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Welcome to the Halal Jihadist where we hope to educate and turn a spotlight on the world of investing and food.

Our objective in publishing our thoughts is primarily to force rigor into our thoughts and share it with you.  We have come across what we believe to be questionable definitions of halal and want to force ourselves to be just in on our evaluation and felt sharing our opinions in written form would do just that, as it would open us to your opinions.

Halal Meat
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So what is our beef [pun intended]? Halal meat and the certification agencies.  Halal is more than the act of using a blade across the throat of an animal, but to all those who we spoke with in the certification business last year (2017) that is all they measured.

Sharia / Riba Investing
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We feel it is very important that we preserve and grow our wealth to ensure we can give Zakat to those in need.  When we see faith based marketing schemes, and the re-papering of contracts in which 'interest' is crossed out and replaced with 'penalty fee' and than certified as Sharia compliant we are going to shine a light and evaluate the merits.

We hope through this dialogue we can all move closer to understanding and making informed choices.

The Halal Jihadist
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