Muammar Al Khadafi

By a large majority of 116 to 30 the Dutch Parliament has voted to pass a bill which would see religious slaughter banned in the country.

The bill, which would see halal and shechita slaughter outlawed, has seemingly united Jews and Muslims in condemnation, with - no shock - the Nazis getting dragged in when the countries Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said that :

"The very fact that there is a discussion about this is very painful for the Jewish community. Those who survived the war remember the very first law made by the Germans in Holland was the banning of the Jewish way of slaughtering animals"

The nightmare aberration which was the Nazis cannot be forever used as a brush to tar the entire peoples of the West for all time to come, and the Nazis have no relevance whatsoever to the current debate.

The numbers involved - 40,000 Dutch Jews compared to an astonishing 1,000,000 'Dutch' Muslims, may be suggestive of why these methods of slaughter have become such a burning issue of late.

When uniting with Islam to condemn bills such as this the Jewish community might like to reflect on the great tolerance shown them previously, and how the issue arose as a result of mass Muslim colonisation of the West, not because of some imagined antisemitism. One sees very few Jews attempting to force their way of life and their faith upon the rest of us, but the same cannot be said for Islam.

Islam in the West may seem an ally to the Jews for now, but Islams opinions on Jews will not change, it is merely a marriage of convenience that the Jewish community has allowed itself to be drawn into. Simply put, without the mass encroachment of Islam into Western civilisation the Jewish populace would have been left alone to mind their own business and not have been caught up in legislation such as this.

But, just what the passing of this bill will achieve remains to be seen.

It still needs to be approved by the Dutch Upper Parliament.

The European Convention on Human Rights is already being mentioned, with Henk Blekers, deputy secretary of economic affairs and agriculture, saying that the cabinet would "look at how it fits with freedom of religion" and citing the Human Rights Convention.

A last minute amendment gives religious groups a year to prove that these forms of slaughter do not cause the animal more pain.

"They (livestock) stay conscious for up to 5 minutes. They lose a lot of blood and they can choke on their own blood and the cut should be one time, but research shows that with kosher slaughter (they are cut) on average 3.5 times, and with halal 5.5 times" said Karen Soeters of the Party for Animals to Al Jazeera.

We'll see if animal rights, and the rights of the West, win this one, or religious rights triumph.

In the end, despite the probably misplaced optimism surrounding this bill, it is most probable that nothing will change. At some point, for some reason, it will be changed, or dropped, or blocked, and religious slaughter will continue.

Even if it comes into law, what does it change?

Imports of halal will continue, and mass Muslim colonisation will continue. Like Frances burka ban, however well intentioned, it will do nothing other than grab a few headlines until a future Muslim majority in the West choose to reverse it. When that day arrives the Jews may well wish they had picked their allies far more carefully, Islams many centuries of hate will merely have been held in check until the Muslims choose to drop the mask.

Bills such as this tackle a symptom only, they do nothing to stop the Islamic colonisation of the West. We spend years debating things like this, and getting some token legislation passed, and all the while we are getting ever closer to Europes Islamic future where the indigenous, and those such as the Jewish communities, will be afforded no say at all.

Islam will rule, everyone elses voices will be subordinate to that of Allah - or at least those of his representatives - and instead of attempting to change that we will have spent all our time arguing over what is effectively trivia.

Meanwhile, in the UK, for the second year running the Meat Trades Journal will be running the Halal Butcher of the Year award. At least the Dutch are trying.