GEORGE TOWN: “No Pork” signs should be banned at all eateries as it might confuse Muslims, Umno’s Bertam assemblyman Shariful Azhar Othman told the state assembly today.
He said restaurants should only display “halal” or “non-halal” signs.
“Although certain places display signs that no pork is used, the food preparation might not be halal.
“Ultimately, there are a lot of restaurants displaying these ‘no pork’ signs.
“This might confuse local and foreign Muslims,” Shariful said while debating the motion of thanks to the Yang di-Pertua Negeri’s speech today.
A bewildered A Thanasekaran then told Shariful that the “no pork” sign meant “literally what it meant” and he saw nothing wrong with that.
Shariful then explained that without the halal certification, a Muslim might eat chicken meals which were not halal.
“We do not know if the chicken was slaughtered according to Islamic practices.”