Why is this even a story? Would the Mirror, or any of the other “news” outlets that have run variations of the article below, publish an article about an observant Jewish man who was unknowingly consuming pork, or a Hindu who accidentally ate beef? Of course not. But Muslim victimhood is a big business for Islamic advocacy groups in both the UK and the US, and in the absence of genuinely victimized Muslims, a Muslim eating the wrong sandwich because of a careless ingredient listing will have to do. If Allah is really compassionate and merciful, he’ll overlook Khalid Qadeer’s inadvertent transgression, but that possibility is nowhere mentioned.
Several years ago, Pamela Geller and I met with USDA officials and presented a petition to them asking that they require that halal products be labeled as such, for the benefit of people who objected to halal food for humanitarian, religious, or other reasons. Ultimately the USDA never got back to us and ignored our petition. But this incident will almost certainly lead to requirements in the UK that any trace amount of alcohol, no matter how small, must be included on ingredient listings.
“Mr Qadeer said white wine vinegar is ‘like a nut allergy’ for many Muslims as they have ‘zero tolerance’ towards it.”
No, it isn’t “like a nut allergy.” Muhammad says in a hadith that “a believer eats in one intestine, whereas a non-believer eats in seven intestines” (Sahih Muslim 2062), but in reality Muslims and non-Muslims are not physiologically different. Muslims do not, contrary to claims, generally get sick from eating pork or a negligible amount of alcohol. This preposterous claim is simply an attempt to advance the Muslim victimhood narrative still farther.
By the way, I myself have a nut allergy, and thus would break out in hives if I ever met Khalid Qadeer.
“Muslim man discovers Pret sandwich he has been eating for 12 years is not halal,” by Latifa Yedroudj, Mirror, August 13, 2019:
A Muslim man has discovered the Pret A Manger sandwich he has been eating for 12 years is not halal.
Khalid Qadeer, who works as a tax adviser in London, is a frequent customer at the food chain and would always opt for its signature tuna baguette sandwich.
However, the tax adviser was shocked to find out the sandwich contained white wine vinegar, after noticing the ingredient listed on a new printed label.
White wine vinegar is not considered halal in Islam.
Despite that, the ingredient is also not listed on fridge labels in store.
Pret has come under fire in recent months over the deaths of two customers who suffered allergic reactions from consuming the restaurant’s food.
They have since placed new labels containing a full list of ingredients on all Pret food products – and Mr Qadeer has slammed Pret for failing to mention white wine vinegar as a listed ingredient until now.
Mr Qadeer said white wine vinegar is “like a nut allergy” for many Muslims as they have “zero tolerance” towards it.
He told Metro.co.uk: “Being a Muslim I can’t consume anything with alcohol. And there’s probably thousands of Muslims who buy products from Pret.
“As most people know, some Muslims drink alcohol and the rest, but there is a certain percentage that will have a “oh what the f***” moment here.”
He added: “I’ve worked in the City for the last 12 years as a tax adviser and I would have never bought the product had I known.”…
mike9a says
…but raping and visiting whore is considered halal! And it is on a label as well: quran!, the hate manual.
gravenimage says
Yep.
revereridesagain says
It’s not an allergy. It’s a superstition. Eating something in spite of a severe allergy will kill you. All eating a sandwich with something not “halal” in it will do is demonstrate the foolishness of your mystical fantasies.
Roger says
Once I bought a hot cross bun without across on it. I’m absolutely traumatised since then.
tedh754 says
I consider Islam to be haram
CRUSADER says
THAT’S funny !!
J D S says
Hey Ted haram????… I believe a better word would be ….Harm!
cfprcy says
I live in a small university town in Canada. Several of the professors are jewish but they never demanded kosher products from our supermarket. Recently 3 syrian families settled here, but they immediately demanded halal products, which are now offered for them. And they asked and obtained separate times for women at the pool. A bunch of obscurantist fanatics!
Older Canadian says
And the whole community is ok with this? Food choice is one thing, does not affect anyone, but public pool restrictions isn’t fair to 50% of the population in a democracy.
gravenimage says
Not surprised.
icefalcon says
You have to fight the pool policy. I did. Several years ago, a park district in a Chicago suburb had the same problem. I had a (very heated) exchange in the local Letters to the Editor. I backed up the park manager who was being called an Islamophobe. He later contacted me to thank me for providing reasons why the park shouldn’t change its policy…..the Muslims backed down.
