Australia: No Ham for Christmas, might offend Muslim patients

[LadyEagle]

No ham for Christmas: Muslim menu for WA hospital
By TREVOR PADDENBURG
18dec05
A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended.

It has also overhauled its entire menu so that all meals are now halal – containing only meat and other food prepared according to Muslim customs.

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[billwald]

Never worried about offending Jewish patients. I have concluded that Christians have traditionally used ham intentionally to offend Jews.

 

[Ben W]

This was tried in a council in Victoria and lasted all of one day, the public backlash was to great. The pork industry is struggling in Australia, and stunts like this get people angry.

As an aside, if the hospital serves only halaal meat to patients then they are actually offending Christians because they are forcing them to eat meat that has been offered to an idol. All halaal meat is pointed towards the black rock in the direction of mecca as it is slaughtered and blessed. Christians may eat meat that is sacrificed to idols if they wish, yet they also have the right to say no to it also.

 

[just-want-peace]

---then they are actually offending Christians---

This, of course, is no problem for the PC.

 

[Melanie]

What a load of pork........

Never mind offending the Christians as all ready stated!