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Butterball turkey supplier investigated for business ties to Hizballah

Nov 23, 2016 12:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Maybe this is why all Butterball turkeys used to be all halal, whether labeled as such or not.

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“Your Thanksgiving Turkey May Come from a Company with Terrorist Ties,” by Michal Addady, Fortune, November 22, 2016:

The Justice Department is currently investigating the company that sells your Thanksgiving turkey for potential terrorist ties.

Seaboard SEB -2.11% is an international company that, among other things, sells Butterball turkeys. The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2010 it bought a 50% stake in Butterball, the largest turkey producer in the U.S. Now, investigators are trying to determine if Seaboard has business ties to individuals who are on a U.S. government blacklist for allegedly supporting the Lebanon-based militant group, Hezbollah.

The allegations are that a Seaboard milling subsidiary in Africa has done business with Kassim Tajideen, a man who was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2009 and 2010 for allegedly financing Hezbollah to the tune of tens of millions of dollars and running cover companies for the organization in Africa.

Tajideen says that he has no ties to Hezbollah and that he has never even heard of Seaboard, claiming that investigators often confuse him with two of his brothers who are also on the blacklist, Ali and Husayn Tajideen. Ali says he’s never heard of Seaboard and has no ties to the organization. While Husayn has heard of Seaboard, he claims to have no recent business dealings with the company.

Seaboard claims that it didn’t enter into any contracts with firms connected to the Tajideen family after they’d been blacklisted by the U.S. government. Even if the company did so unintentionally, it could face civil penalties, according the the Journal.

Federal investigators are particularly interested in an alleged meeting between Seaboard and a Hezbollah financier in 2012. The Journal writes that people with knowledge of the meeting say the two parties had discussed using a middleman to hide Seaboard’s ties to Tajideen firms….

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  1. linnte says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    As I suspect companies who want refugees to work in their Halal plants producing food like Chobani Yogurt! I think they are supporting more than just their business here in America. How could they NOT support any Islamic group if they are Muslims? It’s what they DO for each other.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      add Tyson to the list. meat cutting and butchering.

    • Mazo says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 8:56 pm

      Halal food?

      Non-meat foods are Halal. Ordinary fruits, vegetables, and yogurts are Halal. They don’t require special preparation. Your fruit companies are Halal. Better start boycotting them!

      Chobani is run by a hard working Kurdish immigrant who hired a ton of non-Kurdish people to work at his plants. He isn’t discriminating.

      • Angemon says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 3:43 pm

        Hamdi Ulukaya? Turkish muslim who gave millions to help the “Syrian” “refugees” and hired hundreds of “refugees” to work for him. Nice try, spin-doctor wannabe, but no one buys your turds, no matter how polished they may be.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 24, 2016 at 4:18 pm

          Good post, Angemon.

        • Mazo says

          Nov 25, 2016 at 4:54 pm

          You provide zero employment or charity to refugees and you think you can talk down a billionaire because he gives his money to other people.

          Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya is donating $2 million to Kurdish refugees in Syria.

          https ://www.youtube. com/watch?v=a0yk80ADG8U

          Kurdish billionaire gives millions to employees

          http ://rudaw. net/english/business/28042016

          Kurdish billionaire to give Chobani’s ownership stake to employees

          http ://kurdishdailynews. org/2016/04/26/kurdish-billionaire-to-give-chobanis-ownership-stake-to-employees/

          Chobani’s Founder Donates 700 Million to Kurdish Refugees

          http ://thekurdishproject. org/latest-news/us-kurdish-relations/chobanis-founder-donates-700-million-to-kurdish-refugees/

        • Angemon says

          Nov 27, 2016 at 8:20 am

          Mazo posted:

          “You provide zero employment or charity to refugees”

          This is false, and I dare you to prove what you wrote. Of course, since I debunked your pathetic little spin, you need to resort to petty personal insults – truly the hallmark of islamic character building…

          “and you think you can talk down a billionaire because he gives his money to other people.”

          Of course I can. I stand by what I said, which you did not even try to refute: Hamdi Ulukaya is a Turkish muslim who gave millions to help the “Syrian” “refugees” and hired hundreds of “refugees” to work for him.

