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World Net Daily worries that if you eat “halal” food you’re eating food sacrificed to idols

By on February 9, 2011 in Loon at large

WND, the wacky right wing Evangelical website is forwarding the myth that halal food is sacrificed to idols. They also peddle the conspiracy that Americans are going to be forced to eat halal food. The piece from God Discussion is an excellent rebuttal.

World Net Daily worries that if you eat “halal” food you’re eating food sacrificed to idols

(God Discussion)

Pastor Mark Biltz over at World Net Daily worries that you might inadvertently eat “halal” food in the good old US of A–a country of many cultures—food he says is sacrificed to idols, and “catch” Islam like a virus.    Ignorance of Islam is at its highest in this comment by Pastor Biltz:

At issue, says Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash., is eating food that’s “halal,” in other words “lawful” or “permitted” for the Muslim diet.

Muslims join many Jews and some Christians in avoiding the consumption of certain animals such as pigs and birds of prey, but those of the Islamic faith also have their meat blessed in the name of their god, Allah.

“From the Christian standpoint, Allah would be an idol,” Biltz told WND.”

From a faith standpoint, “Allah” IS God, NOT an idol.  Allah.org states:

Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word god which can be made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and a sister language of Arabic.

The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. The Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter of the Quran, which is considered the essence of the unity or the motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112 which reads:

“In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad) He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone.”

The Quran also condemns the worship of idols, same as the Christian God:

The Quran reminds us of the falsity of all alleged gods. To the worshippers of man-made objects, it asks:

“Do you worship what you have carved yourself?” (37:95)

“Or have you taken unto you others beside Him to be your protectors, even such as have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?” (13:16)

Moreover, the term “Allah” is used by Arabic speakers of all Abrahamic faiths (let us not forget that Islam is a branch from the same tree as Christianity and Judaism).  That means that Mizrahi Jews, Eastern Catholics,  Ba’hai’s, and Eastern Orthodox Christians, as Arabic speakers, use the word “Allah.”

As for WND’s and Pastor Biltz’ worry that you and I are eating “halal” food unawares, every day we eat Jewish kosher food and it hasn’t hurt anyone. World Net Daily can’t even get the halal process right.  The halal process goes like this:

Halal Meat – The Process
The slaughtering rules (dhabh in Arabic) for Halal, which are based on Islamic teachings, ethics and jurisprudence need to strictly follow the guidelines below:
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• The premises, equipment and machinery must be classed according to Islamic Shariah (Law) before any production takes place
• A trained Muslim man should slaughter the animal in a licensed slaughter house with the implementation of all the hygiene and animal welfare regulations
• The slaughterman must be a mature and pious Muslim of sound mind who fully understands the fundamentals and conditions relating to Halal slaughter and must be licensed by the Meat Hygiene Service
• The animal/bird must be fed and grown on natural vegetarian diet
• The animal/bird must be alive, healthy and free from any disease or injury at the time of slaughter. This should be certified and checked by a veterinary surgeon
• The animal’s skin or fur and bird feathers must be clean prior to slaughter and free from faeces, dirt or other unhygienic substances
• The animal/bird should be fed and should not be hungry or thirsty before slaughter
• The animal should not be slaughtered in front of other animals and no blood seen so that no stress or discomfort has been caused to the animal
• The animal should be handled gently and individually
• The knife should be very sharp and clean and should not be sharpened in front of any animal before slaughter
• The Muslim slaughterman says the following before slaughtering: in the name of Allah, Allah is greatest (Bismillah, Allah Akbar)
• The cut to be done in the right anatomical position in the throat by cutting the two carotids, the two jugulars, the windpipe and the gullet, but without cutting the spinal cord
• All blood should be allowed to be drained from the carcass
• A specific time should be allowed till the animal ceases any movement
• De-feathering, de-skinning and evisceration can be done afterwards
• Any unlawful meat like pork should not contaminate Halal meat. Separate knives, equipment and utensils should be used for Halal meat

So don’t worry, folks. Eating halal meat isn’t going to make you a involuntary Muslim anymore than eating kosher food unawares makes you an involuntary Jew.

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    • Stupid beyond belief. If I eat jalepenos will I start spaeaking Spanish? What an idiot!

    • UK Muslim

      Are Arab Christians who worship Allah idol-worshippers & what about their Bibles?

    • jdb

      Christians do not consider the Jews and Muslims God to be the same as theirs, to them Jesus is God, the son, and the holy ghost. And if you don’t believe that,then you don’t believe in the same God.

    • Daniel

      In the Aramaic New Testament (the language Jesus spoke), God is “Allah”.

      I am no longer surprised at the appaling ignorance of supposedly educated pastors.

