Virginia: Muslim owner demands disabled man with service dog leave restaurant

Sue him Scott, you have witnesses,, SUE HIM> This is blatant discrimination.

Dear Pam,
Thank you for your comments.
Dear Samantha,
You are exactly on point. I do not feel that unchecked trust should be extended. What I’m trying to say is that many Americans feel that the majority of Muslims here are not about jihad. That doesn’t necessarily mean that statement is true. For me it’s probably because most of the time I try to look for the goodness in others and in doing so it certainly can be easy to overlook the sinister evil and not see it at all. I’m tending to feel that this is what we are experiencing.
Dear Patti,
I have experienced discrimination many times with my service dogs. On one occassion I was shoved off a Metro bus by its driver who then falsely accused me of assaulting him. In a few minutes the police arrived and seven officers brutally beat me unconscious. As I was being beaten others on the bus were taking photos and videos with their cell phones. Other officers boarded the bus and began confiscating the phones. Mysteriously the video of the event recorded by the camera on the bus itself was “lost.” I spent a tremendous amount of time and money seeking justice. I filed a Complaint of Discrimination against WMATA. I did nothing against the police out of fear of retaliation. Sometimes one really has to choose one’s battles. Regarding the owner of the kabob restaurant, there are many other ways this possibly could have turned out, that was my reasoning for standing up to him to see if he really was going to push the issue. Then I would have taken legal remedy. The way media works is this could have also blown up in my face. I could have been accused of intentionally provoking some upstanding honest Muslem merchant trying to make a living, and because a lawsuit happened it very well could have put him out of business if it were successful. I’ve seen this kind of vilification of innocent victims happen all too frequently. So one really has to weigh things out and also have some good inside media and legal support.
Dear Cate,
No, I did not get any “special sauce” on my kabob to my knowledge, neither did I get sick. We quietly went about eating our meal and promptly left the premises. I was at no time confrontational, loud, impolite or acting in any way that could have been misconstrued as improper conduct.
There are many other stories I could tell about experiences with Muslims living in the Washington DC Metro Area. If any are pertinant to the news letter I’ll share them.
Again, thank you all for your comments and reading Pam’s Newsletter
Scott Sylte

Service dogs get in, everywhere, always. That’s the law.
Service ponies and their carts … maybe not so much.
Hey, maybe we could start a movement. Wouldn’t it be just grand if every RoPMA had a line of customers outside the door every morning, all with service dogs? Or one every hour or so, just to keep the place haram all day long?

That is cool that this guy stood up for his rights and won. I was thinking that it woudln’t even be worth the aggravation to go through all of that for a kabob. I think I would have been scared they would spit in the food after all of that.
This guy had alot of courage to stand up for his rights. People usually act very intimidated by opposition and just want to take the easy way out of everything. I think I would have been so aggravated after all the commotion that I wouldn’t have even been able to choke down the food that they served me.
I have tried some of these restaurants and a couple had just bad food and one with okay/good food has very scary customers and seems kind of hardcore something or other. The clerks are nice some of them, the others just keep quiet. I feel like you need to go there with an attitude of American/Christian jihad if you go there.
To me, service is part of the dining/shopping experience so if the clerks are rude or disrespectful in a serious way, I don’t bother going back usually. If they have a great/unique product and maybe the owner is nice, I would go back.

Dear Mr. Sylte, thank you for your story, and you were right to stand up for your rights! However, that said, may I respectfully offer the following: don’t ever knowingly do business with a Muslim. Money you spend there ends up financing global jihad, as all Muslims pay “zakat”, a large part of which goes to finance jihadist activity worldwide. So, please, never, ever do business with a Muslim, for anything. You can always find someone else; someone better. Secondly, and I am amazed that no one has mentioned this so far, Muslims are infamous for their cowardly ways of hurting and killing people, and poisoning is one of their favorites. I am amazed they did not poison you or tamper with your food in some way. Never accept and eat food from someone who has been openly hostile to you; it could be very dangerous! Last but not least, even though you were eventually grudgingly served, you were very clearly discriminated against and publicly humiliated. I would find a great lawyer who would take the case on a contingency basis (you don’t pay a dime up front; they take a significant portion of your winnings as payment)and sue the socks off the owner or owners of the Muslim restaurant. Make it that they have to close their doors and go out of business. Think of it: Muslims sue Americans left and right over NOTHING, but do we sue them when they discriminate against us? My answer to that is, not nearly as often as we should! Fight fire with fire!
Thank you again for telling your story, and I wish many blessings for you and your wonderful dog Ray.

