Posted on 01/10/2006 11:50:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dressed in bow ties and dark suits, nearly a dozen men carrying metal pipes entered a corner store, shattered refrigerator cases and smashed bottles of liquor, wine and beer, terrifying the clerk but stealing nothing.
The just wanted to leave a message: Stop selling alcohol to fellow Muslims.
In urban America, friction between poor residents and immigrant storeowners is nothing new. Nor are complaints that inner-city neighborhoods are glutted with markets that sell alcohol and contribute to violent crime, vagrancy and other social ills.
But the recent attack at San Pablo Liquor — and an identical vandalism spree at another West Oakland store later that evening, along with an arson fire there and the kidnapping of the owner a few days later — have injected religion into the debate.
The two episodes highlighted tensions — and different interpretations of the Koran — between black Muslims in this struggling, crime-ridden city of 400,000 and Middle Eastern shop owners, many of them also Muslims.
Six men connected to a bakery founded by a prominent black Muslim family have been arrested in the Nov. 23 attacks, which were caught on store security cameras. In both instances, the vandals asked store clerks why they were selling alcohol when it was against the Muslim faith.
One of the men arrested on charges that included hate crimes and vandalism was 19-year-old Yusuf Bey IV. His father, Yusuf Bey, a black Muslim leader who died in 2003, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery, which sells Malcolm X books along with baked goods.
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There's been a lot of this going on lately.
War on Terror has come to California.
PING!
Wow, I thought you had made up the headline, but then went to the link...
Imagine the outcry if christians trashed a porn shop.
I seem to remember reading something similar a short time back....I think it is only going to get worse.
Those guys need to be careful, I think, before they try this again. The next time, the clerk might just pull out his Mossberg and give each of them a load of 00 buckshot.
Five in the magazine and one in the chamber. That would take care of six thugs. Ya just have to take your time, not panic, and fire for effect.
Bow ties? I hope this doesn't have anything to do with the Pee-Wee Herman fan club.
Imagine if you will, Roman Catholics smashing up a baby murder butchershop, oops I meant abortion clinic.
Would they have done the same thing if the shop owner was Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Bhuddist?............
When I was living outside DC in the late '80s, the residents of one particular Southeast DC housing project got fed up with Marion "Bitch Set Me Up" Barry's police department's inability to control the drug trade. That place, like most of Anacostia--hell, like most of the District back then--made modern-day Fallujah look like Beverly Hills. So they called the local TV stations...then they called the local Nation of Islam.
The next day, a phalanx of very large, very muscular black men, all immaculately dressed in suits and bow ties, rolled up in a car convoy to this housing project. They got out, pulled out baseball bats and tire irons, and proceeded to clean house. And while the local TV cameras taped away, they proceeded to beat the ever-loving CRAP out of any homeboy playah that didn't run for his life the second he saw Calypso Louie's goon squad heading his way. And for a few days, at least, that housing project was the safest place in the District of Columbia.
Charges were filed, but no one was ever prosecuted.
Moral: Do not mess with the Fruit of Islam, as they will willingly resort to violence. And they will look really, really well-groomed while doing it.
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Pretty soon they'll be insisting the women wear burkas.
Horsecrap. They forgot to pay their protection money. Pay up, ya deadbeats.
Sawed-off will take care of a lot more than six.........
A dozen liquor store owners, dressed in red, white & blue shirts attacked intolerant / insufferable / obnoxious Muslims hell-bent on using violence to enforce behavior that only they approve of.
Muslims on the rampage in CA???? Thats getting too close to the USA!
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