    • Yearp, they don’t want people to know that in M’asia and Indo Christians both use the word ‘Allah’ but also use other phrases such as ‘Massallah’ and ‘Ins’allah’. Same goes for, of course, Arabic speaking Christians. However, it’s possible if not probably that the writers of this article don’t consider the groups we are both talking about true Christians and as people who need to be ‘rebirthed’ or whatever it is they do to them so we are kinda talking to the wind…

    • Masa

      Jack,

      Legally, yes. My point was that while these people – as mentioned in the article – are still going around talking about ‘Allah’ being the name of some idol, or some sort of ‘moon god’ getting a hefty promotion, their co-religionists in say, the rest of the world, have embraced ‘Allah’ as another way to refer to ‘God’.

      Its unbelievable how these loons go all apesh*t over the silliest things.

    • I thought they got it Masa, didn’t the High Court in KL revoke the previous judgment?

    • Masa

      “From the Christian standpoint, Allah would be an idol,” Biltz told WND.”

      Interesting… at the same time, Christians here in Malaysia are trying to get approval for their usage of ‘Allah’ in their religious texts, ceremonies, etc.

    • Daniel

      Ironically, the Apostle Paul made it clear in 1 Corinthians that eating meat sacrificed to idols does not defile a Christian, and it is a sign of weakness to think that it does.

      Double the irony that Islam is far more iconoclastic than Christianity, which views images of God as ok.

  • Farlowe

    Vegetarianism is the answer to all this.

Iowa Voters Still Believe Obama is a Muslim

By on February 9, 2011 in Loon Politics

It looks like Sean Hannity and company are getting wackier by the minute. Here a panel group of caucus voters from Iowa say they believe Obama is an evil Mooslim.

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    • Jack

      Obama should turn Muslim just to piss them off and be done with these allegations. I’m surprised they didn’t bring up his birth certificate.

      But you know what it is? These people inform their world view by the antics of Glenn Beck and Fox News. So they don’t see a people’s revolt against a corrupt and autocratic leadership that has left them poor and on the outside. They see a move towards a second Iran. They’ve been spoon-fed these bogeyman stories about the Muslim Brotherhood, and they’d like Obama to come out and say he’ll never allow Egypt to turn into a theocracy.

      Of course, the next question then would be: so what are you going to do about it?

      The other day, I heard Bill ‘O Reilly saying he wanted a Reagan-like stance on Egypt from Obama. A slogan like: “Mr. President, tear down this wall!” So, apparently, Obama is damned if he does side with the Egyptian people and damned if he doesn’t. Because if he does: then obviously he must be favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood, him being a ‘secret Muslim’ and all; and if he doesn’t openly side with the Egyptian people, he’s too passive and not statesmen like.

      Also, these people have no clue that Hosni Mubarak has been our dictator for the last thirty years. He was our guy, preventing radical Islamists from taking over, and ensuring Egypt’s peace-treaty with Israel would endure. Unfortunately, he also suppressed his own people, putting any viable opposition to his rule in prison. For God’s sake he tortured people on our behalf. So how could one expect the US President to switch sides overnight and cheer on the crowds OR call on Mubarak to repress them in the wake of these popular uprisings?

      The Egyptian ruling power is already groaning and moaning that America isn’t very loyal to long standing allies like themselves. How do you think it looks to other dictators in the region (and beyond) that are backed by the US? You can bet they’re scratching their chins and think: hmmm… maybe I should be looking out for new patrons. Spread my risks. If the US turns on me, I’d still have China or Russia to back up my reign.

      All this is obviously way beyond the Iowa Republican opinion panel.

      So sad: we used to think of Archie Bunker as a mock figure. A relic of the past. But with the resurgence of right-wing Republicanism from the eighties on, their bigotry has become a force to be reckoned with.

    • khushboo

      Whoopi Goldberg of “The View” was extremely angry with this Iowa Group saying that not only were they wrong about Obama being a Muslim but that it doesn’t matter even if he is a Muslim. Even Elizabeth Hasselbeck agreed with her.

    • Jack

      Loved this one:

      “I think he believes America is at fault for the world’s problems. I think he doesn’t see the good that America does in the world.”

      Yeah, like dismantling Iraq so that it could become the chaotic, depleted plutonium ridden hell-hole it now is; or making war in Afghanistan, or bombing Pakistan, or supporting dictators all over the world, or supporting Israel and it’s wars and colonialist policies.

      These people are suffering from a serious case of ignorance, and are in serious need of some Chomsky.

