Forget horse meat, it's pork in Halal prison grub now.

estebanrey · 1 Feb 2013 at 23:58

In an event the will see a lot less gags on TV and far more on mobile phones than the Tesco Horse burger scandal, it seems some firm has been supplying UK prisons with supposed halal meat that contained traces of pork DNA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21302925

You thought a few stern letters and a small drop in sales for Tesco was bad, you wait for the impending riots over this.

It doesn't matter though because the Qu'ran says this....

He has made unlawful for you that which dies of itself (caracas) and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which the name of any other than Allah has been invoked. But he who is driven by necessity, being neither disobedient nor exceeding the limit, then surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.

So actually no Islamic law has actually been broken, Allah's pretty cool about it, but that will probably be forgotten.

harshuk · 1 Feb 2013 at 23:59

Wow let the war commence!

yhack · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:10

Send them back?

estebanrey · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:13

yhack said:
Send them back?

Muslims or the pasties? :confused:

doofer · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:13

They should all be on bread and water, prisoners probably eat better than some pensioners and low income families in this country.

yhack · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:15

estebanrey said:
Muslims or the pasties?

Can it be both? *evasive maneuver*

TaKeN · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:15

doofer said:
They should all be on bread and water, prisoners probably eat better than some pensioners and low income families in this country.

Agreed.

Craterloads · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:21

I think your expecting too much

maybe a few complaints and rightly so, but no riots I assure you

prisoners haven't broken any rules as is out if their hands and eaten unknowingly.

Westyfield2 · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:22

Didn't even know that prisons served Halal.

doofer said:
They should all be on bread and water, prisoners probably eat better than some pensioners and low income families in this country.

Disappointed that this wasn't the first response. Beggars can't be choosers and whilst prisons shouldn't starve people, the option should simply be "take it or leave it".

Malevolence · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:23

If they didn't commit the crimes to get sent to prison in the first place, then they wouldn't be in this predicament. No sympathy for them here. Now, I wonder how long it'll be before the public purse has to stump up wads of cash to compensate these people and send them to counselling?

Bennie-Mac · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:33

They are already screwed in the eyes of Allah by committing crimes that warrant a prison sentence in the first place, so a bit of pork isnt going to do any more harm.

Nitefly · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:35

estebanrey said:
It doesn't matter though because the Qu'ran says this....

That's not really the point though is it. They don't want to eat it and they feel strongly about it, so giving it to people under a false pretence is pretty damn bad.

Hopefully standards will rise across the board after these gaffs.

Woden · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:37

Craterloads said:
I think your expecting too much maybe a few complaints and rightly so, but no riots I assure you prisoners haven't broken any rules as is out if their hands and eaten unknowingly.

Pretty sure they have

At the end of the day I don't give a flying whooha what their beliefs are. They are in a prison, not a premier inn.

Robbo · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:43

Those poor, poor prisoners.

Wait, hang on a minute...

Craterloads · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:44

Woden said:
Pretty sure they have

At the end of the day I don't give a flying whooha what their beliefs are. They are in a prison, not a premier inn.

I'm sorry but, huh?

Clearly they are in prison, and not premier in. Not sure what what that has to do with op.

estebanrey · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:46

Nitefly said:
That's not really the point though is it. They don't want to eat it and they feel strongly about it, so giving it to people under a false pretence is pretty damn bad.

Hopefully standards will rise across the board after these gaffs.

So the actual words in the teachings of the religion don't matter?

Craterloads · 2 Feb 2013 at 00:50

estebanrey said:
So the actual words in the teachings of the religion don't matter?

Well now that it is known.....

Deadbeat · 2 Feb 2013 at 01:01

Oh look, a potentially controversial topic in GD concerning a commonly misunderstood Islamist belief - I'll bet this will produce a whole bunch of insightful and poignant comments that are as beneficial to me as Mr. Rogers' Fully Intentional Lecture On How To Identify And Avoid Paedophiles.

****ing score.

Woden · 2 Feb 2013 at 01:09

Craterloads said:
I'm sorry but, huh?

Clearly they are in prison, and not premier in. Not sure what what that has to do with op.

They have done something wrong. That is why they are in prison. In prison, certain freedoms are taken away. Like say, the freedom to chose your meal. That freedom isn't taken away when you stay in a permier inn, as you haven't done anything wrong.

Which is why I don't really care what they are fed, so long as it is not inhumane. They could be made to chow down on bacon butties dipped in cider for all I care. If they really cared about their diet, they wouldn't have done something to put it at risk.

Come on man, it's hardly rocket surgery!

Craterloads · 2 Feb 2013 at 01:23

Woden said:
They have done something wrong. That is why they are in prison. In prison, certain freedoms are taken away. Like say, the freedom to chose your meal. That freedom isn't taken away when you stay in a permier inn, as you haven't done anything wrong.

Which is why I don't really care what they are fed, so long as it is not inhumane. They could be made to chow down on bacon butties dipped in cider for all I care. If they really cared about their diet, they wouldn't have done something to put it at risk.

Come on man, it's hardly rocket surgery!

Clearly you are not rocket surgeon

I think the issue here is the meal offered isn't as described. Anyhow it appears you are not one for rational reasoning so I will leave you to it.