CogitoErgoSum says
He’s going to be sent to Hell for sure now. What can he do to be forgiven for committing such a horrible sin repeatedly for so long? Come on, man. It would not be a sin unless you knew what you were doing was wrong and you willingly chose to do it anyway. It’s just ridiculous to think of it in any other way. What verse in the Quran clearly forbids the ingestion of all alcohol anyway?
Rarely says
He may have to gargle with camel urine for a month.
CogitoErgoSum says
Now that’s funny. 🙂
gravenimage says
Brilliant!
CRUSADER says
Ask Islamic poet Rumi about alcohol….
But don’t let an Islamist explain Rumi to you!
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/04/what-was-rumi-talking-about-201441816134209701.html
Sorry to ruin this, but when you read poetry by Jalal al-Din Rumi or any other Sufi figure’s poems, the wine is not literal, and Layla is not actually a woman.
It is quite a depressing realisation to witness great Sufis such as Rumi become reduced to drunkards raving about their current love partners or unable to get over losing their past ones. This is precisely what modern pop culture’s misappropriation of Sufi poetry about love has done.
The reason we love poetry so much is because it is a venue where we let our imaginations soar. The best poets are ones that most people can identify with in some way. Poems that speak to universal meanings can be flexible in their applications to different contexts, thus becoming a place of solace for the readers. However, this activity becomes disingenuous when the poet and the context in which he or she wrote are manipulated to suit one’s own projections. For example, Rumi’s poetry can be summarised in one line that was recorded in pre-Islamic poetry: “Verily, everything other than God is a falsehood.” But it seems that today, Rumi quotes are cited in the context of, “Verily, everything other than my girlfriend or boyfriend, including God, is a falsehood.”
The misuse of Sufi poetry is symptomatic of modern culture’s combination of materialism with self-spirituality. The theme that runs through the New Age movement is about experiencing the “Self” because it is the way to experience the “God” or “Goddess” within. As noted by Peter Pels in his 1998 article “Religion, Consumerism and the Modernity of the New Age”, the New Age emphasis on self-spirituality is rooted in late 19th or early 20th century occultism.
It is a detraditionalised form of faith that internalises religiosity, turning an individual’s reliance to be on “inner voices”, and in turn rejecting any outside authority. The Self reigns supreme in place of anything external to it. It is therefore ironic that religious Sufi symbolism, which was used to express annihilation of the Self in the presence of the Divine, is now being used to express the elation of the Self in the presence of another’s.
[A]s many Sufi poets and saints have warned, their poetry begins at the metaphoric level to indicate literal meanings other than what first comes to mind, all of which revolve around the Divine.
By worshipping the Self, the New Age movement gave rise to a form of neo-paganism, which survives through appropriation and consumption of religious symbolism. Given the individual nature of the consumption process, ultimate meanings intended from religious symbols are exchanged for relative experiences of Self-worship, which ironically render the symbols ultimately meaningless.
Moreover, given the tandem development of the New Age movement in popular culture alongside popular religion, it can be expected that popular misuse of religious symbolism will have an impact upon the religious. As religious symbols are presented outside of contexts they were created to serve within, they begin to lose their significance for the religious in an insidious way that desacralises the Sacred and grants sanctity to the secular.
The misappropriation of Sufi poetry can be seen as resulting of unfamiliarity with how Sufis made their indications. For example, the intoxication of wine refers to the loss of one’s sense of rational self in the sea of Divine Love. The tavern is the experience of being overwhelmed from being surrounded by Divine Presence. Layla is an Arabic female name that linguistically refers to the darkest night of the month, and in Sufi poetry refers to the hidden realm that lies behind outward appearances of this world.
A Sufi line of poetry that talks about becoming intoxicated from a single sip of wine served in the tavern before Layla appearing naked, is not talking about getting drunk and losing one’s mind out of love for a woman before proceeding to fulfil lustful desires after her.
The abundant use of metaphors and various rhetorical devices in Sufi poetry has polarised Muslim theologians ever since they began. Some of their statements taken literally are in direct contradiction with basic foundational beliefs and practises in Islam. This polarisation was exacerbated with Sufi symbolism that would invariably lead to misinterpretations if one were not familiar with it.
