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Halal certification in Australia began in 1974. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) was initially recommended by a 1974 delegation from Saudi Arabia, as the "sole authority in Australia to certify that meat had been killed in accordance with Islamic rites" for Muslims in Australia. [19]
Islam is the second-largest religion in Australia. According to the 2021 Census in Australia, the combined number of people who self-identified as Australian Muslims, from all forms of Islam, constituted 813,392 people, or 3.2% of the total Australian population. [1][2] That total Muslim population makes Islam, in all its denominations and ...
Islam in Australia. The Islamic Council of Queensland ( ICQ ), established in 1969, an Australian Muslim organisation acting as the central representative body for the Muslim community and local Islamic organisations in Queensland, Australia. [ 1][ 2] The Council provides a number of social and religious services for Muslims in the area.
In Australia, halal food certification has been criticized by groups who claim that certifying foods as halal leads to consumers subsidizing a particular religious belief. [51] Australian Federation of Islamic Councils spokesman Keysar Trad told a journalist in July 2014 that this was an attempt to exploit anti-Muslim sentiments in Australia. [52]
The AFIC is one of Australia's top four halal accreditation certifiers with AFIC having strict rules with regards to Islamic slaughter for animals and for chickens. [21] In February 2017 it was reported that a group of former AFIC members had staged a coup, opened a new bank account and were collecting and spending halal certification fees ...
Halal certification is mostly used for meats, with halal certification reported to cost meat processors up to $27,000 a month. Halal certification generates up to $1 million a year revenue for the AFIC. Mohamed El-Mouelhy, chairman of Halal Certification Authority Australia, has said that halal certification has, "made me a millionaire".
v. t. e. The Islamic Research and Educational Academy (IREA; اکادمی برائے تعلیم و تحقیقَ اسلامی) is an independent Islamic dawah organisation based in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria. [5] It is Sunni -based and says, "We use religion to unite, where others may seek to use it to divide". It is led by Waseem Razvi.
Halal meat is meat of animal slaughtered according to Quran and Sunnah and thus permitted for consumption by Muslims . Halal meat market is the segment of much bigger food market, which offers goods that can be deemed as halal. In the case of meat, the qualification of halal addresses the practice of slaughter, and it is therefore comparable to ...