JihadWatch: “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. more here
Another story about Hell-All foods.
The solution to this was easy. Let the Muslims use their foodstamps at a kosher butchers that haven’t been found guilty of fraud. Both Jews and Muslims can consume meat slaughtered and prepared by approved butchers of either religion.
Puppet-in-chief.
“You can’t beat our meat”
I just realized that “halal” is an anagram of “Allah”.
Not really relevant, I know, but I just now noticed it.
Good time for the Trump justice department and ICE to pay a visit to this neighborhood.
If I ran the government, I would do food stamp stings all over the place – like your local police department does for liquor stores selling to underage customers. Heck – they even run stings for selling cigarettes to minors around here.
If the local market gives the “customer” cash for food stamps, come back and bust the market – throw the owner in jail.
You could cut fraud in half within a year, by catching 10% and scaring another 40% more.
You really want to cut into fraud, run reverse stings, where law enforcement is the one running a shop that is handing cash for food stamps. In two months one sting store could catch hundreds.
here’s a freebie that’s sure to calm the goat lovers.
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2 parallel systems of justice. One for the dimocrats and their friends, the other for the rest of us.
And it’s past time to correct that, Tony R.
If the Republicants WON’T do anything about this they must be throw out with the other worthless garbage, forcibly if need be.
Let them eat vegetables and legumes.
Screw your special meat Bitch – Your just Lucky we let you Breathe here at all.
They do food stamp fraud stings here quite often, and
the owners go down with prison time an fines. It’s quite
hilarious.
Was standing behind a guy in line at a grocery who
threw a pack of smokes in the pile. Teller get’s to the
smokes, pulls them aside and totals out (he’s holding
a snap card in sight). He nods to add the smokes and the
girl out and out said NO. He insisted, she persisted, it
was funny watching how pissed he got. He left without
the smokes, LOL.