Muslim chef contaminates kitchen with feces by wiping his butt with his hand, in accordance with Islamic toiletry code

March 17, 2017

WARNING:

This post will make you sick to your stomach.

Do you remember the post I did last November on a Muslim man in Italy who, after taking a dump in an alley, washed his anus at a public drinking fountain, then drank water using the same hand? (See “Muslim washes his anus at public drinking fountain in Italy”)

Turns out the man was simply doing what Islam instructs.

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The Qadaa’ al-Haajah code states that the anus must be washed with water after defecating — a practice called istinja. Since the code also says a man should never touch his genitals with his right hand, the standard practice is to wash the anus with water with the left hand.

And that’s exactly what Mahbub Chowdhury, a Muslim takeout chef in Swindon in southwest England, did.

A takeaway chef wiped his bottom using his hands before preparing food because he does not use toilet paper for ‘cultural reasons’, a court heard.

Mahbub Chowdhury, 46, from Swindon, was found to have a filthy bottle in the kitchen of Yeahya Flavour of Asia, which inspectors concluded was covered in faecal matter.

When questioned, he said he filled the empty milk bottle with water from the kitchen taps before using it to clean his backside after going to the toilet.

Chowdhury prepared meat and fish curries at the takeaway, which was run out of a rented kitchen at the Nine Elms pub.

The chef, who no longer works at the takeaway, pleaded guilty to ten counts of breaching food hygiene regulations at Swindon Magistrates Court.

He was fined more than £5,000 last year for ten similar offences relating to food hygiene.

Rosie Heath, prosecuting, said environmental health officers who visited the business in May last year found ‘very poor standards of hygiene’.

She said: ‘In the kitchen under the double sinks [they] found an empty plastic milk bottle which was extremely dirty and was covered with brown fingerprints.

‘When asked, Mr Chowdhury explained he filled the bottle with water from the kitchen taps and used it to clean his bottom after visiting the toilet.

‘He did not use toilet paper for cultural reasons. Inspectors concluded the brown finger prints was faecal matter.’

Mark Glendenning, defending, said the milk bottle was never examined and the marks could have been spices.

Chowdhury will be sentenced at Swindon Crown Court.