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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
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Subject: Re: Question regarding Pork
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Date: 29 Nov 90 17:58:00 GMT
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In article <1990Nov27.152402.28445@nntp-server.caltech.edu> SX43%LIVERPOOL.AC.UK@evans.ucar.edu (Fazal R Ellahi) writes:
>As-Salaamu alaikum,
>In article <1990Nov22.183944.21990@wpi.WPI.EDU>, shuque@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
>(Sumon Huque) says:
>>Could anyone give me a few solid convincing arguments that rationalize
>>our position on not eating Pork. I am often confronted on this issue, and
>>I have yet to come across a suitable reply.

[lotsa discussion about pigs being similar to man, being intelligent,
 pork having worms, and pork maybe causing voilence]

>But the bottom line is the fact that it is forbidden to eat the
>flesh of a pig in the Qur'an, except under very special circumstances
>(starvation..), and that is THE reason why we don't eat pork.

Could a cultural reason also be that, in Arabia (and many other
places) at the time of Muhammad, pigs were disgusting, filthy animals
that ran around eating garbage and everything in sight?  I've heard
this but I can't remember where.
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