This is a little random, but I thought it was pretty good marketing. My cousin a.k.a blogger angrybrownguy got coupons from McDonald’s in Urdu! And this isn’t in Pakistan it’s in New Jersey.
Maybe this is one step closer for McDonald’s to start serving halal, since a good percentage of South Asians in North America are Muslims.
When I met Shaykh Hamza Yusuf at the ISNA convention this year, I told him maybe if McDonald’s and Burger King started serving Halal across the states, more Muslims would start eating it, more halal means less haraam. He said “it’s good it’s not halal, it’s bad for your health anyways, you shouldn’t be eating it regardless”.Ha-ha.
Check out the coupon below
“Taste zyada, price kum” means ” More tasteful, less pricey”
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I got that same type of coupon package. I think they are printing in Urdu to select 'residences'. There probably analyzing names through a computer to figure our if its 'Pakistani;, 'Indian', or 'Desi'.
From a health perspective, you can understand where Shaykh Hamza is coming from. But I also think that 'the more Halal, the less haram' is a strong point also. To me this is proof of the potential power of the Halal consumer. If this corporate giants are taking notice of the Muslim consumer, it also gives us leverage to start making our voices heard in their boardrooms. US Muslims spend an estimated $170 billion a year in the country that invented the phrase 'the customer is always right'…so let's start telling them what we want!
it's very true ! it's good that it isn't halal !
in the Arab world the McDonald's franchises actually do sell Halal burgers…
hahaha iluA
McDonalds funds the zionists so any self respecting Muslim wouldn't eat there anyway… Allahu Alem.