PAS Youth has taken the initiative to list down almost two dozen “pork-related terms” that it deemed as necessary for Muslims to pay heed to when dealing with product ingredients in the wake of the KK Super Mart “halal ham and cheese sandwich” saga.
“There may be some of us who’re not aware of pork-related terms used in food or cooking,” stated the Islamist party’s youth wing in a Facebook post.
“For western, Japanese or Korean food fans, this information is vital for YOU before buying the product or eating the food.”
Following this, PAS Youth offered 23 pork-related terms – in Malay, English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects (eg Hokkien and Cantonese) as well as Japanese and Korean – that Muslims have to be wary of.
They are (1) pig, (2) hog, (3) pork, (4) swine, (5) boar, (6) lard, (7) bacon, (8) ham, (9) sow, (10) bak, (11) char siu, (12) siew yoke, (13) char siew, (14) cu nyuk, (15) rou, (16) dwaeji, (17) tonkatsu, (18) tonkotsu, (19) butaniku, (20) yakibuta, (21) nibuta, (22) B2, and (23) khinzir.
This sharing has elicited many responses depending on which political front one is affiliated to.
One presumably opposition-slant commented offered another term – bar*ua – which he claimed as providing strong defence to the external body of the pig “yet would be actively attacking/whacking Malays and Muslims”.
A few suggested to add Item #24 which is “walanon” a.k.a. staunch supporters of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim with one suggested that it should be “walanonPIG”.
Another associated babi as befitting for people “who indulge in graft, bribery, corruption, gambling and cheating the overtime allowance of workers”.
One Chinese commenter clarified that “bak” and “rou” – which simply mean “meat” in Hokkien and Mandarin respectively – should not be misconstrued as “pork”.
Another reminded that not only is pork deemed as haram by Islam but so, too, is “the act of slandering” while another recalled how PAS Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad burned a RM850,000 hole in her pocket after losing a defamation suit to the DAP powerful trio of Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Teresa Kok.
At the end of the day, one commenter hit the nail on the head by implying how decent and productive PAS could be if it is able to disseminate useful information instead of “indulging in 24-hour politicking”.
Main image credit: Chili Crab Kitchen
