religious?

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

He's a believer but he smokes or did smoke and doesn't always pray on time.

[~Jess~ 0]

George is Christian...he is a good believer in God, he smokes, he drinks occasionally(when we dont live in Saudi that is), eats pork, goes to church sometimes, we will have the baby baptized, carries his Rosary with him most of the time for protection.

I wasnt raised in a very religious household, but was baptized methodist, i will someday become Catholic on my own will not because George is asking me to. I believe in God.

[irahaymeh 0]

My husband is very religious. He smokes but never drinks. He prays 5 times a day 365 days a year. He only eats halal foods. He loves God and prays and talks to Him all the time. I am Christian and I pray and talk to God all the time too. We both go to Jumah prayer at the masjid on Fridays. He has visited my church with me a few times.

[~ Karima ~ 0]

I voted yes. My husband....

-prays everyday

-goes to Mosque if/when he is off on a Friday

-only eats halal

-does not smoke or drink

-listens to or reads quran everyday

-fasts at Ramadan and other times throughout the year

I am surprised though as he's been here almost a year and a half and still keeps it up.

[simple_male 1]

I voted yes. My husband....

-prays everyday

-goes to Mosque if/when he is off on a Friday

-only eats halal

-does not smoke or drink

-listens to or reads quran everyday

-fasts at Ramadan and other times throughout the year

I am surprised though as he's been here almost a year and a half and still keeps it up.

It is not hard to keep it up. It becomes a daily routine.

[ya falaha! 0]

I voted for choice #2.

[morocco4ever 63]

Not always easy here. Can't go to the mosque because he doesn't drive, I work too far away to drive him, and no buses or taxi's in the area. The only halal meat I can find has a very bad smell, and I worry that it is dangerous. He doesn't drink or smoke, he prays, he fasts. He follows the best he can with what he can. Being Muslim here isn't easy. I give credit to those that do the best they can.

[PetraPerson101 0]

I'm mostly religious ... I miss the prayer sometimes ... ... ... I'm forgetful.

T_T

Other than that I follow as closely as I can. I've got a library of food ingredients remembered ... and read *ALL* the labels when shopping. ( so much - that while I'm running thru the supermarket - I save people from food poisoning by circling the expired dates on stuff that I find - with black permanent marker. Store don't like it? How bout' I tell the health inspector rather than your stockers? You'd be surprised. I've found stuff 6mos - 1 year expired sitting in the market. GROSS. )

Not always easy here. Can't go to the mosque because he doesn't drive, I work too far away to drive him, and no buses or taxi's in the area. The only halal meat I can find has a very bad smell, and I worry that it is dangerous. He doesn't drink or smoke, he prays, he fasts. He follows the best he can with what he can. Being Muslim here isn't easy. I give credit to those that do the best they can.

Get KOSHER meat if you can get your hands on it. It's acceptable.

Watch out for cheese. Use KOSHER if you can find it, or get HALAL cheese. Why doesn't cheese always have a Kosher marking? Because you can't mix MEAT and CHEESE - what's this mean? There is ANIMAL-BELLY in cheese. The cheaper the cheese, the more likely there's PORK BELLY in the cheese. Vegetarian cheeses - like the kind you'd find at Whole Foods - are *ALL* good to eat.

That applies to ALL CHEESE. Halal may have sheep or calf in it (unlike kosher.)

[ plus a small note to Christians : read Leviticus. Consider what it says. ]

Edited March 25, 2008 by KyanWan

[simple_male 1]

Not always easy here. Can't go to the mosque because he doesn't drive, I work too far away to drive him, and no buses or taxi's in the area. The only halal meat I can find has a very bad smell, and I worry that it is dangerous. He doesn't drink or smoke, he prays, he fasts. He follows the best he can with what he can. Being Muslim here isn't easy. I give credit to those that do the best they can.

Alhamdulillah, your husband is trying hard, as much as he can. Once he will be able to drive, it will be easier for him to go to places. So you do not have any halal meat store nearby? Have you done any search online to find it?

Edited March 25, 2008 by simple_male

[morocco4ever 63]

I'm mostly religious ... I miss the prayer sometimes ... ... ... I'm forgetful.

T_T

Other than that I follow as closely as I can. I've got a library of food ingredients remembered ... and read *ALL* the labels when shopping. ( so much - that while I'm running thru the supermarket - I save people from food poisoning by circling the expired dates on stuff that I find - with black permanent marker. Store don't like it? How bout' I tell the health inspector rather than your stockers? You'd be surprised. I've found stuff 6mos - 1 year expired sitting in the market. GROSS. )

Not always easy here. Can't go to the mosque because he doesn't drive, I work too far away to drive him, and no buses or taxi's in the area. The only halal meat I can find has a very bad smell, and I worry that it is dangerous. He doesn't drink or smoke, he prays, he fasts. He follows the best he can with what he can. Being Muslim here isn't easy. I give credit to those that do the best they can.

Get KOSHER meat if you can get your hands on it. It's acceptable.

Watch out for cheese. Use KOSHER if you can find it, or get HALAL cheese. Why doesn't cheese always have a Kosher marking? Because you can't mix MEAT and CHEESE - what's this mean? There is ANIMAL-BELLY in cheese. The cheaper the cheese, the more likely there's PORK BELLY in the cheese. Vegetarian cheeses - like the kind you'd find at Whole Foods - are *ALL* good to eat.

That applies to ALL CHEESE. Halal may have sheep or calf in it (unlike kosher.)

[ plus a small note to Christians : read Leviticus. Consider what it says. ]

Thanks for the suggestion, I had heard that Kosher would work too, but we don't even have that! I did a search and read somewhere that Walmart has kosher, but when I checked with the local walmart they didn't know what I was talking about.

We know a sprinkling of Muslims here, but everyone has the same issues. At least I can say I have tried, and will continue to try.

[sandinista! 1,816]

for many people, kosher is not acceptable.

[doodlebugg 10]

You know what I hate??? The stores have these wonderful mixes of chicken sausages blended with various herbs yet they are encased in pork casings!!!!! This is so frustrating. I have only been able to find one store so far other than the halal stores that sell a brand in non-pork casings but it's wicked gross with no nice blend of herbs and the casing is pathetically weak.

I wonder how bad it is to take the nice convenient chicken sausage and just rip the pork casing away and cook the insides?

[sereia 0]

thats an idea. lol my husband ripped a piece of pepperoni off a piece of pizza and ate it anyway! it was a tiny piece stuck only to the side of his slice (i guess it came from a 1/2 & 1/2 pizza)

Edited March 25, 2008 by sereia

[Nasturtium 500]

[ plus a small note to Christians : read Leviticus. Consider what it says. ]

Actually there are 2 schools of thought-- Rabbinical kosher doesn't mix any dairy and meat. Biblical kosher allows for it but has a simple prohibition. To cook a calf in its mother's milk is 1) very specific and 2) points to killing the last of a "kind." Abraham uses a milk-meat dish to feed the angel visitors is an example of this. One could claim that that was because the "kosher" laws were not in effect, but then one would have to explain why Noah knows of clean and unclean animals.

[Nagishkaw 510]

[ plus a small note to Christians : read Leviticus. Consider what it says. ]

Actually there are 2 schools of thought-- Rabbinical kosher doesn't mix any dairy and meat. Biblical kosher allows for it but has a simple prohibition. To cook a calf in its mother's milk is 1) very specific and 2) points to killing the last of a "kind." Abraham uses a milk-meat dish to feed the angel visitors is an example of this. One could claim that that was because the "kosher" laws were not in effect, but then one would have to explain why Noah knows of clean and unclean animals.