ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
See I don't get it. I've gone to BBQs at a Muslim friends place and all he did was use a separate grill for the food he cooked and what non Muslims cooked. There have even been occasions when he didn't want to wait and used the same grill. We had grilled beef sausage(non halal) and his wife(a convert due to marriage) and his wife did some grilled chicken wings. He ate our salads and buns and pickles, and dessert and we ate what he he and his wife prepared. he just didn't eat the sausage....thought it smelled good and said he was tempted to try it.
Shep, the group you are talking about we can all get along with. Accommodations can be made with same tolerance on both sides. What irritates us is the idea that we need to change our lunch diets to accommodate the Islam Uber Alles group.
If Moslems or any other group doesn't like what I eat for lunch at work that is unfortunate but I am not overly concerned.
I sounds like you were at a great BBQ.