Given his track record, there is little doubt that de Blasio will apologize and provide better quality meals for New York City’s new privileged class.
“New York Muslims raise concerns about substandard Ramadan meals,” by Umar A Farooq, Middle East Eye, May 8, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city would be delivering 500,000 free meals to Muslims during the month of Ramadan.
“One of Ramadan’s most noble callings is to feed the hungry,” de Blasio said.
Still, when Rima Begum opened the iftar meal she received from the city, she recoiled in disgust. Oozing from a sealed silver bag was a mush of corn, chicken and potatoes.
“It reminded me of how when I was a kid you would learn about astronaut food,” Begum told Middle East Eye. “I wouldn’t eat this; I wouldn’t give this to my family,” she said.
De Blasio had said that 400,000 halal meals would be distributed at 32 Department of Education buildings and another 100,000 served through various community organisations during the holy month.
The meals being distributed directly from the city are available at 32 grab-and-go sites, and for those that cannot pick up the meals in-person, they are delivered through the NYC Food Delivery Assistance programme.
It was through this delivery programme that Begum received what she described as a “pile of goop”.
“We’d like transparency on how the city government procures food for both their Get Food NYC program and NYC Food Assistance,” Thahitun Mariam, a community organiser in Bronx, New York, told MEE.
When it came to meals distributed through community organisations, there was a different picture.
Linda Sarsour, a community activist and former executive director at the Arab American Association of New York, said that the meals distributed through AAANY came directly from the city and were of good quality.
It is the difference in food sourcing that has caused concerns among New York residents and community activists.
Purchasing meals from a defence contractorThe food received by Begum and others from one of the city’s distribution centres, and not from a community organisation, originated from J&M Halal Foods, a company based in Illinois….
It is a lack of representation, even at the local level, that causes problems such as this, Moumita Ahmed said.
Ahmed, who is running for district leader for New York’s Assembly District 24, said that some of the meals were “disrespectful” and a waste of taxpayer money….
She pointed out that the money spent on these meals could have gone to local restaurants that have been providing meals for Muslims during Ramadan for years.
“Our communities deserve better. Our communities deserve more than just goop in a plate,” Ahmed told MEE.
“We are the richest country and the richest state on the planet. We have the ability to provide quality meals to our Muslim families who are observing Ramadan,” she added.
terry sullivan says
pork should be only meat provided–and non-halal
Ray Jarman says
Amen. And a cross made of pasta or a Jewish Star would have been very appropriate. Heaven knows, one must hate these ingrates.
Simo Hayha says
“…..Our communities deserve better. Our communities deserve more than just goop in a plate,…..”
Wait. Stop. WHAT? They’re BITCHING about FREE, very nutritious FOOD????? WTF? Oh, I get it. Filet Mignon, Ribeye, Fresh Maine Lobster (Executed Halal-style) served on the finest China with Sterling Silver forks and spoons (NO KNIVES, though!) “DISRESPECTFUL” FREE FOOD????? Disrespect for ingrates should be a shovelful of gutter excrement served on garbage can lids! Get the Hell back to your mud huts and mountain caves, eating road kill!
MTMLA says
Where they come from these people eat with their right hand. Left hand is to clean their asses…
Rev. G says
What are they complaining about, you can only do so much with spam.
mortimer says
It’s better food than they’d get in Berzerkistan with jihadis going on shooting sprees all around them. Yes, what a dirty trick from the dirty kufaar … What is this swill? Not Michelin 3-star cuisine? (sarc/off)
This is just more Islamic supremacism … verbal jihad … Ramadan the month of battles and victories.
Carl says
I’ve eaten moldy bread, rotten meat, turned milk, etc. If Muslims in America find that food repugnant, they don’t know hunger.
Sun says
Islamic supremacism.
They should serve the free meals to our homeless people. That would be a much better use of taxpayer money.
gravenimage says
Carl, sorry this happened to you–but you are quite right.
Barbara says
I thought it looked the school lunch meals Michelle Obama said were good for the students.
