Solsticewitch13's BOS: It’s Time to Get the Halal Mafia Away from Ground Zero

Sunday, June 7, 2015

These people are just absolute repulsive scum and they shouldn’t be there. It’s bad enough that the site has attracted African Muslim vendors illegally selling pirated NYPD and FDNY merchandise to tourists, not to mention the Ground Zero Mosque’s attempt to set up in an area where it’s not clear that any Muslims live at all, now the Halal Mafia is acting up.

The new vendor who took over the hot dog cart busted for its outrageous $30-per-frank prices apparently has no idea it’s still under scrutiny by both the public and the city because he was captured on camera Thursday dishing out variable prices just like his predecessor.
The cart is in the exact same spot near the southeast corner of ground zero where the I-Team found vendor Ahmed Mohammed selling $30 hot dogs to outraged tourists last month.
Even though Mohammed was fired and the city ordered owner Abdelalim Abdelbaky to post the prices, Abdelbaky’s new employee, Ayman Ahmed, had no prices in sight Thursday.
Area construction workers said they’re not surprised because the price of everything — from a hot dog to a pretzel to a bottle of water — varies.
“I cursed him out that he changed his mind,” said Peter McFadzean, a local worker. “He gave us the water for a dollar.”
“It’s all about money,” he said. “He’s hustling.”

And whoever replaces him is going to continue hustling because it comes down to the owner.
The Halal Mafia has become a real problem.

Even as food trucks are bringing a selection of better foods to New Yorkers, the Muslim thugs of the Halal Mafia use various tactics, including violence, to secure their territory while serving dubiously hygienic food at inflated prices.

Newbies on the streatery scene are saying that when they try to set up camp on a busy corner they are often threatened by a group of veteran vendors they call the “Halal Mafia,” according to the New York Post.
“They had their friends park a truck in my location because they were trying to much me out,” Clive Dennis, who manages the Little Ochi Hot Spot Jamaican-food cart, told the Post. “It’s like a mob thing — these halal guys think they’re the only ones who should be selling food on the street.”
If threats don’t work, the Halal Mafia guys call 311 and start making health-code-violation complaints, Dennis said.
After battling with them for months, Dennis finally got them to leave him and his cart alone.
“You have to stand firm with these guys,” he said.”
Erez Ella, who just set up his kosher-food truck on West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, told the Post he has been threatened since the beginning.
“They told me they were going to bring 10 carts and block my spot,” he told the paper.
The next day his parking garage told him they didn’t want him there and that she should sell his cart to them.
Two days later his truck was dented all over.
The Halal Mafia had struck again.

It’s time to put the Halal Mafia out of business. At the very least, the Halal Mafia should not be operating near Ground Zero.