Is halal food permissable

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As a practicing Catholic, is it permissable to eat halal food? Do the prayers said over the dying animal constitute an offering to God/ false god?
 
It is permissible. The prayer or invocation is in the name of the one true God

(though I expect someone will contradict this in 3, 2, 1, …)
 
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Muslim, Jewish, Christian…it’s the same God! It’s in the details we differ!

I would be very cross if I had to give up kosher pickles for religious reasons!
 
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As a practicing Catholic, is it permissable to eat halal food? Do the prayers said over the dying animal constitute an offering to God/ false god?
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Its just food.
What do you see as the problem and why would do you need to do so?
 
Well they slaughter the animal differently so there is suffering as they don’t stun the animal. maybe non halal in other countries don’t stun either but in England stunning must happen.

Not stunning creates cortisone and effects the flavour of the meat and it’s shelf life.
 
Halal food is made in a process of Islamic ritual slaughter. I would not personally choose to eat food which is made using the rituals of a false religion, since those rituals are displeasing to God.

That said: yes, it is permissible, strictly speaking, so long as one is not consenting in any way to the practice of the Muslim religion.
 
I never even thought about their being a problem with it, any more than I worry about eating kosher food. Halal Guys in NYC has some good stuff on their cart. If you’re concerned about animal slaughter, just don’t eat meat, as the stun gun doesn’t do much in my opinion, not to mention if the stun doesn’t take they’re not going to be holding up the slaughter line because a cow is having an issue.
 
Do you have problems with kosher hot dogs or kosher pickles?
 
We won’t really know whether anyone has done a song and dance ritual, curses, chant over food that we didn’t have the chance to observe how they were prepared. Priests has been known to eat foods offered to chinese deities in HK I believe without batting an eyelid. Their response is don’t waste good food. Even if they are idols of wood or stone, I shouldn’t worry too much about their mistaken beliefs about the imaginary powers invested in such wood and stone. If one fear evil spirits, any food can be emotionally feared (needlessly) to be contaminated with their presence regardless of any rituals performed or not. I just don’t believe in their claims nor do I want to know whether they have performed any “rituals” over the foods I eat. Just don’t put extra unhealthy ingredients and I am happy.
 
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Muslim, Jewish, Christian…it’s the same God! It’s in the details we differ!
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I’d be careful about how you express this. I know you’re paraphrasing Vatican II but I’d like to highlight that the Muslims reject Our Lord’s incarnation and his crucifixion; they could be called ‘anti-Christ.’ While they profess to believe in the God of Abraham, the Muslims clearly don’t worship the same God as us - they reject the Trinity!

Regarding Halal, I eat it multiple times per week. I don’t care if they say a prayer before they slaughter the animal as long as it takes good.
 
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Muslim, Jewish, Christian…it’s the same God! It’s in the details we differ!
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…the Muslims clearly don’t worship the same God as us - they reject the Trinity!
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How does that logically follow exactly?
 
I agree with dshix. I wouldn’t knowingly eat it myself, but the Church hasn’t officially ruled against it so I suppose it’s up to you. Just don’t take part or associate yourself with any of their rituals.
 
The catechism is clear. Accept the faith teachings or reject the faith…

A starting point, though not the ending point, is reading what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say. It states, “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day” (CCC 841).

I don’t make the rules, but I do my best to follow them!

I think the problem is semantics, we believe in God the Father, Jesus his Son, and the Holy Spirit. Muslims just believe in God, the SAME one we do.
 
I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat it. Though it’s definitely not banned by the Church. I’ve eaten it before.
And while the Muslim God may be the same God we pray to, when people say “it’s the same God” it’s not entirely accurate in a strict theological sense. Their conception of God is incomplete and flawed.
 
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See CCC841. Accept the churches teachings…
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As mentioned in my previous post, this is taken from Vatican II and I accept it. However, its important to read it in light of the totality of teachings. The Church teaches that the Catholic Church alone has the fulness of truth and that she is necessary for salvation; this means that the plan of salvation is that the Muslims ought to convert to the One True Faith - their monotheism is an element of the Truth that should encourage them to find the full Truth in Jesus Christ. It would be a false interpretation of Vatican II to hold that Muslims do not need to accept the Holy Trinity.
 
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As mentioned in my previous post, this is taken from Vatican II and I accept it. However, its important to read it in light of the totality of teachings. The Church teaches that the Catholic Church alone has the fulness of truth and that she is necessary for salvation; this means that the plan of salvation is that the Muslims ought to convert to the One True Faith - their monotheism is an element of the Truth that should encourage them to find the full Truth in Jesus Christ. It would be a false interpretation of Vatican II to hold that Muslims do not need to accept the Holy Trinity.
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Well put. I have Muslim relatives and I would like nothing better than for them to convert.
 
Halal slaughter is an act of worship (or a sacrifice) to Allah, the god of Islam, a false religion dating from 622AD, after Mohammed claimed to have been visited by the Angel Gabriel who dictated the Qur’an to him.

In this visitation ‘Gabriel’ told Mohammed that God has no Son and that God is unable to become incarnate, thus contradicting the true Angel Gabriel’s words to Mary, some six centuries earlier, telling her that she was to become the Mother of God.

Mohammed’s ‘angel’ was most certainly a demon, himself can pass for an angel of light (2. Cor.11: 14-15), Islam, the new religion he taught, is a false religion: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be under God’s curse! (1. Gal.1: 8-9). Allah is therefore a false god or idol.

In the 1st comandment we are forbidden to worship false gods or idols, which follows that I am forbidden to have anything to do with the worship of the false god Allah, which, I believe, includes the eating of meat that has been slaughtered ritually by a Muslim(s) pronouncing the ‘tasmiyah’ as an act of worship or a sacrifice to him.

Muslims are strictly forbidden to eat meat slaughtered ‘in the name of anyone but Allah.

I believe that as a Catholic I must bear witness to my faith in God, and His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot in conscience eat the halal meat
 
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