Boycotting muslim-owned businesses is a great practice for many reasons, but figuring out muslim ownership can be tricky since muslims will practice taqiyaa.

In my area (Simi Valley, CA)there are a number of Sikh and Hindu -owned gas stations, cigarette stores and liquor stores/7-11s as well as muslim-owned ones. You have to be able to tell the difference if you’re not sure.

DS_ROCKS! on March 12, 2012 at 7:24 pm

DS, as a black person one of you’re fans and supporters of color, I am not the least surprised, everybody knows that arab-muslims where the original slave-traders in Africa south of the Sahara desert. But there’s plenty of virulent racism in the hadiths against black people, ie such books and verses as Sahih Bukhari 9:89:256, Sahih Bukhari 1:11:662, Sahih Bukhari 1:11:664, Sahih Muslim 10:3901, Sahih Muslim 5:2334, Al-Tabari, vol. 2, page 21, Ishaq:243, Ishaq:450, Ishaq:374, etc.

Also in my area in the New York, NY area there are numerous hindu-sikh owned gas stations, there’s an arabic owned gas station (there secular arabs who’s not religious). Also, my Lebanese friend (the guy is very funny and jokes with me most of the time) in my area who works in a store around where I live is an atheist.

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on March 12, 2012 at 7:46 pm

@Sean R.- when it’s time for Jihad in your neck of the woods, I’ll bet I can guess what side your “secular” and “atheist” muslim buddies will side up with. Look up what taqiyya is in case you’re not familiar.

DS_ROCKS! on March 12, 2012 at 8:12 pm

Don’t worry DS_Rocks, I’m well aware of taqiyya bro, I’ve been doing some studying on it and learning more and more about it as time progresses, and it’s in the koran for muslims to use taqiyya on the infidel in order to fool and hoodwink them.

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on March 12, 2012 at 8:21 pm

I’m in LA like DS_Rocks (OK – Simi isn’t real close to downtown, but whatever) and it’s totally true about 7-11’s. If one knows how to recognize the Sikh turban it helps in knowing who is who.

Taxi cabs in LA and Orange counties are mostly Muslim drivers, a lot of Pakistanis. If you’re crawling home from a bar it may be luck of the draw, but I finally found a company with mostly Russian drivers. Thankfully my cab rides are planned and I can choose a company and make a reservation the day before.

Richard on March 12, 2012 at 9:43 pm

@Richard – “(OK – Simi isn’t real close to downtown, but whatever) ”

What? Simi Valley is 20 minutes from downtown L.A. 😉

(@everyone else – that’s an L.A. joke. In L.A. *everywhere* is always “20 minutes away.”)

DS_ROCKS! on March 12, 2012 at 11:20 pm

@Sean R. – exactly, so what I’m saying is that I’d bet dollars to donuts that the “moderate” and “friendly” “atheist” and “secular” muslims that you know are so only because it’s expedient for them to be so at that particular juncture. I may be wrong, sure, but I’ll err on the side of caution.

It’s a pet peeve of mine when I hear conservatives and progs alike talking about their “normal and friendly” muslim neighbors and coworkers. It’s like a p.c. “I-gave-to-the-VFW-paper-lapel-flower” that shows progs that you’re not a bigot.

In the old days, it was like saying “hey, some of my best friends are black” excpet in this case with the muslim dogma, political correctness plays right into their hands and will cost more of our lives and liberties.

DS_ROCKS! on March 12, 2012 at 11:31 pm

Only DS finds the real story. The rest of the media seems clueless.
Deb, i hope you find some real NEWs on the soldier gone ballistic in Afghanistan. Surprised how little everyone else is saying about it.

theShadow on March 13, 2012 at 1:38 am

He shot to kill because a customer said something was too expensive? In any civilized world, that would be unthinkable, the stuff of a violent cartoon. Would he shoot a ten year old boy who said the candy bars were too expensive? When I was 10 or 11, I bought a candy bar at the newsstand in my neighborhood, the same newsstand where I often bought No Cal black cherry cola, the newsstand where my father, may he rest in peace, once bought me a cheap chess set, the newsstand where if l looked at the covers of the dirty books, the owner pushed me away. (Isn’t memory a funny thing?) I said that in Woolworth’s the candy bars cost 5 cents. He didn’t shoot me; he said “Go there.”

