How have courts interpreted the dietary laws of the Islamic faith?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Menefield v. Foreman, 180 Cal.Rptr.3d 3, 231 Cal.App.4th 211 (Cal. App. 2014):
1 One court described the dietary laws of the Islamic faith as specifying all food as either halal (lawful) or haram (unlawful) and stated that pork and pork byproducts, meats not slaughtered according to the Quran, and food prepared with ingredients that are not halal, are considered haram. (Ahmad v. Department of Correction (2006) 446 Mass. 479, 845 N.E.2d 289, 293.)
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