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Re: You better be careful this year, you may be eating a Muslim turkey...

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You can't honestly think that if a major nationwide grocery chain actually DID set aside a Halal section that it would go unnoticed by the Rightwing media. After all, look at what happened with Butterball. I suspect that many of these same people would just a quickly make a big deal about Kosher foods on store shelves but they know that mainstream Americans wouldn't see that as acceptable speech. Perhaps in a few years popular opinion will be just as outraged over anti-Muslim rhetoric.

And while your statistics are basically correct, 1.7% of US residents are Jewish while only 0.6% are Muslim (according to figures from 2007 as reported in the CIA World Factbook), I suspect that a higher percentage of Muslims adhere to Halal restrictions than do Jews sticking to Kosher, at least on a day-to-day basis (high-holidays being the exception).




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Re: You better be careful this year, you may be eating a Muslim turkey...
By: Decomposed
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Wed, 23 Nov 11 11:25 PM
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re: "I read awhile back that while major grocery chains almost all have sections where they highlight that the products are Kosher, that virtually none of them have section for Halal labeled foods."

Probably because there are three times as many U.S. Jews as U.S. Muslims.

And "awhile back," as you put it, the ratio was far more extreme. The Muslim population in the United States is rocketing upward.


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