‘Halal Pork’? Pranksters Under Investigation November 5, 2007
What in the hell is this?
NTUC FairPrice said it will make a police report over “a deliberate and wilful act of mischief” to tamper with its packaging of “Pasar Fresh Pork”. It said it takes such matters seriously. A photo by a MediaCorp viewer showed a pack of NTUC’s Pasar pork with a halal sticker from the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore. FairPrice clarified the original packaging has no halal sticker.
OK - after seeing the debacles in Monsey, NY where nonkosher meat was mislabeled as kosher (intentionally) and Brooklyn where “glatt kosher” labels were placed on kosher meat of lesser standard, two words jump to my mind: inside job. Either someone who had access to these Islamic Religious Council labels did this, or the person who did this has some connection to Islamic Religious Council stationery, etc.
Not to mention, we are not talking about a minor infraction of sharia here. We’re talking about pork. No store employee would have inadvertently done something like this.
How does this benefit anyone? One is not “wrestling power” into the hands of a “secular majority” by attaching these labels — one advances no cause by attempting to screw with the heads of innocent shoppers simply looking for halal food to prepare for their families. NTUC FairPrice is completely justified in seeking criminal redress (and, in Singapore, that could equal a physically painful price), and I pray that no sincere All-h-fearing Muslim person got caught up in this oh-it’s-so-funny act of anti-religious prejudice.
Yitz -
This is disgusting, and the perpetrators SHOULD be caned…. if not executed. To tamper willfully with the religious practices of another, and cause them to violate their religious beliefs is a matter of gravest concern….
In fairness, it IS pretty funny…
Just FYI, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. But in THAT case it was a typo.