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'Happy September 11th' Drawing Found On Muslim Man's Takeout Box On 9/11 Anniversary (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post First Posted: 09/14/11 05:03 PM ET Updated: 11/14/11 05:12 AM ET

A Muslim Texas man complained to a local restaurant after he allegedly found a "Happy September 11th" drawing inscribed on his takeout box.

Tarek Ghalayani had gone to Petrol Station restaurant to watch a football game with a friend, ABC 13 reports. He ordered a burger to-go, and subsequently found the crude message accompanied with a drawing of a plane flying into the World Trade Center.

Petrol Station owner Ben Fullelove fired the bartender thought to be involved after the incident occurred, according to Houston's ABC 13.

"I just don't understand how somebody could think that's a joke. I mean, it's not a joke. It's not how I run my business," Fullelove told San Antonio's KENS 5 News.

After leaving the restaurant, the patron recounted the incident on restaurant review site, Yelp.com, writing that the bartender called the two men foul names and continued mocking them as they walked out of the establishment, the New York Daily News points out.

Ghalayani said he was working near the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was highly insulted by the doodle as a Muslim, but first and foremost, as an American.

Ghalayani updated his post the next day, adding that he and Fullelove had spoken more about the incident and the owner sounded sincere in his apology. He wrote: "I am looking forward to putting this to rest - I suppose only time will tell if the changes stick. I'm hopeful they will."

To hear more from the victim and restaurant owner, view ABC 13's report below.

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10:21 PM on 09/16/2011
I bet that bartender was a teapublican... only they have tendency to do anything this heinous.
09:54 PM on 09/16/2011
This is what happens when you let Christians act like it was an attack on "them" and not all of us.
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Nutcase
From Nashville, Tennistan.
12:35 PM on 09/17/2011
You nailed it.
05:55 PM on 09/15/2011
The Bartender was way off, but its time to question the legality of Muslim citizenship in light of revelations that Islamic Ideology is fundamentally opposed to Constitutional American ideals. Orthodox Muslims are not integrating, they are building enclaves, antithetic to our culture, demanding we change our laws to accommodate them. So called "moderate" muslims practice deceptive propaganda to hide the agenda core followers of Islamic extremism wish to impose here. The reality enlightened academic scholarship is exposing globally is that "Islam is a cult, not a true religion." Mohammed, by his own admissions was neither divine nor a prophet and admitted being demonically possessed. Allah is the pagan Arabic moon god represented by a black rock and not the God of Judeo Christian faith's represented by thousands of years of scriptural prophecy. The Islamic interpretation of God is a twisted, mysoginist version that Mohammed created to justify, contrary to Judeo Christian Ideology, conversion by force, enslavement and barbaric practices to achieve totalitarian political power. The Islamic empire is founded upon the lie they accuse all other faiths of practicing but of which they are totally guilty: That, all interpretations of God other than Islam are false, satanic and must be destroyed to purify the world and make it acceptable to Muslims. Doesn't this sound a bit like the asylum patient claiming everyone else is insane but me? This is the gospel of Islam that politically correct idiots fail to perceive, or fear to suggest, and will pay for ignoring.
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Debbie338
What we manifest is before us
06:21 PM on 09/15/2011
Isn't fundamentalist Christian ideology opposed to Constitutional American ideals? Isn't that why the Dominionists are trying to make America a theocracy?
07:48 PM on 09/17/2011
Michael Lawrence, Editor Founder
ISGI Institute for the Study of Global Ideologies
(I'll answere your response with a segment of a response to a guest on Bill O'Reilly)

