“But an attorney for Sindbad Market asked for and received an exemption in September on grounds that suspension would cause a hardship for Muslim food stamp recipients, who rely on the market for its preparation of halal meat, in accordance with Islamic law.”
Of course. To have taken any other course of action would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Islamic Market Guilty of Food Stamp Fraud Gets a Pass,” by Brendan Kirby, PoliZette, March 27, 2017 (thanks to Maurice):
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is objecting to a break the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Obama administration gave a halal market that made fraudulent food stamp transactions.
But federal officials told LifeZette the decision is final.
“If you have rules, you need to follow the rules. The problem with the previous administration is they were very, very weak on fraud.”
The case involves Sindbad Market in Portland. According to the Agriculture Department’s Office of Inspector General, the market made four fraudulent transactions with three ineligible customers. Because the owner was personally involved in one of the transactions, that ordinarily would trigger a one-year suspension of the ability to accept food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
But an attorney for Sindbad Market asked for and received an exemption in September on grounds that suspension would cause a hardship for Muslim food stamp recipients, who rely on the market for its preparation of halal meat, in accordance with Islamic law. The federal government agreed to impose a $33,000 fine instead.
“In consideration of the attorney’s response and our analysis of other SNAP retailers in the area, it was our determination that disqualification of Sindibad [sic] Market LLC would cause a hardship for SNAP households due to no comparable stores within a one mile radius,” a federal document states….
Michael says
lol … yes, when you break the law, usually there are ‘hardships’ that result.
I don’t know of any recent cases of those who drive while intoxicated, having their quite severe penalties abated because of the hardships that follow — and they are pretty severe. Though there may be cases that Obama personally took care of because of the hardships on certain groups.
“If you have rules, you need to follow the rules.” May this novel concept take hold in our immigration laws, and as Sharia law is attempted to be put into place here — Sharia law being a violation of the Constitution. One country. One set of laws. Abide by them, or get out.
Angel Gabriel says
“Halal slaughter” should be outlawed for the barbaric cruelty and torture it bestows upon innocent animals.
Just because some humans believe in a barbaric fairy tale, doesn’t mean that billions of animals should be ritually tortured.
D-spot says
Your comment just beat me to it. Where is PETA on this subject of the torture and killing of food animals without benefit of stunning – as this halal method includes all animals,large and small, dying in panic and fear. The West isn’t perfect in this, but at least there are some laws. Bill Maher, is a member of PETA, and was my one hope of exposing this horror, but even he has been silent on this issue.
Jeanette says
Organizations like PETA and NOW don’t really care about the entities that they claim to; they are just political groups out for donations.
That’s why we hear to outcry from PETA about the animals, and not one single word for NOW about Muslim FGM.
Angel Gabriel says
PETA only cares about money and not animals.
NOW only cares about money and not women.
Their silence reveals their tacit support of barbaric Islamic practices, women and animals be damned.
A Harris USA says
D spot, the fact is liberals never point out the barbaric Islamic practices.. They are too busy calling President Trump names.. Animals are a prime concern of mine.. BUT there are other concerns as well, FGM, honor killing, child rape, know as child marriage. Just look how the left ignores the hatred of Gays demanding their deaths.. FGM, is not an option, where are the women of the left on this?? Where is the outrage of child rape, slavery and on and on!! Crickets!! Do not kid yourself.. The left is only interested in bashing the rest of intelligent people who know the truth.
Food stamp fraud is just one small problem with these savages.. The Mosque teaches them how to work the system… Rip off the infidel!!
frederick King says
A muslim man explained tlo me that the meat must be slaughtered so “not even one drop of blood is left in the animal.” This is not possible. Capillaries will never drain. pagan ritual.
Jeanette says
The real reason is that Muslims enjoy inflicting terror and pain – as much pain as possible.
That can’t be argued by a group with the 1,400 year history that they have.
Jeanette says
Brigitte Bardot has been fined and jailed at least six times in France for objecting to that very behavior by Muslim monsters.
Inflicting terror, pain and death is their main entertainment. Anyone who supports them is complicit in that terror, pain and death.
So far the Muslim supporters/accomplices have suffered no real consequences for their complicity in evil. We must somehow begin making them feel some pain for that.
Jeanette says
Correction – that’s at least five times. But I haven’t looked for any updates in quite a while, so it might be six or more now.
She’s very fortunate that she married a man with lots of money, who is obviously in agreement with her on the subject of torturing animals.
somehistory says
Last century, in one of the northeastern states, a man and his wife ran a market, took food stamps and engaged in illegal activities. The authorities wire-tapped them to get evidence that they were funding terrorism and heard, on tape, the couple murdering their daughter who had refused to comply with her parents’ demands to live by islam’s evil code.
This couple was prosecuted. Most of their customers were moslim. The couple was prosecuted.
If this guy in this past September had murdered someone, would he have been prosecuted?
Keys says
“But federal officials told LifeZette the decision is final.”
Is not this a criminal legal matter? Why are federal officials given the authority to act as judges on criminal acts? Are non-muslims who committ “food stamp” fraud not prosecuted?
