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”.
boycott kfc, these muther$#%&!@*ers are in the USA
Boycott Muslims , they offend Christians !
Enough ! I am an offended Christian. They can have their religion ,but not FORCE their’s on mine ! Now they can have KFC as well,no more money spent there.
KFC is off my menu !!! This is America you fools !!!
No more. KFC for me
Why ? Do they like greasy dirty hands ? How Stupid !
SCREW THE MUSLIM CULTURE. BOCOTT KFC Run them out of america. KFC go to where the sun don’t shine open your chicken hut there….
Who are these dumbos” to be allowed to do what they want to do?? The spread of bacterial and virus is so easy when they do not follow strict adherence to sanitizing their filthy hands .
The customer is always right.
Mountain Rambler says:
“Since when did muslim’s fund your company ? We as Christians I hope will follow my lead to put you OUT OF BUSINESS ! Since when did we care what muslims are Offended to ?”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/kfc-refuses-give-hand-wipes-might-offend-muslims/comment-page-14/#comment-564000