What is the reason behind the Islamic religion not allowing ham to be eaten?
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pork in many religions is considered unclean
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I rarely eat pork.\nPork is not forbidden for Christians.\nAll things are lawful, but not all are expedient\nJust use moderation and common sense.\n\nruby.rodd,\nChrist did not put away or end the Law.\nHe FULFILLED it.\nThe problem is, most do not understand it.\n\nBTW, According to LEVITICUS chicken is also an unclean animal.\n Do you eat chicken?
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What you need to look up is the Kosher Laws on dietary requirement.\n\nDo not mix milk and meat (from thou shalt not cook the child in the mothers milk)\nParve (vegetable in origin this includes wheat etc) can be eaten with either milk or meat.\nYou must wait several hours between eating meat or milk before consuming the opposite product typically 6 hour in Arabic countries 4 in hours in European.\nYou may only eat of animals with a cloven hoof,\nCrustaceans cannot be eaten.\nBirds that sit on a wire with 2 toes either side may not be eaten (birds of prey)\nOnly one type of locust can be eaten though I don't know which one.\nYou may not eat of leaven products during passover (yeast products)
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Who said that? \nIn my country, many Muslims pets dog, and bred pigs too even they may not eat it..Im not Muslim, but that's the fact that i got..\n\nMissinformation i think
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Yes it's Haram (Or forbidden):\n-No drinking\n-No selling\n-No working in any place where it's sold.\n\nWhy? Alcohol causes temporary insanity (disgrace to a human), and can lead to liver damage.
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No.  And they serve pork.  But you can ask for your child to have no pork if you like.  They can't do anything about the Halal beef, other than possibly (a) suggest that you send lunch for your child yourself or (b) suggest a vegetarian lunch instead.\n\nThere are 2 Muslim students at my school.  One of them eats vegetarian, because his parents do not want him to eat beef that isn't Halal.  The other one eats other beef, but just eats a special diet of "no pork" -- so that when we have sausage, pepperoni or ham, they will give her something else.\n\nWe are a state school, however, and your school may not do this for your children.  They may simply tell you that you have to provide your own lunches if you have this dietary requirement.\n\nHope it helps.
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Pork has traditionally been a meat that requires longer cooking times and higher heat to remove the presence of bacteria and microscopic worms.  Thus the texts that outline the dietary standards for these civilizations and religions forbade pork due to health concerns.  This transposed into people considering that devils, demons and other denizens of evil resided in the porcine animals.  You can also see this effect in the Devil sometimes being seen with cloven hoof.
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No religion supports suicide bombings. In Islam it is forbidden to kill yourself, hence tobacco is not allowed as it is deemed to be a form of suicide. Suicide bombers are not and never will be Islamic. Islam is a tolerant religion that has been bastardised in the same way as Christianity was in the days of the Inquisition. It would pay for more moderate Muslims to speak up on this subject, but Peace and love do not sell news copy as well as fear and hate.
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I agree with you 100%.  It is Thanksgiving Day.  That's what it's always been, and should always be.  It's not just about eating a turkey, it's about thanks for all that we have.  Personally, I don't even like turkey; I prefer ham.  But I still wouldn't call it Ham Day.  lol
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Muslims don't eat pork because it is haraam, unclean and forbidden.\n\nMany Hindus [though definitely not all] are vegetarian- they don't eat pork and beef in addition to chicken, turkey, fish, mutton, and any other kind of meat- because they believe in the sacredness of all life and ahimsa [nonviolence]. They see killing an animal as an act of violence. Also, an animal, being equal with humans in that its life is also valued and sacred, has as much right to live, in their belief, as a human. Almost all Hindus stay away from beef, even if they eat other kinds of meat, because in our belief the cow is life-giving and particularly worthy of respect. We believe that it is wrong to kill a cow because cows provide milk, manure which acts like fertilizer for the soil [many Hindus lived off agriculture in the past] and many other essentials. Lord Krishna, a Hindu God who was an avatar of Vishnu, was a cowherd and loved cows dearly.
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ISLAM  because it is difficult to change their system of operation
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In the Muslim world, pigs are the lowest, dirtiest animals and it is forbidden to eat them.  To give a pig the human qualities of speech, intelligence and a personality is highly blasphemous!
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That is why I firmly state that Islam is not a tolerant religion and is the cause for conflicts throughout the world. It is a religion that doesn't consider human rights at all. I'm not saying I'm against the Muslims, just that they have to make their religion flexible to be able to be in peace with others.
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My religion tells me to eat only the clean and healthy things in this world.\n\nMy religion tells me that we eat to live, and that we don't live to eat. It tells me that if I had chicken then I should cook it and make a lot of soup so that I would be able to give some of it to those who need it.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only when I'm hungry, and that I am better off sleeping with an empty stomach then to sleep bloated with food I didn't need to eat in the first place.\n\nMy religion tells me to eat only what is 'halal', and pure, and to thank God for the grace that He has shed upon me. \n\nThat's what my religion tells me about food. and that is why I am so found of it.
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The consumtion of alcohol is prohibited in most Muslims belief's.  When in Rome do as the Romans do.  We are guests in their country, even if we did not ask them if they wanted us there.  We should not do anything that goes against that.
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Some Christians don't know all the answers, that's what there is to fall back on. There are answers for those questions however..\n\n\nWhat do you think they ate while they were on the ark? There has been lots of research done on these issues.\n\n\n\n\nedit: Just wanted to say that the Muslims do not have the logical answers. There are so many contradictions in the  Koran it's not even funny.
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both muslims and jews would, if they knew it came from hogs, probably not accept it as a medicinal product, not because it wouldn't help, but because , to them, pork, and anything derived from it, is unclean to them. however, some jews, and possibly muslims, who do not fully follow the dietary laws, would probably allow the medicine to be used.\ni know that some of the reformed jews even eat bacon and ham because they are aware of the original purpose of the ditery laws as being used to prevent the ingestion of certain organisms which can cause extreme illness, and even death, when the meat is not fully cooked. pork is a transmitter of the smal cysytic parasite which causes elephantiasis, an illness which causes the leg to become huge, and useless as a limb used to walk on.