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With more and more upscale food trucks crowding the scene, the turf wars keep escalating. The Department of Health doesn't assign locations, so vendors are left to work it out among themselves, are some say the gyro-cooking owners of the Halal trucks are violently threatening the competition. Clive Dennis, who operates a Jamaican cart on Park Row downtown, tells 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." Dennis says that after he refused to cave, they called 311 to make bogus health-code-violation complaints about him. And when Olivia Cardosa tried to set up her Mexican truck El Rey del Sabor on West 43rd Street last month, a brawl erupted. (Midtown Lunch has the video.) Then last Monday Cardosa arrived to find three giant planters cemented into the sidewalk. She claims it was "the halal guys," and the landlord of the building there confirms that "somebody moved our planters and cemented them in place, so we had to chip the cement off to move them back." These guys obviously mean business—how long before that cement gets poured to make some heavy shoes?
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How do all those halal guys stay in business is my question. I used to be able to see one from my office. In the three years I sat in that office, I could count on one hand how many customers I saw at that cart. Yet there it was, every single day, open and cooking. How the hell can the guy who runs the cart afford to stay open?
Then there's another one by my apartment - it smells so bad even my dog tries to avoid it. Never seen ANY customers at that one. What gives, halal dudes?
Most carts you see are a part of a larger group. A group of people band together and buy a few carts, and deploy them around the neighborhood. One cart might do excellent, while another is slow. However, better their cart at the slow corner than some other competitor's cart. And so it goes.
Don't these infidel dhimmis know their place yet?
Anyone who refuses to give muslims preferential treatment will be labelled an "islamophobe."
Islamophobe # 1
"Ey yo! It's fuckin' jihad time beeotches!" said the spikey haired Arab guido.
whatevs, i usually stay the hell away from I.E.D.s (improvised eatery devices)
Yeah: like a real "mob" guy would call 311...
I'm stunned. Observant Muslims are trying to fforce people to do things their way... nooooooo.
Right, because observant Christians definitely never do that.
"Right, because observant Christians definitely never do that"
Yeah, because EVERY DAY we see examples of observant NON-MUSLIMS blowing themselves and others up around the word.
/s...
ISN'T THAT RIGHT, MORON DHIMMIE?
Why don't you suck some halal food down for us in your liberal guilt. I am sure they won't put glass in your food once you tell them how much you blame "Amerika" for ruining the world.
What the hell? Halal cart guys are blowing themselves up now and I should apparently feel liberal guilt about this? And the liberal media has been keeping all these halal suicide bombers out of the news? Those BASTARDS!
Major fail in alinsky-101. (deflection).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
JUST READ THE KORAN AND GOOGLE ISLAMIC TERRORISM, you useful idiot.
Yeah, good quote from thousands of years ago, AND THEY STOPPED AFTER they killed the cannanites who were throwing their children into fire pits.
Contrast with the koran, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF CONTINUED, DAILY, MODERN ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
Utter Leftist Fails - all your base up your koranus.
Yes, there are people who blow themselves up because they believe the Qur'an tells them to. This is obvious and undeniable. However, your argument was, and correct me if I'm wrong, that this makes the Qur'an a dangerous text that promotes murder.
So I have 2 questions. What about the other 1.5 billion people who read it and somehow manage not to strap dynamite to themselves? And if a few passages that promote murder, rape, and slavery in a book makes that book a dangerous text, why isn't the Bible as dangerous a text as the Qur'an?
"What about the other 1.5 billion people who read it and somehow manage not to strap dynamite to themselves?"
Why don't you ask THEM why they aren't marching ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD against the terror committed and supported by 150 million of their compatriots?
Why aren't you acknowledging that islam has been and continues to murder and enslave people ALL OVER THE WORLD since its inception and has never reformed?
"And if a few passages that promote murder, rape, and slavery in a book makes that book a dangerous text, why isn't the Bible as dangerous a text as the Qur'an?"
Because Christians and Jews have reformed their instiutions and AREN'T DOING IT ANYMORE.
Get your lips off the koranus and start realizing they will slit your throat no matter how many times you whine "but I helped you with your propaganda by denigrating the benefits of Judeo-Christian West as often as I could on gothamist!"
TODAY IS 9/11.
HAVE YOU NO SHAME SPOUTING YOUR MORAL EQUIVOCATING BULLCRAP AND DEFENDING JIHADISTS?
Islamophobe # 3
Islamophobe # 2
jihadi asslicker #1 on gothamist.
Bike fights, Vendor fights, ahhh NYC..gotta love it! Bro.
Only in New York. Where else can you meet out street justice on bike thieves while eating your halal with tahini sauce.
The problem is that there are too many illegal vendors on the streets. NYC is slowly becoming Calcutta.
Islamophobe # 4 - with a side of generic anti immigrant racism
Is anybody else alarmed that an organized group of "loose-knit," "violently threatening", Muslim "thugs", referred to as the "Halal Mafia", is parking multiple large trucks every day on busy midtown street corners next to tall office buildings, and moving large security planters out of position? It's not a big leap to imagine something horrible.
Aw, that's cute. Now go finish your broccoli, dear.
Islamophobe # 5 - with a garnish of pure craziness
When are these yuppie vendors going to learn?
These immigrants were there first - it's their turf and disrespect them at your peril.
You've left the softcore world of office politics - now, you're on the street (literally) and you have to play by hardcore street rules.
So guys - just go back to your little cubicles and your soft little white collar world and leave the hard work of vending to immigrant working men.