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10:15 - That's gratitude for ya
http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8742820%5E2862,00.html
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Stunning. Kentucky Fried Chicken in Australia is running an experiment: remove bacon from the menus, "in favour of Muslim-friendly products." (No mention is given of whether they considered making the food acceptable to Jewish customers to be important as well, or whether there had been any pressure prior to this to make the menu Kosher or anything.)
And what's the reaction to this gesture of goodwill, not to say peace offering? How is this voluntary act of modifying a long-time Western tradition, by removing products that the population at large has always enjoyed having, received by those to whom it's directed?
But the human rights co-ordinator for the Islamic Council of Victoria, Bilal Cleland, warned KFC's menu may not in fact be halal.
"We hope that people are not taken in by this scheme. Just because you take the bacon out of the burgers doesn't make the food halal," he said.
"There has to be authentic certification that the food is halal and I haven't seen any evidence of that."
He said that all the meat, including chicken, must be certified as halal before it was acceptable to Muslims.
"We hope that people are not taken in by this scheme"?!
Geez. You're welcome.
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Brian Tiemann