@Betty Pierce.
Right on, sister. Don’t use their shops, restaurants or even WASP places that serve halal. Americans boycott Islamic goods and services WHEREVER you find them.

Being a jew or Christian and being treated by a muslim doctor is like a Black person being treated by an MD wearing a KKK hood.
The koran DEMANDs we infidels be converted, treated as subservient animals, or killed. (READ IT).
PS – the next time you have to take your service dog to the “kabob” house, be sure and first feed your pooch a huge meal laced with ex-lax.

The very essence of the Judeo-Christian belief is based upon “Loving our neighbors,” but all to frequently forgotten is another teaching of our sacred writings is that if we know that someone is going to kill us “We are “obliged” to kill them before they can kill us.
I have no quarrel with anything you did, other than perhaps its best not to spend your money in a Muslim establishment, esp. since you don’t know what you are supporting when you do so.
But I would be very interested in knowing what Judeo-Christian “sacred writings” you are referring to here, that says Christians are “obliged” to kill anyone.
This is in direct contradiction not only to the New Testament teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, but the history of the early Church, which was indeed a Church of Martyrdom. Those early Christians allowed themselves to be killed in order to spread the Gospel. If there was any such obligation for Christians to “kill … before they can kill us” early Church history would have been radically different, to say the least.
And in fact, Jesus himself violated your “obligation to kill” by explicitly commanding his disciples to put away their swords and allowing himself to be arrested and executed.
There have been frequent debates throughout church history regarding the limits of “turn the other cheek” vs self defense. But the concept of being “obliged” to kill anyone for any reason is way outside the parameters of those discussions.
If what you really refer to is some specific Jewish tradition, that is another matter, which I don’t claim to be expert on. But you referred to “Judeo-Christian” and there is no such obligation to kill anyone within Christian teachings or scriptures.

Joe,
Your comments are ridiculous. They are also bigoted. I don’t know how religious these medical providers were–or if they were all Muslims, since many Iranians in this country include Christians, Bahai, and Zoroastrians. I remember chatting with a radiology tech who was a Zoroastrian from Iran and he walked over and talked to a Muslim woman tech who was from Iran, and they hugged each other. The Muslim woman certainly didn’t act like the Zoroastrian colleague was a despised infidel. They were both very friendly, and very nice. At first, I was a bit apprehensive when I had a major hospital stay and I was assigned a hospitalist who was born in Tehran. I don’t know her religion, although her last name is often one associated with Iranian Jews. Still, I suspect she was Muslim. She was great. I really liked her a lot, both as a person and as a doctor.
When I attended the rally supporting Israel during the 2006 Lebanese War, there was a young fellow holding a big sign that said “True Muslims Support Israel.” He was wearing the jersey from one of the historically Jewish fraternities, AEPi. Most of his fraternity brothers also attending were Jewish. They were from the chapter at the Umiversity of Maryland Baltimore County campus. We talked briefly, he said he was from Iran by way of Pakistan. I think he said he was Sunni. When they started to sing Hatikvah at the end of the program, he sang loudly, and he knew the words better than I did.
I’ve had a number of long talks with Muslims living in the U.S. These are more educated, sophisticated people, unlike the Pakistani owning the kabob place. One fellow insists that the violent radicals you see are a fraction. That’s not to say that there are not different degrees of adherence to the radical beliefs among Muslims in the Muslim countries or the west.
I’ve been in a condo of an older Iranian couple, and they had a beautiful Labrador Retriever and a fully stocked wine cabinet. Still, her husband (a retired gastroenterologist) would not eat pork as a rule, but he sometimes violated the rule. They were Shia Muslims.
The biggest problem I see is that there do seem to be some moderates but they are not willing to or are unable to condemn and control the extremists. I just can’t believe that all Muslims, especially in the U.S., are extremists and violence prone.
Still, there are a lot of dangers out there, and we’re right to keep our eyes on them. Pamela and Robert Spencer do a great job.