Michael’s Family Restaurant in Glenside, Pennsylvania has been receiving death threats all day. Hundreds of threatening phone calls have reduced the owner’s mother to tears, and the restaurant is pleading for people to see reason.
This all stems from a manager who sent a waitress home when she would not remove her hijab. Michael’s Family Restaurant has since fired the manager and apologized. But as WTXF reporter Ellen Kolodziej says, that might not be enough, as protesters began to assemble outside the eatery.
Listening to Tameka Beverly, the aunt of the employee, it is not clear if her niece wore the hijab to the job interview.
Her first day she wore it. She showed up for training, she wore it. Then they told my sister she couldn’t wear it when she came back, but she wore it anyway. In no way should anybody be discriminated against and made to feel less and pushed into a corner where they have to remove their hijab.
The combination of a televised hijab crisis involving a restaurant strongly suggests the presence of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Indeed, when WPVI ABC6 read a statement from the restaurant, the station omitted the last sentence.
Michael’s Family Restaurant in Glenside released a statement Saturday:
“Michael’s Family Restaurant has been serving Glenside for over 15 years and have always taken pride in our quality of service, respect for our customers, and the diversity of our employee and customer base.
A video posted online on Friday, April 7, 2023 recorded one of our employees violating the values of our establishment. Our leadership team evaluated facts of the case and we would like our community to know that, effective Friday April 7, 2023 this employee is no longer affiliated with Michael’s Family Restaurant in Glenside.
We thank everyone who reached out to our Restaurant to record their disappointment. We share their sentiments and would like to underline that we value and respect every background that we proudly serve, including our Muslim-American customers. We are saddened that this incident disrupted their peaceful observance of the month of Ramadan. Needless to note, our beloved employee will be able to work here with her khimar should she wish to do so.
Additionally, we commit to meeting with Muslim-American community members to listen to them and also have our staff go through a sensitivity training to ensure an incident like this never repeats.”
The last sentence read:
We will work with CAIR-Philadelphia and other leaders to achieve these goals.
This is the second TV attack by CAIR this month, and the eleventh of the year. Which is on a pace for over 30 incidents this year.
This year’s victims so far:
Eva says
Why, oh WHY would you employ a moslem in the first place?
It’s totally out of line to fire the manager for sending this female home.
Don Davenport says
They will be made to walk the p.c. plank. I wouldn’t be surprised if the restaurant pays a steep settlement and/or is forced to close.
DazzleMe says
This is totally wrong, I would never never employ one of these people. they hate America and they should not EVEN be here.
somehistory says
People who work in food prep and service, need to be spot less, clean in appearance and customers have to feel that the wait staff are not carrying germs or some other patrons food remnants on their person.
The mozlum scarf doesn’t give the impression of cleanliness and it can harbor bacteria and food particles, which can fall into the food being served.
It’s right they fired her when she refused to abide by the rules of the restaurant.
It’s a place of business, not a place to display through clothing that one is superior to everyone else.
Caving to mozlums, to c.a.i.r. Walmart even caved to c.a.i.r. recently. Big or small, mozlums go after them all.
John Smith says
Sorry I couldn’t continue with the conversation yesterday, I did try but my laptop was playing up and wouldn’t allow me to post. I don’t know what was the matter with it but it seams alright today.
somehistory says
That’s okay, John. It isn’t that important that you should worry about it.
I slept easy last night. 🙂 But, sorry you had computer issues. Glad you worked them out.
I’ve been out of the house most of this day, so just now saw your comment to me.
commonsense says
+1
DazzleMe says
Somehistory,
I agree that it has to do with cleanliness. All these people are after is to display that they are of this religion. And I don’t care and I would venture to say that most people do not care about what religion they are. They just think they are special. They aren’t!
somehistory says
restaurants and stores may be forced to hire them, but as yet, patrons don’t have to allow themselves to be served by them.
Ira Roth says
Since hijab is a symbol of submission and modesty, asking a Muslim woman to remove her hijab would be like asking your wife to take off her bra. Have some respect; Jesus would.
