Hotdogs to get a name change in Muslim Malaysia
A raise of prohibited dogs. PHOTO: REUTERS / FILE
KUALA LUMPUR: Food outlets in Muslim-majority Malaysia contingency rename hotdogs or risk being refused halal certification, a supervision eremite management pronounced on Tuesday.
The ruling, that also includes other food equipment whose name includes a word “dog”, has garnered most gibe on amicable media. It follows complaints by Muslim tourists from overseas, pronounced Sirajuddin Suhaimee, executive of a halal multiplication from a Department of Islamic Development.
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“Any (halal) products that make consumers confused, we have to change,” he said. “In Islam, dogs are deliberate soiled and a name can't be associated to halal certification.” Numerous travel vendors and halal restaurants sell hotdogs in Malaysia. Sirajuddin pronounced checks would be done “step-by-step” when these outlets replenish their two-year halal acceptance with a department.
US pretzel sequence Aunty Anne’s, that has 45 outlets in Malaysia with skeleton to enhance further, told AFP it has no qualms about renaming a pretzel dogs — sausages wrapped with pretzels — following recommendation from eremite authorities. “It’s a teenager issue. We are excellent with changing a name and are still operative on it,” pronounced Farhatul Kamilah Mohamed Sazali, an executive during Aunty Anne’s Malaysia.
Sirajuddin, who endorsed pretzel dogs be called pretzel sausages, pronounced Aunty Anne’s halal acceptance focus is now being considered. Among a many critics on amicable media, one Facebook user remarked: “Please hang to religion… don’t be an English denunciation adviser.” Another posted: “Pet shops greatfully rename ur dogs as sausages.”
Sirajuddin discharged as “normal reaction” a online criticism. “We are doing a jobs, by a law,” he said. Under a judgment of halal — definition “permissible” in Arabic — pig and a by-products, ethanol and animals not slaughtered according to Islamic procedures are all “haram” or forbidden.
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Malaysia has prolonged practised a assuage form of Islam though regressive attitudes are rising. A association final year introduced halal bottled vegetable H2O in Malaysia, and Islamic speed dating sessions — where singular women are chaperoned — have been embraced.
A halal gathering in Kuala Lumpur final year, that drew thousands of representatives and hundreds of exhibitors, showcased products trimming from food and cosmetics to collagen constructed from yaks in Tibet.
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