Comments on: Times non-story about Muslim eating scruples http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/02/25/times_non-story_about_muslim_eating_scruples Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: whatever http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/02/25/times_non-story_about_muslim_eating_scruples#comment-481 whatever Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:37:54 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/02/25/times_non-story_about_muslim_eating_scruples#comment-481 This is one of those stories where the perception of something becomes a dogmatic rule. The whole issue lacks a sensible understanding and is pushed forward as an example of the eccentricities of Muslims by the enlightened Muslim-haters with the help of dogmatic Muslims. It is good to make a stand against the pitiful oppressors but sometimes I get the feeling that we should use our Intelligence with the guidance of the Quran rather than separating things into black and white dogmas. My understanding is that alcohol was prohibited in Islam as some people would come to prayers intoxicated. Eating walkers crisps with trace amounts of alcohol wouldn't lead to such a state I would have thought. As a result I cannot see why it would be an issue. I would welcome some feedback on this. The "news" story to me sounds like one shopkeeper who decides he wants to show the world that he understands something and wants to be acknowledged for it without thinking of the ramifications. Then you get the "free" press jumping all over it. The intelligent, enlightened reporters at the Times, Daily Mail and Daily Express who hold their freedom of speech as an idol, seem to only print their own free views and suppress, omit or ignore the views of many non-white, non-Xenophobic, non-Zionist, non-Christianist, non-Islamophobic people. That by their definition must be freedom of speech. This is one of those stories where the perception of something becomes a dogmatic rule. The whole issue lacks a sensible understanding and is pushed forward as an example of the eccentricities of Muslims by the enlightened Muslim-haters with the help of dogmatic Muslims. It is good to make a stand against the pitiful oppressors but sometimes I get the feeling that we should use our Intelligence with the guidance of the Quran rather than separating things into black and white dogmas.

My understanding is that alcohol was prohibited in Islam as some people would come to prayers intoxicated.

Eating walkers crisps with trace amounts of alcohol wouldn’t lead to such a state I would have thought. As a result I cannot see why it would be an issue. I would welcome some feedback on this.

The “news” story to me sounds like one shopkeeper who decides he wants to show the world that he understands something and wants to be acknowledged for it without thinking of the ramifications. Then you get the “free” press jumping all over it.

The intelligent, enlightened reporters at the Times, Daily Mail and Daily Express who hold their freedom of speech as an idol, seem to only print their own free views and suppress, omit or ignore the views of many non-white, non-Xenophobic, non-Zionist, non-Christianist, non-Islamophobic people. That by their definition must be freedom of speech.

]]> By: Yunus Yakoub Islam http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/02/25/times_non-story_about_muslim_eating_scruples#comment-480 Yunus Yakoub Islam Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:34:52 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/02/25/times_non-story_about_muslim_eating_scruples#comment-480 Elizabeth Poole's research points to themes that lead to journalists judging a "Muslim" story newsworthy. I think this one made The Times because it was newsworthy on three counts - it was an "oversensitive Muslim" story; an "Aren't they a funny lot (exotic 'other')" story; and recently gaining ground, a "Sharia story" (Sharia being a monolithic rule book which all Muslims obey without question). Elizabeth Poole’s research points to themes that lead to journalists judging a “Muslim” story newsworthy. I think this one made The Times because it was newsworthy on three counts - it was an “oversensitive Muslim” story; an “Aren’t they a funny lot (exotic ‘other’)” story; and recently gaining ground, a “Sharia story” (Sharia being a monolithic rule book which all Muslims obey without question).

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