When it comes to eating, I will eat an elephant (metaphorically speaking of course), however I will ensure that its slaughtered in the Halal way, just trying to be funny here if you see what I mean. No, seriously, when it comes to eating, we will try any cuisine, and we have been going to various countries and we love their cuisine; the Italian and Creek cuisine are well known for us the Arabs, and with the advent of franchises we saw pizza joints cropping up every where, of course this is great, as we don’t have to go to Italy to have Pizza or pasta. I also love Spanish food, and I think I am the only one in the gulf who loves British food! Fish and chips and cake and custard are my favorite, I will have them any time. Islam encourages us to travel and get to know people; there are a number of articles in Quran that talk about travels and of course the famous trip of the summer and the winter for Quraish. Obviously when one travels one has to eat as well, especially in those days that people traveled on Camels, carrying food is not something that is safe, so buying staples from the countries en route is a must. I don’t think that when we eat a pie for example we will think that this pie is going to change us from Muslims to non-Muslims? or will make us speak the language of that country in a fluent way. I don’t know how to speak Italian, but judging from the article below, I should be so fluent in Italian (because of the thousands Pizzas I had and the tens of thousands of espresso, cappuccinos, cafe grande and what not of the Italian stuff). The article below is another example of Islamophobia that we collectively have to work against: