(Paterson Times) The cafeteria workers at John F. Kennedy High School served chicken patty sandwiches to students for lunch on Monday afternoon. But there was something inconspicuously different about the sandwiches: the meat between the buns was halal, allowing hundreds of Muslim students to eat lunch.
“I know what I’m going to eat right now,” said freshman Safwan Alsaidi, 16. He typically eats fish for lunch, but acknowledged sometimes he eats non-halal chicken from the cafeteria. “We didn’t know whether this was halal or not halal. Now, we have halal food.”
The front cafeteria at Kennedy now has a section marked “halal food” for Muslim students.
Alsaidi may be too liberal in his application of the Islamic dietary code. Hundreds of his fellow school mates, who practice Islam, avoid eating meat products served at the school cafeteria.
