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[Alby_da_Wolf]

SamuelRSmith said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

I made it on purpose. I always thought that a fundamentalist imam twisting the precepts up to persuade his disciples that a pig can be made halal would give me quite a lot of lulz.    BTW I knew some Northern African muslims (not fundamentalists) that eat pig and some that admitted that in periods of shortage of food in poor villages they ate pig too. And a large part of muslim immigrants in my town drink alcohol.

Indeed, I know a few who drink alcohol. I also know a couple who eat non-halal chicken, etc... but still refuse to eat pork. Funny how different people follow the rules differently.

While those that do it can be relatively in large number in my town (*), I know too that stretching the rules up to admitting pig is considered quite bad by most Muslims, not necessarily fundamentalists, in many countries. Anyway, like the same rule for Hebrews, it was born for hygienic reasons tied to the life in desertic or semidesertic environments, the most educated know it. While the rules against alcohol were born due to the negative effects of its abuse on society, that were quite amplified in countries where the basic, and almost sole, outside of towns, units of society were families, clans and tribes, the feuds between which were one of the biggest worries for Mohammed in his effort to unify the Arab people.

(*) I suspect that the fact that Italian sausages and cured pig meats are amongst the best in the world plays a not small role in persuading many immigrants.