Beverly Seymour says
Why are the muslims demanding religious meals? Are ALL religious groups getting meals that they demand to meet their religious ideals? Unless ALL religions are accommodated, NONE should be. That is the state (government) favoring one religion over another and that is Unconstitutional. If anyone does not like the free food, let them go home and feed themselves. Stop the complaining and whining. You are lucky to have food to eat when people in the world are starving.
Aunty Podes says
Give the ungrateful sods some very greasy pork scratchings.
Roger Woodhouse says
Isnt Ramadam (adingdong)about ‘fasting?’
toomanyhobbies says
don’t like the free food? THEN TEACH US A LESSON AND LEAVE!
DHazard says
“We have the ability to provide quality meals to our Muslim families who are observing Ramadan,” she added.”
But “we” don’t have the obligation. It’s a humanitarian, taxpayer funded offer of assistance. Shut the F… Up!
gravenimage says
Good point.
Rufolino says
But Moslems think you DO have the obligation to serve them. They are “the best of peoples”. So get used to it, this will happen again and again until the kuffar learns his place ordained by Allah and his Prophet.
mortimer says
Response to DH: Muslims have a doctrine called DARURA (the dispensation for the sake of ‘necessity’) which allows them to break almost any rule of Islam if it helps Mohammedans get ahead.
But they won’t tell you that. This is more Islamic Melodrama 101.
Captnhook says
They can eat pork ribs and ham sandwiches then. These people are poison.
mortimer says
You are correct, Captnhook, because Sharia law allows Muslims ‘in necessity’ to simply say a prayer over the pork and POOF … it magically becomes halal.
JW_Reader says
As per an ex-muslima’s blog, distaste for pork and anti-semitism are the two last things that an ex- muslim struggles to get rid off. Most muslims will rather stave than eat pork.
Anjuli Pandavar says
This is true. It’s not simply a matter of law. This stuff gets laid down so early and so incessantly that “Most muslims will rather stave than eat pork,” while many would think nothing of killing the Jew who had just saved their life. It’s deep psychological hardwiring.
Is it possible that the rose-coloured spectacles through which so many Western non-Muslims have for so long so stubbornly insisted on viewing Muslims might finally be slipping?
Wellington says
A la Marie Antoinette and Nancy Pelosi Antoinette, let them eat bacon. Drink cheap beer too. Yes, this would be all I would offer Buttlims during the holy month of Ramabutt, if indeed I would offer these parasitical pigs who gorge themselves after sundown anything at all.
I trust I have been crystal clear where I stand on this matter.
mortimer says
Muslims can simply pray over their bacon-burgers and beer and POOF … they magically become halal.
Keith says
Did New York provide meals to Christians over the Christmas or Easter periods and what about Jews, Hindus and Buddhists for their festivals.
Is it only Islam that gets this privilege?
Rachele Raanan says
I’m afraid I have the same question. I haven’t heard of meals being provided gratis to any other communities for their holy days. How did this meal distribution come about? Was this a personal decision taken by De Blasio, and paid for by the unwitting taxpayers? How was this justified?
Considering the number of meals involved, it couldn’t have been aimed solely at indigent Muslims.
Keys says
Good questions, Rachele Raanan. Questions the major media ought to be asking.
Ultimately, this is about Mr. De Bill buying votes with taxpayer money with a halal pinch of virtue-signaling (“One of Ramadan’s most noble callings is to feed the hungry,” de Blasio said.) – a common practice in Democrat “Community Organizer” politics.
Simo Hayha says
“Is it only Islam that gets this privilege?”
But of course. This is required of us loathesome kuffars because we OWE them the riches which we have stolen from the poorest of the poor. Heck, we didn’t get rich by working our Gluteus Maximus off, we stole everything and mostly from knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing inventive, innovative, .intelligent, loving, warm inclusive former cave dwellers who have been told since birth that THEY are “The Best Of Peoples!”
RichardL says
Herr Wilhelm will no doubt grovel before the most important allies against those evil Jews.
