Should Pork not be banned ? It hurts the fastest growing and 2nd biggest religion?

Question

It will be a good start towards religious harmony between christians and muslims

Answer 1

And this is how you start forcing your beliefs?

Answer 2

How does non-Muslims eating pork hurt Muslims?

Pork is highly nutritious and a good source of protein and sustenence, besides being particularly tasty. There is no reason for people with no religious prohibitions against it to give it up.

Religious harmony means accepting each other's differences, not trying to make both the same.

Answer 3

If enough people choose not to eat pork, that industry will fall into decline.

I do not eat pork, although I am not Jewish or a Muslim. It is a personal choice. I choose not to eat pork primarily in protest of the treatment of pigs, who are often raised in terrible conditions.

Despite this choice, I do not think that banning a food is the way to go. Many would resent such a ban, and there would be an associated rise in black-market demand for the forbidden product. Instead, I believe we should encourage thoughtful consideration of all of our food choices and improved education about the way the meat industry works.

Answer 4

No. Christians aren't forcing Muslims to eat pork, so how does that upset religious harmony. Muslims forcing their ideals on Christians would cause more problems.

Also, how does pork actually hurt the Muslim religion?

Answer 5

No way, I like a good ham sandwich. There's something I have to wonder about, though. In what way does pork HURT Muslims or Jews ? The Jewish and Muslim people who I know don't eat pork at all, so how does it hurt them ?

Answer 6

I do not have a problem with that at all...in fact I would give up pork indefinitely...that will be tough but I think it would be worth it.

So that now I gave up pork for your religion, it's time for you to give something up also for my beliefs. I have made a list and you are welcome to chose anyone:

1. Stop suicide bombers and your blinding hatred towards "infidels" and other religions of the world. No more killing whatsoever.
2. Treat women with the equality and dignity that they deserve and not the backwards, pathetic way you treat them now.
3. If you can come to North America and be given your rights and freedoms to practice your religion as you believe, extend that same hospitatlity to other people of the world coming to live in your neck of the woods.
4. Cough up Bin Laden

There's four to start with...try one of those and I will work real hard to give up my bacon...try a second option and I will give up tenderloin...be a real decent human being and give up all four and I will personally raise pigs as home pets only and not to be eaten.

If pork is what I have to give up to make a contibution towards a good start, I'll do it but only if they would be nice to give up something to make a good start too, n'est pa?

Answer 7

This is one of my favorite arguments over religious law.

When the laws were written for the theocracies (Judaism and Islam, in particular), poorly cooked pork had a tendency to have a parasite called trichinella spiralis. The disease, trichinosis, makes one exceptionally ill (from severe diarrhea to heart failure), therefore putting a common-sense "health law" down as God's law made sense.

Pigs also compete for human food resources, therefore it makes sense they might be considered unclean. Easiest way to get people to stop eating undercooked pork? Make God the reason it's disallowed.

http://www.askthemeatman.com/pork_Trichinosis.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-risks-of-trichinosis.htm

While it's still a risk, it's been lessened in the United States because of the care meat producers must take to keep pork from being released with the cysts. However, because certain worldwide producers don't have the restrictions (and if you raise it yourself), trichinosis is still a threat.

Answer 8

A better start towards harmony would be Muslims stopping their brothers and sisters from blowing people up. Just my opinion.

Merry Christmas.

Answer 9

It wouldn't make sense to ban pork. A fight, or war, might end up from that. If you take the right to eat food away, what other rights will be taken away next?

Answer 10

Well I'm a Muslim and i think its a ridiculous idea. Just because i dont eat it, i have no right to tell anyone else not to eat it. If they want to eat it and enjoy it that's there business. I think it has absolutely no influence in relations with Christians. For me i have no disharmony with Christians. So for me on every level your question has no validity.
Other people eating pork in no way hurts me.

Answer 11

Pork isn't going to be banned, and even Muslims don't ban it. In Muslim countries, Christians and non-Muslims are allowed to follow their own religion's dietary laws, meaning they can eat pork and drink alcohol by themselves, in their own homes. Muslim scholars for centuries have said it's OK for Christians to do so.

Although pork is filthy and as a Muslim I say it's sinful, I can't support banning it, because it will be oppressing Christians, who aren't obligated to follow this portion of Islamic law.