Miranda Rose Smith on March 13, 2012 at 3:01 am

Sean, I really hope most Blacks, regardless of their attitudes towards Whites or other race groups, notice all this just like you have, and keep their distance from NOI, Farakkhan, Rita X, Malik Zulu Shabbaz and so on.

This is the most irritating thing about NOI members. It’s one thing to still have the chips on their shoulders about other races, but then another to pretend that they have something in common w/ Islam when it’s the Arabs who started the slave trade in Africa, and practice it to this day. You have the NOI twist the writings in the sunnah to make it seem like Islam accords Blacks the highest status, when in fact, Islam accords Arabs the highest status. That’s why the loyalties of NOI members towards Islam defies comprehension.

On this story, I agree w/ DS_Rocks – just stay away from Muslim owned businesses. While that may not always be obvious, any business that has Muslim employees, I avoid. Also, if a business has an Arabic or Islamic sounding name, I keep my distance. Aside from that, I’m more than happy to see lists of establishments that should be avoided. And in this economy, that shouldn’t be difficult.

Infidel on March 13, 2012 at 7:16 am

I’m not defending the clerk but it looks like Michael Haynes was no angel.

Assuming there’s not more than one Michael Haynes who was 24 year old, black, and seemed to occupy the Wayne County area, checking OTIS bring up MDOC #639305. He was just released from his second stint in jail (prison?) in January where he was Discharged Without Improvement. He was also 6’4″, 260. Maybe heavier now without that tasty prison food.

Direct links don’t always work but you can try http://mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=639305

George on March 13, 2012 at 7:18 am

Debbie, thank you for your excellent web site and reporting. I look forward to your articles and forward them to my friends.
Bevakasha (sp.?)

Tina on March 13, 2012 at 7:36 am

So why would any black person ever convert to Islam? I know in prison it’s convert or be killed but once out they continue following it. Also, there are a lot of non prison blacks that convert. Do they not know the history or are they falling for all the lies?

Robin H on March 13, 2012 at 7:56 am

wow. great article. i find it so odd that these muslim gas satation owners set up shop in predominantly black areas, and they hate the customer base that supports them? wierd.

also, i thought muslims were trying to conscript blacks into islam?

KIRCHE on March 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

If the muslims hate the blacks, then who or what is the muslim brotherhood? I haven’t seen too many whites in that tribe of thugs!!

M: Huh? The Muslim Brotherhood is mostly White. Check out the newly elected MB members of the Egyptian Parliament. They’re ALL White. DS

MIKE on March 13, 2012 at 9:42 am

Greets…

Don’t forget that one of the pillars of islam is to give charity. Since many “moderate” muslims may follow this and give money to islamic charities, we don’t really have any clue where our money goes when we support islamic owned businesses- even those owned by “moderates”, because they probably have no clue whether or not their “charity” is actually going to terrorists.

Psycho Cheese on March 13, 2012 at 9:51 am

Bugle sounding,

Call out the calvary in the persons of Holder, Peres, Jackson, Sharpton, all members of the Cong.BlackCaucus & NAACP, et alia.

Wherever there’s racism, they’re sure to find it, but only after they’ve finished finding it in voter ID laws,

Frank Scarn on March 13, 2012 at 10:34 am

Don’t support either the arab or swami gas station owners….they come in this country and systematically buy up everything in sight and it happens under the nose of Americans on a daily basis. Funny thing….they supposedly come from “impoverished” countries yet they have money to throw around. Wonder what’s funding their cash cow?

IceNoMore on March 13, 2012 at 10:59 am

You could not pay me to ever go to Detroit.

Repeat on March 13, 2012 at 1:20 pm

The spin on this story by DS is pathetic. The black thug that was shot was/is a product of black run Detroit. The entitlement mentality is clearly on display. Why did this black thug destroy the store? He was violent and deserved to be shot. Since the ’67 riots in Detroit, whites have fled to the suburbs leaving a “post-colonial” downtown Detroit (similar to South Africa or Rhodesia). Since ’73 blacks have been responsible for the government and infrastructure, and Detroit is now one of the five most dangerous cities in the country. This black thug is a reflection of the controlling population of the city. Replace the islamic owner with white owner in the story, and the shooting is justified.

