lol if people object to the word halal -
what makes you think they would want
to pay for haram label 
haram is used to refer to any act that is forbidden by Allah, and is one of five Islamic commandments
Shariah food demand shows halal stock promise
Eight years ago, Taleb Mohamad Almahmoud started importing a non-alcoholic beer popular in the Middle East to Malaysia. Now he's bringing more than 300,000 bottles of Dubai-brewed Barbican into the country a month.
"There are many Arabs here and they like the drink because there's no alcohol," the Syrian-born Almahmoud said in an interview near his shop in downtown Kuala Lumpur that also stocks spices, couscous, pickled olives and Turkish coffee. "Malaysians like it too."
The popularity of halal products such as Barbican that comply with the Koran's tenets helped drive a 4.6 per cent gain in the SAMI Halal Food Index of shares this year, beating the 0.2 per cent rise in the Bloomberg World Food Index by miles.
The industry's expansion is also flowing through to debt markets, with the Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre estimating companies involved in Shariah-compliant food, textiles, tourism and healthcare have sold $US5 billion of sukuk - the Islamic equivalent of bonds - to date.
The outlook for the $US2 trillion ($2.3 trillion) global halal industry that also includes fashion and entertainment is underpinned by a worldwide Muslim population that the Pew Research Center sees growing at twice the rate of non-believers through 2030.
Demographics like that have lured the world's biggest food company Nestle, which markets Shariah-compliant noodles and breakfast cereals.
'Obvious conduit'
"Halal is a huge industry and the growth rate is massive," said Baiza Bain, a director at Islamic finance consultancy Amanie Advisors in Melbourne. "Companies are making sure that they adopt the inclusiveness policy that will broaden their market."
Spending by Muslim consumers on halal products and services worldwide is forecast to increase by more than half to $US2.47 trillion by 2018 from 2012, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based MIFC.
Nestle (Malaysia) ships its products to more than 50 countries and may soon start exporting to Europe and South America, said Zainun Abdul Rauf, executive director for corporate affairs.
@*julia*2010 wrote:lol if people object to the word halal -
what makes you think they would want
to pay for haram label
haram is used to refer to any act that is forbidden by Allah, and is one of five Islamic commandments
If missing the point was an Olympic sport, your name would be a household word.
@am*3 wrote:
George Christensen uses Vegemite to suggest halal products are funding terrorism and sharia
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/george-christensen-uses-vegemite-to-suggest-ha...
I would expect more from a MP than that.
surely not from that particular MP, he almost makes the abbott look smart.
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