[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
What difference does it make?
Would you eat kosher food?[/quote]
For one it makes the process of killing the animal way more brutal. I’m no PETA advocate, but I don’t see the sense in making an animal suffer anymore than it has to.
There are Christians on this forum (obvious) and I wouldn’t be surprised if they had qualms consuming foods sacrificed to a false Idol.
Personally, when I eat out, I don’t think twice whether it’s Kosher or Halal. Now thinking about it, two of the restaurants I frequent, one is Lebanese and the other is Israeli. They probably use Halal and Kosher products.
But food I purchase to cook in my house? I wouldn’t buy halal.[/quote]
It is neither sacrificed to a god and the god it would be sacrificed to if it was is supposedly the same as the Christian one. [/quote]
It’s slaughtered in the name of Allah.
The Muslim slaughterman says the following before slaughtering: in the name of Allah, Allah is greatest (Bismillah, Allah Akbar)
[/quote]
In the name of =/= sacrificed to.
Also, Allah just means God. [/quote]
According to this video, they are being sacrificed to Allah. The animal must also face Mecca