Should the Burqa be banned in Australia

[nero_bolt]

Should the Burqa and Niqab be banned in Australia?

[azureline**]

I check my food labels for gluten free, sugar free, content. Other than that, only free of preservatives colours and added sugar, the rest, I don't really have time to be concerned.

If certification is paid for (like the heart tick), that is the choice of the owners of the company, none of my business, it's a marketing ploy/tactic/tool. It affects their profits so must be worthwhile or they wouldn't do it.

Cerification on food products takes manpower, employs people, no one would do it for free.

[bushies.girl]

Well to be honest I wouldn't have a clue, I buy what I buy, dont read food labels

[iapetus_rocks]

With regards to food, it is my understanding that only foods containing meat or meat products need to be certified as halal (for orthodox Muslim consumption), all non-meat-containing foods are necessarily halal.

The opposite of halal is haram (forbidden or defiling) and alcohol and intoxicating drugs fall into this category.

Anecdotal story follows. . .  please disregard if you wish. 😉

(just an aside, But I know a few people who have worked in Saudi Arabia as nurses and they told me that if you take a drive out into the desert you will see dotted around the landscape, little piles made up from empty alcohol bottles and cans, discarded by parties of young men who can't drink it with safety at home; they needs must hide their illegal activity lest they face arrest and prosecution at law.)

Now, the people who leave these piles of bottles are not acting in the spirit of islam, rather they are consuming haram products.

Hypocrisy doesn't just exist in Western democracies. And yet, these are the same young men who will harras and report to the religious police any instance of a woman's failure to comply with an oppressive dress code.

And as for women over there having the "courage" to take the family car out for a spin? Forget it.

[bushies.girl]

OMG I dont have time to read all that, in, buy, out, works for me

[purplecarrot-top]

I read the labels very closely. My diet at the moment makes it necessary. Can be a real pain. As for halal certification labels does not worry me in the least.

[bushies.girl]

If you have to for health reasons that different

[purplecarrot-top]

Other than health reasons I like to buy Australian made or brands that employ Australian.

One reason I will not boycott halal certification is that these companies employ Australians. And our unemployment rate is high enough.

[punch*drunk]

I'm a label checker too, I check everything for nasty chemicals. Its tedious at first but then you just fall into a routine of buying the same products most of the time.

I'm getting old, I cant read the tiny little numbers on the labels without glasses nowadays   If only I could remember to take my glasses shopping with me.

[cherry*135]

There was a controversy over The Heart Foundation' tick a year or so ago. Brands paid to be able to put the tick on their products ($100, 000?). Which made some consumers think.. Is it the product worthy of a tick or did they just pay to get the tick.

Similar to halal..brands are paying for that.

[cherry*135]

My daughter spent a month living in Malaysia recently.. Alcohol is sold ( in bars) only to tourists (at a fairly expensive price).
How would Muslims get there hands on it?

Iap*rocks.. Do the young men go home and breath beery/spirits breath over their parents?