The Octonaut

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    toCool Guides@lemmy.caA Cool Guide to Kosher and Halal Food
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    2 months ago

    It goes further than that. If you’re away from home and in a place where halal is not available, or you are a guest in someone’s home and it was not reasonable for you to bring your own food, then eating anything is halal. And even without these things, there is ritual cleansing.

    Intent matters.

    Like there was an intense controversy in Malaysia a few years ago where a traveling “show” called “I Want To Touch A Dog” allowed Malay Muslims to come, touch a cute dog, and then quickly perform 7 ritual cleansing steps. The argument centred on the intent - driving to a place to touch a dog shows an intent to break the rule, and might even invalidate the cleansing.

    All mumbo jumbo of course but it’s interesting at least.