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Chicago Sun-Times -- Muslim jailed in lamb's slaughter: "I had to kill it before it died. If it dies you can't eat it. I'd have to just throw it away," Alawi said.

That's at least $100 worth of meat Alawi didn't want to lose. So he took out a sharp knife, slit the animal's throat and got ready to take the animals to the butcher shop.

That's when dozens of police cars showed up. "It was crazy," he said. "Like I killed someone." Alawi spent the next eight hours in a police lockup. Alawi said he asked to be released from his handcuffs.

The officer who arrested him refused. She asked Alawi what it feels like to be "tied up like a lamb," Alawi said.

"I said, 'I am not a lamb . . . I am a man, you know,' " Alawi said. "I tied up lamb, otherwise they move in car . . . they can get away."

A police spokesman declined to comment.