PRCS says
The veil–in its may iterations–is NOT a symbol of submission. Per Qur’an 33:59, it is a non-verbal expression of Islamic supremacism.
“O Prophet! Ask your wives, daughters, and believing women to draw their cloaks over their bodies. In this way it is more likely that they will be recognized ˹as virtuous˺ (i.e., not a pagan, a prostitute, or a slave) and not be <i<harassed.”
Read as: assault/rape the kafir women, not us.
And per Qur’an 23:51:
And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their chastity, and not to reveal their adornments1 except what normally appears.2 Let them draw their veils over their chests, and not reveal their ˹hidden˺ adornments3 except to their husbands, their fathers, their fathers-in-law, their sons, their stepsons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, their fellow women, those ˹bondwomen˺ in their possession, male attendants with no desire, or children who are still unaware of women’s nakedness. Let them not stomp their feet, drawing attention to their hidden adornments.
Read bondwomen as their slaves.
Both parts of your bra comment are ridiculous.
DazzleMe says
PRCS
My goodness, that was well said, thank you!
PRCS says
Ur welcome!
Hoi Polloi says
+1
Hoi Polloi says
Also noted is “male attendants with no desire,” which in their slave trade has been those they castrate to both remove said desire and to deny the right to form families of their own. This further emphasizes the assignment of responsibility for the provocation of desire. Well made point regarding exactly what that headdress is declaring in regard to others.
PRCS says
Thank you.
Re: lack of desire–yes, intact old slaves and those who’ve been castrated (eunuchs).
Hijab: that so many in the West, having no idea what its primary purpose is, have fallen for the “right to cover” line is disturbing. If only they knew.
somehistory says
Ira Roth,
I strongly disagree. (Matthew 23)
Hoi Polloi says
Jesus never told anyone to respect people who rape women for showing their hair or who find the hair of toddlers sexually alluring or women who are virtue signaling and redirecting rapists to infidels. No.
somehistory says
Hoi Polloi,
I can’t recall any Scripture text where Jesus walked around talking about “respect” for any such person. He told us to “do to others as we wish done to us,” but when He spoke to the Pharisees, He used very strong language to show His disapproval and condemnation of their actions and attitudes. And He chased the moneychangers from the Temple, using a whip He made.
Jesus was not a wimp, nor an appeaser.
Robin Wolfe says
As Eva said, why would you hire a mozlem if they came in to interview wearing it that alone should show you red flag. I believe in EOE but not when it interferes with restaurant rules of cleanliness. I have Muslim Dr.and she is great and is a moderate Muslim not a terrorist CAIR type. I feel for owner’s and hope they learned their lesson.Always use best judgment from interview. Radical Muslims will do this such thing. Religion doesn’t belong in someone else’s business. Rules are rules. Someone give restaurant owner book Muslim Mafia,it’s here in USA and they’re out to take over USA,you can see it in current administration.
DazzleMe says
Robin Wolfe,
Yep, You got that right!
DazzleMe says
Robin Wolfe
Yep, you are so right. These people just want to tell us they are supreme of Americans, they need to get gone, yesterday!
Peavey says
I will bet she didnt wear the hijab at the interview or reveal she was a muslim. Sounds like a setup to cause a reaction and push Islam
Hoi Polloi says
OK. I’m turning around if I see one. Next she’ll be fighting to force halal on everyone because CAIR will lie that it’s discriminatory if she can’t follow what she deems to be superior food practices. They’ve already successfully fought to not do parts of food industry jobs that they had agreed to do. Beating another business owner into submission to sharia, I see.
DazzleMe says
I guarantee there will be NO tip. She will not be allowed to wait on me either.
Hoi Polloi says
Best option, I think.
mgoldberg says
I wonder if the police and or feds will examine the phone records and go after the death threateners as they well should. I bet they won’t and yet, the question remains, why not??
commonsense says
+1
Hoi Polloi says
Because they’re not White Christian Nationalists, the world’s only problem.
