Oink Oink! - Why Islam forbids Pork

Muslim Weekly ^ | May 11, 2007

[concerned about politics]

I thought that a person is not defiled by what goes into their mouth but by what comes out of it.

Like "Kill the infidel!"

[Red Badger]

...and here I thought it was just professional courtesy!.....

[o_zarkman44]

“Consumption of swine-flesh reduces the feeling of shame and as such the standard of modesty.”

So what are the muzlims eating that reduces their feeling of shame for randomly blowing up women and children? Since they don’t drink, smoke, or consume pork, what is the magic ingredient that makes their religion a purveyor of vilonce and murder? Is a slow death by disease worse than death by getting blown to bits in an instant?

I will have some more bacon please. I don’t believe bacon will make me have the urge to kill my non bacon eating fellow humans.

A pig may always be a pig. But also a murderer is always a murderer. An uneducated barbarian is always a barbarian.

[chaos_5]

abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene

I suppose wiping ones ass with their bare hand was also a step in the hygiene direction, after all they only used one hand and promised not to eat with it.

[CarolinaPeach]

Hey, that’s what I was thinking!

[sinclair]

MuqPig.

[OneRatToGo]

Some people have argued that the "modern pig" reared in farms is given only clean foods, therefore, its flesh should be consumable. The answer is that you may feed the pig on clean, wholesome food, but you cannot change its nature. It is still a pig and will always stay so.

Following this same logic what can be said of the "Modern Muslim"? You cannot change his nature.

[rwgal]

PORK FAT RULES!!!

Send your donations to “Help put a side of bacon in a Muslims coffin”.

Meadow Muffin

[Red Badger]

Being a Jew who keeps kosher, I don't think that's a good idea. However I will gladly drink a beer.

Then you better stay clear of this:

http://www.partypigwest.com/

[Bahbah]

I think these ancient prohibitions against eating pork arose because of this:

“Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis, or trichiniasis, is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis, commonly called the trichina worm. The few cases in the United States are mostly the result of eating undercooked game or home reared pigs. It is most common in the developing world and where pigs are commonly fed raw garbage.”

When science determined what the problem was, it also provided the solution.

[j.havenfarm]

I’m happy for this article’s explanation, because here I always thought that it was because Islam is a cheap knock off of Judaism and Chritianity. Now I know better.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

(Food) is absorbed and metabolised into the system and circulated to all parts of the human body, including the brain, and this in no small way affects man’s nature.

From this I can only conclude that the #1 food in the Muslim world must be rats.

[montag813]

Since pigs are smarter than the average Muslim male, how can eating them “degrade moral character”?

[weegee]

This is the same logic (almost to the word) that appears on Ask The Imam.

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t know why I thought of this dialogue:

Jules: I don’t eat dog either.

Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?

Jules: I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

Jules: Well we’d have to be talkin’ about one charmin’ mother****in’ pig. I mean he’d have to be ten times more charmin’ than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I’m sayin’?

[JCEccles]

Did not eat pork.

[Rastus]

The life of a man is a compound of body and soul. Anything, which is harmful for the body, hurts the soul as well.

Except a big ol' bomb belt.

[weegee]

Pig leather seats.

[MEGoody]

The pig is naturally lazy and indulgent in sex, it is dirty, greedy and gluttonous. It dislikes sunlight and lacks the spirit and will to "fight".

This guy has not been around pigs, obviously.