Srini RamaKrishnan wrote [at 01:02 PM 9/1/2006] :
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20060830&hn=36128
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Professor Abdulhalim Uveys, noted that Muslim
intellectuals had previously released fatwas
that the drinks produced by these trademarks
were forbidden according to Islamic food
regulations. Uveys said he also thought in the
same way, and added: Coca Cola has some alcohol
ingredients and Pepsi has some pork ingredients.
Also, the soft drinks produced by these two
companies should not be drunk because, first of
all, they harm people, as alcohol and cigarettes
do; and secondly, drinking them can be
considered unnecessary because there are no
health benefits. And maybe the most important
thing here is that both of these companies support Israel.
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Interesting to contrast it with this point of view:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/31/beyonce/
Beyoncé Knowles, freedom fighter
Why "booty popping" will do to Islamic
fundamentalism what rock 'n' roll did to Stalinism.
By Thaddeus Russell
Soviet soldiers returning home from the western
front after World War II brought the virus with
them. Within a few years, it had infected large
portions of the Soviet and Soviet bloc
populations. By the late 1940s, the Communist
Party leadership feared it would destroy the
socialist fatherland from within. But it was not
a biological disease that threatened communism.
Joseph Stalin and his commissars called it an
"amoral infection" in the minds of Soviet youth.
It was "American primitivism," "capitalist
cultural imperialism" and "bourgeois
cosmopolitanism." But it was really
African-American culture. It was the same
infection that today is spreading underneath the
police, the laws and the censors of Islamic regimes.
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