Muslim man finds his Galveston restaurant smeared with bacon for second time

Rasa - Asad Khan, a business owner in Galveston, says he has received five threatening calls telling him to go back to his native Pakistan.

News ID: 425558

Date: 05 December 2016 - 23:40

RNA - Asad Khan, a business owner in Galveston, says he has received five threatening calls telling him to go back to his native Pakistan.

Still, he was surprised to find the door to his restaurant covered in bacon -- again.

"It shook me," Khan told the Houston Chronicle.

The vandalism happened last Sunday. Three days earlier, Khan had discovered bacon grease smeared on the front door handles of ZaZa Bar and Bites, which he reported to police, according to the Chronicle. Khan's Muslim faith forbids him from eating pork.

Khan said he will install cameras on the outside of his restaurant.

"I feel bad for whomever did this because they're carrying so much hate in them," he told the Chronicle.

Anti-Muslim sentiment has stirred some people into vandalizing mosques with bacon. In North Texas, an armed group known for staging protests outside of mosques was filmed earlier this year preparing for the Muslim uprising its members believe is coming.

"A lot of us here are using either pigs' blood or bacon grease on our bullets, packing it in the middle, so that when you shoot a Muslim, they go straight to hell," David Wright of the Bureau of Islamic-American Relations told an Al Jazeera reporter . "That's what they believe in their religion."

The name of Wright's organization, BAIR, is a riff on the national Muslim advocacy group CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that studies extremism, considers BAIR a hate group.

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