THE INCREASINGLY paranoid antics of racist right-wingers claiming Muslims are getting ready to take over America and institute sharia law are, sadly, not uncommon this election season.
But now they've hit a new low: attacking companies that make or sell Halal products, the term for food products that conform to Muslim dietary laws, including guidelines for slaughtering and prohibiting pork. (Halal dietary laws share many features with Kosher dietary laws.)
Right-wing Islamophobes are now up in arms over the fact that Campbell's Canada--the soup company--has a line of Halal-certified vegetarian soups.
Pamela Geller--a leader in the fight against the Islamic community center slated for near Ground Zero, and an open admirer of Dutch fascist Geert Wilders and right-wing street thugs such as the English Defense League--is now calling for a boycott of the company.
According to Talking Points Memo's Rachel Slajda, the bigots apparently think sharia law is coming to get us via the supermarket:
"M-m-good for the Islamists. Not so yummy for the rest of us," reads the blog of Scaramouche, which broke the news Tuesday, some eight months after Campbell's launched the line.
Robert Spencer, who writes Jihadwatch.org and has been saying for years that ISNA is tied to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,* quickly echoed the alarm.
"So why is Campbell's Soup rushing to do its bidding?" Spencer wrote on Tuesday. "'M-M-Muslim Brotherhood Good?'"...
The Tea Party Nation is on board, too, tweeting today," Campbell's now making Muslim approved soups. Mmmmm Mmmmm not good. No more campbells for me."
A Facebook group created just Tuesday called "Boycott Campbell Soup" already has almost 2,000 members. Members who leave messages like [sic]: "This is yet another example of just how dangerous creeping shariah is to Western Civilization, Democracy and all freedom loving peoples. There are stages to the islamization of non-islamic countries...This is just another way that terrorism and it's sponsors are insinuating themselves into our culture, Terrorists are NOT freedom fighters they are murderous thugs and I will not pay money for soup or any other product that supports, aids or abetts their tactics. Hope someone puts a list out of all of Campbell's affiliates."
The blog Creeping Sharia notes that Kellogg UK has Halal-certified cereals and asks, "Are their U.S. products secretly Halal?"
