it's surprising just how much food is halal - even the icecream cones I brought the other week are, although I don't know why wafer cones need to specify being halal or not (or maybe I'm best not knowing LOL). Anyway, I would think that sometimes, like in any religion, that there are those who don't abide by every religious 'rule' and don't have a problem with eating meat that isn't halal or kosher etc. I know Catholics that eat meat on Fridays and still consider themselves to be 'good' Catholics, so maybe this is similar in concept?

PS, glad you got home OK
In Judaism, there are foods that are always Kosher, but during passover, there are additional restrictions on some processed grains, including corn and wheat, which is why Baskin Robbins and others do special Kosher Ice Cream cones. As far as I know, Islam doesn't have these restrictions. In the US, they also make special cane sweetened coke for passover, since theirs is usually sweetened with HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), however Australia's is always cane sugar sweetened.