Wine, tavern, and Layla are among the recurring symbols that in popular culture are understood at the literal level first before they are taken as metaphors. However, as many Sufi poets and saints have warned, their poetry begins at the metaphoric level to indicate literal meanings other than what first comes to mind, all of which revolve around the Divine. It is interesting to note that out of fear of misappropriating their symbols, various Sufi figures have warned against reading their works without the guidance of a teacher.
It is not uncommon to find within the Sufi tradition phrases like: “We are a people of metaphors, not of literalism,” and “Metaphors for us are what literalism is for others.” For this reason Al-Ghazali (c. 1056-1111 AD) said that no one has attempted to explain the essence of what Sufis talk about except that they fall into explicit error. He also said, “Know that the wonders of the heart are outside of sensory experience.”
Hence, if one seeks to gain a closer understanding about what Rumi and other Sufi poets were talking about, they must suspend their own material and worldly projections and put such poetry in its proper metaphysical context.
In a culture of materialism and illusory appearances, Rumi and other Sufi poets’ works are meant to serve as indications that there is something more than what we experience with our senses. Their poetry was not about escapism through intoxication or loss of self-awareness for the sake of another material being. Rather, their message was to serve as reminders about the Formless Being by which all forms come into existence.
When Rumi speaks about the love of lovers, he refers not only to the love they share between each other, but about the love they both share towards the Being that transcends their beings. In this, the lovers become united as they share a common desire to transcend beyond each other’s sense of Self and Self-worship. Unless this is appreciated, the depths of Rumi’s words will not be realised, as they should, and we risk the complete loss of their significance.
gravenimage says
But don’t let an Islamist explain Rumi to you!
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So true! A lot of poetry does have symbolic elements, but the above is obviously a lot of hooey. (I say this as a published poet).
Nono says
My favourite sandwich is also not halal. Anything not halal.
In fact a few years ago I stipulated on the ubiquitous pre training day flier when asked about my dietary requirements for a conference that I wanted only meat that had not been ritually sacrificed.
Nothing was done or said at the time but maybe a year later at my appraisal this was brought up by my boss. I was lucky to keep my job. Most troubling is that I work for the UK government and the dietary request form had been sent to a central administration clerk in a different city.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Nothing was done or said at the time but maybe a year later at my appraisal this was brought up by my boss. I was lucky to keep my job.”
Incredible. Sickening.
gravenimage says
Very disturbing, Nono.
Emilie Green says
“Muslim man discovers Pret sandwich he has been eating for 12 years is not halal”
You’ve have it, pal. Your Allah is not pleased.
You are —
I’m on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I’m on the highway to hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo
Emilie Green says
“Highway to Hell” is the opening track of AC/DC’s 1979 album of the same title.
For any interested pork-eating Muslims, it’s available on youtube.
gravenimage says
Hilarious!
gravenimage says
Shock horror in the UK: Muslim discovers his favorite sandwich is not halal
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What a moron. No, this is not a story.
I’m a vegetarian. When I was at college, I often ate at a Chinese restaurant. They had a dish called “Vegetable Vegetables Soup” on the menu. Once, after I had already been enjoying this soup for a couple of years, I mentioned to the chef, who was acting as server during a slow period, how much I loved this soup, especially the broth. He told me it was so good because he used chicken broth which he made from scratch.
I was a bit taken aback–I had assumed that something called “Vegetable Vegetables Soup” would be vegetarian. But I had never asked. I also knew then–and know now–that I live in a society (even here in Berkeley) where vegetarians are a minority. I do not expect, nor do I have any reason to expect, that things are apt to be vegetarian. I continued to patronize that restaurant, which was friendly and good and economical. They were even nice enough to make me a version of that soup with vegetable broth when I asked.
I have had other experiences with ingredients that turned out to be non-veg. I consider this par for the course. I keep an eye out for this sort of thing, but I am not paranoid about it, nor do I consider getting a non-veg ingredient once in a while any sort of deliberate insult. Why would I? It’s not.
More:
“Mr Qadeer said white wine vinegar is ‘like a nut allergy’ for many Muslims as they have ‘zero tolerance’ towards it.”
No, it isn’t “like a nut allergy.”
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What tripe (pun intended). You can become terribly sick or even die if you have a nut allergy and wind up eating nuts. Not so for someone voluntarily keeping Halal–or Kosher, or vegetarian. Note that orthodox Jews and vegetarians seldom act like this.
This is Muslim supremacy, and nothing more.
Rarely says
“Vegetarian” is an old Indian word that means “bad hunter”.
