Posted on 10/28/2009 11:20:18 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, "Can you move the bar?" Friedman's response makes us want to hurry over to The Breslin right now for a dram of Laphroaig to show our support (and drown out the voices):
I laughed. And the guy said, "Oh, you think that’s funny?" And I said, "Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze." Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, "This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the **** we want." He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of "a few bad eggs"; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.
Friedman notified police of the threat, but just to show he's not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn't be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn't arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding. A volunteer at the mosque says city law forbids serving liquor within 200 feet of a place of worship and that "not more than 200 feet is between the mosque and the bar."
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
What do they usually do?
Welcome to Sharia Law in the USA...
If it’s between homos and muzzies, I’ll just grab the popcorn.
Wow, where is this place? If it’s not too difficult to get to, I just might go there.
Maybe a NY FReeper hangout in the future?
Well then, they'll just have to move the mosque.
should be advertised in all the promos on airlines as the place to see when in town. I’d go.
I can think of a few things. But we must not be intimidated by them or their threats--otherwise they will change this nation, just like the UK has experienced.
BTW, I could name quite a few churches in Texas that would object, too. But the law is the law!
Should get those alcoholic gays all angry now. Shoot, they might end up throwing bricks at the muzzie place.
Goat Boys...Goat Boys...Wattcha gonna do....
(apologies to “Cops”)
Which was there first?
“Friedman notified police of the threat, but just to show he’s not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn’t be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn’t arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding. “
WRONGO!!!!!
NOT ONE INCH SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THESE PEOPLE. Do that and it will ONLY encourage them.
Their ULTIMATE goal is imposition of Sharia Law and perscution of non-Muslims.
THey should move the Mosque - back wherever the hell they crawled out of.
They are free to leave for a Muslim country. Everyone who can should have a beer and ham sandwich at this bar.
Move the mosque.
Good for the Breslin. I’m continually amazed at the people who flock to this nation because of the opportunities here, that immediately try to change it to be just like the hell hole they just slithered in from.
I would appreciate it if these idiots would go back to the hell they escaped from if they must continually whine here.
Hah!!
“They are free to leave for a Muslim country.”
I feel exactly the same way. They should go elsewhere and take several more Muslims with them.
According to the article, “The law is clear that in order for that to apply it has to be an exclusively dedicated house of worship, and at their space (the mosque) they have both residences and a restaurant, so basically, because of those uses the law allowed there to be a bar within 200 feet. Everyone was aware of that when the liquor license was granted.”
Well, if they’re complaining about solid Conservative values, I’d certainly side with you on that one.
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