A Muslim woman is accusing McDonald’s employees of discrimination after they intentionally stuffed her child’s fish sandwich full of bacon, according to the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is filing a complaint against the restaurant on her behalf. The complaint specifies that Ghadir Alahmar explicitly ordered a plain fish sandwich, yet employees added three to four strips of bacon—significantly more than is typically ordered when a customer asks for it—and then charged her for the pork she did not order. CAIR explained in a press release that Alahmar “is visibly Muslim, as she wears a hijab, or Islamic headscarf, and abaya, a long Islamic dress.”
It is, according to the complaint and press release, considered common knowledge that Islam prohibits eating pork. Alahmar issued a statement in which she said, “McDonald’s made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless.” Read more at Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Just as we make sure to eat in a reliably supervised Kosher establishment so too should observant Muslims eat in reliably supervised Hallal establishments.
not necessarily. Muslims have looser rules and are allowed to eat non halal meat (beef or lamb that was not shechted) if they do heavy work eg construction or if they feel weak, and if there is no halal meat available in town. This was not the case because they ordered a fish sandwiches, but is possible. They are not allowed to eat pork, and as the lady says, is common knowledge.
That person should be prosecuted and punished.
Just as we make sure to eat in a reliably supervised Kosher establishment so too should observant Muslims eat in reliably supervised Hallal establishments.
The McDonalds employee who perpetrated this heinous hate crime should be prosecuted and punished.
Eating chalav stam is 100 times worse than eating a double cheeseburger in McDonald’s! There is no greater avaira than consuming chalav stam.
You have your priorities confused.
Don’t know about her level of frumkeit, but would not she have to go to a Halal-certified restaurant?
Alahmar issued a statement in which she said, “McDonald’s made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless.”
Oh please. If it’s so bad and racist here in the US, why don’t you move to Sudan with Ilhan Omer, and there they’ll treat you with the utmost respect?
Commenter #4! Beautiful! Thank you !
Not only should Muslims not eat in McDonald’s, no non-Jew should eat there as their “meat” is full of the “meat” stuff comprised in the covid vax.