Portland Press Herald - Portlanders
discovered new foods and other items Saturday at the start of a two-day
event to promote Muslim-owned businesses in the [Maine] city.
Organized
by Progressive Portland, the Muslim-Owned Business Buy-in is a response
to the Christmas Eve window smashing at the Ahram Halal Market on Forest
Avenue and to Islamophobia in the U.S.
More than 1,200 people
pledged to take part in the weekend event, said Mayor Ethan Strimling,
who shopped at several Muslim-owned businesses Saturday morning and – in
his State of the City address on Monday – encouraged Portlanders to do
the same.
Some of the shoppers were making their first foray into
the Muslim-owned markets and restaurants that have opened in their
midst during the past two decades, discovering new foods and other
exotic items.
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