FK: The guy was leaving the store and the Arab Muslim left the booth to shoot and kill him. That’s called murder. And that’s why the murderer was just charged with 1st Degree Murder. Wake up and stop justifying Islamic racism. Messing up a store is not grounds for murder. Your spin is what’s pathetic. DS

FrenchKiss on March 13, 2012 at 1:27 pm

I’m going to man up & make a confession. When I first heard the story I sent it to my friend in Saginaw because we have been talking about the rash of crime committed by Blacks at the Chucky Cheeze & Denny’s & other places. There have also been a lot of robberies in Saginaw committed by African American’s in the Township. I’m not being racist about it, it’s a fact in Saginaw. Don’t get me wrong, Whites commit crime too & I want to make that point clear. What I did in this case was I automatically assumed it was the Black person who caused the problem, I WAS WRONG. I also connected it to the national discourse concerning the attempt to mandate taxpayers paying for birth control. I really didn’t need to share this but since I was introduced to DS I have learned so much & now take a look at things from a whole different perspective, & will continue to do so.

Hollywood on March 13, 2012 at 1:42 pm

@MIKE:

The Muslim Brotherhood is not black. Also, allow me to point out that black and dark-skinned Egyptians get treated far worse in Egypt than they do in America. And when the Muslim Brotherhood takes over, things for black Egyptians will get worse, not better. Not that you will ever hear the media say so.

Gerald on March 13, 2012 at 2:07 pm

Islam has a race caste and some Muslims are more equal than others. As we recall from the Saudi Prince who beat his Muslim black servant to death, even having the same religion isn’t enough to keep you safe. Muslim Arabs are racists as well as anti-Semites. So keep that in mind the next time you hear them accuse Israel of racism, they’re telling you about themselves.

NormanF on March 13, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Once again, I had to come here to find out the real story. Thank you, Debbie. And great informative comments by others. Thank you, too.

Aurora on March 13, 2012 at 11:20 pm

When I was a High School kid in Troy, Michigan during the early ’80’s…I became friends w/ a Chaldean kid, a year older. His father had immigrated from Irag, they owned party stores in The D….he mentioned, that if they caught blacks shop-lifting they got a choice: The cops would be called or they could option for a back store room, hand-cuffed beating administered by the owner….he said he got to witness & participate in the “administering” of the beat-down. Nice…anyway, he dropped out of High School in the 11th grade to work for his dad at the stores…typical. I hate Chaldeans from that area, especially….they are not any different than Muslim Arabs, except the glamour of being a “christian”….a-holes.

Steve Epps on March 14, 2012 at 8:15 am

As an owner of a gas station and I speak for the rest of the owners. First of all who ever wrote this u r one big racist. Second I will speak about what happened to this micheal at the bp in Detroit, the real story this micheal Haynes a thug who was let out of jail for robbery walked in the station that night Cussing this clerk sayin let me get some magnums so I can go screw ur wife. The clerk remained calm the comdoms cost were $4.50 this man pulled a bundle of drug money and only wanted to pay $4. The clerk is doing his job told this drunk he will not give anything under cost micheal started tearing the store and demanded. As micheal walks out the clerk walks out to start cleaning the mess the drunk walks right back in and and the clerk pulls his 45 out throwing more stuff out and the clerk fired a shot as micheal turns around hit on his shoulder. His friends drove him to the hospital and fought te security while this guy is dying of bleeding for 20 minutes pepper sprayed. Now the black community is protesting for this drunk who was going to have adultery into a hero. Just last month a 59 year old Arab got killed set up by two apes breaking a drink so he comes out to clean it and they kill him. Why didn’t the black community speak out about it? Or speak out for the hundreds of clerks killed? These people rob each other kill each other steal from our stores and now they want to unite. These people jobless living off our taxes getting food stamps and there selling weed and taking Detroit to the ground. We donate help and bring jobs to their communities. When the video comes out the black community will make an ass out of themselves

Nasser on March 17, 2012 at 12:39 am

I love how white people try to team up with blacks that just makes me laugh.
Definition of Takiya…. ?????? (al-taqíyya) — dissimulation or concealing of one’s beliefs, opinions, or religion in time of duress or threat of physical or mental injury (a dispensation that allows a Shiite to conceal his faith under threat or persecution)
It isn’t an Islamic word it’s a word from a shiit man. Takiya really means is fear of no one but who created u.

Nasser on March 17, 2012 at 12:56 am

This has to be the dumbest article ive read in a while. Thanks for pointing out Kalvin has five children with oh my god only one mother as if he deserves a fucking trophy. I’m assuming you happen to be that mother. In all your time writing about hatred from Arab against black people in gas station I find it very hard to believe that someone never informed you that blacks cause the majority of theft and destruction of property.

