[jambutty]

Any religion that orders it followers not to eat certain edible foods or when they can be eaten is nothing more than a control freak. Roman Catholics – don’t eat meat on Fridays, eat fish instead, although I doubt if this is practiced these days except by really staunch followers. Jews will not eat the meat from pigs but will sell goods made from pigskin. Muslims with their total ban on pork and anything associated with pigs. Hindu with their veneration of the cow. Religion is all about controlling the lives of the followers and some Muslims try to push it for all it is worth.

Would a Muslim have a ‘Piggy Bank’ given free from Nat West wasn’t it? Would a Muslim buy a farmyard set for their kids to play with?

Jews do not force their eating habits on others in that they will sell whatever is saleable. Catholics will sell meat on Fridays.

If it is against Islamic law to charge interest on loans, can someone explain to me how an Islamic bank survives? Well entwisi has and that is the sort of spin that Blair/Brown would be proud of. As WillowTheWhisp has already proclaimed “A rose by any other name …….” I prefer the word hypocracy.

Putting it bluntly, if a person wants to have specific religious beliefs, leave them on the inside of your front door, unless you are going to your communal place of worship.

As for Halal meat! Isn’t that where the animal has its throat cut and it is allowed to bleed to death?

Just an afterthought! If religions didn’t promise an afterlife of supreme bliss and harmony, how many suicide bombers would we have? Nowhere near as many as there are, I’ll be bound.