“The lawsuit said Ajaj considered vegetarian and Kosher meals inadequate.”
But the Qur’an says that “the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them” (5:5), which means that Muslims can eat kosher foods and food prepared by Christians. That makes clear that Ahmad Ajaj’s lawsuit is just another exercise in Islamic supremacism, attempting to gain special privileges and accommodation for Muslims, in accord with their privileged status in Islamic law.
Also, imagine if Ahmad Ajaj were a Nazi, and had bombed the World Trade Center as a Nazi mission, and that Nazis had food laws. In that case, would U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson have been so quick to reinforce the ideology that landed Ajaj in prison in the first place?
“1993 World Trade Center bomber’s request for halal meals that conform to his Muslim beliefs is granted,” Dailymail.com, September 15, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
A Muslim man serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing has been granted access to halal meals after he sued the prison for not accommodating his religious beliefs.
US District Judge R Brooke Jackson issued an order Friday requiring prison officials to continue providing Ahmad Ajaj with halal meals.
However, the judge denied Ajaj’s request for officials to provide him access to an imam in line with his specific religious beliefs, saying officials should not be expected to put in extra efforts to make that happen.
Ajaj started getting halal meals on the eve of his trial last month after he was transferred from a prison in Colorado to Terre Haute, Indiana.
He objected to attending classes with the Indiana prison’s imam because he believes the cleric is an adherent of Sufism, Islam’s mystical strain.
Jackson said it doesn’t violate Ajaj’s religious rights to meet with someone with different views and that he still could have phone or email contact with another imam.
Ajaj was sentenced in 1999 to more than 114 years in prison for his role in the blast in an underground parking garage on February 26, 1993, that killed six people, one of whom was pregnant.
It injured more than 1,000 and forced an estimated 50,000 to flee the trade center’s twin towers in a scene of smoke, fear and confusion that would be mirrored and magnified on September 11, 2001.
In late August Ajaj filed a lawsuit accusing federal prison officials, particularly staff at the Administrative Maximum, or ADX, facility in Florence, of failing to provide food meeting Ajaj’s belief that all animals used for food must be fed, raised and slaughtered according to Islamic law.
The lawsuit said Ajaj considered vegetarian and Kosher meals inadequate….
FYI says
Spike his drinks with bacon-flavored water.
mortimer says
NO, TELL MUSLIMS TO APPLY “DARURA” (Sharia doctrine of “NECESSITY”)
DARURA applies wherever Sharia Law is NOT the Law of the land.
Koran 4:28 Allah wishes to lighten your burden, for man was created
weak.
If a Muslim is hungry he may eat pork. If meat is not halal, a Muslim may say a special prayer and it magically becomes halal.
If it is inconvenient to pray, he may defer prayer until another time. If a female Muslim needs to swim modestly in the local pool unwatched by males, then she may do so, if there is no other pool. If a Muslim cab driver does not want a working blind guide dog in his cab because Islam considers dogs filthy and because he will need immediately to clean his cab inside and out, he does not have to cleanse it, if it interferes with earning a living.
When the circumstances are difficult and Sharia law is not in force, a
Muslim’s burden is lightened. They are obligated to pray and not handle
pork, for instance, but if the circumstances are difficult, then the requirements
are lightened. This leads to the concept of darura, necessity.
If it is necessary, what is forbidden is permitted. If a Muslim is hungry
and there is no halal (Sharia compliant) food, then he can eat any food.
If a Muslim is where they cannot pray, then the prayer can be done later.
If Sharia law has not been implemented, then a Muslim may handle pork,
for example, with no consequences.
mortimer says
The food that Ahmad Ajaj eats is not the main concern!
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID !
StellaSaidSo says
Ham sandwiches 3 times a day, and roast pork on Sundays. Don’t like it? Too bad.
Stadex says
God bless American ham sandwiches lmao.
Jay says
Why would this convicted terrorist be entitled to any special treatment? When he committed murder and terror acts against the USA , he should have gotten the death penalty, not spend the rest of his life
being taken care of in a US prison!! His requests for halal meals should be denied, denied, denied!
What is wrong with our justice system. The judge granting this special treatment should be removed from the bench immediately!! Justice is not beomg served!
mortimer says
Answer to Jay: The First Amendment protects the freedom of religion, that’s why. Different denominations of Islam are registered religions and protected by the Constitution, that’s why.
