Originally Posted by
Tim1975
Fundamentally it is no one else's business why someone want to avoid halal meat and no one else's business why someone chooses to avoid non-halal meat.
We could start analysing the rationality or stupidity behind dietary choices, but I think it probably best all round for everyone, including those with religious-based dietary requirement that we don't go down that road. Questioning people's choices like that however stupid you may find them is rarely constructive and bad manners at least.
I have no problem with people choosing Halal or with people choosing non-halal. And BA can respond to market forces as it sees fit.
What I do have a problem with is that we are in a society when if a preference (for food, a particular way of dressing, a way of educating their children or something else) is expressed as a religious thing it is more likely to be accommodated than if it is for another reason.
If someone thinks something is important to them then we might try and accommodate them out of flexibility, politeness or tolerance or as a commercial decision, or we might choose to not-accommodate them.
Religious preferences should carry no more or less weight than non-religious ones.
Complete, unadulterated rubbish. If you're going to express a desire for a practise to change, I have every right to expect you to provide a reason for it. You have every right to decline to give a reason, but it makes your argument invalid.
Oh that old chestnut. It's probably awfully rude of me to ask you to justify your statement, but what specifically are you thinking of when you make the completely unjustified claim that we are in a society where religious beliefs take precedence over non-religious beliefs? Secular vegetarianism is far more accepted than Halal is - you don't have bigots lining up going on about how horrible it was that they got served a cheese and onion quiche to appease the vegetarian minority. I'm not quite sure which ways of religious dressing you think shouldn't be accommodated but are, and I missed the requirement for free schools to be based on religion.
Every post you make just pushes me further and further towards thinking you're a bigot (note: further towards, not stating you are) - you've used the classic template. You start by pretending you're being victimised, then you move to "I'm not telling you my reasons for believing", then you finish with a fabricated vision of life in Britain where the religious (we both know you're specifically talking about Muslims) are taking over.