If I just dropped in from anther world and listened to your exchange with Ms Aereu (sp) I would assume that Christians were a minority in the US. Your failure of competent questioning puts the stigma on Christians as if they were some fringe group. Last time I heard the national polling puts Christians at somewhere between 75 and 80 per cent of the population. Ms Aereu is one of the fringe fanatics who because of her type of hysterical agnosticism, exposes her fears and embarrassment of believing in God, Faith and Religion, as she tries to segregate it from our political system. And Last time I looked all of America's founding principals, laws and social order were and are founded upon Judeo Christian Ideology. She and those like her have completely misinterpreted the concept our founders had in mind when they advocated the separation of church and state. Since there was basically one religion at the time, what they intended was that no one particular denomination would be endorsed by the government and that its Laws and Politics would be founded upon a non-denominational interpretation of Judeo Christian principals and values, particularly the Ten Commandments. History provesThey were devoutly Religious men who unanimously believed in God with Whom they enthusiastically endorsed as the Source of our existence: publius huldah http
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taoistpunk
because the monks wouldn't have me..
11:11 AM on 09/17/2011
i'd like to say that the bigotry of the bartender is completely unacceptable, after all, it may make it easier to believe that my bigotry is in some way reasonable...
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BurtonDesque
Fear a Blank Planet
05:51 PM on 09/15/2011
Oh, joy! Another HP article seemingly designed to bring out the religious cranks.
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BurtonDesque
Fear a Blank Planet
05:48 PM on 09/15/2011
Misters Fullelove and Ghalayani seem to have behaved as reasonable adults about the whole matter. Firing the bartender should have been the end of it. Does such a story really deserve national, or even local, media attention?
03:40 PM on 09/15/2011
Michael Lawrence, Editor Founder, (Theologian of 40 years)
ISGI Institute for the Study of Global Ideologies

The Bartender was completely out of order, however, keep in mind if you do the research you will learn from recent polling that 70 to 80 percent of the male Muslim population around the world, including America, subscribe to the extreme ideology taught from the Qur'an & Hadditha's (Sharia!). That includes the belief that the West is the Great Satan and must be destroyed and all infidels converted to Islam along with all other world faiths, by direct and indirect means, force or coercion. That provides the Islamic Cult with an army, albeit unorganized and partially armed, of approximately a quarter billion demonic 'believers in violent Jihad!' True students of the Qur'an know there is no reconciling Islam and Judeo Christian Ideology!
Here is a site that reveals the truth, by an author, who with the help of a committee of Arab scholars and translator's researched all 1500 known documents and books pertaining to Mohammed's Islam, systematically unraveling the hidden roots and sources of Islam's origins and development into a political totalitarian cult, disguised as a religion:
Prophet of Doom - Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words
You will also learn the truth from the noted scholars of these sites:
The Qur'an An Apologetic Paper /True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran / http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50218.htm /Islamist Infiltration - Larry Kelley - Townhall Conservative /The Sword & Shield to Stop the Islamization of America
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BurtonDesque
Fear a Blank Planet
05:49 PM on 09/15/2011
"Theologia­n of 40 years"

That tells us all we need to know about you. You've spent your life arguing over myths and superstitions.

Go preach your ignorance and bigotry somewhere else.
08:05 PM on 09/17/2011
You are obviously a well read and studious scholar with years of literary and lif'e experiences. Its unfortunate that you missed out on all of the important curriculum that deal with overcoming abject fear of the unkown with the concommittant infection of those terrible malaise of diaria of mouth and constipation of the brain.
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taoistpunk
because the monks wouldn't have me..
11:14 AM on 09/17/2011
demonic cultists?

compared to you, mikey, the bartender was a saint.
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see-ellen2001
11:21 AM on 09/15/2011
So by the logic (oh and I use the term oh so loosely) of these Hey No Problem Who Cares posters: I was bullied by an American kid (I am in Canada). So all Americans are bullies. When an American comes into my restaurant, I make them sit at the worst table, treat them like garbage, and spit in their food. But that's ok. Because all Americans are bullies. And, well, if they can't take a joke....who gives a sxxt. Btw I am in no way equating NYC with bullying...just a parallel use of their logic. Also, I like my neighbours to the south.
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09:46 AM on 09/15/2011
This a reply back to Mosksa Vo Mew. It show me me that youy do not know the U. Government. You called my bluff for working for thje US. Government in the intellegence Agency. I will give the name of the agency. I was a strong person who stood uo for employees right at that agency. I stood up against the high power for rights. Moska Vo Mew, you seem loike a person who ran from every problem you had. You ran from your original country. IU did run from Vietnam War as US. Combat Marine.. I was their fighting for people I do not know. I am still standing for right of people around the world. Not for democracy but for true rights for people.