Vivec on September 12, 2012 at 1:27 pm

As a Yemeni born and raised in California. I agree that arab store clerks and business owners are awful to deal with, I myself avoid shopping at any arab owned business, doesnt matter if its muslim or christian you get the same attitude.

I look hispanic and get attitude from alot of these assholes for no reason. I advise all my friends and family to avoid these places like the plague, so I absolutely support the boycott. You should never spend money at any establishment that doesnt treat you right.

But, I think the real reason why there are so many incidences between the clerks and there black customers is there own respective attitudes. I have noticed many similarities between young black and arab males: a culture of machismo where petty disputes turn deadly, loud consistant arguing when trying to get a point across, both groups do not value education and hate books, there awful treatment of women, I could go on and on.

I might add if we are going to talk about violence, we should also discuss how the store clerks are also regular targets of black males and I know of many who have been murdered at the hands of black males

sami on October 27, 2012 at 4:35 pm

any problems can be generalized into saying a race or religion are like that. but its only the ignorant and hateful that do that. its much easier to be negative towards those different and its sad to see so many take to it. the individuals in a situation are responsible for their own actions it is not based on the labels they have. I bet anyone of you negatively commenting about this wouldn’t last a day working in detroit. this article is a result of pure racism about one group being racist. all of you are hyprocrites.

Sara on November 13, 2012 at 7:02 am

There is a political propaganda trying to turn Black poeple against arabs. I am Arab and I love my Black brothers. Because we are from the same continent, and we both suffered from colonisation.
They are trying to make black poeple forget that all north african arab countries have black citizens living in piece with all the other ethnies of each country. Sudan is an arab country and black at the same time. They divided it to take control of its resources.
So why turn blacks against arabs? Because even with the active lobbyism of Israel in Western countries, only 9 countries voted against a palestinian observing member at the united nations. They want to turn blacks against arabs. They hope to make them part of the same crimes that they did with black poeple dduring colonialism. Separating families by artificial borders. They want african countries to vote against the legitim rights of palestine that is suffering now from the same aggressions colonizers did to all africans not only black.

Karim Zaroual on December 26, 2012 at 7:19 pm

Bullsh*t that’s a goddamn lie. Them damn arabs wasn’t lookin at his damn daughter.

bulllllllll on January 1, 2013 at 11:13 pm

The other day, i was pumping gas at a shell station. A african-american man approached me and asked for some spare change. I saw the arab clerk come out of the store and start yelling at him to leave. I said here have a cigarette and all of a sudden the clerk comes over and takes the cigarette out of my mouth and starts yelling at me. Now at this point i want to punch him in the face, but i said ok now i see whats going on, im a bad guy because i was nice to the poor guy. Now im boycotting arab businesses and i suggest every other american do the same. They are using our hard earned money to fund terrorism! Remember 9/11??

freedom fighter on August 13, 2013 at 9:33 pm

You’re an idiot. The guy came in the story cursing and insulting the clerk as well as demanding the condoms at a lower price so he could afford it. When refused he destroyed the store, and the clerk got out to clean up his mess, and when the guy came back in screaming like an asshole ready to attack the clerk(he was also a 6’4 ex-convict)he was shot. You also neglect to mention all the times “black thugs” set up and killed Arab store owners, held clerks hostage for ransom money from the cash register, etc.

But none of that matters. What matters is your racism and bigotry. I don’t blame blacks for crimes committed by blacks, and I’m sure you don’t either, or at least you pretend not to. BUT you have NO PROBLEM AT ALL making Arabs and Muslims look bad because someone who is Arab/Muslim did something wrong (even though the story chosen in your example was manipulated with many parts left out to make your case look absolutely true).

Just admit it, Debbie. You’re just racist. You just hate Arabs. You’re just an egomaniac and you want to be right and have people agree with you. Behind that whole reuse and fancy education is just an angry child that wants her way but is also smart enough to get it most of the time.

Sal on October 2, 2013 at 4:26 pm

I’m Arab and I hate niggers more than anything. My only regret is that Allah created them in the first place.

I know a Pakistani girl who was raped by blacks. They called her osama and raghead. Blacks are evil and disgusting.

I’m joining law enforcement to put coons in prison. I suggest that other Arabs who are as mad as I am do the same.

And for all you Arabs on this article who are commenting about how niggers are our “brothers,” get some spine. Them blacks are nothing but a plague upon this world. You’re a disgrace to the Arab race if you believe that niggers are our comrades.

