The Chocolate Jihad Muslims who eat halal diets do not eat pork and its by-products, alcohol and animals not slaughtered according to Islamic procedures. Halal means permissible by Islamic law and the term covers not just food and drink but also all matters of daily life. Islam considers pigs unclean because they are omnivorous, not discerning between meat or vegetation ...
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Reports have emerged that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, claimed Israel was using wild pigs against Palestinians in the West Bank. Mr Abbas’s allegation was made during a speech at a conference in Ramallah on Friday night (November 21, 2014), according to the Jerusalem Post. “Every night they release wild pigs against us”, the president was quoted ...
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The University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, is going to great lengths to help its Muslim students avoid doing the same when washing for on-campus prayer sessions. The university has installed “foot-baths” in a public washroom at its Riddell Centre, in order to allow Muslim students — many of whom pray numerous times a day, and wash themselves beforehand — ...
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