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Aieeee!
Even in the supermarket, delicate Muslim sensibilities require discrimination against non-Muslims. To keep a Muslim child from being defiled by picking up a can of pork, Muslims in Brunei are asking that products for non-Muslims be hidden away. From BruDirect, with thanks to Nicolei:
Members of the public particularly shoppers in a prominent supermarket in Kuala Belait are expressing discontent over the arrangements of “non-halal” foods which are placed not far from the daily needs items of Muslim customers at the supermarket.A number of customers here stated that the arrangements of food for non-Muslims at the stated shop are placed near essential products such as soaps and detergents and next to daily use items such as tissue paper and other goods.
One customer who refused to be named stated that the racks on which are placed the non-halal foods should be moved far away from aisle frequented by Muslim customers.
The customer said that on one occasion his 7-year-old daughter was at the said supermarket to buy instant noodles when she unknowingly picked up a can from the rack to ask him about its contents.
"I was shocked to see that the word ‘pork’ was inscribed on the can that she was holding. The can was taken from a rack which was placed just across the rack from which I took the instant noodles," he claimed.
He had pointed out the matter to the workers there, but till now the problem remains.
When the supermarket was visited again, it was found that racks containing a number of canned and plastic packaged foods for non-Muslims were still placed alongside racks holding washing soaps and tissues, and facing the rack displaying varieties of instant noodles.
The shop owner should have understood the situation surrounding the community and is advised to consider the full interests of the customers, particularly in terms of sale item arrangements.
Posted by Robert at February 29, 2004 7:59 AM
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What insanity is this???!!! Jews shop in regular supermarkets all the time and would NEVER make such a request!! And if a Jewish child were to pick up something not kosher, the mother would just tell the child it's not kosher and bring it back! THIS IS INSANE!! Even here in Israel, there are 'macolets' (grocery stores) which carry 'treif' (non-kosher) food items. We just check the package to see if it has a kosher stamp on it.
Posted by: Chaya Eitan at February 29, 2004 8:42 AMIt's just the Islamic Victimhood Syndrome manifesting itself again.
Someone points out violence in the Quran and Hadith? It's bigotry against the "Perfect Religion".
Israel erects a fence to keep out suicide bombers? It's a "Zionist Holocaust".
Muslim nations grow poor because of pathetic education standards? It's the West keeping the believers down.
Remember the words of Mahathir Mohamed and others, who acknowledge and affirm the concepts of Muslim Victimhood. How else can you scapegoat the hated upper class? Marxist-Leninists used the same concept to fuel their bloodshed.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 29, 2004 9:37 AMJust so you know, similar demands have been made of grocery stores in Muslim neighborhoods in the US and Europe. In fact, stores have been vandalised and boycotted until all pork products have been removed.
A children's clothing chain in the UK was picketed and harassed by Muslims because it sold clothing and toys depicting the Winnie-the-Pooh character, Piglet.
Pubs in the UK are constantly pressured to close down if a mosque moves into the neighborhood.
A hospital in Norway had to take down a children's nursery mural that depicted a cartoon pig.
Malaysia was considering legislation which required non-Muslims to get any Muslim neighbors' permission before buying a dog (not sure if this was passed or not.)
Yet another example of how "tolerant" Islam is toward other people's cultures. Not.
Posted by: Susan at February 29, 2004 4:25 PMIf pork really is so unclean, that even touching it will damn them, this suggests a golden opertunity.
All buildings can be made terrorist proof by a fence made of strings of sausages.
They are trying to assimilate us. I can't believe that stores and other institutions in the United States would be expected to cave in to this type of emotional extortion. Religious totalitarianism!
Posted by: epg at March 5, 2004 6:16 AM
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