Jews and Muslims Fight for Religious Freedom Together

With both antisemitism and Islamophobia on the rise in Europe, the Jewish and Muslim communities should take this rare opportunity to stand together to halt this trend. ...The ECHR judgment, its first on the issue, followed a legal challenge by several Belgian nationals and organizations representing the Muslim and Jewish communities, arguing that Flemish decrees in the North and Walloon ones in the South – mandating that all animals slaughtered for human consumption be killed only after proper stunning procedures to limit animal suffering and promote humane slaughtering practices – violate their freedom of religion. The bans, imposed in the two regions in 2017, were the result of a lengthy campaign by animal welfare activists.