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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"Of course, they'd come back and burn my business down, but never mind."
That is what insurance is for.
They should staff up with 2-3 and everybody get some 12-G with 00 Buck.
And did anyone use force to stop her while in the act? If I worked at a gas station or liquor store, I’d certainly be armed. And if something like this occurred, I’m afraid I’d be put in jail for shooting out of anger at those who were trying to destroy my livelihood.
They're crazy if they think somebody would actually stop selling liquor to muslims.
You know, I don't know if there was person-to-person violence. I would think there would have to have been.
I just remember stories of big tent revivals and then the fire breathing preacher would lead the crowd over to the saloon.
Carry Nation was just the most famous of the bunch, really.
My point is merely that CHRISTIANS did this kind of thing, too --- in the recent past. (And, yes, I am a Christian.)
That preposterous. Muslims don't drink. Seriously, when the Muslim hierarchy cannot control its subscribers they will attack society. It members have no self-control or resistance to temptation so someone else has to suffer. The stores have to be vandalized be cause Muslims are too weak to stay out. Western omen must be raped because they arn't dressed to Muslim standards. Christian churches must be curtailed because they may give Muslims an alternative the their institutional paranoia.
Calypso Louie's Nation of Islam braking bad on m Mid East Muslims trying to make a buck.
As someone said protection money needs to be paid.
Ya'll need to learn how to read this stuff.
They weren't selling to "muslims". That's absurd. They were selling to black people. The Muslims think the foreigners are taking advantage of the people by selling them malt liquor. People won't join the Bow Ties because they aren't allowed to drink. So the Bow Ties need to remove the temptation.
Now if you hire some bowties to protect your business and you promise not to sell to the people (wink, wink), you won't be bothered.
Couldn't just write a note, huh? That's how most people leave messages. Or maybe leave a message on an answering machine? Busting up someone's store sends a message to the insurance company.......time to raise the rates! I'll tell you what..... if this is how they're going to act, they will encounter PLENTY of discrimination, and well deserved it will be!
They belong to Calypso Louie's outfit, the Nation of Islam...
Personally I'd cheer if Screwy Louie's boys trashed a few crack houses---but trashing legitimate businesses ie: liquor stores is going too far.
Everybody knows that these crimes are committed by Calypso Louie's "Nation of Islam" but the oldstream media is scared sh$$less to report it.
I'm thinking it's a false flag op for China -- getting us to use up our military resources in the Middle East, so there won't be anything left over if the Chicoms make a try for Taiwan
You can still have good Sax..
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