The term ‘halal meat’, as used these days, is one that has no Quranic support but is more a term exploited for commercial profit.

It is easy to walk away from faith
harder to climb back on board
the ship of faith as it navigates these stormy seas.
The scientific sage of this secular age
associates blind faith with barbaric ignorance
murder, in the name of God.

True faith links us to childhood innocence
to Wordsworth’s memorable aphorism
that the child is father to the man
we can, by looking deep within,
reconnect with the simple faith of childhood,
and so cast a light into the darkness of these cruel times.

Halal and Kosher, ritual means of slaughter
sanctioned by religion such savage butchery.
I am not tolerant, not of this unalloyed cruelty.
 we are in a shocking state of blue-hypocrisy
 if we let people do, as some people do.

 Look in the slaughter house
 all colours drained away, except red.
 the presiding Imam or Rabbi fades away from this unholyday.
 while I stagger away, think I’ll meet my match in the oncology
 ward.But no, that is just a cellular malfunction that afflicts me
 not cruel men with an armoury of knives and no pity. 

 Inside appalled I am that the world is so full of cruelty:
 beheadings in church doorways
 the slaughter of the innocents
 an unholy trinity: three knives, a single scripture, unalloyed butchery.
 This world can be a cold and frightening place bereft of love.

 

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