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Friday, August 3, 2012

Muslim Hotel Owner: 'Get the Jews out of my pool'

Muslim hotel owner:  'No Jews in the pool.'


Some business owners never heard of equality under the law.
  • Where is Obama's Department of Justice and Civil Rights laws????

An upscale hotel on a Santa Monica, California, beach is an odd place to be singled out from a crowd and removed because you are Jewish, but that’s what happened to 18 young professionals who are telling their story to a jury in a discrimination trial taking place in Santa Monica Superior Court this week.

Ari Ryan is the grandson of a Ukrainian Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis. Ryan’s grandfather moved to Israel in 1942 and served as a captain in the Israel Defense Forces reports the Jewish Press.

Seventy years later Ryan says he got a small taste of what his grandfather lived through, but rather than in the forests of the Ukraine, it took place at an upscale hotel in Santa Monica. Ryan and more than a dozen others have brought a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic discrimination against them by a multi-millionaire Muslim American hotel owner.
Muslim hotel owner opens in a Jewish
neighborhood and then wants Jews
out of his pool. 

Two years ago Ryan and other twenty- and thirty-something Jews planned to raise money to send children of fallen IDF soldiers to camp with a charity event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.

On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.

But the event was aborted after, according to one employee’s sworn testimony, the hotel’s owner told staff members, “Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool.” Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.

Ryan said, “Anyone wearing a blue wristband,” which identified them as being with the Friends of the IDF, “was asked to get out of the swimming pool and the hot tub.” In fact, no one who was identifiable as Jewish was so much as “allowed to dip their feet in the water.”

Tehmina (Tamie) Adaya, a Pakistani-American Muslim, is the owner of the Shangri-La. Her father, Ahmad Adaya, was a founding partner of the California real estate company IDS Real Estate Group. He also was a founder and benefactor of the New Horizon School for Muslim religious education in Southern California.


Thanks to The Libertarian Republican  for a heads up on this article.


Taking us back to the bad old days.

4 comments:

Gary said...

I read tons of news but somehow this story was kept out of all of the so-called "major" media. Funny how that happens isn't it?

christine said...

It's unfair to choose who could use your facilities. Especially if your hotel is open to all tourists.

Redspect said...

"If you haven't any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble" to cure it help people, let's unite for one good cause, be a volunteer"save lives"! mawaddainternationalaid

Unknown said...

One of the most incredible and outrageous incidents , the inferiority felt by the owner must have been so strong to make an outburst in the way that she did - and whilst the Hotel itself is so beautiful - the most important ingredient aspect of the ethos of Hospitality is tainted with bigotry and racism.The US is truly forgiving , to allow a person to pay the punitive damages that she had to the Jewish plaintiffs - but Also to give this lady the opportunity to redeem herself .
Whether she has or not only she knows what’s in her heart - one thing is for sure, the self promotion and re invention is all well and good . She owes the great welcoming heart of the USA, as well as the glorious Jewish people whom she insulted at her hotel. Hopefully she realises in her advanced years that the USA and the Jewish people stand as one . That’s the lesson she had to learn . Good luck to her .