Imam...Preist... Questions anyone?

today i came in late but im gonna try to get as much done as possible. i usually do my posts after my research but im doing it before this time. so basically all i know is that an imam is a muslim religious leader and a preist is a christian leader. thats the extent of my current knowledge haha

Anyone Got a Muslim?

Today im trying to find people to interview. i have been doing alot of research but i have to have someone to verify it all with. i have decided that in order to get a good prespective of each religion that it would be good to interview someone. Suhayb has a muslim religous leader that i can talk to but i am trying to get a preist and someone age 15, and 25-35 that is muslim. i am chipping away at it though. tomorrow i am going to do differences in sacred texts hopefully.

Foods- Halal and Hiram

so today i am looking at foods. christians have no foods that are forbidden. the only thing about being a christian is that alchahol is usually seen as bad if you see it as a way to get drunk but, drinking with dinner and casually is not deemed as forbidden. Now muslims have two different catagories that all food can fall into depending on what they are made of. these two catagories are Halal and Hiram. Hilal translates to "legal" or "allowed". These are food that are permitted, where as Hiram translates to "unlawful" or "Prohibited". Hiram food is absolutely forbidden and is never to be eaten by muslims because Allah* forbids it. The following is a list of hiram foods i found online.

-Pig/Swine/Pork and its by-products.
-Blood and and blood by-products.
-Carnivorous animals.
-Reptiles and insects.
-Halal animals which are not slaughtered according to the Islamic Law.
-Animals killed in the name of anyone other than God.
-The bodies of dead animals or dead before slaughtering.
-Alcohol and intoxicants such as Wine, Ethyl Alcohol, and Spirits etc.

If a muslim is not sure which catagorie to put any given food in then it is considered "Mushbooh" which is an arabic word meaning "doubtful". if any foods or drinks are doubtful then they try to avoid them. i also found a list of some examples of mushbooh.

-Gelatin.
-Enzymes.
-Emulsifiers.
-Lard.
-Glycerol/glycerin etc.

*Allah: Arabic word meaning God

Just Starting Out

Today I made my blog and set it up. Today we had a 2 hour delay and my research is most likely not going to go too far. Im still trying to figure out exactly what i want to do for my final project. I want it to be really good but im torn between what i want to do. I am also trying to figure out who excactly i want to interview from either side. I have decided that i am going to interview three people from either side. i will interview someone around the ages of 15, 25-35, and then hopefully a religous leader from each religion. im very posative that I will make alot of progress within the next week or two.