Jim says
We are in America, and if people want to practice sharia in America they do it at our discretion, not at theirs. They should be ashamed. Do they think this is another case of how Islam conquers other cultures and changes them into Muslim countries? Anyone with that attitude should be fired or deported or whatever. And the threateners ought to be punished too. It is a bit scary to think of what these peace-loving members of a religion of peace might do as a reprisal. I would be afraid to challenge them.
Willingness to wear western clothing should be a requirement to immigrate to America. But of course they can lie about this and change their opinion after they are inside. Assuming they came here legally and not with a Joe Biden visa.
Ron says
Yea,,, what he said!!
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
DazzleMe says
Jim, I don’t think peace loving…..LOL
John Smith says
I wouldn’t even consider going to a restaurant if a muslim was working there. And I’d never ever dine at a muslim restaurant. It’s a well known fact that many muslims spit in the food they are preparing for their customers.
commonsense says
I’ve walked out of every restaurant where I’ve seen hijabi Muslimas working as front end hostesses, whether in airports or anywhere else. For God’s sake – Muslims killed 3,000 Americans on American soil on Sept. 11, 2001. That’s all anyone should need to know about Islam.
DazzleMe says
Commonsense,
Soooo Well Said, thank you!
commonsense says
Thank YOU!
DazzleMe says
John Smith,
I agree, they hate Americans and I would not have one to wait on my table. I think they are nasty anyways.
somehistory says
I agree, John. Don’t give them the opportunity to harm you, and smirk about it.
VitoE says
This is the interesting statement in the article: Listening to Tameka Beverly, the aunt of the employee, it is not clear if her niece wore the hijab to the job interview. Wasn’t the same ploy used in an American Eagle Outfitters employment situation? The individual woman went on job interview without hijab, agreed during interview to not wearing head dresses. 7 days later she shows up in hijab and refuses to remove & is fired. Immediately HamasCair is dispatched. Micheal Restaurant submits like all other businesses as hamascair employs their Lawfare tactics! America will submit!
DazzleMe says
VitoE
They certainly are all of this on purpose, without doubt!
somehistory says
Years ago, Abercrombie and Fitch went through the same thing. The mozlum insisted on waring the ugly scarf, so the company refused to hire; she sued and the supreme court gave her the win.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/us/supreme-court-rules-in-samantha-elauf-abercrombie-fitch-case.html
““This is really easy,” Justice Antonin Scalia ” And he was wrong, as were the others.
VictorMc says
This is simple really.
NOW you have been made clearly aware of where NOT to go and eat and pay your hard-earned money.
The local competition must be having a real laugh about the lunatics who own and run ‘Michaels.’
rp says
In time most American will be eating halal too , Just like most food served in UK.
Pat Riot says
People who do not integrate when they imigrate here should be sent back to where they came from!
People come to the US of A because it’s a better place than what they left behind. Why do they want to turn the US of A into the same shiiit hole they left behind!? If you miss it, go back! The US of A is not perfect, no place is, and leftist and woke, PC ideologies are destroying this country, and yet, you can’t show me a better, freer place to live! Theodore Roosevelt was right: one country, one flag, one language, one allegiance! If that’s not good for you, don’t come, don’t be here, and don’t try to turn this land into whatever cursed land you left behind! There’s no place for Sharia in the USA! No place for illegals (stop the nonsense and BS of calling illegals “undocument” – they ARE ILLEGALS!) no place for anchor babies (confiscate their passports, strip them of their stolen US nationality – Chinese mostly, and they HATE this country as much if not more than Muslims,) don’t let China buy or own anything in this country! Etc.
Want Sharia? Go back home! Want communism? Go live in a communist country! Just leave America alone! AMERICA AIN’T IT!!!
Anything else you are an enemy, foreign or domestic, you are an enemy of the Constitution and BoR!
CAIR, the SPLC, BLM, etc,, all similar orgs, are terrorist organizations. Time to dismantle them and make them accountable for their acts of inciting donestic terrorism!
OLD GUY says
Slaughter Americans is muslim’s goal, why allow the migration invasion of muslims to take place. Close America to muslim/islamic migration.
ed says
Reinstate the waitress and make her the manager