Submission

If you don't read the newspaper often, there is one article on the Sunday Times which shows some people getting unreasonably very angry over a packet of meat. And of course it all makes sense once you realise that the packet of meat contains pork. Apparently someone with some spare time on his hands bought a packet of pork from NTUC and either pasted a halal sticker on it or photoshoped it on and posted it on the internet and NTUC wants to bring that guy to "justice". Wow, I didn't know that you could still get into trouble for mislabelling a product after you bought it and have complete ownership over what you want to do with it.

Now, I have a few thoughts about this weird occurrence, first of course is that now that I know I'll get fined for doing such a thing, I'm not going to do it, of course that probably wouldn't happen anyway as I have no idea what a halal sticker looks like. Next is, you don't own that packet of meat anymore NTUC, it's not as if that the person is conducting a check on whether your packaging is accurately labelled and then falsely placed a tampered package on the shelve to instigate you, so stop trying to get it back and live with it! I know you're stingy with money (look at those overpriced batteries), but even that has its limits.

As for those religious people who have food restrictions imposed by a work of fiction, do what everyone else does - Read the labels on the packaging. I can think of some people who really have these special food needs, like lactose intolerant patients, but they still have to content with studying the contents of the packaging, what's more it is not as if eating that packet of meat is going to kill you, this is just another excuse to be lazy in the name of religious tolerance. And when this kind of joke come up ever so occasionally, don't you dare have the nerve to say that the action should be punished in the name of religious harmony, the only possible reason that action will go punished is for religious submission, namely to YOUR religion. In fact you should be glad that we have been submitting for much more than we should, because of you all my catered food have to be halal, just once I would like to see pork or at least pork oil during the lunch of a function I attend, but no, you must have it your way. Why don't you just do what anyone who have food preferences would do? That is, just don't eat the food.

That's it, the next time I invite anyone over to a meal, I'm sprinkling a little bit of all kinds of animal/plant extract that I can find (unless you have a condition) without telling the person, forcing the person to eat whatever banned substance imposed on him/her. And do you know what the result would be? Nothing of course, the person wouldn't even know that it was there. The reasonable vegetarians wouldn't mind it because they aren't trying to impose their diet on my food, would you?

*Update: I almost forgot to mention that the article posted a comment made by a Muslim which goes something like, this is totally unacceptable and the authorities should crack down on it in the name of promoting religious harmony. Wow, you're not even eating or buying that fictional product that someone posted on the web and you want that person to be punished? That's like not going to watch the movie The Golden Compass because YOU think that it contains anti-religious elements and then trying to get countries to ban the movie while letting your own religious movies have free passes. Wait a minute. What? The Christians are doing that? Damn, I've nothing else to say about that. Funny why there isn't a Muslim who say that he/she is okay we labelling your own can of food whatever you like in defence of free speech who get their comments published.