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Federal Government Subsidizes Halal Food in Public Schools

[Middle East Forum] The Halal Programs

Public schools in Dearborn, Michigan, first began offering halal lunches in 2001. That winter, the school district invited "proposals from halal food distributors to provide food at several of its 28 public schools," and began a pilot program. Presently, according to David Mustonen, director of community and public relations for Dearborn Public Schools, "All schools have a halal option five days a week."

Dearborn Heights' Crestwood School District started a halal food pilot program in 2013-14. Last year, Crawford High School in San Diego operated a pilot program offering a halal lunch option twice a week.

Legislators in both New York City and New York State have proposed mandating public schools to serve halal food. In February 2014, New York City Councilman Rafael Espinal introduced a resolution requiring New York City schools "to provide a halal lunch menu option." Three separate bills have been introduced in the New York State Assembly during the current (2015-16) term that would require public schools in big cities to offer halal lunch options. One of them requires that the food be provided to Muslim students "at no cost."

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy."

~ George Orwell in a famous passage from 1984.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-08 03:53|| 2015-09-08 03:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, why don't we separate religion and state when it involves Muslims?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-08 07:08|| 2015-09-08 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 'Separation of Church and State' is for the rubes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-08 07:51|| 2015-09-08 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, why don't we separate religion and state when it involves Muslims?

Because our elected slave masters rightly fear step 2 will be for Muslims to mandate separation of slave masters heads from their bodies.

Christians. Note this carefully. And plan accordingly

Perverse incentives, people. Perverse incentives.

Posted by Nguard 2015-09-08 09:06|| 2015-09-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was a lad, and lunch milk was two cents (three cents for chocolate!) we were too poor to buy the school lunches, so we had to bring ours in a paper bag. And my Mom quit making my lunch in first grade.

Clearly, that was a millennium ago.

Posted by Bobby 2015-09-08 13:21|| 2015-09-08 13:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The left is embracing religious fanatics with guns. Strange bedfellows? Hardly. The left is anti-America. Once you accept that, and ignore what they say, everything else makes sense.

Posted by Crose Cleregum4610 2015-09-08 13:32|| 2015-09-08 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 The ironic thing is that the left is in favor of gay marriage, something that is anathema to Muslims.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-09-08 14:20|| 2015-09-08 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The left is a coalition of freaks with many opposing agendas that are united by a mutual hatred of western values and all things American. It won't hold up when it meets real resistance. Hell, it'll even fracture to pieces if they completely succeed. Something about castles built on sand.

Posted by Lowspark 2015-09-08 15:06|| 2015-09-08 15:06|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm wondering if they also subsidize Kosher meals as well.

Just curious..

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-09-08 16:09|| 2015-09-08 16:09|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm wondering if they also subsidize Kosher meals as well.

What about us dessertarians?

Posted by Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 2015-09-08 16:27|| 2015-09-08 16:27|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm wondering if they also subsidize Kosher meals as well.

If one keeps properly kosher, it's not just the food ingredients, but also the kitchen. So either the food would have to be brought in in sealed portions, or the entire kitchen would have to be koshered and kept so -- basically sterilized, then only kosher ingredients with separate dishes, storage, and prep tools for meat and milk meals. People whose children keep kosher either send them to school with bag lunches from home, or send them to private schools.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-08 20:54|| 2015-09-08 20:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Catering and pandering.

Mom makes school lunch at home. End of issue.

Posted by newc 2015-09-08 21:11|| 2015-09-08 21:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Homeschool. End of issue.

Posted by RandomJD 2015-09-08 23:32|| 2015-09-08 23:32|| Front Page Top

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