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"Swine Flu" is not Kosher - Israeli health minister
This is a discussion on "Swine Flu" is not Kosher - Israeli health minister within the Political Humour forums, part of the General Discussion category on Politics.ie. All I can say is - "bless!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021301.stm Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on ...

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27th April 2009

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"Swine Flu" is not Kosher - Israeli health minister

All I can say is - "bless!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021301.stm

Quote:

Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on the swine flu epidemic - and he started by renaming it for religious reasons.
"We will call it Mexican flu. We won't call it swine flu," said Mr Litzman, who belongs to the ultra-religious United Torah Judaism party.

Have any Imam's in the Muslim world had similar problems with the porcine nomenclature?!

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