Vegemite turning halal - claims of Islamisation

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UKJ wrote: Some crazy contradictions in the UK as well. Supermarket checkout staff who are muslim, are allowed to refuse to serve someone who is buying alcohol.
Will the female cashiers hand you your change there? In Muslims countries I worked in, the female register staff would only drop my change on the table and not hand it to me, for fear of touching an infidel I guess.

They also had a tiny, curtained-off section of the grocery store that only had cans of pork & beans, so as not to temp good Muslims to eat pork.
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Soi Dog wrote:
UKJ wrote: Some crazy contradictions in the UK as well. Supermarket checkout staff who are muslim, are allowed to refuse to serve someone who is buying alcohol.
Will the female cashiers hand you your change there? In Muslims countries I worked in, the female register staff would only drop my change on the table and not hand it to me, for fear of touching an infidel I guess.

They also had a tiny, curtained-off section of the grocery store that only had cans of pork & beans, so as not to temp good Muslims to eat pork.
Yes, they will give you change. They can refuse to handle pork as well. And some supermarkets don't use muslims on checkouts, to get round it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... -pork.html
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UKJ wrote:Halal is how they are slaughtered, and has to be by a muslim, which imho, is discriminatory, and will let muslims take over the entire sector. The method of slaughter is against many non muslims beliefs, but they don't count, as they are only the indigenous majority!!! One muslim in a place of work , school, or even prison, can change the entire way of doing things.
What non muslim beliefs are contrary to the muslim method of slaughter? Other than, you know, vegetarians (a much more dangerous risk of 'take over' really).

And slaughter vs butcher are 2 very different things. Most slaughterhouses do VERY little butchering... putting it into some primal cuts at most. All it takes to make it halal is for a slaughter house to hire one muslim guy for killing the halal meat before it's all passed on to the butchers for processing.
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Religions perpetuate themselves by invoking mystical practices. No pork for jews and arabs? Well, pork has trichinosis and in centuries past they didn't understand micro-biology, but realized that eating pork was killing off dues paying members, so "God, Allah" decreed that members of that religion could not eat an unclean animal like a pig. (who btw has trichinosis.) Why not just have God, Allah teach you have to cook pork thoroughly to get rid of the bad Juju, well scaring the member is all about power and control.

Now explain to me the rationality of Islam putting bags over women, or is that an explanation in itself?

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Holy blessed foods also cost more and subsidize religions.
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Sailorman wrote: Now explain to me the rationality of Islam putting bags over women
I've woken up hungover next to a few chicks where this would have been a great idea...
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My neighbor back in the states was Muslim. Iranian. He ran a good blue collar type restaurant. Best Chilli I've ever tasted was his. Who would have thought? Heh. Muslims are great people. Shit is marked Kosher for the Jews, who gives a shit if it is marked Halal for our Muslim friends? Not I.
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I don't like the way animals are all slaughtered by halal Muslims or kosher Jews. For that reason I think I'll switch solely to pork.
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Soi Dog wrote: so apparently...drinking some alcohol and screwing Thai whores in Pattaya is okay, but don't eat pork kebabs while doing it, because THAT is unacceptable to Allah. :thumb:
Funny you say that. Many years ago in that same glorious city, after screwing a Russian (from Uzbekistan) hooker I offered her a drink in the downstairs bar the hotel. She had a Fanta. I asked why, she said because she was a Muslim so couldn't drink.

Hmm...
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