Templer says
Give them nothing these invader are only gratefull for death no wonder they life they have under Islam .what about the chirstains they get nothing just like Muslim mojortey countreys
DeVlieg says
You give something free to some people and they bitch about it. A sense of entitlement; the definition of Islam in the West. Still waiting for my city provided Easter ham; even if it’s a can of Spam.
don vito says
Why the poor little piglets are starving, fasting don’t you know. Wouldn’t the piglets be great-full for any food, and free to boot? Don, Don, Don….WHAT?………the piglets only fast from sunrise to sunset every day, and many gain, you know, weight during the month long fast. Oh, it’s not like real fasting, it’s a fake sort of fast. Similar to their organized crime cult ideology they call their “faith”. Well the taxpayers should have provided camel urine kegers too. Sod off cult worshipers.
JanD says
their arrogance and hostility will continue deBlasio’s long term goal of destroying this city
mgoldberg says
Charitable meals should have been offered and paid for by muslims. That said, the gratitude of serving the ‘poor’ a meal should have been the response by muslim reps. Instead you hear the food critic disrespect of the meals. It’s charity, it’s free to muslims, and paid for by the people of NYC. End the charitable meals.
Salome says
When charities in Muslim majority countries extend food aid to hungry infidels, we might consider raising the standard of what we give the Muslims in our own countries.
Abby says
Nonsense. No Muslim country offer free food to non-muslims.
somehistory says
moslims don’t appreciate anything. They are taught to whine and complain, gripe and claim they ‘deserve’ better.
The City had no duty to feed any of them. The City isn’t feeding everyone else and had no duty to feed moslims during their unholy month of gluttony for satan’s beast.
The taxpayers…many out of work, and many not able to get unemployment, and many struggling to feed themselves and their families…should have been consulted about this “feeding” program.
Haven’t the moslims…and de blasio…heard that meat plants are being shut down? Why waste what meat is available on those who never appreciate anything?Who throw it in the trash? And if it was good enough for astronauts, then why not for a moslim?
Hey, imo, they don’t deserve “just goop” in a feeding trough. They want handouts, but throw them away with complaints of not good enough and “disrespectful.” Well, let them feed themselves or go hungry. This is no different than those moslims who were invading Europe and were being given water and food and throwing them on the ground.
moslims are ingrates. Let them work for what they get.
Chris D says
I still don’t understand why Deblasio used tax payer money at all to feed anybody for any religious reason?
Why would he do this?
Did he send free food to Jews on Passover? Free food to Christians on Easter?
Why free food to Muslims during Ramadan?
The Muslim recipient / politician who said ” that some of the meals were “disrespectful” and a waste of taxpayer money….
She was half right. The meals were a waste of taxpayer money. Period. Especially at a time when Deblasio is taxing Christian Volunteers from Samaritan’s Pirse, who came to work in NYC for the Corona Virus!
This was just silly.
And for anybody who received the free food – and complained – don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Next time – refuse it.
Westman says
King deBlasio taxes out-of-city volunteers and gives away NYC resources to Muslims for Ramadan who complain about it.
Good luck for any any response to a future emergency call for out-of-city volunteers. Remembering 9/11 and the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no city more likely than NYC to need outside assistance.
Emilie Green says
INGRATES – through and through,
PRCS says
As it pertains to this ‘Ramadan’ food program: the excuse is the COVID-19 pandemic.
DO NOTE:
Per De Blasio, “The city will also be providing Kosher meals for the Jewish community.” He also stated that no one meeting COVID criterion would be excluded from free meals.
So:
Issue #1: “Some meals distributed to Muslim residents across city were military rations from US defence contractor”
Good enough for troops in the field, but Muslims, we’re told, are ‘special’ people.
<b?Issue #2: If those same meals were given out to non-Muslims:
a) were they also ‘halal’?
b) did those folks complain, too?
gravenimage says
Good enough for troops in the field, but Muslims, we’re told, are ‘special’ people.
…………..
Exactly.
