Re: Dining Out - Eat at a Non-Muslim Eatery
The Prophet 
is reported to have ate food prepared food by Non-Muslims.
The Quran allows us to marry Jewish and Christian women. It would be retarded to suggest that we are not allowed to eat food prepared by our Non-Muslim wife, mother, daughter-in-law or sister-in-law etc.
Stop trying to make Islam stricter than it actually is, Islam is the middle path, don’t be extreme.
Pirsahib,
I suspect this is a hangover from our Hindu past. The Arabs seem to be more chilled out about these things.
This is true.
My grandfather would tell me stories of the days before partition and he said the high-caste Hindus considerd anything touched by a Muslim and low-caste Hindus to have become defiled so they would not eat or drink of it.
My grandfather's Hindu friends even had seperate utensils in their houses for their Muslim friends.
Even today in Hindu areas of Pakistan the Hindu shopkeepers have seperate drinking pots for Muslims and seperate ones for Hindus with a red cloth tied on them (to tell the Muslims not to drink from them).
Even today there are places in India even in urban areas where there are Hindu-only apartments because Non-Hindus (especially Muslims) are considered dirty and unclean.
A lot of high-caste Hindus (even politicians) will purify themselves with Ganga-Jal (ganges water) after shaking hands with or touching a non-Hindu or low-caste Hindu.
Islam is not that strict, so we should stop inventing rules for ourselves.
We do not consider non-Muslims physically unclean so we are allowed to eat the food prepared by them.
The Taj Mahal (which is considered a Hindu temple by extremist Hindus) was purified by Hindus with cow urine after Parvez Musharraf a Muslim visited it.
Islam teaches that everyone comes from the same couple, it does not teach that some came from god's mouth and others from his feet, no all are created equal in Islam, all are made of the same flesh and blood regardless of skin color, ethnicity or tribe...
No caste is high/pure and no caste is low/impure, all are created equal, then it their perogrative whether they choose the path of righteousness or the path of unrighteousness.
I don't mind as long as the ingredients in my food are all halal. I agree, we shouldnt make religion too hard on ourselves, to the point where we fail to follow it.