Angemon says
XD
gravenimage says
🙂
Actually, the one time I went shooting–albeit many years ago–I found out that I was a pretty crack shot.
Carolyne says
Meat has its place. Right next to the mashed potatoes.
If all Muslims are allergic to wine vinegar as to nuts because they have one intestine while the rest of us have a full complement and if their reaction is that of a person allergic to nuts, all Muslims are allergic to each other as they are all nuts.
I am absolute certain that in the future no sandwich from this company will contain wine vinegar and the company President will be sent to prison where he can be indoctrinated and become a Muslim. That’s the way the UK works.
CRUSADER says
Sharp-shootin’ GravenImage,
Trump just spoke of protecting the 2nd Amendment.
One of the best ways is by CELEBRATING it.
One way of doing that is by going out to a range.
Across the board, many times women are the best shots!
Annie, git yo’ gun out !
=================
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dANsqfqwRXQ
gravenimage says
🙂
carolyne says
My husband took me to a shooting range to teach me how to shoot his 38 revolver. I shot better than he did. He never took me again.
James says
This is just another attempt to exert dominance over Western culture. Islam is not a race, and converts to Islam would not magically develop certain food allergies that correspond to halal prescriptions. Perhaps this man has some sort of psychological suggestion in his mind that leads him to feel sick if he eats some things. But why did he not feel sick before he read the label. And why is the restaurant chain obligated to be Islam-conforming? It is possible for this man to bring his lunch to work or to go to a Muslim restaurant if he is worried. Jews do not force their kosher rules on non-Jews, why should Muslims have that right? Are they better? Or more sensitive? Or maybe just trying to get non-Muslims accustomed to making concessions on everything they choose.
gravenimage says
Yes–if wine vinegar *really* made him sick, he would have felt ill for many years after eating these sandwiches–but of course he did not.
AnneCrockett says
If the imams have decided that wine vinegar is alcohol, so be it. However, vinegar made from alcohol is not alcohol; it has undergone a chemical transformation that changes alcohol to acetic acid.
Do Muslims eat bread? The yeast in bread also produces alcohol as the bread rises. Alcohol does cook out of food, but not always 100% is baked out.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, it’s an example of taking something to the point of absurdity. The Quran says to avoid wine — and that’s because it can lead to intoxication which can then weaken a person’s willpower so that he/she may commit other sins. The point is: do not get drunk. Now, how many sandwiches with vinegar as a dressing would you have to eat to become drunk? I don’t think anyone could eat that many sandwiches, if it is even possible to get drunk that way at all. The man making the complaint is being completely ludicrous. I think the Quran is crazy but not that crazy.
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims even avoid medicines containing alcohol, which obviously has *nothing* to do with intoxication.
Angemon says
12 years and not once he thought of asking for ALL the ingredients?
I know people with celiac disease. Whenever they try something new, they specifically ask the cook if it contains anything that contains gluten. And, were the guy actually allergic to whine vinegar, I’m certain he’d have asked regarding that 12 years ago. Of course, “zero tolerance” here is based on ideology, not an uncontrollable physical reaction to something usually harmless.
Angemon says
In any case, how will he make amends in allah’s eyes and ensure a place in paradise?
Enraged Kafar says
Typical Islamic hypocrisy. Raping children, animal cruelty, visit to a whore house and incestuous relationships is halal.He is a TAX advisor! Advising kafars on taxes is a joke to me. Banking and kafar ways are HARAM!!
gravenimage says
Also true. The only taxes Islam recognizes is Zakat–and the crushing Jizya for dhimmies.
Even if all his clients are Muslim his profession is Haram.
James C. says
I have some sympathy for him. But since he did not know, and had no intention of eating non-halal food, why get upset about it ? If allah knows everything, he must know that this Muslim did not deliberately eat mon-halal food, so he cannot reasonably be faulted for having done so.
SAFI says
Hey, Allah is running a tight restaurant you know! He’s busy roasting the Jews in his hellfire oven and chopping heads of Christians and other idolaters for his mixed kuffar salad. He ain’t got time to hear the excuses of glutonous Muslims who commit culinary apostacy by consuming gallons of haram vinegar.
No 72 virgins for this fool, that’s for sure! Unless he tries to atone for his gastronomic sins, through the only way provided for that purpose by Allah’s perfect cookbook, the Delicious Quran. That is by following Pr Mohammed’s acclaimed “Jihad Diet” for rapid sin loss and finally getting that hot martyr’s physique you’ve always wanted, with recipes that are based on slain infidels’ blood, combined of course with intense prayer gymnastics five times per day to burn all that extra sirk fat that’s been stored on that big blasphemous vinegar-belly.