Indiana Tom says
Why grant special privileges and rights for freedom of religion to inmates who are bombing to kill people? They gave up their rights.
He does not have any grounds per his religion anyway.
But the Qur’an says that “the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them” (5:5),
Send him to Devil’s Island where he can star in Papillon.
Peggy says
He’s forfeited that right when he became a criminal. If we can take some rights away from criminals like right of liberty then why do we have to preserve other rights? In some states they can even take his life away so his right to practice his religion while in prison should not be a right he can keep.
Chet Bundy says
This thug attacked America. And American tapayers have been supporting him since his arrest. He committed his crime in the US, which is part of what’s left of Christendom. He should have received a death sentence. However, his “merciful” life sentence should have included a diet in accordance with the traditional Slovak Zabíjačka: “We eat everything except the pig’s squeal”.
Notmoron says
What this SKUNK has been eating all these years?
Glenn Donovan says
This is why terrorists should get the death penalty. We should put the counter-terror mission in the hands of the military and run the whole thing under military law. Form military commissions and then execute them all.
In fact, all our counter-espionage should be taken away from the FBI and given to the military. The untold story of the DoJ and FBI and CIA are how horrible they are at protecting use. Most people don’t know that Gen Flynn was DIA and very critical of CIA and the status quo for counterintelligence among other things.
We’ve essentially left the gate wide open to every spy organization, terrorist and agent of influence for decades. The Russians call the U.S. “the candy store”, and globally we are seen as idiotic for how porous and permissive we are.
Mexico is harder to penetrate…
DHazard says
Since he wants to be such a good Muslim then if he gets cancer, or diabetes or has a stroke, etc. he should receive NO modern medical attention. Instead he should be put on a diet of camel’s milk, piss and some honey. Raw beef should be available if he dies.
nicholas tesdorf says
I am surprised that they are even bothering to supply him with food still, let alone Halal.
Stadex says
The only thing he should be served is black sausage, big black sausage!
Lmao and after that some .50 Desert Eagle, for desert lol.
gravenimage says
US District Judge grants 1993 World Trade Center bomber’s demand for halal meals
………………
He already had vegetarian and kosher meals.
This is just more lawfare.
mgoldberg says
What a vulgar judge, who allowed this. Here is part of an article written by Rabbi Pesach Lerner who was a visitor to Jonathan Pollard. He was released after some 23 yrs! for giving away information that was by agreement with the US and Israeli gov’s, Israel’s right to have. Pollard seeing that it was not being given to Israel, gave it to them. It was by law a crime, it was by previously guilty people, sentenced to no more than 5 years. He got a life sentence, and served 23 yrs. Whatever the feelings about his sentence and crime, he was no homicidist, and no would be butcher.
He received for yrs, no kosher food. He had to work on the Sabbath, and only yrs later was he allowed to switch to a task that allowed for him to have some Sabbath time off.
Ciompare that to this would be butcher, and what the justices never did for him like they do for those who despise the nation and it’s freedoms.
———
Rav Aryeh Zev Ginsburg, a Rav in Cedarhurst once joined me to visit Jonathan. He sat there and had a wonderful conversation. Jonathan shared a conversation that he had with Rav Moshe Sherer of Agudath Israel over the phone. Rabbi Sherer asked him to keep three things in jail: try to keep Kosher as best you can, try to keep Shabbos as best you can, don’t be mad at G-d.
Keeping Kosher is a test we should never have. For many years, Jonathan never received Kosher food. On Pesach, sometimes, he would survive on one box of Matza for the entire week. For Jonathan to keep Kosher was a huge mesiras nefesh.
Keeping Shabbos was very challenging. He worked in a prison eye glass factory six days a week, including Shabbos. Jonathan at one point decided that it’s not for him anymore and he requested a change of jobs from the eye glass factory to being an orderly. This meant he would have to clean filthy bathrooms and showers in prison, demeaning himself to avoid a real Chilul Shabbos. By being an orderly, he was able to work very lightly on Shabbos in order to avoid real Melacha.
