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noraina
Assalamu alaykum
So recently I was a little disappointed when I see some Muslim take-aways which have huge glowing halal signs on their front windows and yet when you read their menus they sell pork dishes. :hmm:
I actually confirmed this isn't turkey bacon, and then I'm reassured but that all their lamb or beef is halal.
I don't know why this just crushes my confidence and I don't feel like eating from those places anymore. And then, some Muslims seem to have very different definitions of what halal is....so what they say is halal may not necessarily be halal enough for me.
1) no pork = definitely halal (which they say quite happily)
2) if it is from the supermarket all packed in cellophane = halal
3) if it is slaughtered before your very eyes = only then halal, otherwise you can't trust anyone
Anyone else found this?
Totally.
My cousin wanted to go to this restaurant
So I call them up and ask
"So you guys do halal food right? The food is halal?"
And the dudes
"Aw yeah, for sure! No worries"
And I am all
"Aw yeeee cool!"
Then five minute later I go "waaaait..."
and call them back and ask
"Yo but the food is ZABIHA right?"
And they're all
"Well... Zabiha ... halal what's the big deal anyway right? Everything's halal"
And I sit there for a minute in utter silence
"So... it's not zabiha is it."
response:
"Weeeell...technically no but"
Me:
"Asalaamualaikum bruh. Peace out."
Something along those lines.
It was surreal though.
Actual dialogue probably had five more minutes of me straight asking "but is it halal?"