  • AJ

    Hey Y,

    If you are a woman, I had something like this in mind:

    http://bloodworthweb.blogspot.com/2010/08/burka-debate-if-bit-late.html

    And then you can sing along loudly or perhaps have all windows in your car down and play loudly:

    THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie

    Chorus: This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me

    As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    The sun comes shining as I was strolling The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The fog was lifting a voice come chanting This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there And that sign said – no tress passin’ But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me!

    Chorus

    In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office – I see my people And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’ If this land’s still made for you and me.

    Chorus (2x)

    I have not tried it with burka on, but sing it all the time with my hijab on and windows up

Frank Gaffney Equals Paranoid Fearmongerer

By on February 1, 2011 in Loon People

Frank Gaffney

Gaffney Still Fearmongering About Sharia In U.S.

On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, right-wing pundit and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney baselessly claimed that “Muslim Brotherhood front organizations” are influencing the U.S. government and are pushing “subversive techniques” to impose Sharia law in the U.S. Gaffney has a history of using Fox News to push his conspiracy theories about Sharia law.

Gaffney Baselessly Suggests “Muslim Brotherhood Front Organizations” Are Infiltrating U.S. Govt., Institutions

Gaffney Baselessly Claims “Muslim Brotherhood Front Organizations” Have “Intensive Influence” On U.S. Government’s View Of Muslims. During the January 31 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson discussed the recent protests in Egypt with Frank Gaffney, President of the American Center for Security Policy. After talking about the possible extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the Egyptian protests, Gaffney went on to further suggest that “councils of the United States government…have been subjected to intensive influence operations by known Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in this country to believe that these guys are somehow nonviolent.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/31/11]

Gaffney Fearmongers Over “Sharia-Compliant Finance” And “Insinuations Of Sharia Into Our Courts.” Gaffney also told Carlson:

GAFFNEY: I think as we say in our book, it’s much more the case that [Muslim Brotherhood front organizations] are pre-violent [rather than nonviolent]. They will use violence when the circumstances are right and in the meantime, they’re using subversive techniques of various kinds, including Sharia-compliant finance and various kinds of insinuations of Sharia into our courts and other ways to try to accomplish their ultimate objective, which is to bring Sharia about worldwide. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/31/11]

Gaffney Refers To Gaza As The “So-Called Palestinian Area.” Responding to one of Carlson’s questions about the extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in the Middle East, Gaffney referred to the Gaza Strip as the “so-called Palestinian area.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/31/11]

Gaffney Has A History Of Incendiary And Islamophobic Attacks

Gaffney: “The Left” And “The Islamists…Are Advancing The Takedown Of America.” On the August 23, 2010, edition of Fox News’ The Glenn Beck Show, Gaffney told host Glenn Beck:

I think there’s a commonality of interests between folks who embrace what we’ve talked about before, as kind of the transnational agenda of the left and the transnational agenda of the Islamists … They are working in concert in a lot of different ways that are advancing the takedown of the America, the mutation, or fundamental transformation of America in ways that will, I’m afraid, make it much more difficult for us to stop either of these agendas at our expense. [Fox News, The Glenn Beck Show, 8/23/10]

Gaffney: Obama Administration “Has Exhibited A Sympathy…For The Agenda…Of The Muslim Brotherhood.” Also on the August 23, 2010, edition of The Glenn Beck Show, Gaffney told Beck, “I think this administration has exhibited a sympathy, and the president particularly, a sympathy for the agenda of folks who are, in fact, under one front organization or another of the Muslim Brotherhood, seeking to promote Sharia in America.” Gaffney went on to claim, “Virtually any Muslim-American organization in this country, of any prominence, is a Muslim Brotherhood front,” and referenced the Holy Land Foundation case. In fact, the organizations Gaffney is referencing donated to the Holy Land Foundation before it was uncovered that the organization was secretly funneling money to terrorists. [Fox News, The Glenn Beck Show, 8/23/10; Media Matters, 2/18/10, 7/27/10]

Gaffney Wrote That Signs With “‘Sharia’ Lettered In Dripping, Blood-red Ink” Were “Informed Opposition” To The Park 51 Mosque. On August 26, 2010, Gaffney wrote in an op-ed in theWashington Times that protesters of the Park 51 mosque “had come together … in informed opposition to the impetus behind that mosque: Sharia.” As an example of “informed opposition,” he pointed to “signs [throughout the crowd] with just the word ‘Sharia’ lettered in dripping, blood-red ink.” [Washington Times, 8/26/10]

