Maine: Muslim brothers sentenced in $1.4M welfare-for-cash scheme at halal market

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The Qur’an mandates that Muslims must fight against Jews and Christians and subjugate them, making them pay the jizya (9:29).

Since that payment is not being made, some Muslim imams in the West, notably one in Oslo captured on tape a few years ago, sanctioned robbing the kuffar and taking their money — in lieu of the jizya.

Many Muslims in the West believe that they’re entitled to welfare benefits because they are Muslims and those who pay are unbelievers.

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“Brothers sentenced in $1.4M welfare-for-cash scheme at halal market,” by Judy Harrison and Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News, June 18, 2018:

The former owner of a Portland halal market who, with his brother, traded $1.4 million in federal food benefits for cash was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court to three years in prison.

The federal prosecutor called the case “one of the largest, if not the largest, fraud cases involving [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits in [Maine].”

Ali Ratib Daham, 41, of Westbrook, who originally owned Ahram Halal Market, 630 Forest Ave., pleaded guilty in November to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, money laundering and theft of government funds….

His brother, Abdulkareem Daham, 23, was sentenced Monday morning to two years in prison. He was convicted after a three-day jury trial in January of conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

The older brother was ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution, while the younger was ordered to pay up to $955,000, according to their attorneys. The restitution order states that the men are equally responsible for payments but the younger brother’s payments are capped.

Ali Daham already has paid $80,000 toward restitution, according to court documents….

In sentencing the older brother, U.S. District Court D. Brock Hornby, who himself is a naturalized citizen, said there were “no winners in a case like this.”

“By sentencing two brothers, I realize I’m creating great pain for this family,” he said. “I’m also creating great pain for the immigrant community, as many members have told me he was a great helper to them. Sadly, he was a helper to them by defrauding the government.”…

The Dahams are natives of Iraq. The family fled the country in the mid-2000s. They arrived in Portland in 2009 and opened the business two years later.

The elder brother said that he broke the law in an effort to help Portland’s immigrant community.

“I came from a country experiencing different wars,” Ali Daham said through a translator when it was his turn to address the court. “The human condition was different. People had to help each other. … What I did [here] was in the spirit of providing help for people in the community.”

But Assistant U.S. Attorney James Chapman argued that by running the welfare-for-cash fraud, Daham harmed those immigrants in need by fueling prejudice against his community and “providing ammunition to those who would seek to restrict welfare benefits.”

The evidence presented at the younger Daham’s trial showed that between June 2011 through April 2016, the brothers gave cash to customers at the market in exchange for benefits from the SNAP and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children plus a fee.

During that period, the market received more than $4 million in SNAP and WIC receipts, at least $1.4 million of which were obtained illegally, according to court documents….

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Ldr Johnson
Ldr Johnson
5 years ago

always claiming its their way of helping each other, always innocent while they tear away the fabric of democracy hurting the poor and needy by their greed.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Ldr Johnson

Agree. They are masters of fraud and duplicity.

Soon Michigan Will have a Jihad Supporting Doctor Like Hasan Nidal – the Fort Hood Doctor, as Governor https://tinyurl.com/yc8x7akq

If infidels don’t unite and elect his opponent.

obathos
obathos
5 years ago

Invasion and infection by an intolerant and NON-INTEGRATING savage culture. Portland, Me. which I consider my old home town. Would I even recognize it today???

Deborah G
Deborah G
5 years ago
Reply to  obathos

Not unless you were wearing a Hajib

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
5 years ago

Maine needs to become American again.
I never would’ve thought it possible, but since her obvious, effectively botched plastic surgery, Susan Collins is now more repulsive to look at than to listen to.
Good riddance to all the bad rubbish of Maine.
Graft whore Susan Collins and all her Leftist-globalist-communist-islamist-insurgent constituents.

Deborah G
Deborah G
5 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Collins needs to go. ASAP vote her out for another REAL Republican

mudpuppy
mudpuppy
5 years ago

Why are we giving Iraqi’s refugee status???

cylde
cylde
5 years ago

But will they be deported immediately upon completion of their sentence??????

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  cylde

No mention of deportation! He was even apologetic about jailing the ungrateful muzrats.
They were given a safe and secure country so they can prosper and grow and they repay the American people with Fraud.