What amount of the fraud? I bet it was more than $33,000.
Westman says
This might have some bearing on the matter:
We [Muslims] take the jizya, which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the kuffar [non-Muslim]. They give us the money. You work, give us the money, Allahu Akhbar. We take the money.” – a quote from the AC jail bird.
Martin says
“Within a one mile radius?”
Laughed out loud at that one.
That’s quite the hardship that they’d have to go an extra mile or two.
Lilythewise says
I am not surprised the most corrupt President in US history did this. I am just surprised he wasn’t impeached.
Michael says
I think Obama could have just about installed Sharia law, and, at least by the left / Dems, he would not have been impeached. He was effectively god to them. As Hillary was god / goddess to them. Truly, they could do no wrong, and did no wrong. Frightening that facts / truth don’t matter to the left.
Stan Lee says
There exists a coincidence in the “Kosher” slaughtering of food animals and that of the Muslim “Halal” procedure. The practice of the Jews precedes the Muslim practice by as many years difference between the two religions, Judaism being at least twice as old as Muslim practice. It is quite possible that the kosher slaughtering ritual of food animals became duplicated by the Muslims, both of the peoples originally living in times of no refrigeration, and cleanliness conditions of certain food animals which were declared unclean by the holy-men of both religions, though the dietary laws of each were instituted many years apart.
Since the Hebrews, or Jews, practiced their faith long before Islam came to exist, Islam probably followed the dietary practice of the Jews. I believe meat spoilage due to problems of preserving meat except for salting the meat, brought about the Kosher regulation, then the Halal dietary regulation followed at the inception of Islam. The food animals are not stunned as is our practice today before cutting, the animals are instead cut to bleed-out rather than to risk blood clots in the animal arising from a heavy blow to the skull (stunning), which once clotted could impede free bleeding. At least that is what I was given to understand upon questioning the issue which I hadn’t then known existed.
Irene Brekelmans says
I find all slathering appalling, either how the western”civilisations” do it, the Jews, the muslims or any kind of religions do it. To gas out the chinchilla’s, the nerts and all those animals for furs, the circumcisions in Jewish and muslem “traditions. A child has no saint in that, just has to undergo it, like the females who get
“that part cut of. I think that is barbaric too in a sense. Times have changed. Now animals can not defend themselves and babies not either and girls not either. Have you ever released yourselves about those things? We are such a violent race in this Universe and we are the youngest of planets. I find it shameful,
it is either for traditions or to make the most money, and who suffers, that does not seem to matter.
When you go to the slather house and see the animals and hear them, it is horrific, but as long you get your stake served on your plates, you are ok with it. And with people, if you have seen the musical “Fiddler on the roof”, you can think about traditions. Traditions have to be thrown out of the window sometimes, you have to evolve. Your consciousnesses have to go forward all the time.
It is like your techniques, they are going so far, and scientists want to discover every time new things, without researching the consequences and that too can be dangerous. If technology gets so advanced, and our consciousnesses stay the same or go backwards, we are doomed to destroy ourselves.
It is a Universal law, and you will never be able to go above Universal laws of the Universe or above the laws of nature. I really wish that somebody would believe that, and I see everything declining already with quite some speed. I have seen groups of friends who have become totally individual, everybody in the group sitting with their apps etc, while before we would sit together and talk and debate about things and do things together, but the world has changed and not for the best, and the technology goes on, so fast, every week there is something new and everybody has to have it and so it goes, and it is not that I know everything, but I know a lot about laws of the Universe and Nature and I know that you can never win from them, that is a cosmic law too. You think you can influence the weather and you can, but using it the wrong way because some rich people think they can use it to their choice to make some countries dry and so much more people will dye from it and we get less people in this world, is horrific and will not be tolerated any longer and the earth, which is a living planet and nature will fight back in such a way that you don’t know what is happening to you all of a sudden. But we all did it and let everything happen. It is all on ourselves. Watch the 2 coming years what will happen.
But I hope you will feel “good” about yourselves. The muslims are not the only baddies on this earth.
And I, as a human not either.
Troybeam says
Just one of many, in Obama’s administration if its Islam it gets a free pass anything else gets the shaft.
Crusades Were Right! says
“But an attorney for Sindbad Market asked for and received an exemption in September on grounds that suspension would cause a hardship for Muslim food stamp recipients, who rely on the market for its preparation of halal meat, in accordance with Islamic law”
Islamic law trumps “kaffir” law, apparently!
underbed cat says
Under the previous administration some groups had special protection…..this is no surprise….I guess he was concerned, he had his priorities.
John A. Marre says
Obama did everything possible with the power of the presidency to bring in Muslims and to give them special privileges.
davulek says
What about the “hardship” fraud creates on the U.S. taxpayer?
Angemon says
Islamic law also states that if halal food is not available, they can eat non-halal food to stay alive.
Charles Martel says
I’m from Portland, ME. As far as I know, the Ahram Halal Market is also still in operation.
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/10/17/feds-investigating-forest-ave-store-owner-for-benefits-fraud/