AMajid
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09:35 AM on 09/15/2011
This a reply back to jnable. Education do not you make right , smart or with understanding.Education can be a racist understanding of the world. Education star wars for the wrong reasons. The United States has many educated leader, but they also are fools.Education is not peace. Many great peace leaders were the people who believe in truth, love, passion and the well being on Human beings. Also a reply to the lunch box. It show how peope in the US. are still living as radicalpeole all through the world. As a Vietnam Combat Veteran. I saw the radical racist of the United States as a black man during the 60's.

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garylinn
Disabled USAF Veteran (God bless America)
09:24 AM on 09/15/2011
Firing was the proper move by the manager...I would have fired him on the spot also...an uncalled for aggressive move by that employee
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hman570
06:00 AM on 09/15/2011
I don't see anything wrong with the drawing or the comment on the bag!! America has been makeing fun of itself for a very long time, why is it we have to be up in arms over such a prank?? Have we become so afraid of the Arabs that now we must bow down to them?? Not going to happen, they are freaks and killers, guess our politicians will make laws for force us to like them???
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09:12 AM on 09/15/2011
Excuse me? How is this display - something that only one person will see - anything remotely like "America making fun of itself"? Is a burning cross in a black family's yard "just a prank" and "America making fun of itself"? This is clearly an attempt to hit at someone who's brown with a different kind of name for supposedly being a terrorist, or sympathetic to murderous actions. Hopefully the person fired is the one responsible, but good on the owner for very quickly dealing with this kind of hate.
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hman570
07:06 PM on 09/17/2011
You have your opnion and the rest of America has theirs!!!!
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Bella Lee
09:13 AM on 09/15/2011
Bartenders using foul language at good Americans is not an example of America making fun of itself. Good that he was fired
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hman570
07:10 PM on 09/17/2011
I guess differant people have differant ways of looking at things? American is melting in front of your eyes and your are to blind to see it?? Good luck to you bella
05:56 AM on 09/15/2011
*In my Disney teen voice* "Join me to stomp out bullying." That's how I see this and some of the comments...juvenile. As adults we should know better as well as have the ability to separate the individual from the deeds perpetrated by another individual or groups within the same race or religion. Stay on task. What does prayer on this street or that street have to do with a racially/religiously charged piece of ignorance? What that bartender did was tacky and uncalled for. Who's going to hire him to serve their patrons with the knowledge of this incident? His next job will be dishwasher 'cause the boss will be hiding him like a mistake they made in college!!
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Human opinions....a fascinating study....
05:53 AM on 09/15/2011
So if a Japanese customer comes in is he going to get a picture of Pearl Harbor? If a German customer comes in is he going to get a picture of the nazi flag or Hitler? One cannot blame a "whole" people for the actions of a few. What if the bartender went to Japan and got a take out box with a picture of a mushroom cloud on it? Would he be offended?
05:46 AM on 09/15/2011
The bartender should have been a naked woman I wonder how true to his faith he would have been
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Bella Lee
09:15 AM on 09/15/2011
Getting fired is what should and did happen to the bartender
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taoistpunk
because the monks wouldn't have me..
11:26 AM on 09/17/2011
this is the stupidest comment i've seen in weeks.
tccat4
We all have a right to our opinion, like it or not
05:37 AM on 09/15/2011
I wonder if they put a pork rib or two in the meal box?
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08:35 AM on 09/15/2011
no, but you can be sure it came with special sauce