Bro Abu American,
From the outset I recognized and accept your opinion is a legitimate Islamic opinion and agree there are scholars who say it's ok. Unfortunately you seem to have a problem with accepting that there are many many scholars who disagree with you. This is not the forum to discuss the evidences for and against. These are issues that have been debated for many a time and let's just agree that these differences will be there.
Bro, you're missing the whole point of the discussion:
1. We live in a Muslim country. We should be better than to be selling Butterball Turkey in our supermarkets!! Especially when we are in a position to demand differently and there are many choices.
If people are comfortable buying American supermarket meat in Qatar, Alhumdullillah.
2. You are imposing your opinion on the rest of the Muslims without adequately informing them. At least tell the people who are blindly assuming everything to be Halaal/Dhabeehah per Muslim standards cause this is a Muslim country.
e.g. There is a difference of opinion on the issue of photographs. Some scholars say its ok to take them and some say no. I can't make you participate in the annual company photo shoot if I think it's ok and you don't. (I know it's not a one to one example but couldn't think of anything else!)
3. Some other folks were making my statement into a Fatwa that all the chicken is Halal at these places..I'm not saying that...please do your own checking. That was just one time that we had asked. Sometimes it may come from the US, sometimes S.Africa.
Thexonic...that's what I was hoping was the case (That the Qatar government is doing all their checking) but when that big 100% USDA beef sign was staring me in my face, I couldn't ignore it. The whole point is that in their opinion it is Halaal.
Bro Abu American,
From the outset I recognized and accept your opinion is a legitimate Islamic opinion and agree there are scholars who say it's ok. Unfortunately you seem to have a problem with accepting that there are many many scholars who disagree with you. This is not the forum to discuss the evidences for and against. These are issues that have been debated for many a time and let's just agree that these differences will be there.
Bro, you're missing the whole point of the discussion:
1. We live in a Muslim country. We should be better than to be selling Butterball Turkey in our supermarkets!! Especially when we are in a position to demand differently and there are many choices.
If people are comfortable buying American supermarket meat in Qatar, Alhumdullillah.
2. You are imposing your opinion on the rest of the Muslims without adequately informing them. At least tell the people who are blindly assuming everything to be Halaal/Dhabeehah per Muslim standards cause this is a Muslim country.
e.g. There is a difference of opinion on the issue of photographs. Some scholars say its ok to take them and some say no. I can't make you participate in the annual company photo shoot if I think it's ok and you don't. (I know it's not a one to one example but couldn't think of anything else!)
3. Some other folks were making my statement into a Fatwa that all the chicken is Halal at these places..I'm not saying that...please do your own checking. That was just one time that we had asked. Sometimes it may come from the US, sometimes S.Africa.
Thexonic...that's what I was hoping was the case (That the Qatar government is doing all their checking) but when that big 100% USDA beef sign was staring me in my face, I couldn't ignore it. The whole point is that in their opinion it is Halaal.
Salams All