Totally illogical

Lunchmate 1 was telling us about how a friend who went with her to China did not know how to read Chinese, and therefore she had to translate menu items for the friend.

Lunchmate 2 suddenly says, that person needs halal food right?

We both stared at him…

I mean, this is idiotic on so many levels, I don’t even know where to start.

I said that I felt like whacking him (being Chinese-illiterate myself but by no means needing halal food), but he still didn’t get it… it actually took quite some time before he managed to understand that there were people who couldn’t read Chinese but weren’t Muslim. And yet it didn’t even seem like he fully realized the implications of what he had said (I didn’t bother telling him; it would have been a waste of time)

The “full implications” may be too long to be written here, but just to name a few:
Firstly there are plenty of Chinese Malaysians who do not read Chinese, and consume pork.
Secondly, even if he forgot about Chinese who are Chinese-illiterate (for a stupid Chinese-educated katak-di-bawah-tempurung’s reason), even in Malaysia there are non-Chinese and non-Malays who eat pork (Indians are a big group).
Thirdly, even if you take Malaysians out of the equation, how about all the Europeans and Americans who are Christians and do not read Chinese? Why would they need halal food?

I guess he could be forgiven for being too young to know better. (born in 2000)