A Malaysian cafe serving halal food has been bombarded with online comments claiming the practise funds terrorism and leads to sharia law.
More than 3,000 comments have been made on the Facebook page of the Mots Cafe, a Malaysian eatery in Bunbury, about 170km south of Perth.
The comments were in response to the cafe posting an explanation of halal slaughter on its Facebook page last week.
The cafe owners had decided to explain halal after learning of a negative review telling people not to eat there because the cafe served halal food.
Some of the comments included claims Australians were being robbed of their religious freedom because they were unintentionally eating halal food because the practise is so widespread in Australia.
Other posts claimed halal slaughter funded terrorism, and the practise was inhumane because the animals were bled to death while they were fully conscious.
According to the RSPCA, under Australian regulations, all animals must be stunned before they are slaughtered under halal or non-halal methods.
But the RPSCA said there were some abattoirs that were permitted to slaughter animals without stunning them first under certain halal and kosher conditions.
Other comments on the cafe’s Facebook page were in support of the original post and defended the café from attacks by other social media users.
Others have questioned claims that slaughtering an animal by hand and uttering words of appreciation for its life funded terrorism or would lead to sharia law being implemented in Australia.
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