I'm Muslim, and selling pork and other inedible (for Muslims) meat products is prohibited too. Anyway, that piece Snowy is stealing actually looks like a half-cut cod fish, but if you insist that it is pork then this is one of the major errors committed by Hergé!
Or, later it is found that the meat-seller was actually one of Allan's henchmen. Who knows - maybe he was actually a Christian in the guise of a Muslim?
Moderator Note: No need to worry - Hergé's original French uses the word "gigot", a "leg", a term usually associated with lamb or mutton - so he wasn't in error! The English version simply declares it is a "joint" of meat, which is neutral, and therefore most likely implies that it is a piece of non-prohibited meat - otherwise why sell it in a situation where no one would buy it? And where would you even get it from? Even if he were just some non-Muslim in disguise, it wouldn't be much of a cover if the first thing you did was to sell pork in a Muslim market - bit of a give-away one would have thought...? ;-) The Tidy Tintinologist Team |