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[thenodrog]

Not only that but Nandos is based on portugese food that many got a taste for on holiday. Are there not enough halal takeaway launderettes in blackburn as it is?

[K-Hod]

If people are that assed about animal treatment, they should be vegans, and not so selective.

It would be commercial suicide from Nando's POV in a town with Blackburn's demographics not to be halal! Besides?, most folk have eaten from a curry house before I assume?

Nando's ain't THAT good anyway, can be made at home easily enough...

[ABBEY]

thing is K , you know /expect a curry house to be halal. However Nandos is NOT Muslim .

[adopted scouser]

If this is true (and I love Nando's), I won't eat at that particular restaurant. I have a deep growing feeling, more and more aspects of our everyday life have been taken over by these people and even though it's only chicken and chips, as a small protest I will eat somewhere else.

[K-Hod]

I'd imagine if there is a groundswell of support to not make it Halal, then it probably won't be. Beer is still served there. It doesn't make any difference to me, it all tastes the same.

It's a commercial decision to maximise revenues I imagine, as most in this country have no dietary requirements because some old book says they should, so in theory they probably thought it wouldn't matter. I remember in the initial news they said a decision hadn't been made yet on whether it would be halal or not.

[Tom]

Aren't all Nandos Halal? Every one I've eaten in his been I thought? Edit - seems just some of them are including the preston, Manchester and Bolton ones.

Everyone has a choice and if they want to boycott because it is or isn't halal let them do it - nobody cares Mr Mulla

[K-Hod]

Aren't all Nandos Halal? Every one I've eaten in his been I thought? Edit - seems just some of them are including the preston, Manchester and Bolton ones.

Everyone has a choice and if they want to boycott because it is or isn't halal let them do it - nobody cares Mr Mulla

I was thinking this, I know the one at Deepdale Retail Park definitely is, not sure about the one at Bury.

[T J Hooker]

Lancashire Council of Mosques threaten Nandos , Be interesting to see what calamity Kate has to say on this

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/12975221.Muslim_bosses_spark_halal_row_over_new_Blackburn_Nando_s_restaurant/

it was god to read in the statements from local muslims that even they think the lcm are being over the top and that most young Muslims wouldn't take them seriously and are fine with HSA procedures.

personally, I rarely eat from these horrid chain takeaway outlets anyway, there's plenty of good privately owned cafes, chippys, take aways, restaurants and fast food outlets to eat at, offering all kinds of foods.

[Mike E]

Lancashire Council of Mosques threaten Nandos , Be interesting to see what calamity Kate has to say on this

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/12975221.Muslim_bosses_spark_halal_row_over_new_Blackburn_Nando_s_restaurant/

Christ, how many abbreviations are in that article? It's like that scene in Good Morning Vietnam!

I'm not anti-halal if the animal is stunned first. I'm definitely anti- the LCM's proposal. What makes it think it's more special than every other local Islamic authority which agree the HFA method suits all parties?

[ABBEY]

I don't disagree,

but It also amazes me how much time you and abbey seem to spend scouring websites for any negative articles involving muslims(local, national and international)

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/12975257.SEND_HIM_BACK__Asylum_seeker_with_fake_passport_jailed_for_luring_15_year_old_girl_to_hotel_for_sex___but_he_can_t_be_deported___/

scouring ? this scum is in venkygraph.

[T J Hooker]

you really need to put me on ignore, you're going to burst a gasket at this rate.

[ABBEY]

[thenodrog]

If people are that assed about animal treatment, they should be vegans, and not so selective.

It would be commercial suicide from Nando's POV in a town with Blackburn's demographics not to be halal! Besides?, most folk have eaten from a curry house before I assume?

Nando's ain't THAT good anyway, can be made at home easily enough...

Absolute rubbish. Would you prefer that we torture all animals before slaughter? That's the other side of your coin. Use some gumption K-Hod and explain why there is a need for inhumane slaughter of animals in this day and age, and please do it without using the word belief(s) or similar in your answer.

There is a recent case of some poor chap from St Annes going to Switzerland recently to carry out voluntary suicide via dignitas. I understand they are given a cocktail of chemicals which allows them to drift away peacefully. How would you feel if they were simply bound hand and foot and had their throats cut?

When the Q'uran was written the advice given to make sure animals bleed was to stop ignorant people making themselves ill by eating carrion. Not bad advice too BUT there was no electricity and no options then, now there is but stupid people choose not to accept them. We need a strong government to implement the existing rules re: animal welfare and permitted slaughter techniques. If that ruffles mohammedan and Jewish feathers then tough.

Also Commercial suicide if Christians and the indigenous population were properly educated and weren't prepared to eat halal / kosher meat. This needs to be tackled through education.

Everyone has a choice and if they want to boycott because it is or isn't halal let them do it - nobody cares Mr Mulla

Now c'mon Tom, you know that that isn't the way Islam works. Choice is a dirty word to Mohammedans.

[K-Hod]

Absolute rubbish. Would you prefer that we torture all animals before slaughter? That's the other side of your coin. Use some gumption K-Hod and explain why there is a need for inhumane slaughter of animals in this day and age, and please do it without using the word belief(s) or similar in your answer.

There is a recent case of some poor chap from St Annes going to Switzerland recently to carry out voluntary suicide via dignitas. I understand they are given a cocktail of chemicals which allows them to drift away peacefully. How would you feel if they were simply bound hand and foot and had their throats cut?

When the Q'uran was written the advice given to make sure animals bleed was to stop ignorant people making themselves ill by eating carrion. Not bad advice too BUT there was no electricity and no options then, now there is but stupid people choose not to accept them. We need a strong government to implement the existing rules re: animal welfare and permitted slaughter techniques. If that ruffles mohammedan and Jewish feathers then tough.

Also Commercial suicide if Christians and the indigenous population were properly educated and weren't prepared to eat halal / kosher meat. This needs to be tackled through education.

Now c'mon Tom, you know that that isn't the way Islam works. Choice is a dirty word to Mohammedans.

Give over, the only reason most people know of Halal's existence, is because it's affiliated with Islam!

[thenodrog]

Cheap shot abbey.

btw I'd never heard a cheep about austerity until approx a month ago, now it's never out of the press / media. Thank goodness people have at last given over bleating about zero hours and the NHS or at least for another 5 years. I guess 'austerity' will suffer the same fate within a week or two.

Seems at complete odds when just as Harriet Harman was on the radio replying to the Queens speech and banging on about austerity and the impossibly skewed idea that those with the broadest shoulders have to carry the rest that within a minute the BBC news yesterday revealed that average disposable income in the UK had reached a record level of over 17k per person.

Memo to the Labour Party and SNP. Thats what wins votes folks, not bleeding hearts pandering to dollopers. Think on.

Give over, the only reason most people know of Halal's existence, is because it's affiliated with Islam!

Is that relevant?

[K-Hod]

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[yoda]

Give over, the only reason most people know of Halal's existence, is because it's affiliated with Islam!

Well I for one am sick to death of a religion telling me what I can and cannot eat, this is a free country supposedly.

[ABBEY]

zero contracts are STILL crap for the unfortunate ones on them .

[yoda]

zero contracts are STILL crap for the unfortunate ones on them .

What about the fortunate ones on them ?

[K-Hod]

Well I for one am sick to death of a religion telling me what I can and cannot eat, this is a free country supposedly.

But that's the thing, if you don't follow that religion, then you don't have to?

I don't eat what some old book tells me to, but if I fancy a curry then it doesn't mean that I can't. Freedom and autonomy are great!

[ABBEY]

What about the fortunate ones on them ?

I know someone who lost her house because she got put on one .

[ultrablue]

Cheap shot abbey.

btw I'd never heard a cheap about austerity until approx a month ago, now it's never out of the press / media.

We did just elect a tory majority that had promised 12 billion in cuts to welfare.

[yoda]

But that's the thing, if you don't follow that religion, then you don't have to?

I don't eat what some old book tells me to, but if I fancy a curry then it doesn't mean that I can't. Freedom and autonomy are great!

I agree but some try to impose their "freedom" on others, out of order in my book

[jim mk2]

btw I'd never heard a cheap about austerity until approx a month ago, now it's never out of the press / media. Thank goodness people have at last given over bleating about zero hours and the NHS or at least for another 5 years. I guess 'austerity' will suffer the same fate within a week or two

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Ludicrous statement in view of the fact the country has been subjected to an idelogically driven austerity experiment for most of the past 5 years (one that has spectacularly failed by the way because the national debt is greater now than when Gideon came into the Treasury) that has been plastered all over the media since 2010. If you missed it the only conclusion must be that you are selectively deaf or are unable to understand the concept.

But the austerity cuts of 2010-15 will be nothing compared to the furore that is about to be unleashed in July when Gideon unveils details in his first Budget of the £12bn of spending cuts (austerity - geddit?) that the Tories promised in their election manfesto. Austerity so far has been paid for by the poorest in society while the richest few have been unaffected - proving that the electorate can be conned and frightened into voting against their own best interests.

[yoda]

It's not the 1st April again is it ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32919400