As UMass employee Abdel-Rahman Jaradat has written, “I want to emphasize the fact that you are here because of very good reasons and I want to help you insure [sic] that your living experience remains respected and supported.”
Accordingly here are some resources where you can may be able to avoid najis kafirs and find halal food and meats properly offered to Al’lah.
Casablanca Halal Market – 206 Russell St (Rt 9) Hadley, MA 01035 (413) 586-0860
UPDATE: The Casablanca Halal Market’s entire inventory of quick-lighting fast-burning charcoals and goat meat has been lost in the fire that recently destroyed the whole najis Hadley Mall.
Halal Food in the Valley
Moti Persian Restaurant – Amherst MA – 25 N Pleasant St. Amherst MA
Hunting in America – finding and slaughtering your own Halal meat?
Dr. Ali Hazratji, ISWM founder and Hampshire mosque president, is an experienced hunter, archer, and marksman, and may be able to assist you in finding appropriate game and slaughtering it in a proper Islamic fashion.
The Islamic Society’s Red Fire Farm and Stony Brook Valley Farms in Granby can assist with all of your halal or kosher Jewish slaughtering needs.
The Halal Food Truck Guys – Amherst – fresh halal meat delivered each week.
Open all Ramadan long – ask about lunchtime specials for MSA members.
4/01/2008 – UMass adopts Halal food – Ebad Rahman – University Wire
(Massachusetts Daily Collegian) (UWIRE) AMHERST, Mass. — Like many students, Ozaire Awais, a University of Massachusetts senior in microbiology, looks forward to heading toward the dining common at the end of a long day for dinner and a chance to socialize with his friends, but unlike everyone else, he heads for the line in the back to receive a different entree, halal food.
“Halal food is like kosher food except that we offer it to Al’lah while we cut its throat, it is a standard that food must satisfy before it can be consumed,” said Bilal Mirza, the vice president of the UMass Muslim Student Association. “Most food is halal, but food like alcohol and some meat, such as pork, can never …
Kosher Jewish Slaughter at the Stony Brook Valley – Red Fire Farm in Granby