Naram-Sin says
The fact that the sandwich tasted good should have been a big warning sign.
smooth lee says
LMAO; a good one, Mr. Spencer.
“By the way, I myself have a nut allergy, and thus would break out in hives if I ever met Khalid Qadeer.”
gravenimage says
Yes–brilliant!
Goofy says
There is nothing in the Koran which forbids consumption of wine vinegar or even alcoholic wine and spirits. So this Muslim troublemaker has demonstrated to everyone that he has no clue about what is on the inside of the Koran. As a matter of fact the (self) righteous Muslims will be served wine in their brothel paradise where they entertain themselves with large numbers of virgins and little servant boys who don’t bleed! Decent people (Kafirs) would innocently ask why they would bleed but the Muslims know better!
Ragdoll says
Boo hoo.
What about all the halal-slaughtered meat that non-muslims have to consume because there is no mandatory labelling?
I don’t want to eat halal meat, for religious and animal welfare reasons, but I know there’s no point even asking whether it’s halal because I know I won’t get a straight answer in any cafe or restaurant.
So this guy whinging about consuming trace amounts of white wine vinegar can go rot.
Rarely says
If I was he I would be ashamed to admit I was so stupid. He’s confusing his job with the restaurant’s. If they were to warn him he would accuse them of being islamophobic for presuming he was muslim and pointing it out. I wonder if someone should warn him that hamburger usually contains pork.
People like him make a career out of being offended.
James Lincoln says
Rarely says,
You stated, quite correctly, that “people like him make a career out of being offended”.
That would include the vast majority of Muslims. Easily triggered/offended – and arrogant troublemakers.
I wish that it were not so.
Kay says
Uh, is vinegar even alcohol?
It reminds me of when we couldn’t on once Ms that turkey ham isn’t ham.
Kay says
couldn’t convince
Guy Forester says
To Kay and anyone else that may not have taken a food science or basic chemistry course:
ALL edible/drinkable (by humans) alcohol that we commonly use is Ethanol. Ethanol for human consumption is made by fermentation, and may be referred to as grain alcohol. Vodka is basically ethanol and water, plus some remnants of potato fermentation. However, ethanol is also the alcohol component in wine, brandy, beer, any whiskey, and any liqueur. Vinegar is produced from any ethanol containing product, and is made by alcohol being degraded into acetic acid. So, “white vinegar” is a grain alcohol that was further fermented by microbes to acetic acid (and usually diluted to a 5% standardized solution. Apple cider becomes cider vinegar, wine (grape, rice, or other base) becomes wine vinegar (“sour wine”), and you can make vinegar from pineapples or anything else (like rice) that will first ferment to alcohol, then progress to vinegar.
If your car does not run smoothly on gasohol, it did not like the ethanol.
So, in theory, any vinegar may contain trace amounts of alcohol. However, it would probably take something sophisticated to actually detect and accurately measure that.
In the meantime, enjoy your vinegar enhanced food, regardless of the type.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Advice to Mr. Qadeer:
Pack your own lunch.
Carolyne says
Advice to Mr. Qadeer:. Go home.
gravenimage says
+1
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
“Mr Qadeer… told Metro.co.uk: “Being a Muslim I can’t consume anything with alcohol”
In that case Muslims should not eat leavened bread. Bread production is essentially a fermentation process where yeast converts sugars and starches from flour into carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol. The carbon dioxide provides for rising the dough via gas bubbles. The alcohol forms flavour esters from food acids, such as vinegar, in the process.
Jay says
Meanwhile ……. the unfettered immigration of Muslims into England without any acclimation, is
destroying English soverignity, churches, schools, and their way of life! And all the UK is worried
about is a sandwich?? Complete insanity!! Pm Churchill is not resting easy today!
God save the queen! No one else will!!
Jayell says
‘Muslim tax adviser’?. There’s a joke! I thought that these arrogant, thieving specimens thought they were above even considering any obligations to kuffar-made rules and regulations when they weren’t trying to use the same rules and regulations to screw as much as they can out of the UK citizen or dreaming up spurious islamic excuses for exempting themselves from financial responsibilities. And it’s a wonder that this character hasn’t sued the supplier for ‘hurting his feelinga’ or something equally pathetix. But other correspodents here are righr; this isn’t ‘news’ and this muslim’s experiences don’t matter.