James Lincoln says
I’m no attorney, but isn’t providing taxpayer supported meals to members of a specific religion/political ideology illegal?
Any Jihad Watch reader attorney care to weigh in?
spiro says
Exactly
What happened to the lefts screaming about the separation of church and state
I guess that’s different when it comes to the heathen Muslim
Wellington says
James: If only to those of one religion, problems. If to those of all religions (or at least those that request food) then you have religious neutrality and probably OK. Rather like school buses funded by taxpayers can be used for parochial schools (and other sectarian schools) because there is state neutrality to religion here rather than state support of a particular religion and thus no violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment occurs. But this is a slippery legal slope and challenge is possible, especially if food is offered and given only to Muslims.
Don’t hold your breath next Easter to see if De Blasio furnishes hams to Christians. I definitely sense an Orwellian situation here, i.e., all religions are created equal but one religion is created more equal than others. But don’t forget that Christmas is a national holiday and my fear is that Muslims will eventually push for one of their own. Oh yeah, a very slippery slope. Dangerous too because Christianity is not parasitical but Islam surely is, never more in evidence than when Muslims use freedom with the long term goal of ending freedom, something which no other major religion envisions eventually doing.
This is just a very short summary. Hope this helps. Wouldn’t mind one bit if Frank Anderson would jump in here.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Thank you for your valuable – and very comprehensive – reply.
I think I “kinda” get it.
But most troubling would be…
An islamic national holiday for muslims. It would give them full, unequivocal US government recognition as a religion/ideology.
And that would be devastating in the fight against jihad.
somehistory says
In recent weeks, during the many governors and mayors orders about gathering in large groups, a judge ruled in favor of a church which filed against the governor for ordering churches not to gather in groups larger than ten people, when she was allowing secular groups of more than ten. The judge said, basically, that it had to be the same for all, that she couldn’t discriminate against the church by allowing a different rule for others.
I believe it was in Kentucky, but I’m not positive. So many accounts in so many places, can’t keep it all straight.
Wellington says
No way, James. Christmas could become a national holiday today (occurred during the Grant Administration I believe) anymore than “In God We Trust” could be put on coins were it not long ago (I believe during the Lincoln Administration).
Though an agnostic (and I know you are a Christian and that’s certainly fine by me—besides, you could be right about Christianity being the true faith), nonetheless I am cognizant that this nation was founded to a large extent, not completely so but to a large extent, on Judeo-Christian values, which values, while not perfect (e.g., turning the “other cheek” perhaps a bit too much for my taste), are still quite laudable overall and I for one am exceedingly tired, irritated actually, by those asserting that the Judeo-Christian tradition had nothing to do with the founding of America. It had a great deal to do with the founding of the greatest polity in the history of mankind and just imagine (shudder) if Islam had been first and foremost involved in the founding of America—OMG on steroids, no?
ploome says
Watch what you buy at Costco…..they are slipping in a lot of halal crap
spiro says
I’ve noticed that to especially
Whole lambs
Diane says
Are these products marked halal because I suspect “christian’s” are betraying christian’s by not identifying these products. That is what bothers me! I do not want to fund their way of life or charities!
GreekEmpress says
There’s usually a (very) small notification on the back of the package of meat that says it’s halal. There’s also a site called zabihah that lists supermarkets that sell halal products. I gave up making some of my Greek recipes that called for ground lamb because the only kind I could get was halal, and I won’t buy it. This was at Safeway in my town.
owensgate says
Just call it “Food Karma”. I don’t recall the moslem country just in the news for providing much smaller portions of inferior quality to the Christian and other non-moslem citizens who are jobless and in need due to the Wuhan virus, but this is just pure tit-for-tat.
gravenimage says
No, it’s *not* tit for tat–New York is not giving less or poorer quality to Muslims.
gravenimage says
NYC: Muslims enraged at “disrespectful” quality of taxpayer-funded meals provided by city for Ramadan
………………………….
