Going Halal: Balancing Ingredients For Mutual Understanding

• Main Author: Nur Diyanah Anwar
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Non-Traditional Security; Regionalism and Multilateralism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88760; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44697
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The move by foreign food chain ‘Subway’ to go halal in Singapore is a commercial, market-driven decision. Yet, it attracted undue reaction on social media. This should instead be an opportunity to bring the different communities together through a better understanding of the respective cultural and...