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Muslims Threaten Breslin Owner After He Laughs Off Bar Demand
gothamist.com ^
| Oct. 28, 2009
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 mosques 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 thats funny?" And I said, "Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because were not going to move the bar just because you discovered were serving booze." Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesnt serve booze? I said, "This is the United States of America and well do whatever the **** we want." He said the mosque had suggested it couldnt 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."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Mexico; US: New York
KEYWORDS: breslin; islam; mosque; muslims
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To: Vor Lady
In my experience, the glass should be replaced with plexiglass. Bricks tend to bounce right off, sometimes resulting in the brick thrower receiving a contusion at the least or if he is really athletic, a concussion. Check youtube for several very funny clips of this. Like this one?
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posted on
10/28/2009 12:21:51 PM PDT
by
Azzurri
To: Free ThinkerNY
This almost makes me support gay weddings... too bad he covered the windows.
To: Circle_Hook
To: Free ThinkerNY
4 words and 14 letters later the MUZZIE SCUM would have known exactly what I think of them and their EVIL CULT!
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posted on
10/28/2009 12:29:07 PM PDT
by
WellyP
To: Free ThinkerNY
Hope that bar owner has up-to-date fire insurance.
To: Free ThinkerNY
I would say F’em, but that might give the mooselimbs great pleasure.
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posted on
10/28/2009 12:46:37 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
To: Vor Lady
In my experience, the glass should be replaced with plexiglass
The first brick should be traded for a beer bottle filled with bacon fat and hurled back through their window.
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posted on
10/28/2009 12:58:25 PM PDT
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Free ThinkerNY
He said the mosque had suggested it couldn't control the behavior of "a few bad eggs" this is why islam should be banned in civilized countries
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:03:27 PM PDT
by
Charlespg
(The Mainstream media is the enemy of democracy destroy the mainstream media)
To: DoughtyOne; All
Sounds like marriage. she marries you because of what she finds in you then spends the rest of her life trying to change you! (smile)
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:11:07 PM PDT
by
FARS
( Be happy, be well and Thrive)
To: traderrob6
Just going by the law. Like it or not it should be adhered to.The law says that the Bar has every right to be right where it is. Therefore the Mosque needs to move. Or get used to America.
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: FARS
Ouch, that hits a little close to home there fella! Smile...
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:13:05 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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."
So where's the infraction?
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:15:02 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Free ThinkerNY
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."
The bar [even if closed at the time] and hotel were built before the mosque was built. Then the mosque is the one that has to move a few more feet down the road since they intentionally built close to the hotel that housed a bar.
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Do these Muslims know that he also owns a restaurant called The Spotted Pig?
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:24:17 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Charlespg; All
The same “bad eggs” terrorize neighborhoods in England and drive non-Moslems out so they can be replaced by other MOslems to consolidate Moslem hold on those areas. And make housing available. sometimes cheap or free public housing that would otherwise not be there for them.
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posted on
10/28/2009 1:28:33 PM PDT
by
FARS
( Be happy, be well and Thrive)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Islamic community is the most selfish community on the planet. Islam should of never been allowed to be practiced here in the first place.
To: La Lydia
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. Thank you for clarifying. For a while it sounded like the mosque had a legitimate complaint.
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posted on
10/28/2009 2:39:50 PM PDT
by
jimt
To: Morgana
absolutely... couldn't of said it any better. the goathumpers can go 0bama themselves.
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posted on
10/28/2009 3:10:39 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: Azzurri
OMG - that has to be the funniest clip I’ve ever seen on youtube... still laughing my butt off...
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posted on
10/28/2009 3:29:53 PM PDT
by
sidetracked
(Can I be Sarah when I grow up?)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
MOVE DEMOLISH THE MOSQUE!
I fixed it for you. :D
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posted on
10/28/2009 5:55:59 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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