More whining from the “Best of All Peoples”…
More:
“One of Ramadan’s most noble callings is to feed the hungry,” de Blasio said.
………………………….
If so, then why aren’t *Muslims* feeding hungry Muslims? This is all about getting the “filthy Infidels” to feed Muslims, and to hop to it if they demand something better.
More:
Still, when Rima Begum opened the iftar meal she received from the city, she recoiled in disgust. Oozing from a sealed silver bag was a mush of corn, chicken and potatoes.
“It reminded me of how when I was a kid you would learn about astronaut food,” Begum told Middle East Eye. “I wouldn’t eat this; I wouldn’t give this to my family,” she said.
………………………….
When I was a kid, we were all fascinated by what the astronauts ate and wanted to try it, too. Tang was a big favorite for just this reason.
Apparently the food heroes eat is not good enough for Mohammedans.
More:
It is a lack of representation, even at the local level, that causes problems such as this, Moumita Ahmed said.
………………………….
Ah, the usual–the solution to any problem with Muslims is supposed to be having more and more Muslims making unreasonable demands.
Moumita Ahmed is running for District Leader in Queens–if she wins there will be even more of this.
somehistory says
With the “representation” remark, it sounds to me that she wants more moslims in **government** positions making decisions that unfairly favor moslims. Perhaps if there was enacted a special “Affirmative Action” Law just for electing moslims to public office, so only moslims could enter the race for office and be elected. Sounds like it would be just what the moslim ordered.
We’ve all seen what happens when a moslim is elected..they represent only moslims and all decisions are biased toward their fellow moslims. This is what she wants to happen in NYC.
gravenimage says
Quite likely, Somehistory.
spiro says
I’m really having a problem with reading anymore about these ingrates
1 who the hick authorized free meals in the first place
2 why are the heathen Muslims always given special treatment
3 when are the new Yorkers who pay very high taxes going to say it’s enough
4 these ass kissing politicians need to be voted out but do we have the guts or have we sold out for our 30 pieces if silver
Battle says
Moumita Ahmed says “disrespectful.” She has dished out how much disrespect to the non-Moslem? Moumita Ahmed hypocrisy?
Shakti Swami says
https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/journalist-rajdeep-sardesai-fumes-as-zee-news-editor-sudhir-chaudhary-talks-about-land-jihad-in-jammu-on-his-show-gets-schooled/
Kilauea says
If you don’t like the food, don’t eat it you bastard ingrates. Take your false prophet with you and carry yourselves back home where you can experience the 7th century first hand.
PRCS says
Well, they already can.
New York ‘Muslim’ communities.
Peter WF says
I think it beats my mother’s liverwurst and salami sandwiches for the 12 years I was a dependant at school.
James says
I do not remember my city distributing free meals for lent. Are all the Muslims in NYC arm and poverty stricken? Maybe the immigration laws should be changed to stop poor people from moving in. And ingrates and malcontents. Maybe the immigration laws should be changed to stop such people moving in. Maybe NYC needs another mayor who cares about Americans and not foreigners.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The free-food recipients denigrate the food they are receiving as “goop”. What they need is better goop, such as this dish found on Gwyneth Paltrow’s “goop” website:
https://goop.com/food/tutorials/how-to-make-a-snack-board/?ref=newsletter
Sure looks appetizing!
andrew mckendrick says
How about feeding them a double whammy….bacon filled croissants?
Anjuli Pandavar says
100% correct. Did anyone seriously expect that this was not going to backfire?
Here’s something to chew on. I’d bet that this Rima Begum is not a terrorist, not a jihadi, has no interest in killing and being killed. She’s just a very nice law-abiding, decent peaceful Muslima. Right? She never causes trouble, wears a hijab, how lovely, a well integrated Muslim. A Muslim American, right?
*There is no such thing as a Muslim who would not reduce every non-Muslim to dhimmitude in a flash* even if they would never hurt a fly. Wrap your head around that if you still think there’s such a thing as an acceptable Muslim.
Anjuli Pandavar says
“One of Ramadan’s most noble callings is to feed the hungry,” de Blasio said.
