Come AP can you tell of any lengthy talk with runner?
He is not a Christian.
And no conversationalist .

Isn't this all a waste of time... Iftikhar himself, despite starting the thread, tells us "Meat is meat. What does it matter how it’s killed?"

So it is a total non-issue.

Dear Austin P.,

Actually the opposite is true.
Google the transcript of the show for yourself and read it.
The reason I'm leaving is that I don't see the
point of continuing a discussion with someone who
is not sensitive to his own sins and is more inclined
to judge others so harshly. A person must be both stupid
and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue of
truth but on his own side.

Cheers.

The concept of Halal in foodstuffs is really just a marketing issue and done by manufacturers to increase sales.

It's not some sort of overt conspiracy to convert the population to Islam by forcing them to eat food somehow imbued with magical powers.

It's not much different from "kosher", "low-fat", "no added sugar" or the Heart Foundation tick of approval slogans made to get people to buy their product in preference to another.

Maybe a warning sticker saying "Danger - may contain traces of Halal products" is what some would prefer.

Is pork, crocodile, kangaroo, rabbit, camel meats Halal? All these meats are available in Sydney and in most supermarkets. Majority muslim communities would ban these meats depriving me of pork crackling.

This Muslim Iftikhar is on a crusade to change the world by laws and local practise. They continue to uphold ancient health laws regarding pork as unclean that have since been shown to be misguided. For Christians there are no unclean meats if it is food. Indonesian Islands ride on the pigs back as a prime food source, and dogs as a secondary meat source.

This Muslim Iftikhar is on a crusade to change the world by laws and local practise.
Josephus,
By the looks of things they've past the halfway mark in doing that.