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Proposal would add Muslim meals to prison fare
James Fredrick Menefield lost his freedom eight years ago when he was sent to prison for murdering his girlfriend. But the Pleasant Valley State Prison inmate says he should not lose the right to follow dietary rules that come with his strict Muslim faith.
Premium Brands buys Vancouver Halal meat supplier for $2.1 million
Premium Brands Holdings Corp. (TSX:PBH) says it has acquired Vancouver-based South Seas Meats Ltd., a distributor of Halal specialty meats that will help expand Premium's portfolio of ethnic foods.
Filed Under: Trade & Investment
Anchorage's first Halal grocery opens
On an icy winter day when the sun barely rose higher than the peaks of the Chugach Mountains, one store in a sleepy strip mall near the airport was abuzz with activity. The hand-lettered cardboard sign outside told the story: Alaska's First Halal Grocery. Inside, owner Lamin Jobarteh was pricing bottles of bright-orange palm oil, a product he was sure would fly off the shelves as soon as he called the Nigerians in town to let them know it had arrived. A group of Somali women in brightly coloured headscarves looked through a gleaming white freezer for cubed bone-in goat meat.
Filed Under: Products & Services
Brazil targets US and Mexico
Brazil's Poultry Exporters Association (Abef) promises to work hard to open new markets this year, in order to partly make up for the losses incurred due to the appreciation of the real (the Brazilian currency) against the dollar, which made the domestic product more expensive abroad, and due to the global demand retraction seen in 2009
Filed Under: Trade & Investment
Canadian firm to produce Halal medicine in Brunei
A Halal pharmaceutical company from Vancouver will soon start a factory in Brunei to promote Halal pharmaceutical products to the Muslim world.
Filed Under: Products & Services
Big drive for Halal meat to Middle East countries
Agriculture ministry plans actions in Arab world in 2010.The Ministry of Agriculture’s calendar of activities already includes trips to the Middle East and North Africa. This year eight international trips were made.
Filed Under: Trade & Investment
Muslim Deli Owners Must Choose Koran or Customers
Most of Khairul Kabir’s customers at the Madison Deli and Grocery in East Harlem do not realize that his jovial smile masks a lingering sense of shame. Mr. Kabir, 49, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a Muslim, is chagrined because he sells pork and alcohol, which are prohibited by the Koran. He also sells lottery tickets, a form of gambling that is also banned. Devout Muslims are not supposed to indulge in, sell, or even handle any of these “haram,” or forbidden, goods. Mr. Kabir’s dilemma is widespread among Muslim immigrants in New York and other American cities, where religious beliefs, the pursuit of prosperity and pressures to assimilate are often in conflict.
Reflections from the Meccan Years
From the Prophet Muhammad's (p.b.u.h.) noble birth to his last words in this world, join Al-Madina Institute instructors Muhammad Ninowy, Mohsen Al’Najjar, Mohamed Magid, Mokhtar Maghraoui, and Moutasem Atiya [speakers at each location will vary] in “And Muhammad is His Messenger”, as they dive into the treasures of the Seerah in a series of two weekend-intensive courses covering the Makkan and Madinan periods respectively. Learn how the Seerah speaks to your heart and how the life story of our Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, can transform our own lives in this world and the next.
Filed Under: Al-Madina Institute Series of Courses
Trials of the Messenger - A Lecture
When facing our own personal tribulation, we often lose sight of the immense challenges and trials faced by the Messengers who provided us with the divine message. In looking at their own personal example in facing these trials, we can derive inspiration and guidance when meeting the challenges posed to us in our own lives. Join Muhammad Ninowy, Alaeddin El-Bakri, Mohamed Magid and Moutasem Atiya in: Trials of The Messengers.
Filed Under: Al-Madina Institute Series of Courses
Halal and Health
The Halal concept covers many industries including pharmaceutical and healthcare. The Halal Journal spoke to a representative from a consulting company in Canada whose primary focus is in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and natural health products in terms of development, the testing of new health products, combined with regulatory requirements and quality assurance requirements, to assist companies in achieving their development goals in a holistic approach. Selma Djukic, President of White Owl Global Services Ltd shares her perspective on Halal and the pharmaceutical industry.