I repeat: We Arab supremacy believers need to join law enforcement to put the coons in prison.

ArabGod on March 15, 2014 at 1:15 am

This wasn’t racism against blacks lmao. The man that was killed was a gang member that harassed the employees and the owner for months! He knocked over shelves destroyed merchandise. What the clerk did should not
Be justified! BUT the clerk shot a warning bullet it just happened to rickershae and hit the man in the shoulder as crime scene investigators have proven. Blacks walk into gas stations everyday terrorize steal murder rob do whatever they can. It’s a jungle in detroit customers rob steal kidnap beat up shoot at owners and employees. A group of 5 20 year olds will walk in and harass a 50 year old employee wtf are you talking about. This is detroit these people will do whatever it takes to get their swisher their 1 dollar gas and steal a bag of chips. Some will take it further than that. This isn’t racism. this isn’t black on Arab. This is a dispute between two people

Mike on July 5, 2014 at 12:37 am

The author of this story is a racist. Since when do whites ever refer to blacks as equals? Since when do whites give a shit about blacks? Blacks are stuck in the system we call detroit cuz whites placed them there. It was an Arab that freed the blacks aka the prophet and it was the whites that enslaced them. This lady should lose her job for spreading false propaganda and God will judge her

Mike on July 5, 2014 at 12:40 am

LoL if Muslims hated black , how come Ghana ? Mali ? Tchad ? Niger ? Magagascar and many more African nations accepted Islam decade ago ?
So you guys know better ? LoooL
I m a black Muslim .i rather live in a Muslim country than be treated like an animal is Israel .. Goog how blacks are treated ion Israel which stand for isis ra el 3 Egyptians gods roots of masonry .

Slimbrown on October 11, 2014 at 8:39 pm

You people are ridiculous. How many of us do they have to kill before you say they’re racist against us? I can’t even go a month without hearing about a Muslim that got shot by, robbed, or beat up by black people (here in Detroit). They harass us 24/7 at our stores, steal from us, and that’s if they don’t end up robbing us at gun point. Quit trying to cover up the fact that it’s you guys who are actually racist.

Zach on November 13, 2014 at 4:36 am

He didn’t give his name because he doesn’t want to be targeted. Detroit police don’t do shit around in case you didn’t know. How can someone be an illegal immigrant from Yemen? That’s a few continents and several large oceans away. I stopped reading after that, you people are so full of it.

Zach on November 13, 2014 at 4:38 am

tourist visa, student visa, j-visa, smuggling, family visit visa–any number of ways to get in. All those Muslim workers at Muslim-owned establishments got an H1b visa to wash dishes, pump gas, lol.

Get a clue, Zach.

ksd on January 11, 2015 at 11:18 pm

Wow…..is all i have to say. So sad, that all this turmoil is taking place in AMERICA, of all places. A land that never was perfect but certainly representED something closer to equality than what many other places in the world are like.

I guess I will jus’ have to move to Canada, and the wide open spaces thereof, and spend the rest of my years hunting, fishing, trapping…..I would rather starve in the Rockies, under a starlit sky, than be contented to exist in the midst of a scrapping, mindless, dirty and hate-filled husk of what WAS my country not all that long ago.

I’m not even sure anything could have prevented this, since our Constitution provides for all peoples to dwell among us and prosper—-which means, moving here and having to ‘scrape to survive’, as our forebears did also.
There is no one group to blame, in all this—-that’s clear.

What is not clear is how to settle it in a way that affords just treatment to all parties involved. Our police are now stressed and pre-conditioned to snap, you can see it all around in the bigger areas now.

Yep…..Canada. Wide open space, clean air, a rough and honest living, w/ no guarantees and no soc services…..a gun for huntin varmints, and a knife for skinning ’em.
Life reduced to what it should be.

royce on August 7, 2016 at 8:21 am

N–gers we hate in all the Islam we use the Niggers for Slaves for the Islam still now … ALLAH MAKE ALL THE N–GERS FOR THE ISLAM SO N–GERS WILL BE SLAVES FOR ME AND I USE N–GERKIDS TO WIPE MY FEETS CLEAN ON THE N–GERS AFTER THE N–GERS LICK THE FEETS OF ME .

[This had to be edited and the dashes inserted. Clearly, Muslims, as I’ve noted for decades, love using the N-word to describe Blacks. DS

ArabWomanFatima on December 31, 2016 at 8:07 pm