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What makes things “Halal?”

I thought that was a type of food.

I could go for a gyro about now :drool:

chicken cooking GIF
 
Ok that's new to me....... I think a little over the top there :unsure:
 
What makes things “Halal?”

I thought that was a type of food.

I could go for a gyro about now :drool:

chicken cooking GIF


It starts with food, but, extends to other products.

The simplest way to think of it is it is all but identical to Kosher. And just as a Jew cannot use pig leather, a Muslim won't either.

In this case, the Halal refers to the polish not interfering with proper hand washing before prayer.
 
What makes things “Halal?”
Think "kosher" but with regard to Muslims rather than Jews...
 
Where, in the U.S. or overseas?
Here they might listen; otherwise, money still rules.

How soon we forget:

Salman Rushdie’s stabbing is part of an American phenomenon​

I escaped the ayatollahs’ intolerance when my family left Iran. But Rushdie’s stabbing shows authors are silenced here, too.

...
Shortly after its publication, and soon before Khomeini’s death in 1989, someone had told him that the book made the Prophet Muhammad seem irreverent and insulted the prophet’s wives by naming prostitutes after them. The supreme leader issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie to be killed. Twenty countries banned the book. A Japanese translator of “Satanic Verses” was murdered and three others were attacked. Riots over the book left 45 people dead, 12 of whom perished in Rushdie’s hometown of Mumbai. Copies were burned in the streets and bookstores were firebombed.
more:
 
How soon we forget:
Let them; if they can't reform the "religion of peace" (... :LOL: ....) then screw 'em.
Not literally, of course, but still....
 

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