Malt Soft Drinks Halal For Muslims, Says National Fatwa Council

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Bernama) -- The National Fatwa Council has ruled that malt soft drinks like Barbican are allowed to be consumed by Muslims.

It said these products were processed not for making alcoholic drinks and the alcohol content derived from the process was very low and not intoxicating.

"Hence, such drinks are allowed to be consumed by Muslims in line with the decisions made by the council at its previous series of muzakarah or discussions(in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 2010)," National Fatwa Council chairman, Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Abdul Shukor Husin, told a news conference, here, Monday.

These series of discussions were on the alcohol content in food, drinks and medicines and the decision on the malt drinks which was announced today, was made at the council's muzakarah held from June 16 and 18 this year.

"With that decision, Muslims need not worry about the status of these drinks as they are halal (permitted) for Muslims," said Abdul Shukor.

However, he said, the muzakarah also advised producers of malt drinks not to use labels, brands and the likes that could cause confusion to consumers, especially Muslims.

Abdul Shukor had earlier attended the presentation of contributions to mosques and surau and launching of the national-level Ihya' Ramadan programme by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom at the Al-Muqarrabin Mosque in Bandar Tasek Selatan.

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D'jew mean, malt = bijan?
Ho ho ho horlicks!

the problem is the word 'Beer'. when beer itself is haram, how do you make something with the same name halal?
try asking any sane muslim about halal pork and they'll totally say "DUDE WTF MAN." you can't change the stigma, halal beer, halal pork, halal carcass.

ROOT BEER IS LIKING +1

All these sugar drinks +diabetes

so this one can really drink or not?i mean halal izit?
i kenot brain....

dang....why u guys still eat hot dogs?....

kejap halal kejap haram

refer to that video above. that man has already spoken about this HALAL or HARAM thing...very simple.

root beer, hot dogs, they are different phrases. like malaysian chinese, and chinese. two different entities.
inb4 plz elaborate your metaphor because we're damfaks.

dah agak dah

i wonder how many million tax payer money went to do testing for alcohol content.

why ban in the first place?

since when barbican is beer?

taste like 7-up

better buy 7-up!

taste like shit...better drink heineken

Next, Halal Char Siew!!!!

Lager (German: storage) is a type of beer made from malted barley that is brewed and stored at low temperatures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager



Tada! Alcohol free beer.

This post has been edited by automan5891: Jul 26 2011, 02:30 AM

can they remove the pork from pigs too ? i mean use spesial distillation.

lol