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Pork-laced bullets designed to send Muslims straight ‘to hell’

By Tracy Simmons — June 21, 2013
SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) An Idaho company has launched a line of bullets coated in pork-infused paint, saying the bullets ``don't just kill an Islamist terrorist, you also send him to hell.''

Pork-free vaccine wins cheers from Hajj pilgrims

By Omar Sacirbey — October 18, 2012
(RNS) The nearly 3 million Muslims who will make next week’s annual hajj pilgrimage to the sacred Saudi Arabian city of Mecca are required to be vaccinated against meningitis. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis claims to have developed, in 2010, the first anti-meningitis vaccine without pork, which Muslims are forbidden to consume under Islamic law. Many […]
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