Halal Food

[wildwood]

This is partly why I am sick of Islam. These people have money and still demand free halal food. Does any other religion get this kind of special consideration?

[jourdain2]

No-one has to eat meat, so their demands should be ignored and vegetarian food supplied if they can't afford it themselves. Is there more of the link? There was a charitable group in Calais, which worked hard to provide a free meal a day and then got complained at because it wasn't spicy enough. Anyone who knows about French cuisine knows that their idea of a curry is to show the food a jar of curry paste! Would like more information, but it certainly seems unreasonable.

[Mamyalynne]

Uploaded to YouTube September 2014 - Referencing events in Missouri USA.

[jourdain2]

Thank you Mamya - well out of date, then!

[Peter Pedant]

well it comes from Hennepin county Minneapolis
( which is in Minnesota )
and the commissioner is Charles McLaughlin

I did it by internal cluse
I am not sure how Mamalynne did it


jesus - freebooters everywhere

[Peter Pedant]

his page is here
http://www.hennepin.us/your-government/leadership/4th-district

[Mamyalynne]

Well without looking into it further, we don't know how things turned out and what the situation is there right now - maybe the OP does.

[Mamyalynne]

Crossed, maybe Peter's link has more.

[Jackdaw33]

How do they know it's not halal? I wouldn't know halal meat if it hit me in the face, unless it was labelled as such.

[Peter Pedant]

zakat is the third pillar of islam ( charity )
and I did wonder why the rest of the community hadnt stepped up

we dont see the whole picture

we hardly ever hear about islamic charitable impulses in the western press - doesnt fit the image of bogey-man ....

this one only got air time because they butchered the christian driver ( ie did fit the image of cruel pitiless bogey-man)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11102901/Muslims-from-Alan-Henning-charity-broadcast-appeal-for-British-hostages-release.html

[hc4361]

Stories like this, Peter?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/18/muslims-donate-10-tonnes-food-charity-drive-homeless-christmas/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/turkish-restuarant-free-christmas-meals-elderly-sidcup-xmas-lunch-offers-a7456686.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslims-christians-homeless-people-christmas-london-streetlytes-dinner-al-khair-a7490016.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38398805

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/02/muslim-groups-food-banks-tackle-poverty

http://5pillarsuk.com/2016/12/26/muslim-owned-chip-shop-feeds-homeless-and-elderly-on-christmas-day/

Not reported in the Daily Mail, usually

[wildwood]

Thanks for the links HC. Nice to see the other side of the coin.

My beef is with the ones that are ungrateful gits and use their religion to get special consideration in the 'West'. I wonder how Europeans would be treated in predominately muslim countries using Christianity as a crutch to get their own way!

[baza]

Well said birdie.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//we hardly ever hear about islamic charitable impulses in the western press - doesnt fit the image of bogey-man .... //

Indeed not, Peter. As a person who knows sub-Saharan Africa, speaks Arabic and is an Islamic expert can you please comment on the third pillar. Ignoring the practice, are there theoretical conditions attached to the non-Muslim's receipt of of Zatak?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Follow up response to polymath: Bernard Lewis is a better educated apologist than you.

[vetuste_ennemi]

En passant, Ave atque vale, Birdie.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Note to PP: previous generation of adopted felines included a Virgil, a Horace, but no Catullus.

[Jackdaw33]

"Hello and goodbye"