Okay, this is totally random. Maybe it’s just that I am not British and it’s otherwise not amusing.
geertgreat asks:
will you boycott all dominos pizza………..
…….now that one of its stores has gone halal?Farmer_Fred replies:
Oi wooddn’t goo tew enny o’ them thar playces, lood o’ rubbish. Burger King, or shood oi say Bogie Burgers, ar even werse, soo oi woodn’t goo there oither.
But besides that, that’s quite a xenophobic question to begin with, wow! I would be upset myself if someone suggested a place be boycotted just for being also Kosher.
Sounds like these people don’t even know what halal means. Sounds like they think it means “lace the food with something strange”!
PS:how did I mispell Amusing? fixed.
To the ‘readers’ of The Sun (it’s mostly pretty pictures and sports), halal = muslim. And their racist, stereotypical and prejudice will cloud their understanding of most things that isn’t football, beer and women.
Thing is there’s a bit difference…
Kosher is just meat/food that is “allowed” to eat, kosher actually means allowed or approved. Jewish is not “allowed” to eat certain things to keep their purity, meat that has been frozen for instance isn’t kosher.
Halal is the word for everything that is allowed in the Islamic religion, much like Kosher.
What people react against is the halal slaughter. For meat to be “halal” the only way to slaughter is is by cutting it’s throat with a knife (of-course the animal can’t be sedated, it won’t be halal then).
So there’s a slight difference, and I dare to say that there’s no racism involved.
Gunnar: close but you’re incorrect about Kosher.
All things “allowed” is what is commonly thought of by non observant Jews about what Kosher means.
Kosher is only related to food, and there are different rules for different types of food. Some have to do with what’s allowed, other has to do with how food is handled, and yet other how it is, well, slaughtered.
Meat is allowed to be frozen. Plus kosher meat has to also be slaughtered in the ritual manner. Actually very much like Islam, and in fact that is how Islam came to have a very similar slaughter ritual. For Jews the method is supposed to be the least painless way to the animal (plus the goal is to get all/as much of the blood out so that it is not eaten). There are disagreements on sedation, stunning, and so on. But overall from what I know of Halal meat, it’s almost the same way as Kashrut laws.
PS: not an expert here.