Media dropped the ball on this one

AGDee · #1 10-05-2007, 06:39 PM

I think the mayor of Dearborn worries a lot about the reputation of his city. They've been cited as having the highest middle eastern population outside of the middle east numerous times and with the whole La Shish owner situation, he does feel a need to do some damage control although I don't know if I'd call it a coverup. I wasn't sure if there earlier articles or not because I only did a search for "recent news" and I didn't search any of the local tv station web sites either.

I am surprised that this wasn't bigger news around here.

PM_Mama00 · #2 10-05-2007, 07:12 PM

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Yes, it would be nice to see what would come up. I only know of one al-qaida related cell, 8-12 people that were busted here in Detroit ( I think) in '02. Now for the shady dealings part, you may find more. Hezbollah is kind of a big deal in Detroit.

Maybe that's the one I'm thinking of, but I remember hearing about more. Not to mention people have been getting busted for sending money to support terrorism.

And La Shish? Why do people continue to go to that restaurant? I understand that people really like their food, but where is your money going?

PiKA2001 · #3 10-06-2007, 11:34 AM

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And La Shish? Why do people continue to go to that restaurant? I understand that people really like their food, but where is your money going?

I've never been a patron of La Shish, or La Terrorist as my friends and I call it. I really am surprised that the chain is still open and that there's still people that want to go there after getting busted like that.

PM_Mama00 · #4 10-06-2007, 11:42 AM

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I've never been a patron of La Shish, or La Terrorist as my friends and I call it. I really am surprised that the chain is still open and that there's still people that want to go there after getting busted like that.

Cuz they get what they want. The Muslim Student Association wanted footbaths put in the bathrooms and BOOM they get what they want. I wouldn't want MY tuition money going towards one set religion, especially since there has been "activity" in that club.

PiKA2001 · #5 10-07-2007, 02:09 AM

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Cuz they get what they want. The Muslim Student Association wanted footbaths put in the bathrooms and BOOM they get what they want. I wouldn't want MY tuition money going towards one set religion, especially since there has been "activity" in that club.

Whatever was the outcome of that? I've heard conflicting stories on where the money came from, " The footbaths were paid for from the omnibus fees, which every student pays"; "the footbaths were paid for by the state, etc...."

AGDee · #6 10-07-2007, 09:43 AM

I've also wondered how it stayed open. If you deal drugs out of your home or business, everything that you may have bought with the drug money is confiscated. But, apparently you can fund terrororism from your business, leave the country, and others can keep running your business. I presume their books are being audited very carefully?

PiKA2001 · #7 10-07-2007, 11:48 AM

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I've also wondered how it stayed open. If you deal drugs out of your home or business, everything that you may have bought with the drug money is confiscated. But, apparently you can fund terrororism from your business, leave the country, and others can keep running your business. I presume their books are being audited very carefully?

I've heard that most of the money they bring in now is going straight to the IRS to pay off back taxes, and the wife is crying that she didn't know about her husbands dealings and her restaurant shouldn't be closed because of him. But yeah, with all of the fake immigration docs they were passing out, loan sharking, bribing, drug running, it is odd the chain is still operating.

PM_Mama00 · #8 10-07-2007, 10:33 AM

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Whatever was the outcome of that? I've heard conflicting stories on where the money came from, " The footbaths were paid for from the omnibus fees, which every student pays"; "the footbaths were paid for by the state, etc...."

From what I've heard, it came out of the university's budget. And they most definitely got put in.

The most absurd excuse I heard about them was "Everyone can use them. Some people's feet get dirty when they're wearing sandals to class and they can now wash their feet". Bullshit. It's kinda like saying "Anyone can join the Muslim Student Association" but everytime I had walked by one of their meetings, they were speaking Arab. That'd make it a little hard for non-Arabs to join, wouldn't it?