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I was at a butcher’s section of Safeway and a Muslim lady was very scared and wore three layers of gloves in the same hands in order to pick some pork chops up. Why are Muslims and Jews so scared of pork? Do they think there is some disease in there like AIDS? Smallpox? Satan’s possession? Soul?

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[alisha]

pork well ok jews believe that you should not eat an animal with a split hoof, something about the devil yes. also pork when you cook it and everything there is one living cell remaining. a cell that doesnt die. therefore they are eating a living thing..

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[EJ]

I cannot speak for Muslims, but Jews are not allowed to eat Pork. Jews are only allowed to eat animals that have spilt hooves and that chew their cud. That’s why cows are fine, as well as deer and goat and lamb. However, pigs only have split hooves but do not chew their cud. Yet, there is no prohibition to pet a pig (if you so desire) or move pork out of the way at the local meat section of your supermarket to get to something you want.

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[Ralph]

Pork is ‘Unclean’ according to Jewish and Muslim religions.

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[Jade21049]

Muslims eat only halal meat. i think this lady was scared that she might touch the meat because pork is seen as unclean in her religion. They don’t think that it contains AIDS, smallpox or Satan….that would be a bit moronic don’t you think?

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[Teenager]

How do you know it was religion that made this person do this?Maybe they were sick or something. I know Jews and Muslims and no they don’t think anyhting about AIDS or Satan’s Possession as do certain people who wouldn’t care to confront the person themselves such as yourself. I don’t eat pork myself and I don’t like to touch it because it is dirty and because there is always a lot of blood.

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[Jason31247]

It all started back in Biblical times. Before refrigeration and sanitation, when many meats and foods were not properly cleaned or cared for. Pigs can carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans, so when people kept getting sick when they ate pork, some wise religious leaders decided to forbid it. Though they may not have known it was the bacteria and not the meat itself, and they may have thought it was a punishment from God, it was still a good idea. It’s still around today because its a tradition. Much the same way saying ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes. Back then, the meat truly was unclean, and I’m sure you know, old habits die hard.

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[Dreggas]

I believe Muslims also do not eat pork as the meat is considered ‘unclean’ due to how pigs as animals were once viewed, ie wallowing in mud and eating pretty much anything that came their way. Due to the scrounging nature of a pig (they root around in dirt for food and such in nature) they often would get worms which could be passed to humans when they ate the meat. However that is not the case anymore, as in the U.S. most countries have hog farms that feed the pigs grain rather than letting them scrounge for food which usually prevents the pig from contracting any type of disease or parasite found in the ground. However religious doctrines in some religions still forbid the eating of pork so those edicts are adhered to by followers of that religion.

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[Jeremy19959]

Jews and Muslims are both ‘ children of Abraham ‘ so their dietary laws are very similar. The common sense reason for the prohibition aginst pork is simple: way back in the tribal days in the Middle East, pigs were your all-purpose garbage disposial system – that is one reason they were considered unclean. Another reason for the prohibition is back then and even today, undercooked pork can cause a disease called tritchinosis. The risk these days is minimual but be on the safeside – cook pork to well-done.

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[Noaf]

Muslims and Jews don’t eat pork. I don’t think anyone is afraid of touching pork meat or pigs as though they have some epidermic disease or something. That’s funny. I’m Muslim and I wouldn’t have done what that lady did.

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[Jason31235]

Jews and Muslims can’t eat pork likely because eating pork in ancient times could be a dangerous venture. Trichinosis infection (caused by an infection from parasites) was quite common in the past because of unsanitary handling of both live animals and meat. Over the years it turned into a religious mandate to protect the people and has remained that way since.

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[Josh]

In my church we read the Bible constantly so I would know the answer. Also I have studied and read the Quran and know why Muslims don’t like pork. The reason behind this is not that they (Jews/Muslims) think there is something in the pork that will harm them but the symbolism of it. In Leviticus, God told Moses and Aaron the laws of sexuality, morality, etc. In this God portrays pork as ‘unclean’. Many Christians would not smoke or even touch marijuana, it is not because it will kill them on the spot or harm them immediately but because of the belief that ‘drugs’ are malignant to the body. The same belief is practiced by the Muslims. If your religion told you that eating something is not seen as pleasant to your God and is described as ‘unclean’ why whould one eat that?

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[Sanau]

Muslims are not allowed to eat pork because they are only allowed to eat the meat of animals that don’t eat other animals. Therefore, the meat of cow, lamb, goat and deer are OK. and yeah they can’t have claws. (two hoofs or something) And I also heard a story from someone that, it was believed in Islam that, a tribe of men were turned into pigs and monkeys or so, and therefore cannot eat their meat because they were condemned men. Don’t know the truth about this story, could be an old wive’s tale.

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[James20890]

They believe that animal is dirty and they will go to hell for ever if they touch or eat it.

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[Tomer]

I’ve never heard of Jews being scared of pork. Jews aren’t supposed to EAT pork, but the idea of wearing three layers of gloves is as ludicrous to me as it is ridiculous to you. Muslims on the other hand, from what I’ve heard, specifically, almost pathologically, avoid all contact with animals that the quran calls ‘unclean’, specifically, pigs, dogs and monkeys. (This is also where the Muslim denigration of non-Muslims as ‘sons of dogs, pigs and monkeys’ presumably comes from.) The upside of this, as the stories I’ve heard from a friend who grew up in Singapore, surrounded as a skinny little Buddhist kid, by Muslim and Hindu bullies, is that the Muslim bullies would run in terror if he would come at them carrying pork (and the Hindus would supposedly similarly recoil from beef). I have also heard that Muslims, especially Arab Muslims in the Middle East, are terrified of dogs.

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