Monday, May 14, 2007
Eat more pork!
There are many reasons why I'm not a Muslim. The rigid Islamic prohibition against eating pork, however, has to be in the top three.
The British news outlet Muslim Weekly explains why Muslims can't eat pork:
"The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and to attain purity of soul. There is a saying in English that 'a man becomes what he eats.' According to physicians and medical experts, pork is a harmful diet. Consumption of swine-flesh creates lowliness in character and destroys moral and spiritual faculties in a man.
"Consumption of swine-flesh reduces the feeling of shame and as such the standard of modesty. Those nations, which consume pork habitually, have a low standard of morality with the result that virginity, chastity and bashfulness are becoming a thing of the past."
Now, my grandfather raised hogs and cured country hams for some 60 years. He would've spit "backer" juice (Red Man green, of course) in the eye of anyone who said he was low of character.
I wonder if there's any Mayo's Country Sausage in the frig ... ?
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, May 14, 2007 
