What is this country coming too??

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

From the little I know about it, Halal food does not entirely appear to be unappetising to me?

Do you know how they kill the animals? It sounds like cruelty to me! I have eaten Halal before, the takeaways round Birmingham are often Halal only meat. It tastes exactly the same as normal meat though, (hang on, it is normal meat!). A muslim guy lived with my GF at uni and in their flat they used to cook for each other, whenever someone else was cooking meat he might be eating (happened quite often!) he insisted on going to get it himself, I think he thought someone else would cut a corner and get it from Tesco's!

I dont think its correct, why should non-muslims HAVE to cover up etc and follow the muslim rules if they are not muslim?
Worlds gone mad.
Im NOT racist etc BUT this is Great Britain/England, why should we have to follow their rules?? i could understand if it was the other way round but this is stupid!
How is it supposed to help different races/cultures mix and accept other cultures/beliefs? it doesnt, it just gets peoples back up!

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

From the little I know about it, Halal food does not entirely appear to be unappetising to me?

A bit on halal: http://www.aboutfood.co.uk/spotlight/halal.html

I can understand the pork restriction though - having seen pigs in India eating the contents of the toilets.

Originally Posted by lynw

If HMRC hired the park out for its staff and you went on that day, then you would have to abide by their rules ie no dope [if you were into that sort of thing], no bootlegged ciggies or alcohol [if you had any]. Not the best example but just to make a point, that if someone hires it out and they have done so for their staff then you have to abide by their rules. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with that for everyone else, but because its muslims it gives you all a chance to do a bit of muslim bashing.

You've just pointed out a subtlety that makes the difference here: If HMRC hired the park out for its staff

As in, it's not a public event.

From what I understand what's happening here though, it's a public event (albeit not organised by the park its self, but that isn't important) open only to a select group. That, however you dress it up, is descrimination.

I did not pass comment as to how the animals were killed I merely passed comment on the food itself. There are those that might equally frown upon the stun gun method,I don't know?

For someone to imagine that a piece of Halal meat would magically taste different than the same cut by another name just shows ignorance of the topic in general I am afraid.
Apart from the method of executing the animals, it is more to do with the foods and other elements that are NOT used in Halal food that are perhaps more important. Plus how Halal food is not in any way allowed to come in to any kind of contact with frowned upon substances.

As mentioned I am definitely no expert on this topic but am checking a few things out before posting.

[Spiderman]

If it was booked by a Gay group and the had pink foods on sale and insisted that peeps "dress up" for the occasion i think a lot of people would find that a little amusing, wouldnt they.

no one would be saying "but why should i have to eat pink ice cream that day!" would they?

A Leisure Company has hired it out, just happens they specialise in Muslim days out and attract that type of crowd. So what? Why all the hooha?

Even the girl who had the wedding booked says "The people with Islamic Leisure want their day as much as we do. I don't blame them at all. But Alton Towers shouldn't have done this. They should at least have rung us to discuss it."

To tell other users of the park that they have to dress a certain way because of the other users is a bit much tho, imho .

Originally Posted by Jabba-the-Hutt

I agree with you.



Would love to know what Akbar thinks about it

Well, he asked me to post his thoughts for him. He thinks that anyone that is 'outraged' by the actions of having a muslim only day at a theme park really should take a long look at themselves. As has rightly been pointed out, nobody seemed to care anything when AT have done similar in the past for Christians.

And as for complaining about Halal food - aren't AT simply trying their best to cater for a group of people. Pretty good PR on tehir part. Good PR = good £.

Why not get off your low horse, and complain about something worthwhile, say, the Neo-con/zionist bombardment of civilian targets in Lebanon.

Yours lovingly,

(Sn)A(c)kbar

Getting slow in your old age 43 mins since this thread started

you're not Akbar, there were no tedious 'LOLs' in your post!

Originally Posted by helen

you're not Akbar, there were no tedious 'LOLs' in your post!

lol