Muslim group calls for hate crime investigation after bacon smeared on Galveston restaurant

[TomCADem]

Source: Houston Chronicle

The local branch of an Islamic organization called Sunday for a hate crime investigation after a Muslim-owned business in Galveston was targeted by vandals.

Asad Khan found the front of his Post Office Street restaurant covered in bacon last weekend, just days after discovering bacon grease smeared on the front door handles.

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Khan, who immigrated from Pakistan in 1993, opened ZaZa Bar & Bites less than a year ago - but now he's worried about his employees' safety.

On top of the bacon incidents, Khan said he's received a slew of threatening phone calls telling him to leave the country.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Muslim-group-calls-for-hate-crime-investigation-10690643.php

[Begabig]

1. Who wastes good bacon like that?

[Cal Carpenter]

2. Assholes who want people to feel threatened

for not being just like them, apparently.

Any comments about the crime of this, or the threatening phone calls?

Or is bacon more important than people?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Odd response to an act of terrorism. Democrats don't support race hatred.

[Cal Carpenter]

4. Yeah, I wonder if that poster would ask

who would waste good paint if it was a swastika on a synagogue? Or who would waste wood by burning a cross?

Things that make you go hmmm...

[Begabig]

5. Relax...

Threatening phone calls are bad.

Using people's superstitions to cause them distress is also bad.

Was that even up for discussion? Whoever makes a threat like that should face full justice for it.

Better?

[LanternWaste]

6. Yours is a creative way to rationalize trivializing bigotry.

Yours is a creative way to rationalize trivializing bigotry.

[Begabig]

7. Copy and paste get stuck?

[Sunlei]

8. no business should have to putup with 'slews of phone threats' and random hate harrassment.

Near my Texas home is an Indian-American church, lots of people walk to church in traditional clothing. Some get shouted at, trash thrown at them from idiots in passing cars.