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First non-Muslim school to serve strict Halal food

A school has become the first non-Islamic primary in Britain to get strict accreditation for serving Halal food, it emerged yesterday.

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Birmingham mosques come out against Halal machine slaughtering

Mosques in Birmingham have called for consumers and processors to be made more of aware of machine slaughtering used in Halal meat production.

 

East Lancashire primary school becomes first credited by Halal organisation

An East Lancashire primary school has become the first in the UK to be credited by the Halal Monitoring Committee.

 

Racism and beef burgers

French politicians say the company is breaching the country’s secular tradition. In eight restaurants Quick is serving only beef from cows slaughtered in accordance with Islamic practice and all pork products have been removed.

 

Halal meat in fast food outlets

One of the most popular fast-food chains in France, Quick, has taken pork off the menu at eight of its restaurants, transforming them to Halal-only (Islamic food) outlets

 

Halal food industry

Plans are underway to build a £150m Super Halal Industrial Park in South Wales, potentially creating up to 3,000 jobs, reports claim.

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Halal Burgers? Another French Brouhaha over Islam

Perhaps it's time for France to take a deep breath. First the country went through histrionics as parliamentarians bustled to ban the niqab — the face-covering garment that only a few hundred Muslim women wear in this nation of 65 million people. Then came President Nicolas Sarkozy's push for a debate on national identity, a move that critics claimed stigmatized immigrants and Muslims. Now France is demonstrating what looks like a neurotic obsession with Islam — if not outright Islamophobia — as it frets over the Halal hamburgers that are sold in a handful of the 362 French affiliates of Franco-Belgian fast-food chain Quick.

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Takaful Ikhlas Named Best Takaful Provider at Euromoney Awards Ceremony

Takaful Ikhlas Sdn Bhd was named the "Best Takaful Provider" at the recent Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards 2010. Organised by financial magazine, Euromoney, the awards ceremony was held at the Landmark Hotel in London.

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Islamic finance missing some opportunities

Islamic banking executives have a proposal for their bonus-addled Western counterparts: Take a look at our model. Beyond interest-free banking -- a prospect that would likely win few proponents in London or New York -- executives from the world of Islamic finance argued at a conference Tuesday that world markets weary of excessive risk and wealth imbalances should welcome ethical standards of investment based on religious tenants of fairness and transparency.

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Asya Bank makes mark in cards

Following the restructuring of the Turkish Banking Act in 2007, which brought the licensing and regulation of Turkey's so-called interest-free (Islamic banks) under the comprehensive new banking law, on a par with their conventional counterparts, there have been signs that these banks are now becoming more ambitious especially in their activities abroad.

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