Lt Mason says
All living human beings are possibly HARAM, see attached reference, for the following observations:
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1. It is believed to originate from the microbial fermentation of the carbohydrates in the gastro-intestinal tract (Krebs and Perkins, 1970; Blomstrand, 1971). Because of the low concentrations of endogenous ethanol, which reaches 0.39 ± 0.45 µg/ml (0.039 mg/dl) in the blood of sober people (Jones et al., 1983).
2. Data obtained in experiments aimed at determination of metabolites excreted by human fibroblasts during their cultivation in vitro. Using gas chromatography– mass spectrometry, excretion of pyroglutamic acid ethyl ester and palmitic acid hydroxyethyl ester has been demonstrated (Antoshechkin et al., 1988 a,b). These data suggest the existence of intracellularly synthesized ethanol and its consequent biochemical interactions with some carboxylic acids.
3. The presence of alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase in all cell types including neurons also argues for an intracellular origin of ethanol. Existence of these enzymes in several isoenzyme forms of unequal distribution among different cellular compartments points to the presence of some oxidative processes that use ethanol and acetaldehyde as substrates.
4. It is interesting to note that there are some data suggesting a possibility of reducing equivalents transfer through mitochondrial membrane by the ethanol ? Acetaldehyde redox shuttle (Grunnet, 1973). Taking this into account, together with the synthesis of ethyl esters of organic acids and their excretion from the cell, it is reasonable to suggest that ethanol synthesis is an intermediate step in the metabolic pathway of elimination of excess energy-releasing substrates from mitochondria.
ON INTRACELLULAR FORMATION OF ETHANOL AND ITS POSSIBLE ROLE IN ENERGY METABOLISM
Anatoly G. Antoshechkin
https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/36/6/608/132479
gravenimage says
Islam rejects science…
infidel says
Money making time for this lazy Islamic creep… Expect a big lawsuit and a big payout for this filthy creature.
Laura says
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a ‘taxi adviser?’
Tracy Davies says
Good! Hopefully another one into the Hell Fire. I’m am sick to death of their whinging and whining!! there was a woman on TV her son had donated his organs when he died and one had been given to a Muslim they took that? I would of turned in my grave had it been my organ in fact I took my name off the register that day. So they whine about a sandwich but a organ off a non Muslim is ok? oops there they go again with the flaming contradictions. They are nasty sneaky bastards and I hate them and yes I agree with the person above just wait for the court case and pay out. I’ve got a t-shirt with HARAM on it so the stinky bastards know not to touch me!!
Francis Weber says
What the Quran says about alcohol!
Allah the mute stone statue said in,
Quran 4:43
O you who have believed, do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated until you know what you are saying or in a state of janabah, except those passing through [a place of prayer], until you have washed [your whole body]. And if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and find no water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and your hands [with it]. Indeed, Allah is ever Pardoning and Forgiving.
The mute stone statue never said that you couldn’t drink alcohol!
If I was a Muslim i’d be really pissed to find out that the person that you put on a pedestal was:-
a fat white dwarf, 7th Century arabia shouldn’t you be brown and dwarfism is a genetic defect!
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
Christina Pansy says
Halal means they killed the animal slowly and cruelly, letting it bleed to death.
gravenimage says
Yes–Halal slaughter is terribly cruel.
Tay says
No doubt he will take them to court, and probably get a compensation pay out!
All paid for by the British taxpayer through legal aid.
I fear our Bulldog spirit has turned into something more pussy-like (the government, not the people)
Maybe non-Muslims should complain about pathetic crap like this too… then see how much sympathy They get.
esther says
I have a serious question——how do muslims make VINEGAR vine gar?
they do pickle things and what about salad dressing and meat marinades—-
and then there is vanilla extract—–ICE CREAM!!!!!! and I thought kosher
is complicated (???)
Giacomo Latta says
Worried about the stuff you’re eating not being halal, sport? Hey, just pop by the mosque and have the imam bless it! You can’t be too careful, you know. Or you can bugger off back to where you came from.
N Dixon says
So… he ate the tuna roll for 12 years and suffered no allergic reactions or wrath from allah? Myth busted!
Battle says
Pret A Manger Prepare to counter-sue based on is not intoxicated so is a fraud malice prosecution.