Do you like anything American?

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Bismillah:

If you mean the meat used on the pizza, as long as it is not pork, then many scholars have said that it is permissable, because the majority of Americans are Christian and they are the people of the book, so their meat is permissable as long as it is not from forbidden meat like pork.

Do Christians invoke the name of Allah when slaughtering their animals? No they don’t, in fact most of them don’t mention any name before slaughtering animals and they don’t even follow the Islamic method of slaughtering animals to avoid many diseases. This makes it haram according to the Qur’an.


"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, <b>and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."</b>[Qur’an 5:3]


What if those Christians for examples slaughter their animals in the name of the Father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit? Will we be allowed to eat that meat too? No of course not.


I know that we are allowed to eat the food of the people of the Book <b>as long as it is not haram</b>, and that's why we can very well eat the meat slaughtered by Jews because they are very strict in following the same method of slaughtering animals as Muslims commanded by God and His messenger, and they do mention the name of Allah before slaughtering too, that makes it Halal.


I was not talking about vege or sea food pizzas, although they use the same pans of vege pizza when they cook pork, and who knows, sometimes you find piece of ham went wrong in the vege pizza and we eat it. So its better to eat in a Muslim restaurants when we we are in Non Muslim country to avoid these problems. USA have lots of Halal restaurants masha'Allah, so why we have to eat somewhere else?


We can very well eat pizza hut in a Muslim country, at least we are sure that everything there is Halal.


Well this is my personal opinion.


Salam


Wael.