Some Thoughts: The "Halal" Label

WE ALREADY have the "Halal" label on some of our food products that meet the specific dietary needs of our Muslim brothers and sisters. It would not be a far stretch of the will for our legislative branch to make the necessary regulations to make the "Halal" label a nationwide requirement. Too, this will help many other Filipinos understand our shared humanity with our Muslim minority.

"Halal" is the distinguishing mark that allow our practicing Muslims brethren and sisters to safely choose among certain food groups that fulfill their religious duty regarding Quranic dietary requirements. For our Jewish brethren and sisters, this is called "Kosher".

I believe that because we are a social democracy and not an elitist oligarchy, we must make sure that our market also caters to the needs of the minority.

Our nation's Spartan spirit should be fully contained in the hearts of our military for theirs is a different realm altogether from the quiet realm of our homes, our habitations, our systems and institutes of sacred life but both these realms are fully contained in the one reality of our endeavor of Country.

Therefore, there is a constant need to be able to translate our citizenry from service to service between the two realms of military and civilian (public and private) to make sure that there can never be any helots here, for we are a free Country of free-born people and that we make our majority decisions on behalf of the weak and the minority, we do not exploit them.

For this is like a DNA code written in the very nature of our our Republic because for our one Republic to completely and fully mature into an elder Republic, it has to be true to itself first and foremost, and that simply means we have to be true to each other.
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Mabuhay and Pilipinas!

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.