How desperate is this man? Who the hell is going to fall for this. They are not hungry. They are fasting. There’s a huge different. The first has no food so cannot eat. The second has food (usually in copious quantities), but just happens not to be eating for a few hours.
somehistory says
Your are so right. When a person has no food, they are hungry and most will appreciate anything given, even if under other circumstances, they wouldn’t eat it. I don’t care for eggplant, but if that is the only food available, I’ll eat it.
These ungrateful moslims had food available, but chose to go “pick some up” for the purpose of complaining about the quality.
I have a friend who delivers meals to the old and infirm after and before her regular job. She could tell a story or two about the appreciation these recipients show for whatever is given them. They don’t whine and complain that it isn’t what they wanted.
Delay of eating when food is available and to one’s tastes is not nearly the same as being hungry and having nothing to eat.
Since the moslims obviously didn’t want or need the food, they should have given the meals to the homeless and hungry. de blasio discriminates against non moslims.
Keys says
Excellent point, Anjuki Pandavar !
This is not about hunger and starvation; it is about supporting Muslim fasting !
One reason Muslims fast during Ramadan is to have empathy for those in the world who are hungry and less fortunate. So Muslims should fast and not complain !
Keys says
Muslims should give zakat (charity) during Ramadan, so why is DeBlasio giving zakat to them ? This bitching and complaining does not fit the stated so-called spirit of Ramadan – but it fits Islam perfectly.
From PC Charity Navigator:
“During Ramadan, fasting from sunrise to sunset is obligatory upon Muslims who are able to do so and is representative of a spiritual cleansing, an effort to become closer to God, and an attempt to gain a better understanding of human suffering. The act of fasting calls for Muslims to practice self-discipline and sacrifice, as well as reflect upon and show compassion for the less fortunate. Muslims are also reminded to be generous and increase their charitable activities during this month. One type of charitable giving, which is known as Zakat, is obligatory for those who are financially able. There are two types of Zakat: Zakat al-Mal, which requires Muslims to give at least 2.5% of their assets to the poor and hungry, and another type, smaller in amount but for the same purpose, known as Zakat-al-Fitr which Muslims are required to pay before the commencement of Eid al-Fitr. Zakat is an integral part of the Muslim faith and, like fasting, is one of the five pillars of Islam.”
How about some “Zakat-al-Fitr”, self-discipline and sacrifice during Ramadan ? But of course getting closer to Allah does require subduing the non-believer.
gravenimage says
Muslims consider this from Infidel taxpayers to be Jizya.
James Lincoln says
Next time around, Mayor de Blasio, go with “prison loaf”.
I found a great recipe:
https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/recipe/2714592/2
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
THE PARASITIC CLASS SPEAKS AGAIN..
Valkyrie Ziege says
; YES! Mohammedan “food” is a pile of junk.
Are they only now realizing that? “Woke”, much?
Leonard Feinman says
The gesture on the mayor’s part was nice, but not deserved. The reception was remarkable. And, no doubt, there will be a boot-licking apology because the Religion of Peace is not to be disrespected, or else!
Yes, it was a sad thing to do in the first place. Giving away a feast to select individuals while others go hungry is a feat only a de Blasio would do. Anybody else might tell them sorry, but not sorry.
The problem is that Muslims expect to be at the top of the food chain. They must be served first, and anything less would show disrespect for believers, and that has been known to cause death.
We live in a funny Facebook world. What we say or do, whatever gesture made, is dissected by everybody else for fairness. Political correctness must rule, and de Blasio is a lame duck who gave his wife a high paying job, in a city impoverished and begging for money. But there is enough money for half a million Ramadan meals. Between de Blasio and Cuomo, I can’t figure who is worse. They are both grubby.
Keys says
And I wonder if there are “kickbacks” involved here. The food was contracted to the J&M Food Products Company, especially since Sarsour has been quiet about this. How about some investigative reporting ?