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    • Abdulmajid

      Unfortunately one just needas to open the comment section of just about any article which in any way deals with Muslims to read such disgusting genocidal inflammatory vitriolic hate messages like “It is time to implemet the Final Solution for Muslims because they have in 1400 years killed a million zillion grillion Christans and Jews, because tehy want to convert all by force ort kill them, because Islam is evil by nature, because as opposed to Christianity the religion of love, Islam is the religion of evil blah blah blah”, the same wordings of Radovan Karadzic and his cronies; and one could get the impression that the Americans have turned into a nation of genocidal, racist, fascist, bigot, white-supermacist, anti-Muslim simpletons and morons. Like the Serbs. They can say “The West has left behind the days of the Crusades, of the Inquisition, of the witch burnings etc.” Maybe so, but what did that same West in the 20th century? The wholesale colonialist massacres in Africa and the Middle East, not just but mainly against Muslims; and ironically in Ethiopia against one of the oldest Christian nations on Earth; the Holocaust; Stalinism and the Gulag; Nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the fire-bombing of civilians in Japan and Germany; Agent Orange in Vietnam; supporting murderous tyrannical genocidal cleptocratic regimes like that of Saddam Hussein, Mubarak or Nazarbayev. All that was committed not by Muslims, but by Christians, or at least by people who claim a Christian background, no doubt feeling that they did no wrong, because since “Jesus already has redeemed their sins by his death on the Cross”, any sins future generations of Christians might commit, then it is all right if they commit all kinds of hideous crimes. They constantly do the opposite of what they preach. As the Mahatma Gandhi once said “You Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Right he was! In the name of their “religion of love” they have tried to subdue and conquer all the world and have always done the most horrible acts of violence to all non-white populations. And yet they have the #u(&ing NERVE to say “Christians are the victims, the world is in danger of being subverted by the Islamic Caliphate!” I must correct myself, these are not simpletons, they are incredibly malicious and evil, they are the nazis of today, they say about Muslims what the Nazis said about Jews, in all impunity, and if I had the misfortune of knowing such a person I think I must punch him until he bleeds to get out all that evil from his head, but unfortunately the evil of such persons will only be gone when they are gone, and maybe not even then. Such people are not above sending anybody they don’t happen to like to their deaths, coldly smiling, without hesitating so much as a second. That’s why I call them genocidals. And their feeling so superior to the Mooslims, because “the West may have done terrible things with the Crusaeds, the witch hunts, the slave trade” and they conveniently forget that the way they talk about Muslims exactly as Bernard of Clairvaux and Pope Urban VII (“Deus lo vult”; anyone with a minimum of education should know what I’m talking about) and the Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Cisneros, one of the most prominent figures of the ethnic cleansing of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th century and who personally fought military campaigns in North Africa. Namely: “The Muslims are evil, kill all Muslims!” It is good and commendable of you to expose these people for what they are, but they are not just loonies (certainly they are as crazy as a nut house), they are as dangerous as the Nazis were! Mark my words, they are as evil and dangerous as the Nazis and should they ever get power in the USA they will turn it into a clerical-fascist dictatorship of the most evil sort.

    • mike

      Speaking of loons. Remember our friend David Wood? He is going to be interviewing our other friend Anjem Chauidary on a Christian TV Show.. Haha I think this is going to be the best comedy act of the year. Topic: Would Shariah help the West. Let the freak show begin … Gaffney has already lost touch with reality..

    • CNN: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: A force to be feared?

      “The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with the Iranian model, has nothing to do with extremism as we have seen it in Afghanistan and other places. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt,” he (Elbaradei) told CNN.

      “I have been reaching out to them. We need to include them. They are part of the Egyptian society, as much as the Marxist party here,” he said.

      He rejected the idea that Islamic fundamentalists are set to undermine Egypt.

      “This is a myth that was sold by the Mubarak regime — that it’s either us, the ruthless dictators, or… the al Qaeda types,” he said.

      Analyst Abulhimal is convinced Egyptians would not let the Muslim Brotherhood seize power — not least because the military would stand in its way.

      “Neither the people nor the secular leaders would allow the Muslim Brotherhood to take it, and more importantly the army would never allow the Muslim Brotherhood to take it,” he said. “If the army said, ‘We would support the people in the street and we would have a deal with President Mubarak to have an orderly transition,’ as the Americans said yesterday — this would definitely not include the Muslim Brotherhood.”

      http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-31/world/egypt.muslim.brotherhood_1_egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-ayman-nour-protests?_s=PM:WORLD

    • Gaffney reminds me of the the old segregationists of yesterday. Quite a few of them in our history had long successful lives feeding racists fantasies such as Gaffney’s. Racist talk is popular with Americans; it seems to strike a chord with people. Can we think of a public official who has been marginalized because of it? That’s something Gaffney a very astute figure has picked up on.

  • mindy1

    What on earth is he smoking??? What on earth is he thinking

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