        • Angemon says

          Nov 27, 2016 at 8:38 am

          P.S.: Don’t you have a history of trying to talk down billionaires? Like Trump?

          Hamdi Ulukaya studyied in a non-muslim university in a non-muslim country. He made his fortune selling non-islamic products mostly to non-muslims in non-muslim countries. What are the chances of him making it big if he remained a Kurdish on Turkey? Pretty much zero. And how does he repay the nation that allowed him to thrive? He decided to bring in hundreds of his coreligionists to take up working positions that should be going for the locals and by giving money to his coreligionists. Nice sense of gratitude he’s got there…

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 4:18 pm

        Mazo wrote:

        Halal food?

        Non-meat foods are Halal. Ordinary fruits, vegetables, and yogurts are Halal. They don’t require special preparation. Your fruit companies are Halal. Better start boycotting them!
        ……………………….

        Of course, no one cares whether Mohammedans consider ordinary food Halal or not. What is of concern is vicious Islamic butchery practices and using the profits as “Zakat” to send to Jihadists like Hizb’allah.

        More:

        Chobani is run by a hard working Kurdish immigrant who hired a ton of non-Kurdish people to work at his plants. He isn’t discriminating.
        ……………………….

        It doesn’t matter whether he is hiring Kurds or not–the problem is that he is importing large numbers of Muslims to Idaho–Muslims who are now raping little girls:

        “Idaho: Muslim migrants hold knife to throat of little girl, rape her, urinate on her”

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/idaho-muslim-migrants-hold-knife-to-throat-of-little-girl-rape-her-urinate-on-her

      • SweetOlBob says

        Nov 25, 2016 at 8:00 am

        Mazo:
        Is that why our first (gag) Lady was instrumental in getting Chobani a contract supplying schools while claiming that yogurt could replace meat in school menus ?
        He may be hard working but he is still a muslim. Some of them actually work. Tyson has imported many Somalis to Tennessee to work in its chicken plants.
        Listen America ! the whole thing could be helped if we all stopped buying anything from Chobani, Butterball, and Tyson.
        If they all love muslims and produce halal products, let them survive on strictly muslim business.

  2. miriamrove says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    All three brothers are lying. It is called Taqqey. m

  3. Lynn Miller says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    I no longer buy Butterball turkeys. Even if they are no longer halal, there must have been a reason why they were halal in the past. Ties to Islamic terror organizations could be the reason.

    • particolor says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 3:48 am

      Wake Up America !! ALL Halal Certified Anything’s have Terrorist Ties !!

  4. mrconfectioner says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    So its Tyson or ButterBombs this year?

  5. Cynthia in California says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    We ordered a heritage bird from Diestel in the California foothills. Owned by the same family since the 1940s, these birds are raised traditionally–i.e., not factory-type birds.

    Looking forward to NOT enriching some corrupt Butterball/Tyson/whoever corporation. Cheers!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 4:20 pm

      Happy Thanksgiving to you, Cynthia, from a fellow Californian!

  6. Angemon says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    Tajideen says that he has no ties to Hezbollah and that he has never even heard of Seaboard, claiming that investigators often confuse him with two of his brothers who are also on the blacklist, Ali and Husayn Tajideen.

    Yes, because, as we all know, when one family member of a muslim family is connected to islamic terrorism no one else in the family knows about it and is always shocked, SHOCKED!!! to learn about it…

  7. Carolyne says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    There’s a great turkey brand that you buy in a plastic bag, don’t have to thaw out and just cook bag and all in the oven frozen,. It is delicious. It is Jen-O or something like that. I’ve already cooked it and I threw the bag away. No more Tyson or Butterball for me.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      That would be Jennie-O, Carolyn–and I don’t believe they do Halal turkeys.

  8. gravenimage says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Butterball turkey supplier investigated for business ties to Hizballah
    ………………………

    Disgusting–but *hardly* surprising.

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    The only good news is that Butterball stopped selling unlabeled Halal turkeys–thanks to us “Islamophobes”!

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