A KFC customer in the UK was quite shocked when he was refused a hand wipe because it contains alcohol, which is against Islamic Law, so it might offend their Muslim customers.
The customer, Graham Noakes, tried to explain that he ‘liked the alcohol’, but was still refused the wipe.
Although one Muslim Organisation has called the decision “bizarre”, it appears they didn’t go so far as to inform the KFC that it was ok to hand out the wipes.
Muslims make up about 4.4% of England’s population. As this number increases, of course, you can expect the influence on culture to increase.
We just posted a story of a couple that was kicked off a bus in the UK because they sang a song about a pig to their child, that offended a Muslim woman on the bus.
“I will never be going to KFC again.”The father-of-two added: “I’ve never experienced anything like this before, I couldn’t believe it.
“Why shouldn’t I be allowed a wipe for my hands?
“They use wipes in hospital, what happens when we start being told we can’t have wipes there?
“I just can’t understand it.”
Graham, who lives in Birmingham, is working in Leicester on the construction of a new Muslim community centre in Highfields.
Halal is the Arabic word for ‘lawful’ and relates to what is allowed in the context of Islamic law, but is often used in conjunction with the issue of how meat is dealt with.
Suleman Nagdi, spokesman for the Leicester-based Federation of Muslim Organisations, said: “I know alcohol is prohibited in the Muslim community, but I don’t understand why you can’t use hand-wipes – there’s nothing wrong with it.
“Using alcohol doesn’t mean you’re consuming it.
“It seems like an unusual decision to be made.
“In fact, it sounds bizarre.”
Suleman said such decisions potentially provoked some people to start “lashing out” at the Muslim community.
“I’ve never come across anything like this before,” he added.
“KFC have made a commercial decision to do this, and now the Muslim community will face backlash.”
A KFC spokesman said the company had been running a halal trial since 2010, in “areas where there has been demand from our customers”, such as the restaurant in St George’s Retail Park.
He said that as a result “a small number of products from our usual menu are not available”, and in addition the St George’s branch had decided not to stock wet wipes that contain alcohol”.
Then remove your toilet paper from your bathrooms! They don’t use that either! Most of these are privately owned the SOB that owns this one is a frigging libetal
Oh how disgusting one more restaurant I won’t eat at
No no no I didn’t mean to hit that key !!!! Why on earth do you worry about offending this small group of people???? They have no business here if they don’t want to live by our rules, our laws. STOP catering to these people!!!! We do not want them taking over our country!!!!
Well I no longer need KFC because I am offended at this!!!!!!
Boycott KFC!
The muslims wipe their asses with the same hands they eat chicken.yummy.
Bull. Don’t ever go to KFC
KFC needs to Fry their chicken in lard
Wow.. No more KFC… this is crazy!
I don’t recall them ever giving out hand wipes…they give you a napkin and if you are really messy..you can go in the restroom and wash your hands and face, this is just ignorant…they don’t like KFC because they offer free meals to on duty peace officers and are trying to hurt their business…they also refused to change their meat to appease the d***ed muslim slimbags!!!!!