It is not necessary, it is a convenience product to use in lieu of handwashing - right? Right.
British Muslims have made the news this week as apparently a few people refused the alcohol-based gels when visiting in the hospital due to religous reasons. There is an interesting and eye opening (to me, at least) post and discussion about this over at Rolled Up Trousers, Osama Saeed’s blog. Is it ok that Muslim’s don’t use the gel? Sure, as long as they wash their hands instead. But apparently, it is only the ingestion of alcohol that is the issue. Go check out Osama’s blog, you might find the discussion as interesting as I did.
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Hsien Lei // Dec 31, 2006 at 6:35 am
That’s so interesting. I never would have thought about that alcohol, hand, food connection. I don’t think I’m smart enough to live life with so many restrictions.
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