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SWEDEN: Halal or Haram? A new council gives advice to Muslims in Sweden
The newly-formed Swedish Fatwa Council sets out to help Muslims in Sweden seeking advice about how to live in accordance with Islam, but not everyone is convinced the group is necessary, The Local's Karen Holst discovers.
UNITED KINGDOM: Raven releases Halal certified rubber Boot and rubber Apron for the food industry
Raven Safety footwear range is unique as it is entirely eco-friendly. Their range also includes a pure natural rubber boot collection with a totally new item: for the first time a food industry compliant boot and apron Halal Certified
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UNITED KINGDOM: Jon Bellamy spoke with the Barnabas Fund
In recent months it's come to light that a number of supermarkets have been selling Halal meat without telling unsuspecting shoppers. The Supermarkets included Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and M&S. Halal food is a new concept for many in the UK. Halal literally means permissible. To make meat Halal, it has to be from an animal killed and prepared in accordance with Sharia, including Islamic prayer over the meat by a Muslim butcher.
RUSSIA: ICD offers Islamic finance study tours to Russian, CIS officials
The intellectual argument for and the demystification of Islamic finance has gained much ground in Russia and the CIS countries over the last two years, but the political decision makers and bureaucracy, especially the banking regulatory authorities, still need to be convinced about the role an alternative Islamic system of financial management can play, especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As such, Islamic finance in the region is at best a work in progress but the task ahead remains huge.
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FRANCE: France to enforce Muslim veil ban from April
France will start enforcing a ban next month on full Islamic face veils, officials said on Thursday, meaning any veiled woman can be summoned to a police station and asked to remove her face-covering or pay a fine.
FRANCE: French Muslims Confused Over Halal Restrictions
The news suspended forks on their way to mouths, and sent supermarkets rushing to pull goods from shelves. Last month, the website Débat Halal claimed it had evidence that a popular brand of Halal-certified poultry sausages marketed in France by a giant international food producer actually contain pork, rendering them forbidden — or haram — to Muslims. The accusation led many French Muslims to question how they can be sure that any of the Halal food they buy meets certification standards — only to discover that no single set of standards exists for determining which products are Halal and which aren't. Now, some observers are hoping that the haram hubbub may finally push France's Muslim leaders to agree upon a united code for the Halal food sector — one of the biggest-booming niche markets in the nation.
BELGIUM: A European Standard on Halal food?
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) set up a Working Group to analyse the feasibility of a European Standard on Halal food. Its first meeting was held late October 2010 by the Austrian Standards Institute in Vienna.
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ITALY: Islam inspires Turkish designer in Milan debut
As he put the finishing touches to his first collection for Milan Fashion Week, Turkish-born Erkan Coruh spoke to AFP about finding his inspiration from Islamic dresses and his native Istanbul.
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LONDON: London is beating New York to the punch in Islamic finance
The cavernous ballroom of a London hotel is buzzing with the sound of networking and deal making between hundreds of bankers, lawyers and investors from the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The annual Islamic Finance conference in the British capital has grown exponentially over the past decade, attracting all the key international players and underscoring fears that political rhetoric is leaving the United States sidelined in an increasingly lucrative global industry.
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LONDON: It’s not the Halal you expected
Some allege that the increasing prevalence of Halal foods in the West is a campaign to implement Shariah law by stealth. But in reality, it’s an example of the kind of integration that everyone has been dreaming of.