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”.
KFC hasn’t gave out hand wipes for a long time now, they used to but as usual to cut expenses and make more money, they stopped that and just replaced them with the cheapest paper napkins they could find to buy !!
Screw Sharia Law! Refuse to accept it and or tolerate it in this country. Make it irrelevant!
Their filthy pigs, their food should be served to them in the gutter.
Add Starbucks to your list.
This is our country why do we have to worry about offending these people who say they wasn’t us dead so they are offended who cares it offended me that they freeloading off of us and still demand more want to change our laws our way of life everything for them to
Hell with it this is our country offend them all go back where you came
Crime and take you offended laws with you
This baffles me, how many Muslims are in the country? We have Subway and Burger King bowing down now KFC. Subway, Burger King, and KFC if you think Muslims can support your sales, have at it. I read on, Starbucks you belong to that group too.
Hand wipes are handed out where I live.
Good got you,you must live in a big city. We live in the Sandhills and western part of Nebraska, central part of Nebraska clear to Lincoln, NE. Never get the wipes either !!
F**k them both
Dumbazz !!!! they are not supposed to eat it