7 men sue Florida City Denny's after being called 'bin Ladens'

Newsday / South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | April 28, 2005 | Chrystian Tejedor

[Rock N Jones]

If I had been manager of the Denny’s in Florida City, I would have said why are you "Bin Ladens" from Boca Raton down here so close to the Turkey Point Atomic Energy plant?

[daybreakcoming]

Like a group of Americans could go to their ME armpit country and sue for discrimination......Denny's has been ripe pickings for years now - easy target for such as these.

[airborne]

Prove it , Binny!

[dennisw]

I'll bet these sons of Allah cruised in there to wolf down some bacon and sausage laden breakfasts.

[metesky]

More here than meets the eye:

Two officers from the Miami-Dade and Homestead police departments eating at the Denny's asked the seven men to leave the restaurant, and said they would arrest them if they didn't, the lawsuit said.

[Phantom Lord]

I didn't see anything about them being American. I would like to know where they were going at 2 am.

My neighbor is Canadian, the owner of my company is Canadian, our COO is Canadian, our top programer is from Bolivia, and I have several Canadian friends.

I guess they should report to you or a proper authority where they are going if they want to be out and about at 2 am.

[Centurion2000]

At 2AM ? 7 angry muslims in a restaurant I was running might meet Mr Smith and Wesson at that hour if the little bastards get belligerent.

[mc5cents]

What is it with some people? I would have just said "Fine, I prefer Perkins anyway" and left. But NOOOOOOOO! They have to go dig up a shyster to sue! Give me a break! I want on THAT jury.

[antiUNcitizen]

Poor guy. I'd move away, get a new job and find new freinds.

[Phantom Lord]

Maybe the Imperial Federal Government (IFG) should set up an office of "Where you going?" and CindyDawg could head it up.

[Gone GF]

"Don't most eating establishments have a " we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" sign?"

So you feel we should go back to a time when you could refuse service because of the color of a person's skin or their ethnicity?

The signs you refer to apply to people if they're drunk, rowdy or don't meet a posted dress code.

[Gone GF]

I don't think you went over the top quite enough.

[longtermmemmory]

Denny's restaurants have long been the targets of discrimination lawsuits across the country. Denny's settled a 1994 lawsuit for $54.4 million that accused the chain of asking blacks to prepay for meals. Since then, it has faced at least six more discrimination lawsuits filed by African-Americans and Hispanics and has been investigated in at least two cases involving discrimination against people of Middle Eastern descent.

Staff writer Elizabeth Baier and researcher Bill Lucey contributed to this report.



Chrystian Tejedor can be reached at ctejedor@sun-sentinel.com or 305-810-5001.


This is just a "jack pot" suit. I wonder if these are the same four med students as before (shut down aligator alley) or related to them? The article also skips over who is their lawyer. i wonder if it is a private lawyer or the class project of uberliberal Univ. of Miami Law? (donna shaaaaalaaaahla president of university)

[Gone GF]

"At 2AM ? 7 angry muslims in a restaurant I was running might meet Mr Smith and Wesson at that hour if the little bastards get belligerent."

Gotta watch out for them black folk and Hispanics, too. They might not be totin' dirty bombs like the Muslims do, but they're always stealin' stuff and gettin' in fights. (saracasm off)

[Clemenza]

Ehab Albarabi, Nabil Arafat, Usama El-A-Baidy, Esam Hessein, Mohammad Natour, Usama Mohamed and Ehab Mohamed, all of Boca Raton -------------------------------------------------------------- Kinda funny how a bunch of Muslims chose to live in the most Jewish town in South Florida.

[ladyjane]

It's FLORIDA and DENNY's all in one lawsuit! Shocking.

[Centurion2000]

Gotta watch out for them black folk and Hispanics, too. They might not be totin' dirty bombs like the Muslims do, but they're always stealin' stuff and gettin' in fights.

If you're implying that I am being racist towards arabs regarding my comments ... not really, just culturally bigotted towards islamics. They damn well earned that cultoral bigotry on 9/11 and a few other instances.

[eastforker]

I think a privately owned business should have the right to decide for whatever reason who it wants to do business with.

[Imaverygooddriver]

..Ehab Albarabi, Nabil Arafat, Usama El-A-Baidy, Esam Hessein, Mohammad Natour, Usama Mohamed and Ehab Mohamed, all of Boca Raton.

I counted two "Usamas" in that so what it the problem here?

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

Culturally bigotted towards Islamics. Very well said!