Muslim people, do you wish that you could eat more things?!
Muslim people, do you wish that you could eat more things?
Do you ever just want to run into a fast food place and order something besides a fish sandwich. I know that in bigger cities you can but in most places there is no Halal meat.
Answers: Yes a vegetarian diet is even more difficult to follow, unless you are in India, where even McDonalds has a vegetarian menu.
But the good thing is, vegetarian is almost always halal.
Yes, It would be fun to just go in and order! We can get a few other things too, but I don't mind really. I try not to eat fast food often anyway. It is interesting how Jewish and Muslim people follow very similar dietary restrictions, based on essentially Old Testament restrictions.
Take pork and seafood for example. The descendents of Abraham (Christians, Jews, & Muslims) were encouraged not to eat pork or shellfish. This was a health concern rather than a religious concern. The chances of pork or shellfish becoming rancid, and contributing to the demise of a Holy people, was very great before refrigeration. That was the original meaning behind the prohibition. Because the Chosen were few in number, initially, there could be no chance of many of them dying because of spoiled food, thus the restrictions.
With today's modern refrigeration methods, many of the ancient prohibitions are no longer necessary and it is just the hard-core and illiterate who strictly follow those prohibitions.
Even though they claim to practice strict adherence to the dietary prohibitions, and to use of alcohol, it is pretty apparent that prosperous Muslims do not follow those dietary restrictions when they are abroad, or in Bahrain. Most of the Muslim people don't order just fish in fast food places. They do eat other meat as long as it's not pork because halal meat isn't really available everywhere. There is a small minority of Muslim people living here who actually follow that whole rule of only eating halal meat. Well, I'm not a Muslim but I'm vegetarian. My diet is even more restrictive than a Muslim's diet. Yet I follow it because I believe in it.