While the major parties are busily scheming to cut Pauline Hanson’s senate time in half, some Aussie heroes are hatching a dastardly plan of their own.
A new crowdfunding page is trying to scrape together the cash to buy the Senator-elect’s old Ipswich fish and chip shop and turn it into a pop-up Halal snack pack store. Or a kebab shop.
So far they’ve only managed to raise $125 but that’s not really the point.
The point is to, er, “make a point” after Hanson refused an election night offer from Labor’s Sam Dastyari to take her out for the chip-based Halal speciality in Sydney’s western suburbs sometime.
If you missed it, it was arguably one of the highlights of Saturday’s election coverage.
Pauline visibly squirmed at the suggestion before declaring she was”not interested in Halal” nor, apparently, befriending her future fellow senator.
The likelihood of the rather amusing campaign reaching its $100,000 target is of course slim but, happily, the store already belongs to Thanh Huong Huynh and her husband Huong Van Nguyen — a friendly Vietnamese couple who came to Australia seeking asylum more than two decades ago.
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Gotta have a petition/crowdfunding for everything these days...
Yes people expressing that they do not wish to eat halal must be made to pay, irrespective of their reasons, the conscious state of the animals when slaughtered is the issue for many, for others its a combination of factors. This, I don't care why you have a different view support what I support or else attitude is the same stuff that will get Trump elected.
I can pretty much guarantee that Pauline eats halal every day. Veggies are halal. Fruit is halal. Cheese is halal. Bread is halal. It's only meat that has anything special done to it in order to make it halal.
And if your objection to halal is the slaughtering practices (something I have not heard Pauline talk about anyway), then I hope to hear you screaming just as loudly about kosher food - the slaughtering practices are very similar, if not exactly the same. But the fact that there is no uproar about kosher food tells me exactly what the true objection is for most of these anti-halal campaigners.
Yes, you will be called anti Semitic and compared to Hitler, but it's ok to bash the muslims
There is a lot more to Kosher than the way animals are slaughtered.
I always wonder if all these people that claim to be against halal because of the slaughtering practices are also against live animal exports. These animals are often going to places where they will not be slaughtered humanly. But that's ok because there's a quick buck to be made...