Esther Wallace, chairwoman of the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council, said she objects to Little Arabia garnering an official designation. ‘There’s only one ethnic group that’s being promoted and that’s the Arab American group,’ Wallace said. ‘We don’t have a Little Mexico or a Little Korea. All the pressure seems to be on putting a Little Arabia out here, and I don’t see why.'” I do. Even though most Muslims are not Arabs and most Arabic-speaking people in the U.S. are not Muslims (though that is changing rapidly due to Obama’s immigration policies), and the problem of jihad terror is not (contrary to constant government and media assertion) one of race or ethnicity, the two groups — Muslim and Arab — are still closely related in the public mind. This effort to establish “Little Arabia” in the Los Angeles area is part of a larger ongoing effort to make Muslims a regular feature of daily American life, thus helping to normalize the constant demands for special accommodation and the extra security measures that are increasingly common.
“In Los Angeles, Arabs put ‘Little Arabia’ on the map,” from Al Arabiya, March 22 (thanks to Lookmann):
Only a few miles from California’s Disneyland sits a string of Middle Eastern restaurants and shops backed by the state’s Arab American community affectionately called, “Little Arabia.”
Activists and business owners that support “Little Arabia” are campaigning for the strip to be recognized as a destination by tourism officials, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
“The most important thing to us is saying, ‘We are part of Anaheim,'” said Rida Hamida, director and co-founder of the Arab American Civic Council. “You have Disney, the Honda Centre, the Angels, and you also have Little Arabia.”
The push has already yieded [sic] positive results. The Anaheim/Orange County Visit and Convention Bureau agreed to put Little Arabia on its visitors guide.
“What I’ve seen of it, it has some great restaurants that I got to enjoy and a community that’s trying to build something there, so that’s exciting to see,” said Jay Burress, president and chief executive of the convention bureau, after his visit to Little Arabia last month.
The civic council is also preparing a new website and brochure to attract visitors.
The community’s biggest goal is to put in place an official designation for Little Arabia and an accompanying sign on the free-way.
The group’s efforts, however, are receiving some back lash.
Some residents complain that the special designation would hurt other ethnic pockets in the county’s largest city of Anaheim.
Esther Wallace, chairwoman of the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council, said she objects to Little Arabia garnering an official designation.
“There’s only one ethnic group that’s being promoted and that’s the Arab American group,” Wallace said. “We don’t have a Little Mexico or a Little Korea. All the pressure seems to be on putting a Little Arabia out here, and I don’t see why.”
Other complaints revolve around the influx of hookah lounges.
Some critics believe the area isn’t developed enough yet to be a tourist destination.
“We’re not ready to do a grand opening yet for Little Arabia because it’s not ready,” Ahmad Alam, owner of Arab World Newspaper and local property owner told Gulf News.
Alam said Little Arabia lacks cohesion and has fallen short of the place he imagined: an ethnic community that would “make everything available for the new generation, to know about their history and heritage.”
Asem Abusir, who last year opened Knafeh Cafe, which specializes in a generations-old pastry recipe from Nablus in the West Bank, said “Some are reluctant, but it takes some educating about what is the vision. It’s going to take some education both internally and externally.”
Charli Main says
Little Arabia—AKA—-Islamisation.
helmut says
They are perfectly disgusting people. Their culture their religion. The so called prophet muhammed was a pedophile because he had sex with a 9 year old girl and that makes him also a child molester. Muslims are mortal enemies of America. If we could see our way clear to carpet bomb Germany who wouldn’t ever kill people if the country did not resist his troops, then we should find our way clear to kick these enemies out of our lands since all they do is kill people when they get a chance,.
Albert Shanker says
The cults of ethnicity in America are in full swing. By 2050 ,no one will recognize this land.
eib says
Why not call “Little Arabia” what it is– a no-go zone.
eib says
“Little Arabia” has nothing to do with “history and heritage.”
It is conquest of the infidel territory and culture.
Muslims are colonists, conquerors, no different from the Puritans in New England.
They will crush everything in their path.
Jay Boo says
The profession of hate will soon be opening yet another attitude tattoo parlor.
(AKA mosque)
Kbrockm says
Read a comment yesterday that really hit home. It went like this: In countries where Muslims are in the minority, they fight for religious rights; in countries where Muslims are in the majority, there are no religious rights.
Bill C. says
Remember, this is Orange County they are dealing with: a bastion of conservatism. Needless to say, tons of guns, a vast majority of well-informed people, police and sherrifs who don’t take kindly to this sort of crap, a dominant newspaper (OC Register) and voters (many seinors among them) who actually VOTE.
