A theme park in New York made Muslims who were celebrating the end of Ramadan very unhappy when they were told they had to remove their head scarves for certain rides. It’s a safety policy and would apply to anyone wearing something on their heads. Makes sense, right? Well, apparently not to a few Muslim men and women.

DAILY MAIL – The incident started at around 2pm when the theme park was crowded with around 6,000 visitors. Roughly 3,000 were in a Muslim tour group celebrating a holiday at the end of Ramadan.

Trouble reportedly flared when women wearing Muslim hijab scarves tried to get on rides banning any head coverings.

The women were refused entry and offered refunds – but then male and female visitors started to argue among themselves, Westchester County officials said.

That apparently led to park guards stepping in, sparking the huge brawl. The park entrance was closed for two hours as the fighting escalated.

Some of the Muslims are blaming police for instigating the brawl and excessive brutality. My initial reaction was one of disbelief and was only confirmed when I read this:

Ola Salem, 17, of Brooklyn, New York, was wearing a headscarf and said she was denied entry onto a ride with her eight-year-old sister.

‘They said no because my of my “headgear”,’ she told the New York Times. ‘I said: “It’s not my headgear, it’s my religion“.’

She’s not the only one to say something like this. Dena Meawad said “It’s clear, this all happened because we’re Muslim.”

People like this are typically looking for a reason to start trouble. They want to be a victim so bad that when they are told they can’t ride unless they remove their hijabs, they claim offense in the name of their religion and won’t listen to reason.

So I have no doubt that the police acted professionally and short of any actual evidence to the contrary, I’m certainly not taking the word of people like this.

Here’s the video:

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UPDATE: I changed the title to more accurately depict what happened.




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14 comments
Steve
Steve

I thought Islam was the religion of peace? why couldnt they take a hint from Gandhi and just stage a peaceful protest by sitting down or something?

take off your headscarf.. hell no.. lets fight..

J. Rauch
J. Rauch

Thanks. What a compliment! There are so many good posts to read. That said, this subject burns me up like nothing else: I can't stand being asked to pretend Islam is a faith like any other. It's not. It is an ugly, cruel, backwards faith that destroys societies. It's a nightmare, firstly for Muslims, and secondly for the rest of us. People are people, it's often said, and that's true... on a DNA level. While I'm happily agnostic, I always think that if the devil exists, he surely whispered in the ears of two men: Karl Marx and the so-called prophet Mohamed.

Winston
Winston

go back to where you came from....

jay
jay

i'm not sure if there's anything wrong with my hearing but all i heard is 'hala mala hala hila hela la la la rascist, discrimination, disenfranchisement, kkk, bush & tea party bad.'

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

There are members of a sect here referred to as "Submitters" who reject the Hadith and Sunnah as they see them as a corruption of the faith. They aren't real popular with mainstream Muslims.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Fine- next time let them wear the hijabs, and they will know what it's like to be beheaded when the scarf gets caught.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

What I find ironic in all this is that Muslim custom forbids single males and females from mingling unless it is an approved and chaperoned meeting. Yet all these young girls apparently observing custom and law by wearing the hijab and the traditional black robes seem to have an awful lot of young men milling about with them. From what I understand of Islamic customs and Sharia law it's not a "pick and choose" lifestyle, it is either in or out. Which leads me to believe that this is nothing more than an attempt to cause trouble.

Barbara
Barbara

These people and their stupid hijabs. look, if I go to anywhere in the mid east I am not allowed a choice, I MUST wear that stupid ass get up. So here they are, complaining and fighting w/others and amongst themselves about wearing something that could easily choke them, de-capitate (ironic) or kill others. And yet they are going to blame others for it rather than their own ignorance and inability to hear reason. Why is anyone suprised? These people come from the f@#$-ing dark ages, and really should stay where they originated from. WE have enough stupidity in this country w/o adding Muslim B.S. to it. Go home if you cant follow the rules.

Barbara
Barbara

These people and their stupid hijabs. look, if I go to anywhere in the mid east I am not allowed a choice, I MUST wear that stupid ass get up. So here they are, complaining and fighting w/others and amongst themselves about wearing something that could easily choke them, de-capitate (ironic) or kill others. And yet they are going to blame others for it rather than their own ignorance and inability to hear reason. Why is anyone suprised? These people come from the f@#$-ing dark ages, and really should stay where they originated from. WE have enough stupidity in this country w/o adding Muslim B.S. to it. Go home if you cant follow the rules.

PunditPawn
PunditPawn

That's kind of a Muslim version of a Satan sandwich.

J. Rauch
J. Rauch

What a disgusting bunch. All this crap with the hateful teachings in their holy books we're supposed to ignore, the taqiyya we're supposed to ignore, their hostility to the norms of US culture we're supposed to ignore -- every revolting things about these revolting people we're supposed to ignore. Calling us racists and bigots and crying victim to bully normal societies into following the vile, idiotic, cruel dictates of their religion and related cultures.

These Muslims should go live in countries where they can riot all they want, burn down Christians' and Hindus' and Sikhs' houses after Friday prayers (they already got rid of all but a smattering of the Jews, needless to say) and dance around the flames, hang gay people and pass out sweets, force infidels to convert to Islam by raping their toddlers, and stone adulterers to death to their hearts' content -- i.e., the nations that make up the lovely so-called "Muslim world".

Go home, you barbarians. Oh--and as a gesture of how far superior Islam is to every other religion or culture on earth, put your money where your mouth is: do not use *any* technological or medical advances created by infidels; live pure, huh? Live without measles, mumps, whooping cough, and polio vaccines; forego computers, MRIs, penicillin, electron microscopes, all the comforts and blessings bestowed upon the world by the evil infidels, 'kay?

Excuse me, but I think there's a pack of Rolaids around here somewhere.

Mimi Mayes
Mimi Mayes

No wonder the 9/11 hijackers went to strip clubs and ordered porn -- whew!! That woman looks like the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood when he put on Grandma's scarf!

Mary
Mary

Common sense should tell them that long scarves (hijabs, if they will) and cogs and gears do not mix. But since their religion seems to override their common sense, they should stay home.