Halal baby shampoo

Whatever next. Johnson and Johnsons baby shampoo is now Halal certified. There must be a reason that a large company pays a fee to have its Baby shampoo certified halal, but the reason is not obvious to me.

The halal certification business is huge, world wide billions probably trillions of dollars. Usually it refers to food products, but as the baby shampoo indicates certification is not limited to food.
There may be a need for some products sold to the Middle East or Islamic countries to have Halal certification. However from my own observations in these countries, their stores have lots of products that give no indication they are Halal, and I have never noticed Muslims shopping in our stores in Australia reading the labels to check if the product is halal.
In Australia most products that are certified halal do not have a symbol advertising he fact, so how does one know that the food is halal.

• Does certification improve the quality or nutritional value of the food- NO
• Does certification ensure good quality control over the production-NO- we have ample laws covering health and safety.
• Does certification lower the standard of our food-NOT USUALLY
• Does certification increase the price of the product-YES- a fee has to be paid to an Islamic body for the certification each year.
• Does certification increase the cost of production-SOMETIMES- Halal slaughtermen are sometimes paid more that non muslim slaughtermen.

The reasons many many companies small and large pay money to Islamic certifying bodies, is unclear however that is not the big question, the big question is:

What happens to the money paid for certification

Where does the billions of dollars raised certifying products go? The income is above the cost of certifying, so does the surplus go into building Mosques in the resident country, does it go to helping poor communities, is it just used corruptly to make some people rich. A video on air  showed the head of the Halal certifying bodies, stating that halal certification had made him personally, very very rich. 

 

Or does some of it get sent overseas to help terrorist organisations? Overseas money paid for halal certification has been traced to terrorist organisations.. To my knowledge no one in Australia knows, and the certifying bodies are not saying. The NSW police are still I believe  investigation the Australian Federation Of Islamic Councils -AFIC- over the disappearance of millions of dollars of money given to Islamic schools by the NSW and Australian Government. The NSW government has asked for the return of over $9.0 million. I wonder where it is?

 

This talk below could be extremely interesting and a real eye opener for any with some doubts about Islam