Deborah G
Deborah G
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

And spawn 11 kids we get to pay for

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  Deborah G

You know the script Deborah.
They breed we pay!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

How many more of these lunatics are living among us this very moment? Even in my own neighborhood, there is a huge mosque with connections to Saudi Arabia which has always made me uneasy.

poetcomic1
poetcomic1
5 years ago

Lots of cash in ghetto liquor stores, convenience stores. It is an oriental bazaar and black market combined with the sort of fraud that these people consider normal business.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Now imagine these muslums committing their fraud in a city run by muslums in the police force and/or prosecutor’s office and/or judiciary and have a jury pool consisting of muslums? Does anyone think justice will be served in such a circumstance?

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

Muslims help Muslims they never help the kaffur. The Kaffur is only there to be harmed until he/she too becomes Muslim
Kaffurs are not part of the human race as far as Islam is concerned

Deborah G
Deborah G
5 years ago

3 years? Are you kidding me? IF an American did that he’s get at least 10-15. Bullshit unfair advantages given to Muslims. Take away their citizenship and deport

F Spin
F Spin
5 years ago

Three years isn’t enough. I hope they lost their business too. Let’s steal from the US Government to help my people. Screw That. They should lose their citizenship as well and be deported back to Iraq. I literally broke my back and knees working in for over 40 years. Paid my taxes and lived by the laws of the land. I’m on disability and I cannot get any help. Maybe this is why!!!! Comes into this Country just 9 years and knows how to screw our system. Why isn’t he paying it back with interest too???? Throw them out of this country once they are out of jail. They will do it again. A leopard never changes it spots!!!

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

There are schemes constantly going on every day with every religion. However, i have such hatred for Muslims that all their money should be confiscated and sent to prison for a long time.

Joseph111
Joseph111
5 years ago

well, since he want to help “his community” so badly, let him serve his time, then ship his sorry ass back to that 3rd world shithole he crawled out of

Ted R. Weiland
Ted R. Weiland
5 years ago

Praise God! However, what are they doing here in the first place?

Could it have something to do with the 18th-century founding fathers replacing the First Commandment with the First Amendment?

For more, see Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned
Polytheism” of “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The
Christian Perspective” at
http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt11.html.

mztore
mztore
5 years ago
Reply to  Ted R. Weiland

You seem to forget that odamit brought in thousands of them while he was in office.

Ted R. Weiland
Ted R. Weiland
5 years ago
Reply to  mztore

Haven’t forgot that at all!

But you seem to have overlooked the point of my post: WHY it was that Obama was able to do so.

CLUE: There were no openly practicing Muslims, no Mosques, no Sharia, and no Islamic terrorism (the worst of which is the proselytizing of our posterity to their false god) in 17th-century Colonial America whose governments of, by, and for God were established upon Yahweh’s moral law, beginning with the First Commandment:

“…When the 18th-century founders replaced the First Commandment (found intact in some 17th-century Colonial Constitutions) with the First Amendment, America was transformed from a predominantly monotheistic Christian nation (a united nation under one God, Yahweh) into arguably the most polytheistic nation to exist (a divided nation under many gods, including Islam’s Allah).

“It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:

‘[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods….’ (Exodus 34:13-15)….”

For more, see blog article “National Religious Freedom Day aka Celebrating the Founders’ Violation of the First Commandment” at http://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/national-religious-freedom-day-aka-celebrating-the-founders-violation-of-the-first-commandment/.

Evan
Evan
5 years ago

$1.4 million = 3 years? That’s $466k per year! Not bad pay now is it? BIG JOKE.

mztore
mztore
5 years ago
Reply to  Evan

That was my first thought when I read the article. I’d like to be locked up for just 3 years for that amount….and not have to pay it back. Pretty good wages for lying, stealing and cheating the taxpayers.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I used to know an Iranian Jew, following the Iranian revolution there, theft from her family store by muslum jihadlets became commonplace and the all muslum police force didn’t give a damn.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
5 years ago

As the DemocRATic communist/muslem party proclaims; “We do not want to split up families”. Using their mantra, after the sentences of the GUILTY THIEVES are completed, GATHER UP the MEMBERS of the “FAMILY” along with their friends and relatives, associates and DEPORT them as a FAMILY UNIT!!!!!!!
FYI:
McCarran / Walter Act of 1952 supports this LAWFUL action.

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