“They threaten my identity,” said Ravi Ranjan Singh. “...Halal is not just meat, it is everywhere...These are economic black holes which lead to economic slavery. Non-Muslims are being deprived of employment. We will all be slaved.”
Singh is 50 years old, a resident of Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, a former journalist, and a champion for “jhatka” meat – where an animal is slaughtered instantly with a single stroke of a sword or axe. Preferred by Sikhs and some Khatiks in Punjab, it’s recently become part of a discourse pushing back against Islamic practices, such as halal meat.
