There’s a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it:
Investigate alleged discrimination against Muslim family at this Shreveport, LA franchise
Sign Kutibh’s PetitionStarted by: Kutibh, Burlington, Vermont
For a family to be denied service and be forcibly locked out of a restaurant in the 21st century because of their faith is not only unacceptable, but harmful to the fabric of our society and a flagrant hate-crime.
“Mohammad Husain and his wife were looking for a bite to eat and a nice place to relax when they stopped in last month at a Shreveport, La. Subway owned by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). But that visit soon turned turbulent, Husain told TPM recently, when he found himself locked out of the Subway franchise and his wife locked inside with an employee telling them they were not welcome there because they were Muslim.” - TPM
It is unacceptable to see this type of discrimination committed against two innocent Americans trying to have a typical family meal at a Subway. Even more inexcusable is Subway’s unwillingness to investigate the hate-crime. The Shreveport Police Department also has yet to return calls to investigate the situation even after Mohammad Husain had called 911 after his wife was locked inside the restaurant. Instead, he was patted down and searched by the officer as if he was a suspected terrorist. We demand that both Subway and the Shreveport Police Department as well as Rep. John Fleming who own’s this Subway franchise investigate the incident and issue respective reprimands to the employees involved.
See:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Muslim-says-restaurant-discriminated-against-him-4083401.php
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/john_fleming_muslim_subway.php
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Muslim-man-claims-discrimination-from-local-Subway/-/144844/17616930/-/15balp8/-/index.html
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/12/04/1283251/gop-congressmans-restaurant-accused-of-turning-away-muslim-couple/?mobile=nc
1. Please sign the petition to send a message that this is unacceptable behavior from their employees, and to demand that an investigation be started
2. File a Complaint with Subway by calling 800-888-4848
3. Demand the Shreveport Police Department begin an investigation by calling (318) 673-7300
You can also check out other popular petitions on Change.org by clicking here.
Ex-Marine Cultivated Ties With Maker of Anti-Muslim Movie, 'Innocence of Muslims'
Steve Klein, the California ex-marine identified as a consultant for the anti-Islam film that apparently triggered violent protests in northern Africa and the Middle East, is finally seeing the fruits of his labor.
The Vietnam veteran, who says Muslims have “no choice but to hunt Jews and Christians down, torture us and murder us,” has been pushing Coptic Christians to join his anti-Muslim crusade for years. A hard-line Christian nationalist who conducts paramilitary trainings with Christian groups across the country, he believes that Copts have a divine destiny to “save” America from the twin evils of secularism and Islam.
In an undated essay titled “Why are you here in America” Klein compared secularism to an oppressive Islamist regime and said God guided Copts to America to help the country reclaim its supposed Christian roots.
“The Revolution was fought for YOU. So you could flee oppression and YOU could share the wisdom of your ancestors to improve this land,” Klein wrote in the essay, which appears on an anti-Muslim online “ministry” called “The Pen Vs. The Sword.”
Last year, he spoke to a group of influential Missouri pastors and Christian-right activists, urging them to increase their militancy against Islam. And together with Nasralla, he seems to have breathed new life and a new sense of purpose into Gary Cass’ Christian Anti-Defamation Coalition, a gay-bashing Christian-right organization that has recently expanded its efforts to include anti-Muslim activism.
Last year, Klein, Nasralla and Cass collaborated on a “911 Defend Students Campaign,” which consisted mainly of leafleting California schools with literature portraying the Prophet Mohammad as a sex-crazed pedophile
“When Muslims get power they subjugate all other religions,” Nasrallah said in a press release published jointly with Cass and Klein. “They follow the example of Mohammad who demanded that non-Muslims convert, pay onerous taxes to Muslims, or be killed. Islamic ideology is a threat to religious liberty everywhere and our children must be warned so they never have to endure what I’ve experienced.”
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[Trigger Warning: linked article has descriptions of sexual assault.]
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“We both realized they had been trying to set us up. So they didn’t have anything on us. They came for her early in the morning, too. They didn’t detain her parents, they just detained her. Tashnuba and I were then trying to figure out what was going on, what they were going to do, if they were going to release us.That’s when a lady walked in. She said, “What are you guys in for? We said, “We don’t know.” “I hear you guys did something.” “What did we do?” We were asking her for information. She said, “We’re going to take you to Pennsylvania.Tashnuba and I looked at each other, like, Pennsylvania? I said, “What are we goingto do in Pennsylvania? She answered, “They didn’t tell you? There’s a detention center there.”
Click the photo to read the rest of one 16 year old’s harrowing account of being, in effect kidnapped, and detained for months by FBI agents with no cause, no explanation and no legal recourse. Excerpted from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Justice](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls185vZWEt1qcp9ulo1_500.png)
[Trigger Warning: linked article has descriptions of sexual assault.]
“We both realized they had been trying to set us up. So they didn’t have anything on us. They came for her early in the morning, too. They didn’t detain her parents, they just detained her. Tashnuba and I were then trying to figure out what was going on, what they were going to do, if they were going to release us.That’s when a lady walked in. She said, “What are you guys in for? We said, “We don’t know.” “I hear you guys did something.” “What did we do?” We were asking her for information. She said, “We’re going to take you to Pennsylvania.Tashnuba and I looked at each other, like, Pennsylvania? I said, “What are we goingto do in Pennsylvania? She answered, “They didn’t tell you? There’s a detention center there.”
Click the photo to read the rest of one 16 year old’s harrowing account of being, in effect kidnapped, and detained for months by FBI agents with no cause, no explanation and no legal recourse. Excerpted from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Justice
