What is the official reason why Muslims do not eat pork?

Question

wow. Is it possible for me to get a real answer minus the biased religious hatred of Islam.

Answer 1

they feel that their sky fairy doesn't want them to.

Answer 2

Both Orthodox Jewish (Kashrut) and Islamic halaal dietary laws forbid pork, making it a taboo meat

There are several explanations for this.

Maimonides, the Jewish court physician to Muslim sultan Saladin in the twelfth century, agreed with other Muslims and Jews of his day by declaring that pork was an "unclean" meat because of pigs' dirty habits; when pigs cannot find water, which is often the case in the Middle East, they have to bathe in mud or their own feces. Maimonides therefore asserted that pork was an unhealthy and unwholesome meat to consume. He was the first to justify the taboo on secular rather than religious reasons.

Medical evidence supporting this early notion did not become available until 1859, when a clinical study found a connection between undercooked pork and trichinosis. This caused a period of unrest for some Jews, as some began to argue that pork was safe to eat so long as it was fully cooked. Orthodox Jews, however, were appalled at this and insisted that there was some other divine meaning behind kosher law. A third view is that the restriction is arbitrary, a way to test the faith. The trichinosis theory is nowadays widely rejected.

As a Christian myself, I love pork and think that as long as it is fully cooked it's alright. God instructed the Jews to abstain from eating pork because of their inability to thoroughly cook it. Muslims are the same. Though...(and I'm so bad) I made meatballs for my Dad to take to work for the guys in his department. I worked in some italian sausage and knowing there's a muslim gent in my Dad's department. Dad didn't say anything to the guy or to anyone else about the special ingredient and everyone enjoyed them! Even the muslim gent.

I love doing stuff like that:D hehe

Answer 3

its a command given 2 us by our LORD n its reasons r scientifically being proven now:-
Eating of pork can cause no less than seventy different types of diseases. A person can have various helminthes like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, etc. One of the most dangerous is Taenia Solium, which is in lay man’s terminology called tapeworm. It harbours in the intestine and is very long. Its ova i.e. eggs, enter the blood stream and can reach almost all the organs of the body. If it enters the brain it can cause memory loss. If it enters the heart it can cause heart attack, if it enters the eye it can cause blindness, if it enters the liver it can cause liver damage. It can damage almost all the organs of the body.

Another dangerous helminthes is Trichura Tichurasis. A common misconception about pork is that if it is cooked well, these ova die. In a research project undertaken in America, it was found that out of twenty-four people suffering from Trichura Tichurasis, twenty two had cooked the pork very well. This indicates that the ova present in the pork do not die under normal cooking temperature

Pork has very little muscle building material and contains excess of fat. This fat gets deposited in the vessels and can cause hypertension and heart attack

The pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth. It lives and thrives on muck, faeces and dirt.In the villages they don’t have modern toilets and the villagers excrete in the open air. Very often excreta is cleared by pigs.

Some may argue that in advanced countries like Australia, pigs are bred in very clean and hygienic conditions. Even in these hygienic conditions the pigs are kept together in sties. No matter how hard you try to keep them clean they are filthy by nature. They eat and enjoy their own as well as their neighbour’s excreta.

Source(s):

www.irf.com

Answer 4

Well it's basicaly this.

We don't eat animals that eat their own feces.

It lives garbage and eats garbage.

It can get you sick
if not sick physcially than, it will make you sick spiritually.

ALso,
It goes back to the prophet's time where pigs had a dangerous illnes that was harmful to humans.

Answer 5

Lev 11:7-8
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you

Answer 6

its regarded as unclean. the same reason jews dont eat pork

Answer 7

The bible calls the pig an UNCLEAN animal and prohibited it's consumption-Christian are not obligated to this obsolete law.

Answer 8

In the past trichinosis was a problem. another example of religion being left in science's dust.

Answer 9

Pig is a very unclean animal and as modern science tells us it is also very unhealthy. It is filled with worms!

Answer 10

I'm a Christian...and even I know pork is bad for you. God is the one who prescribed such a law, not Muslims.

Answer 11

It has cloven hoves, but does not chew the cud.

They, too, accept the Laws of Moses. It's in Leviticus- look it up.