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From: seth@attunix.att.com (Seth R Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic,soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Some Questions...
Summary: Kosher --- halal
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Date: 27 Sep 90 14:43:08 GMT
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In article <15974@wpi.WPI.EDU>, jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi) writes:
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< ==============================
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< One more question
< 
< Since Brother Jamshed has mentioned people of the book
< and their laws, I have an additional question.
< 
< What I understand from different opinions gathered from 
< present day scholars, including Dr. Jamal Badawai of
< Canada, Dr. Israr Ahmed of Pakistan, and the scholar of
< Arab News who replies to queries on "our dialogue" page,
< if chickens, lambs, and cows are allowed to bleed while
<  being slaughtered , then the meat available in USA is ok to eat.
< because by definition, christians and jews are people of the book
< and Suratul Maidah in Quran gives them special status as far as
< relations with muslims are considered.
< 
< On the other hand, Ulema in Pakistan are rather strict on this
< question and they reject such meat mostly haram.
< 
< What is the practice of most muslims living in USA and Europe?
< What opinions have they heard about it?
< 

I have always been under the impression that if Islamic
meat preparation has not been available in a community
with Muslim residents, that they have always been
willing to use meat slaughtered by a kosher butcher.
Is this not true?  I am also not aware of special
slaughtering practices on behalf of Christianity.  Of
course Christians in general have no problem with pork.


		Seth Rosenthal