No ham for Christmas: Muslim menu for WA hospital

Sunday Times (Australia) ^ | 12/18/05 | Trevor Paddenburg

[Petronski]

After all, them Muslims are better than Jews; they don't scr@w animals before slaughter.

You read his post backwards.

Or maybe I should say:

Backwards post his ready you.

[devolve]

[taxesareforever]

The world is rolling over in favor of muslims. Now I know education has failed because either they didn't teach history or the students were just plain stupid.

[gogogodzilla]

D-oh! Too much Star Wars makes Gogogodzilla read funny.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[gogogodzilla]

Please disregard my first message.

I read your post backwards.

[Hank Rearden]

The patients need to order in a few racks of baby backs.

Screw the Moos.

[TheCrusader]

"Sunday Times (Australia) ^ | 12/18/05 | Trevor Paddenburg
By TREVOR PADDENBURG 18dec05 ~
"A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended."

This is why the WOT is still going on. With an actual war mentality the West could wrap it up in six months. And this is why it will continue on for a looong time to come. They capture Westerners and cut our heads off, we capture them and extend a sympathetic heart towards their sensibilities about ham. I wonder if the Aussies have obtained special chefs for their captive islamic terrorists? This is the stuff of Saturday Night Live, not a recipe for victory.

[pops88]

We've always had duck for Christmas, but I think this year we'll have ham, too.

[The Worthless Miracle]

Actually, my the muslim guy's wife was supposed to get a "halal" turkey for thanksgiving. However, it was a long drive and expensive, so they got a normal turkey and didn't tell him... (He's still alive, by the way).

[expatguy]

This is now happening in the States as well you can be assured.

I predicted this would happen back in 2001 here at FR - and was told by many FReepers that it would never happen.

LOL - This is just the beginning.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[EBH]

Actually, I sort of like that idea 'cept a few Freepers might extend some Christmas Cheer to the patients and have Christmas Hams Dinners delivered to the hospital! Now that would be funny...watching them hospital folk scramble about 'who ordered ham?'

[MarkL]

I was once hospitalized for 4 days during Passover (I'm Jewish) in a Catholic hospital in NY. I was informed that they could serve me Kosher food while I was there, if they liked, and I accepted. It wasn't Kosher for Passover, though, but I never mentioned it, simply because I was so thankful to the staff for their thoughtfulness. On the second day of my stay, a priest and one of the hospital administrators came in to my room with a CASE of matzoh, and apologised for NOT getting me the "right" Kosher food!

I was completely overcome by this, and told them how touched I was that they had gone out of their way in the first place to try to be sure that I was being taken care of, and that there was NO reason in the world that they should feel bad or apologize to me. I couldn't believe how far they went out of their way, on their own accord, to try to accomodate me, even though there was no reason for them to do so.

It never occured to me that I should DEMAND that the hospital not serve pork, or I might be offended!

Mark

[MarkL]

Make it Kosher too. Gosh, why hasn't the Hosptial gone Kosher long before should signal a racist vien in the ruling body of this organization.

Because Jews typically don't go on murderous rampges and saw peoples' heads off, or gang rape women in the streets when they "get offended."

Maybe that's been our problem all along!

Mark

[MarkL]

Actually, i think it is like that. One of my friends' family memebers married a muslim from Tunisia (God knows why), they have to go to a special butcher. He won't even allow pork in his house!

Neither do Orthodox Jews (or other Jews who keep strictly Kosher). In fact, they will not allow any non-kosher foods in, or anything that might have animal byproducts in them, that aren't Kosher. Which is why you'll find Kosher soap (due to some soaps having animal fat), and pet food! And they will only buy meats at a Kosher butcher shop.

It's believed that the "traife" (non-Kosher) foods will ritually contaminate any surfaces or utensils that it comes into contact with. Meaning that if you put a ham sandwich on a plate, that plate can no longer be used by a Jew who keeps Kosher, at least until it's been ritually "cleaned." And no, just sticking it in a dishwasher doesn't cut it! lol.

Mark

[MarkL]

OOPS!

I was informed that they could serve me Kosher food while I was there, if they liked if I liked, and I accepted.

Mark

[Former Dodger]

Thank you, and a Merry Christmas to you, too!

[MrBambaLaMamba]

...Port Hedland Regional Hospital staff and many non-Muslim patients are outraged...

Only outraged?
When they become 'offended' can they start sawing off heads?

[SauronOfMordor]

I dare not imagine the halal method of butchering meat. I suppose it begins with facing the poor animal toward the East...and there is a large knife involved...

I'll give you a hint -- their method of executing prisoners comes from their way of butchering meat. The symbolism is deliberate

[SauronOfMordor]

In America we have Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish, Methodist, baptist, and Mormon hospitals. I'd imagine that in Australia theree similar variations. Are there no muslim hospitals? Come to think of it, I don't think there are any in the US.

For there to be a Muslim hospital, you would need some wealthy Muslims to decide that using money to endow such a hospital would be a better use of money than spending it to fund Jihad. Since such a thought is obviously un-Islamic, no such hospitals are built

[Sender]

I still can't watch the beheading videos, they are just too gruesome. So they are symbolizing butchering meat? Well if they come over here, this meat bites.