The Post’s Religious Affairs editor, Chauncey Pilgarlic, reported here on the Association of Christian Churches plan to green-mail food suppliers by certifying that baked beans and porridge and so on, was “Dignum”. By doing so, an endless cash torrent would gush into the church money boxes without the Churches having to do more than hold a ceremony once a year blessing assembly lines.
Naturally, companies like Cadbury’s would print the ‘Dignum’ label on their product in the same eye-straining micro fonts they use for ‘Halal’.
["Dignum" is Latin for 'OK' in the same way as "kosher" and "halal"is Hebrew and Arabic for the same idea.]
However, he reports, trouble is brewing over the idea of halal water.
Already it is claimed that in hospitals in Victoria provide halal water whenever anyone at all requires a glass of water for swallowing a pill. Made halal, no doubt, by the Department of Health intoning توجيه الاتهام الى دافعي الضرائب (bill the taxpayer) while rowing across the reservoir.
Making water ‘halal’ is shaping up as business in England where a certain amount of re-cycling water goes on. Muslim leaders have graciously accepted that U.K. tap water is not 100% pure. In addition to residual pollutants, they say, “Local water authorities add various chemicals to reduce bacteria” but “cosmetic products which have been flushed down the drain, are not all removed by the water authorities’ treatments, and did you know that many cosmetics contain pig fat? You may be actually drinking and washing in that?”
So, trouble is brewing, but not from the West’s jelly-spined culturally aware tolerant merchants of appeasement.
No indeed. It has come from Muslims themselves, and here in Aussie, where some mosques urge halal water to be drunk to honour traditions and standards.
“This is fanaticism,” says one Aussie Muslim, “because the very principle of Islamic law (permissible before impermissible) has been turned on its head. The reversal of this axiom in Islamic law by modern halalisers [his word] is absolutely astonishing. Everything in the world, if these zealots are to be believed, is now haram (forbidden) until proved halal!”
In other words, Islamic default position is that everything is good unless actually prohibited. Not that everything is forbidden unless explicitly allowed.
Another protester cites Islamic religious writing, “I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah (peace_be_upon_him): Water is brought for you from the well of Buda’ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown. The Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) replied: Verily water is pure and is not defiled by anything.” [Abu Dawud Book 1, Number 67]
How long before a company has the cojones to say to buyers, “Yes, our meat pies are halal, if you don’t believe me don’t buy them. But we are not going to pay a licence every year to somebody for a worthless certificate.”
Companies might. Governments dancing in multi-culturalism moonshine won’t.
Watch out for halal water, and remember that water is the stuff that everybody washes in. Are we going to get Burrinjuck certified halal?
Here is the Aussie Muslim politely telling halalists to jump in the creek.
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One day there will be little pools of something that is not halal under the chairs of certain food company execs when they see sales figures.
Now this has gotten me thinking, all water is actually recycled water because since the beginning of time there hasn’t been any new water made. Put another way, what you started with is still what you have now. So it must follow that as water is used and discarded it eventually completes a cycle where it is fit to be used again. Eventually if you keep blessing the water as being Halal then it must follow that all the recycled water is Halal as well as it has already been blessed in a previous ceremony. Yes?
Allah, protect me from your followers.
As yes BV your logic holds good for normal thinkers but to the brain of a Muslim, this water has been put through and pis*ed out of Infidels and Swine and so it must be made pure & holy again by the process of the Halal certifying authority relieving someone of their money.
Spot on BV.
all the water that has ever existed in plants and animals, ground, sewers, seas, ponds, oceans, bread, has all been recycled or is being recycled now. the work never stops and has never stopped
why I am presently recycling the H2O component of the wine I had last night. Just doing my bit. No. No praise. bit of a workaholic actually.
But being the intellectual Giant that I am, I ask a question for the intellectuals.
if the water which got into the grapes was halal, did it become un-halaled when it mixed with the other minerals to make the grapes, during the fermentation, or when I thought to drink it, drank it, digested it, or pee’ed it out again.
You see the importance of this.
timing is everything. A man must be able to seek forgiveness and to do so he must be able to know WHEN he sinned.
Sincerely
The Jeweller
there is a preliminary was all the ORIGINAL water halaled?
This is what I read in another publication
“I want to tell you what I observed in a local supermarket. I wanted to buy some smoked salmon and was happy to pay more for Tasmanian smoked salmon. After selecting a packet, I noticed a familiar circular gold sticker – it was ,halal’. Not to be deterred I chose a second AND a third Tasmanian smoked salmon package but these were also halal. Finally I purchased a Scandinavian produced packet, cheaper but more importantly, NOT halal. I can’t help wondering how a salmon is killed compliant with Muslim law. (she goes on about othe products like Vegemite and finishes
)… I believe we are going to rue the day we ever allowed halal food to enter our country.
Dianne Norcott, Sydney NSW.”
Printed in Australian Family News.
I bet the people of Troy thought the sam thing when the Greeks invaded their city.