The only folk I see patonizing these places are tourists, and they are well North of said area (Disneyland is well North of the 22 freeway. This area is *just* North of it.)
Add to that last statement the fact that tourists don’t venture much past the safe environs of said theme park.
All in all, this crap isn’t goin’ (at least in the long run) anywhere.
Jamal Uddin says
We hate all you dirty ameri cans and we will take over your country with a mosque on every block. We already run the white house and DHS, FBI and control the AG. Get used to it filthy ameri can. Allah Akbar mofo’s
kikorikid says
“There is a rifle behind every blade of grass”, Yamamoto.
Kepha says
Jamal Ul-Iblis, since you hate us Americans so much, just keep away from our country. If you take over, you’ll make it just another land of slums surrounded by desert, just lie the hellholes you’re now trying to leave. While we have nothing against law-abiding immigrants, and indeed welcome them, we will defend ourselves against abusers of our welcome.
I think you hate yourselves more than you hate us. That’s why you take hospitality and a willingness to accommodate as a sign of weakness. You will learn otherwise the hard way.
Molon Labe!
Kepha says
Oh, I forgot something, Jamal Ul-Iblis: I’m soooooooooooooo scared. I’ll think about you when we stick the needle into Joker Tsarnaev’s strapped-down arm. I hear they get some of the chemicals in it from distilling the body fluids of swine.
And you’d better hurry up. Your last chance will be 2016-2020, by which time we’ll be so fed up with Pres. Shrillary Shrew that your sympathizers in our government won’t dare show their faces in public.
Kikorikid, I don’t think Jamal Ul-Iblis caught the reference to Yamamoto–who, to be fair, probably understood better than most other Axis commanders what his country was getting into in 1941.
gravenimage says
Another vile sneering Mohammedan. This what they are really like.
Jax Tolmen says
*Americans – had to fix that for you, I know English is a difficult language to learn if it is not your mother tongue.
From what I understand of American’s, with a growing minority of militant atheists – they don’t even have Christian churches ‘on every block’. You can dream of an Islamic America, but it will never happen. That’s much less likely then you wiping out Israel, which will also never happen. Your pathetic Islamic states, even when ganging up on that tiny country, get slaughtered.
Last statistic I saw was that Muslim’s made up less than 1 percent of the total population of the USA – hardly enough to overthrow the ruling majority that hates you. Your filthy religion is excellent at shooting itself in the foot, as you fear innovation and thus you will never win. The more technologically advanced civilization always wins, which is why Israel keeps flogging you idiots every time you get into a tussle.
If you can’t even beat Israel, what makes you think that you stand a chance against the behemoth of the modern era, the USA? I’m sorry if your threats don’t really strike fear into my heart – I must be missing your point.
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Tee 'n' the Wildlife says
Perhaps we could just call it Little Hole in the Ground!
Kepha says
What’s the fuss?
I live in the real “Chinatown” of a major metropolitan area–the downtown one is only a place of shops. It’s in the suburbs that people actually live and set up the better restaurants.
Actually, it isn’t just a Chinatown: it’s also a Little Seoul, Spanishtown, Little Greece, Jewish Area, Little India, etc. The Far Eastern presence is noteworthy because about 45% of my younger son’s high school class was of Far Eastern parentage, with ethnic Chinese predominating (although lots of Korean, Viet, Filipino, and other such heritage, too). It was a plurality, though. I saw my son socializing with kids of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Anglo, and Jewish heritage, and guess that’s simply the way things should be in an immigration-welcoming country.
Petey says
why bother putting it on the tourist brochures? Its only going to become a no go zone!
jose ahmed says
So much man made hate ,after you get rid of all the Arab- American, Who will be next, Black , Hispanic , Indians , Chinese or yourself maybe !
gravenimage says
What crap. “jose ahmed”—a “revert”, perhaps?—would like to pretend that any resistance to Muslim demands is not just “discrimination”, but some sort of genocide.
Given that Muslims are *really* waging genocide against non-Muslims all over the world makes this rhetoric especially sickening.
gravenimage says
All the pressure seems to be on putting a Little Arabia out here, and I don’t see why.’” I do.
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So do I.
There is a twenty-block stretch along Telegraph Avenue in Oakland near where I live that is home to large numbers of Korean-American businesses.
There was a plan to put up “Korea Town” banners along the street. The only protest? From the two-block area with Halal butchers and markets…
They didn’t want top be associated with such filthy Kaffirs…