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Fairview meat mix-up upsets Muslim community
Halifax Chronicle-Herald ^ | August 19, 2014 | Brett Bundale

Posted on 08/19/2014 9:06:11 AM PDT by Loyalist

Confusion about what constitutes halal meat sparked a blunder at a community barbecue in Fairview on Saturday.

After failing to provide halal meat, event organizers tried to remedy the oversight by having a local politician bless regular hotdogs.

Patricia Arab, Liberal MLA for Fairview-Clayton Park, said a prayer over the hotdogs, mistakenly thinking this would make the meat halal.

Meat that is halal, which means “permissible” in Arabic, is prepared following precise instructions detailed in the Qur’an.

A halal animal must be healthy and fed a natural diet that does not contain animal byproducts. When it’s slaughtered, it is blessed and the blood must be drained from the body.

Ibrahim Alshanti, the imam of United Muslims of Halifax, said he appreciates that the event organizers tried to accommodate Muslims.

But he said in the end, they made the situation worse. “They should have just said that halal meat was not available and people would have understood,” Alshanti said in an interview Monday.

“But having someone say a prayer over regular hotdogs made the situation worse because it’s like making a joke of the issue. I think it would be nice if (Arab) could apologize.”

The MLA was not available for comment Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at herald.ns.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: halal; halifax; hotdogs; islam; novascotia
What gets me is that Ms. Arab is a woman of Lebanese Christian ancestry, who should full well know how little love there is lost between Muslim and Christian Arabs, and just how her gesture would have been received. There is no limit to suicidal stupidity, unfortunately.
1 posted on 08/19/2014 9:06:11 AM PDT by Loyalist
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To: Loyalist

Are these the same Moslems that came out in heavy protest against ISIS killing and committing genocide in Iraq that targeted Christians?


2 posted on 08/19/2014 9:08:14 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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event organizers tried to remedy the oversight by having a local politician bless regular hotdogs.

So some hack politician blesses hotdogs?? Pure comedy gold.

3 posted on 08/19/2014 9:09:48 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Loyalist

I hear you can get halal meat fairly reliably in the Middle East.

Hint, hint, know what I mean?


4 posted on 08/19/2014 9:09:59 AM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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Mmmmmmmm ..... Hamammed!

5 posted on 08/19/2014 9:10:13 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FREE REPUBLIC: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: DannyTN

Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!


6 posted on 08/19/2014 9:11:25 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Loyalist

just serve them Hebrew National.


7 posted on 08/19/2014 9:11:32 AM PDT by PAR35
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Because orthodox muslims demand their meat be perfectly halal at all times:


8 posted on 08/19/2014 9:12:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FREE REPUBLIC: Bring a FRiend!)
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Porc? We can feed them porc? Or is that croc they should be fed?

Either way, they sully ALL food just by eating it, then regurgitating all the base opinions they have of everybody else.


9 posted on 08/19/2014 9:13:28 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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They live to be upset!


10 posted on 08/19/2014 9:15:56 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Suicidal stupidity is right. And worse, many are totally oblivious to the fact their stupidity puts us in harm’s way as well.


11 posted on 08/19/2014 9:16:35 AM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: DannyTN

My thoughts too. It’s much better to come here though and force ‘uneducated’ meat packing firms to provide Halal meat rather than just getting it in the Middle East where you used to live.


12 posted on 08/19/2014 9:24:19 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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Fairview meat mix-up upsets Muslim community


13 posted on 08/19/2014 9:27:53 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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There is NOTHING that Ms. Arab could have done to make that situation right. Anything she tried would have been criticized.

My advice to Ms. Arab: At future events simply state that halal meat will not be available.

14 posted on 08/19/2014 9:38:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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I am of the opinion that a warning label should be applied to any halal meat as it has been sacrificed to other gods and as a Christian, I am taught to not eat such things.

Acts 15:29

You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.

1 Corinthians 10:20-21

...the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

Revelation 2:20

Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.


15 posted on 08/19/2014 9:45:32 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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Most hot dogs contain pork.

The thought of serving halal hot dogs makes this story all the more entertaining.

Does this town have a Kosher Rib Festival too?


16 posted on 08/19/2014 9:49:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hebrew National all-beef kosher hot dogs.

And there’s some excellent barbecued brisket recipes out there too.


17 posted on 08/19/2014 10:35:04 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Loyalist

How do you know if it’s Halal or not? Does is look different when cooked?

FU Muzzies assholes.


18 posted on 08/20/2014 9:18:58 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Loyalist

What doesn’t upset the Muslim community.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 9:20:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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