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"I drink alcohol and fuck men, but I'm not gay. Keep that pork away from me".
This seems to be the most popular attitude among muslim men
If you're looking at the minority that is specifically: "Men in western society who are Muslim in the same way Trump is Christian" then maybe.
Otherwise, the majority of Muslims do not drink alcohol.
With regards to the sexuality, then yes. There are a large number of Muslim men who are repressed LGBTQ individuals that are afraid of what their community might do to them. All of this is while Saudi Arabia also has full educational tracks segregated by gender worsening the sexual confusion of all minors, in addition to leading to abusive relationships (many of which involve minor sexual abuse).
The pork thing seems a lot more ingrained than the alcohol thing. Wonder if it has something to do with trichinosis.
Pigs are genetically really close to humans, so there's a lot of nasty stuff that can infect pigs that are transferable to humans. Probably way more cases of people getting parasites or diseases from pork than other protein sources in times past.
i mean historically speaking that's probably a decent chunk of the reason for pork being against the dietary rules for those religions.
Maybe their invisible sky-Daddy just wanted to deny them the joys of bacon and crackling?
Let's face it, twisted "jokes" seem to be the MO, just look at Isaac
who could have predicted that forcing animals to live on human excrement and then consuming those animals would lead to stigmas about cleanliness
Kind of a tradition thing for me and my siblings. If you grew up thinking it's unedible then it becomes weird to eat.
For example most people from US would not eat cat meat even if they were given $10 to do it. No religious idea there it's just "culturally unedible."
This is different from octopus etc which are more so in "I didn't know people ate it but I was never told it can't be" or "neutral" territory.
Tbh, I’ve also known a lot of Jews who will eat a cheeseburger or shrimp, but not pork.
I grew up Catholic, but my dad can’t digest pork, so we never ate it or had it in the house growing up (turns out I can’t digest it either, which I didn’t learn until I inadvertently ate some at a restaurant as an adult). I’m now a vegan and I enjoy meat alternatives, but I have zero interest in anything that tries to seem like any pork products. I once got some ground fake meat that I thought was supposed to be beeflike, but it was modeled on pork and I had to give away the chili I had made because I couldn’t stomach it.
It’s a very strong taste and smell, so if you don’t grow up with it, it’s probably not something that actually appeals to you past curiosity about the whole bacon meme (it was way too heavy and the umami equivalent of sickly sweet imo and got stuck in my teeth more than I expected it to)
Probably because, even if you want to eat meat, it's easy go for alternatives. When it comes to alcohol, no easy alternative can be used.
There are plenty of alternatives to alcohol that can be used to get high. People just lack imagination.
The Quran tells Muslims to avoid all intoxicants, not just alcohol.
Sugar, video games and no sleep combined
Alcohol makes you look cool to your friends (at least they think so) and not eating pork makes you look cool to other muslims
It’s wild that no one’s pushed back on this. Most Muslims drink and have sex with other men? That’s a preposterous and bigoted claim.
Statista sucks, so this is the clearest archive version I can find, but in France, a western country with a well integrated Muslim population and a significant drinking culture, the largest demographic of Muslim drinkers were those over 50 at 30%, whereas those under 25 were at 15%, and presumably the 25-50 year olds look to drink at a rate of ~22-25%