Turkey is not halal?
I’m guessing he’s referring to the turkey not being butchered in a halal way.
To his question, no, parents weren’t that strict. We were allowed to eat anything except pork. But they only ate halal meat.
Also, (born and raised in Europe to be fair), there was a rule put in place by Muslim scholars that when the majority of the country is religious (be it Christian/Jew etc…) you can eat what they slaughter, even if it’s not halal.
I knew some kids whose parents also focused on who cooks the food. If it’s a Christian or non believer, people are reluctant to eat. My own parents only eat halaal meat. But once we were at a restaurant and my dad had some meat. He didn’t seem to really care at all.
I’m from Muslim nation, but feel myself atheist. And my parents never insisted on halal food, I think it Soviet parenting😁
I think a lot of us were pretending haha. We’d sneak out to go to McDonald’s and got caught. We said we only ate the fish burger (big lie), so it was okay. After a while, they knew and frankly didn’t care anymore.
One day my mom found a wine bottle under my bed and the whole family was gathered to talk some sense into me.
She was really riling my brother up, and said you see she’s out of control. She drinks alcohol now!
I said, be glad it’s only alcohol and not drugs, living in this house and my brother burst out laughing and that was that.
What I mean is, they pretend, we pretend :)
