trailer park did you grow up in?

23 posted on 01/04/2006 11:17:20 AM PST by Feldkurat_Katz (What no women’s magazine ever offers to improve is women’s minds - Taki)
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To: Feldkurat_Katz

Oh puleeze.


24 posted on 01/04/2006 11:49:11 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Base. All Yours = Mine.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

You don't like it when people treat you with contempt? Get used to it.


25 posted on 01/04/2006 11:50:44 AM PST by Feldkurat_Katz (What no women’s magazine ever offers to improve is women’s minds - Taki)
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To: Feldkurat_Katz

I'm more used to self-important prats kissing my fanny.


26 posted on 01/04/2006 11:51:41 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Base. All Yours = Mine.)
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To: vox_PL; lizol

I can't imagine this is about anything other than increasing Britains Muslim population, albeit in a very small way. None of my business I suppose, but good riddance.


29 posted on 01/04/2006 4:50:53 PM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: lizol
It isn't so ridiculous in my opinion. Have you ever seen food for moos in the stores in Poland ? I haven't. They have to do that on their own, so probably proportionally many more of them
than British moos know how to do that.
30 posted on 01/04/2006 5:46:43 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: lizol

The only Polish Muslims that I've always been aware of was these guys: ;p
http://www.thepolishmuslims.com/

Then I've read this a few months back:

"The memory of John Paul II was also honored by Polish Muslims who prayed for him on the day of the funeral in Bia³ystok, Warsaw and Gdañsk. According to deputy Chairman of the Muslim Religious Association in Poland Józef Konopacki, the Association sent letters of condolence to the Polish Episcopate and the Holy See. The membership of the Association is around 5,000 Muslims-Polish citizens of Tartar descent."
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/8165

They're of Tartar descent meaning most are descentants of a Turkic-Mongoloid peoples of Eastern Europe and Central Asia who assimilated into the local populations of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Balkans later on.


31 posted on 01/04/2006 5:59:21 PM PST by apro
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To: vox_PL
and that is that there are no muslims in Poland

Strange. I'm sure I saw a mosque when I was in Warsaw.

32 posted on 01/07/2006 3:55:26 AM PST by Da_Shrimp
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To: lizol

Hopefully, the jobs will be filled by imposters who will feed the muslims pork for the next few years.


34 posted on 01/07/2006 5:38:14 AM PST by Modok
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To: vox_PL

Hi Vox, I checked with Rafal and Gosia who live in Warsaw. There's a prayer-house there rather than a full sized mosque. I distinctly remember seeing an Islamic-looking building there a few years ago, when we were visiting a Sushi restaurant.


35 posted on 01/08/2006 2:51:49 AM PST by Da_Shrimp
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To: vox_PL
Managed to find a picture of it here. Thought I must have been imagining it after too much Zubrowka!

Looks like it's just the front of the building that's been 'Islamisised'. I remember driving past it on the way to the restaurant and being surprised it was there. It's on ul. Wiertnicza.

36 posted on 01/08/2006 3:16:13 AM PST by Da_Shrimp
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