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Somebody took the time to move a halal restaurant's trash to its roof in East Boston - and a prayer rug
By adamg on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 1:04pm
Yahya Noor, owner of Tawakal Halal Cafe, 389 Maverick St. in East Boston's Jeffreys Point neighborhood, reports that sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, when the restaurant closed up, and Monday morning, somebody emptied its three trash bins and hefted all the trash to the roof - and then left a prayer rug next to the trash.
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Makes sense they'd be
Makes sense they'd be interested in moving around a bunch of trash, being a garbage person themselves.
Yahya
Mr Noor is a he.
I have not been to Tawakal, but people whose opinions I trust say uniformly that the food is delicious.
Yes
Yahya is a male name
(my former intern's name was Yahya)
Yahya is just Arabic for John
Yahya is just Arabic for John.
Fixed
Thanks.
This is horrible to hear. He
This is horrible to hear. He is a friend and a neighbor of mine and does more for the communities of Chelsea and East Boston than you could ever imagine. It is a lovely little restaurant and I encourage people to stop by and pick up lunch, dinner or even some of his custom bottled hot sauce to show him support.
This is confusing to hear.
This is confusing to hear. Does putting someone's trash bags on their roof mean something? or is it just random mischief?
i assume anti-muslim hate crime
like the business is trash and the prayer mat is placed where the trash would go.
Cultural literacy
It can be a good thing.
Perhaps you should learn more about Islam before playing the "I'm just asking a question" game.
It doesn't really require any
It doesn't really require any special cultural literacy at all to arrive at the assumption that putting trash on someone's roof is probably not a friendly gesture..........
The fact that the trash bags
The fact that the trash bags are perfectly intact makes me wonder if this was a weird prank (like students putting random crap atop buildings with domed roof) as opposed to a hate crime. If it was a cheese pizza on a roof, I'd get that reference. But still, I don't get trash bags.
I admit I don't know much about Islam, but since trash bags didn't exist 1500 years ago I don't expect there's a canonical reference to it.
It may just be a prank, but
It may just be a prank, but if I threw a cross and a bunch of trash bags onto a Christian business in predominantly Muslim country, it would probably be interpreted as being religiously related.
Obviously, it might not be. However, there's not really any reason to believe it's "just a prank" either. I don't know exactly why placing garbage bags and a prayer rug is the kind of thing you would do to offend a Muslim, but I'm not the sort of person that would want to do that in the first place. Generally, trash on a rough isn't a friendly gesture.
I don't know for sure that this is a religiously motivated act, but putting a prayer rug and trash on the roof of a Muslim owned building doesn't really seem like parking a car on the MIT dome (or whichever random thing it might be). If I'm being honest, it seems like far more of a stretch to see that relationship than to see it as an attack on the person's religion. Of course, both could be wrong, but it seems like a more reasonable assumption to think this was meant to be rude (and in particular relating to religion), and not a friendly prank.
Duh. Putting trash bags next
Duh. Putting trash bags next to a prayer rug is intently trying to make a statement. That’s some premeditated shit
I think the prayer rug makes
I think the prayer rug makes it more personal and religious.
Either way it's still not a friendly neighborly thing to do. Supporting him and his business is something that I would suggest even if this had not happened. He pays into the community tremendously.
Owners of this place are
Owners of this place are absolute beauties. This is pretty enraging.