Rav Ginsburg then asked the question to Jonathan – what if Rabbi Sherer would ask you today if you kept his three requests? He answered, “Kashrus and Shabbos I kept but with great difficulty. On your last request, I am not mad at G-d. I have had some very difficult conversations with Him, but I am not mad at Him.”
mortimer says
Goldberg, the principle in Judaism ‘whose ox is gored’ refutes your remarks. A Muslim prisoner has a right to practice his faith in prison as does a Jewish prisoner. This is a matter of human rights which apply to those who hate us. Otherwise, we become fascists like them. Do not become a fascist. We need human rights codes because many people disagree with OUR BELIEFS. The codes are there to protect everyone even those you think are wrong.
mgoldberg says
hmmm…. refutes my remarks?!?
The idea that Pollard went yrs with no Kosher food, had to work on the Sabbath, ‘refutes’ your comment. I’m not approving of that denial for pollard, but…. in the case of a person who attempts homicidism, with malice aforethought, the question of whether he gets his religious needs is indeed a question. I don’t think your wrong with your strict interpretation above. I simply put the current matter in the perspective of an american, who did a far less criminal offense, and got worse treatment- and no lawsuits by him or anyone else in that matter.
And I’m unsure of what the ‘ox is gored’ has to do with any of this. I’m not scholar but the laws of damages inflicted by one’s personal property (e.g., a person’s ox goring his neighbor’s ox) are not seemingly involved here. Regardless, I think the question of this man’s
intension to homicide with malice aforethought brings into question the notion of what mult. life imprisonments should or should ot include. If he was a vegan should he get vegan food? If he claimed this is his religious belief, should that be his right? Questions questions.
dan christensen says
“A Muslim prisoner has a right to practice his faith in prison as does a Jewish prisoner.”
The muslim’s faith imposes on him the duty to “kill the infidels wherever you find them”, so this muslim prisoner must be given some christians once in a while such that he can exercise his right.
Right?
mortimer says
US District Judge R Brooke Jackson showed some understanding that the POLITICAL IDEOLOGY to which Ahmad Ajaj subscribes is a DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY and thus he was reluctant to encourage this DANGEROUS HOMICIDAL IDEOLOGY by providing a mullah who would ENFORCE the GENOCIDAL IDEOLOGY.
I hope that judges will realize THROUGH STUDYING THE SOURCE TEXTS OF ISLAM that Islam actually solicits CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY as well as GENOCIDE.
Genocide is the worst of all crimes. That is the crime that Ahmad Ajaj wants to learn more about.
He should instead be taught why certain Islamic teachings are CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Indiana Tom says
Feed him pork flavored Alpo alongside a bunch of Malamutes.
Indiana Tom says
Horse, Tree. Rope. Terrorist. Some assembly required.
Peggy says
Is it coming from Ikea?
In order to speed things up maybe it can be sourced from elsewhere.
Butcher Bob says
He is in jail for killing people, so his rights are out the window, if he wants his food to be blessed by Allah, then I suggest he start praying himself, because his rights to freedom and all that go with it, have been removed!
Max says
US District Judge R Brooke Jackson issued an order Friday requiring prison officials to continue providing Ahmad Ajaj with halal meals.
Well, the judge is most likely a Democrat that is happy to comply with the requirements of his extreme leftist party. That includes giving Muslims that kill innocent people, all the rights that are denied to any other people.
henrik arboe jensen says
bow to violence. it will enhance muslims believes in Badr.
Fred says
Go ahead… give him his haha food… the same meal 3x everyday. It doesn’t matter if he gets tired of it or not… it’s his religion, he has to live with it!
Obbop says
Islam striving to cower the infidels until they bow down to their Moslem overlords. Serve the Islamic overlords or become a master yourself by converting to Islam. Many benefits for doing so… including having several wives and ability to legally marry prepubescent little girls. Internal traitors are assisting the Islamic invasion of the USA and all Western countries. Weak Western countries have leaders fearful of Islam and all 3rd-world barbarians. If the masses of common folks do not take charge and begin the counter-attack the West is doomed to a New Dark Age.
Kasey says
Just how naive and ignorant can Western judges get???????????????
Peggy says
I would not call any judge naïve or ignorant. They have been part of a legal system for a very long time before they became judges and have seen and heard it all so how can someone like that be either naïve or ignorant?
They are part of a gang dedicated to mutual goal or corrupt.
Robert McKenna says
The ASPCA knows all about it. So do the faggots at PETA. They choose to do nothing to filthy muslims.
Not a peep out of them. Cowards all !
R.McLean says
My god this could have been written in England.