Muslim Care Home Staff Stopped Residents Eating Bacon Sandwiches

[Picaro]

Many of those old dietary laws were good advice; it was indeed dangerous to eat pork and certain dairy products in times where there was no refrigeration, in a Middle eastern climate. It was just common sense, and obviously there were morons who were doing it anyway, or else they wouldn't have brought up dietary laws in the first place. Many of the diseases that were passed on through pork and dairy have been largely wiped out now, so it's not an issue any more. If it weren't an issue then, they wouldn't have bothered, and if those who made the laws then were alive now, they would have no problem now with eating the stuff. It had little to do with religion, really, just a role in lifestyle habits, not theology.

 

[Coyote]

Cuing leftist outrage in 3, 2......oh wait, it's Muslims. The left will support this

Not necessarily. Just I think it depends.

Imagine they forbid beef or something like that. Would anyone kick up a stink? Not really, there's lots of food that might not get eaten in an "old folks home" just because they decided they can't be bothered.

If the old people are getting food to live, then what's the problem?

Sure, religious is ridiculous, banning food for religious reasons even more so. And if these people weren't doing their job, then it's a case for the people who employ them.

Let muslims work in a muslim only care center. If the patients want bacon sandwiches, no orderly or care worker should tell them they can't eat. IF their prescribed diet permist them to eat bacon and it is made for them, no muslims worker should refuse to serve them their food. Food servers wear gloves anyway so what is their problem?

If muslims don't want to eat pork, that applies to them not the rest of the world.

Musims don't have a right to force their beliefs onto others. If they do then they don't even know their quran.

And if they truly did not want to or felt they could not serve it, they could get another orderly to handle it - there is no need to refuse it to the patient.