J&M is obviously a Muslim run operation. So we have Muslims complaining about a halal product from a Muslim run company ! Does this make any damn sense ?
Further, see their Facebook page (J&M Food Products Company) if you still use Facebook. There is a picture of their ‘Lamb and Lentil Stew’ and other halal stews there.
They look just like the food in this posts picture for crap sakes !
Keys says
Here is a non-FaceBook link to the J&M Food Products Company “goop”, as Ahmed the complaining Muslim described it:
https://www.halalcertified.com/
somehistory says
I seem to recall “goop” being the name of a hand cleaner my older brothers used after they worked on their cars.
G. Paltrow has a line of things named “goop.” Perhaps she should throw a fit, whine and complain about the word being used in such a “disrespectful” way by these moslims.
gravenimage says
Sorry, Keys–I posted about this before reading your comment.
Keys says
No need for sorry. You made the point more succinctly, gi, and these criticisms need to repeated in myriad ways and often.
Always appreciate your posts here and your dedication.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Keys.
gravenimage says
You are right:
https://www.halalcertified.com/
So these Mohammedans are complaining about food made for Muslims by Muslims.
gravenimage says
If these Muslims were *really* hungry they would welcome this food.
I grew up on welfare, and we often ran out of money at the end of the month due to poor management. I remember swiping fish sticks and tater tots off abandoned lunch trays in the cafeteria to eat over the weekend. Later as a teen when I was homeless I once found an almost complete Big Mac in the trash, that was covered in cigarette ash. I just brushed it off the best I could and ate it, and was glad to do so.
I would have been thrilled to receive food like this at the time.
somehistory says
We are all glad you found a way to survive, g.
Once, when I was young, I looked out the window and saw a small boy going through the trash behind a store. He looked to be about six or seven and he was eating things he found. I felt so bad for him and had there been a phone available, I would have tried to find help for him, but I was ignorant as to whom to call, I’m sorry to say.
People who are truly hungry, will eat what they can find or that is provided by others.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Somehistory. I hope that boy you saw is OK.
This is why we donate to food banks and missions that feed the poor–I have also volunteered at churches that feed the needy. Even at the time, I swore I would give back if I was ever in a position to do so.
somehistory says
I was thinking about that child after I posted and got busy with other tasks. I recall that someone else saw him, knew who he was and I didn’t see him going through the trash again. I lived in a teeny tiny town then and most everyone knew everyone else…except for me as I had not lived there long. Once I begin a memory, it loosens others and I’m fairly sure I am recalling correctly that he did get help.
It’s good that you are able to help others who face the same kinds of things you have. Empathy goes a long way in making others’ lives better.
Jesus told us not to be anxious about what to eat, drink and wear because God takes care of little birds and even flowers in a field. “You are worth more than many sparrows.”
Many people buy wild bird seed. Many more are motivated to do as you do and I believe this is one of the ways that God sees that those who love Him have what they need, “bread for this day.”
gravenimage says
🙂
OLD GUY says
Why are we providing Ramadan meals? According to the muslims they are the superior race and don’t need help from any other sub species. When asking for a hand out you should be happy with what ever you get. Maybe they should have stayed in their superior muslim countries where paradise exists and life is just wonderful. I don’t see why islamic persons would not want to live in an islamic country instead of amongst us low life christians. And hey don’t knock spam its good fried with eggs once in a while.
Wayne Roberts says
Feed the bastards pork that’s been left rotting in the sun for a few days.
James says
I suppose that because coronavirus the Muslims are out of work and cannot afford food. But what about Jews and Christians? Do they all have enough money to pay for food even in the pandemic? Or do they get free meals too.?
Brien Doyle says
The jackasses did not know about rice…?..
Reziac says
It could have been the finest meals ever prepared in the history of the world, yet if Muslims are involved, there will be complaints. It’s not about the food, or its quality; it’s about an opportunity to make kaffir look bad: “See how the horrible kaffir fed us garbage. All should condemn the kaffir, and feel sorry for the Muslims.”
gravenimage says
So true, Reziac.