Malaysiakini : “Whatever Jakim certifies as halal, then it is confirmed halal. But what is not certified halal, does not necessarily mean it is haram.” - ex-Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin in 2014
Read it all here.......COMMENT | The quote by Asri that opens this piece nearly 10 years ago was at the height of another halal controversy. This was during the infamous Cadbury porcine DNA fiasco.
Even after the Islamic Development Department (Jakim) had released its results and found no porcine DNA, the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) decided that it would continue its boycott call of the product - “We’re not running like Usain Bolt to buy Cadbury chocolates,” said its chief activist Nadzim Johan.
Anecdotally speaking, most Muslim traders I have engaged with think more along the lines of Asri than Jakim. They assume the government would tell them if something is haram and not that everything needs to be certified as halal.
Besides, as one roadside seller told me, why the need for Muslim and non-Muslim restaurants (besides those selling pork, which is haram anyway) to be halal certified when most if not all the raw ingredients and bottled sources are already halal-certified by Jakim?
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