McDonald's is Sued

     On January 21, 2013, Jeff Karoub wrote the article, "McDonald's To Pay $700,000 To Settle Allegations Franchise Falsely Claimed Food Complied with Halal" in The Huffington Post. Dearborn, Detroit is home to about 150,000 Muslims, one of the nation's largest Arab and Muslim communities. It is also the home of the only two McDonald's in the United States that sells halal products. Halal forbids the consumption of pork, and requires God's name to invoked before an animal provides its meat for consumption to be slaughtered. Dearborn Heights resident, Ahmed Ahmed, a Detroit Health clinic, bought a chicken sandwich in September 2011 at one of the McDonald's that advertises halal Chicken Nuggets and McChicken sandwiches, but found that it was not halal. Ahmed's attorney, Kassem Dakhlallah, said there were no problems on the production side, but he alleges that the McDonald's sold non-halal products when it ran out of halal. "The lawsuit against McDonald's and Finley's Management Co. covers anyone who bought the halal-advertised products from the Ford Road restaurant and another Dearborn McDonald's with a different owner between September 2005 and last Friday. Since that would be impossible to determine, Dakhlallah said both sides agreed to provide money to community-based charities that benefit members of this group. About $275,000 is expected to go to the Huda Clinic, $150,000 to the museum, $230,000 to attorneys and $20,000 to Ahmed."