{"id":34431,"date":"2022-06-03T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mcdonalds-accused-of-intentionally-serving-bacon-to-muslim-family\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:17:06","slug":"mcdonalds-accused-of-intentionally-serving-bacon-to-muslim-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mcdonalds-accused-of-intentionally-serving-bacon-to-muslim-family\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s accused of intentionally serving bacon to Muslim family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>BOSTON &#8211; Workers at a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman&#8217;s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is commonly known that Islam forbids Muslims from eating pork,\u201d the complaint says.  &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s employees willfully added bacon to the complainant&#8217;s food in an effort to offend, humiliate, and cause distress to complainant and her young children di lei.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The family was served the sandwich last June at a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant in Chicopee, about 80 miles west of Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint is the first step in the process for seeking monetary damages, said Barbara Dougan, a CAIR lawyer.  She also hopes it prompts McDonald&#8217;s to better train its workers to prevent a similar incident in the future.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>The Council on American-Islamic Relations argued McDonald&#8217;s attempted to \u201coffend, humiliate\u201d Ghadir Alahmar, who is Muslim.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ANGELA WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cReligious discrimination at a place of public accommodation is not only illegal, but also morally reprehensible,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>An email seeking comment was left with McDonald&#8217;s corporate headquarters in Chicago.  A message was also left with someone who answered the phone at Gomez Enterprises LLC, which operates the McDonald&#8217;s on Meadow Street in Chicopee.<\/p>\n<p>The experience prompted one the children to ask his mother if &#8220;they hate us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;McDonald&#8217;s made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless by intentionally stuffing a fish sandwich full of bacon for no other reason than to punish us for our faith and religious convictions,&#8221; the woman, Ghadir Alahmar, said in a statement.  &#8220;This really hurt us.  My children now wonder if they are welcome in their own country.  They ask me, &#8216;Do they hate us?&#8217;  How is a mother supposed to answer that question? &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Alahmar, who wears a hajib and an abaya, entered the store on June 29 of last year with her twin 7-year-old sons, the complaint says.  She ordered a plain fish sandwich, and had one of her children di lei repeat the order to a worker in case they did not understand her accent di lei.<\/p>\n<p>They received their order, which included fries and cookies, and left the restaurant to walk to a nearby school playground where they planned to eat.  One of her sons di lei noticed the bacon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/McDonalds.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A McDonald's Big Mac, left, rests in a box next to a bag of McDonald's fries, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22510143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/McDonalds.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/McDonalds.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/McDonalds.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>A McDonald&#8217;s in Massachusetts allegedly served bacon to a Muslim mother and her son.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo \/ Steven Senne<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sandwich not only had bacon on it, but appeared to have extra bacon, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p>They did not eat the bacon, but one son ate the lower half of the bun and part of the fish filet, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Alahmar&#8217;s husband returned to the store with the uneaten portion of the sandwich later that same evening and was refunded the purchase price.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8211; Workers at a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. 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