McDonald’s is being accused of an “intentional act of bigotry” by an advocacy group claiming a worker deliberately hid bacon in a Muslim family’s chicken sandwiches.
The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on a McDonald’s restaurant in Decatur to identify and fire the employee or employees who the group says put small pieces of bacon in chicken sandwiches ordered by a Muslim family.
However, the restaurant denies any intentional wrongdoing.
Khaula Hadeed, head of the Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that bacon was found in 14 sandwiches ordered Monday by the family at the McDonald’s on 3342 Point Mallard Pkwy. SE. Islam forbids adherents from eating pork, including bacon, and Hadeed called the incident “an intentional act of religious and ethnic bigotry.”
“They started noticing it tasted different to them,” said Hadeed. “They eat McChicken all the time at McDonald’s. They knew what they ordered — they know what’s in the sandwich.”
Hadeed saw this incident as a clear attack on a Muslim family from a group of anti-Islamic McDonald’s workers in Decatur.
“It doesn’t sound like a mistake, especially on 14 sandwiches,” Hadeed declared, calling the incident “an intentional act of religious and ethnic bigotry.”
Rick Walter, a McDonald’s owner-operator in Decatur, issued a statement refuting CAIR’s claim.
“We want to assure our customers that this was not an intentional act by our employees,” he said, according to The Decatur Daily. “We value every customer and strive to ensure all orders are accurately prepared and served.”
CAIR-Alabama also recently criticized former Alabama Supreme Court Justice and current U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore for calling Islam a “false religion.”
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CAIR is a radical advocacy group that in 2007 was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorism financing trial.
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Sources: AWM, The Decatur Daily