Very interesting question. Below, on this page, is the only reference I can find that perhaps answers it.

It is NOT haraam to touch a dog or any other animal. HOWEVER If the saliva of a dog touches you or any part of your clothing, then it is required of you to wash the body part touched and the item of clothing touched by the dog’s mouth or snout. IF THIS IS NOT DONE UR SALAAT IS UNACCEPTED

Your body breaks down proteins into the amino acids, so just hold off 24 hours on the pork, then you should be okay. Just to be sure say a prayer to Allah beforehand.

Why do you care? Seriously, why does it matter? What would be the ill effect to the Muslim touching you, if you did have some percentage of bacon or ham somewhere in your digestive tract?

How would the person know? Do you wear a sign on your shirt that says “Caution: I ate bacon and eggs this morning”?

I get that this is a hypothetical question, but even hypothetical questions have to be rational.

Even if it did somehow matter, you should not change your life because of an iron-age superstition. If these books were so “inspired” why did they not tell us something useful? Things like how to make soap, the use of basic plumbing to keep shit out of everything, etc. would be much more helpful.

Muslims can touch bacon, they are just supposed not to eat it.

Reminds me of a joke…

Biggest dilemma to a Jew?...
Free bacon.

My Jewish friend then explained it to me as not being a problem. They’d sell it to the Christians at a profit. ;-)

If it were, there would be quite a few poeple out there with their heads still attached

You should wear a non-kosher & haram warning T-shirt, listing your dietary breakdown, just in case.

@elbanditoroso It’s religion. It makes no sense. No religion does.

I just asked a friend who is Muslim this question. He said that, yes, he can touch someone who eats pork. (He just can’t touch me because I am a female.) :)

@Pied_Pfeffer…

Muslims can touch and marry Christian females without any religious issues.
It is Islamic women that cannot (shouldn’t) touch non-Islamic men. (Nor most any man that is not part of the close family circle or their husband.)

@whitenoise Are you sure? Here is one site that states otherwise. The reason for asking is that I’ve met a fair amount of people who are Muslim, and their practices vary, just like it does with Christianity.

He can touch you, but he isn’t supposed to be intimate with women that are not his family or that he is not married to. It is a minority within muslims that carry that notion of not being intimate so far as that they cannot touch women at all.

We live in a very (the most?) Islamic country and we very, very, very rarely come across a muslim that refuses to shake my wife’s hand.

(The reasoning is that all that leads to haram is haram and touching a woman’s hand may trigger haram thoughts.)

However… there are many different interpretations and I am sure their views differ.

Anyways, even then: any muslim, if he really wanted to, could marry you and then all would be fine anyway.

@whitenoise Thank you for that explanation.

Thanks everyone for your answers.

@elbanditoroso and @Inara27 This question came out of a discussion with a friend regarding the incident in the early days of the Afghan/Iraq wars when US soldiers were found to be dipping their bullets in pork before loading. I just wanted to know how deep the crazy goes.

There are tales, and some are likely true, of soldiers from various countries fighting Muslims and using the threat of splashing pigs blood on their housing, covering and/or burying their bodies with the blood, skins or even whole pigs in an attempt to take control.

Dipping bullets in blood seems like a stretch. I’m no gun expert, but I’ve grown up with some, and I seriously doubt that shooting a bullet after immediately dipped in blood will be effective. However, the threat may be.

@Pied_Pfeffer dipping it in the blood was simply to add insult to injury.

@Dutchess_III It’s a psychological threat. My question is would a gun be able to shoot if it were dipped in blood right before being loaded?

I don’t know why it wouldn’t. My concern would be how the blood could damage the gun over time.

@Dutchess_III Have you ever shot a gun where the bullet was dipped in blood? I haven’t. All I know is based upon experience in creating shotgun shells for my dad and his hunting buddies. They needed to be clean, pristine and full of the right amount of ingredients in order to fire properly. They cleaned their guns in order to maintain its ability to shoot effectively. This could be wrong, but it seems like dipping a bullet or shell in blood before shooting it goes against every grain of a gun owner’s training.

Well, then you know far more about it than I do. Why don’t you post a question?

@Pied_Pfeffer It’s been a long time since I read about it, but I think they were dipping the bullets in shredded pork. It is a psychological tactic, as you said, as the enemy doesn’t know if traces of pork make it to the target with the bullet. We would presume not, but Islamic terrorists are hardly an educated lot.

I don’t think so, another person is not affected by your actions, whatever you do is all yours.

Of course other people are affected by ones actions. Why would you say that?