Why is pork forbidden in Islam?

candid wrote: Angel wrote: candid wrote: Angel wrote: No offense Candid, ok candid wrote: As far as I know, it is forbidden in Islam to eat such animals because it is thought that those who eat them will also start behaving like those animals (i.e, will also start acting greedily and snatching what belongs to others.) Everytime I see this i have to laugh, its just a funny concept. Has anyone seen such people who eat pork act as such ?? Historically, there seems to be strong correlation if you compare the behavior of Muslim and the Christian conquerors in the past. Christians were more brutal. why do you pick these two groups only to compare? Europeans do have tradition of eating pork. You can check.

Yes I know and in some european countries the pig is a good luck charm. I left them out because europe is part of the western world.

Even compared to other non-muslims such as Mongols and Persians, Muslims were less brutal.

Do you think you can get off this notion about being brutal and eating pig? or any animal that snatches food. Because it is false. Look around you today and those that eat pork.  

You are grasping at straws to validate not eating pork supposedly making you brutal or violent.

I gave you other animals that people eat. eskimos hunt and eat seal it is their staple diet, they clubber the seal on the head, brutal I say  but eskimos are not known to eat pork, and yet are gentle people apart from clubbing the seal to death   

What about those that eat rabbit (and not eat pork), go and hunt them in traps or shoot them ? what about deer?

Candid wrote: Angel wrote:  And how many of those conquers do you KNOW that ate pork? none I suppose.  I did not understand your question.

You say that the christian conquers were more brutal and my question is:

How many of those conquers do you know that ate pork?

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Quote by Angel :

which a pork lover may never do.

again, absurd.

Quoting an incomplete text indicates that you own the the rights to the absurdity. I said as follow:

Whereas the Islam's requires the normal believer to do certain rituals to curb all the listed conditions and create a personality of modesty, temperance, sacrifice, passion, peace, charitableness and humility by salah, fasting and zkat and Hajj as appropriate which a pork lover may never do.

You thought you knew better about the state of moral turpitude of the pork eating people in orient or occident, you asked for it you will got it:

the real scenarios and say how they jive with my statement

  Majority out of wedlock/illegitimate births in European countries

  Child rapes

  Catholic Preachers molesting boys in US (there being no uproar from the laity for paying out millions in settlements cuz they would do the same if they could get away)

Ted Haggard resigned as president of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group representing more than45,000 churches with 30 million member after getting exposed. Go have some more pork now!
cus he was closet druggie and homosexual while married. It is the greatest example of hypocrisies of these Evangelicals working against   Islam like you.

Remember another one JImmy Swaggert getting caught with prostitutes!

Alcoholism,

Drug addiction,

Gang banging,

Porn industry head quartered in San Fernando valley California,

Gambling

Open(legal or otherwise) prostitution, European prostitutes flooding ME

Mate swapping;

Child molesters traveling to the orient/India for cheap availability of the child prostitutes.

Do you want more

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Reepicheep wrote: So, Sign*Reader, just to confirm what you are claiming... You are saying that it is a core Muslim belief that people take on the behavioral characteristics of any animals they eat. For example, you believe that any Muslim who eats chicken is a coward who eats human excrement.  Correct?

No it is not part of Muslim belief, it is my own observation.
What the Muslims have been told? Don't eat it just like the Israelites. Nothing new!
Why are you so hung up on chicken n shit? fetish-like!
You need to start thread on chicken if you like!

Angel wrote: Candid wrote: Angel wrote:  And how many of those conquers do you KNOW that ate pork? none I suppose.  I did not understand your question. You say that the christian conquers were more brutal and my question is: How many of those conquers do you know that ate pork?

I see.

Let me put it this way. There were many conquerors in the past who ate pork. However, I only consider Europeans vs Muslims, because these are the only 2 groups who dominated the world as much as they did. Comparing the two does give a good perspective as to how eating pork affects the behavior of the population.

There were other conqerors too who ate pork, but it is difficult to compare them with Muslims because their issues were much different.

Its like you can compare TV of different brands, but you cannot compare a TV with radio.