Council officials in Greater Manchester told Beverley Akcicek, 49, the smells were "unacceptable," in her cafe where she and her Muslim husband serve bacon. The fan emits the smell of frying bacon, and it offends some Muslims who have complained.
Beverley runs the Snack Shack takeaway with her Turkish Muslim husband Cetin who is 50-years-old, according to The Sun.Â
The smell doesn't offend everyone, and some like it, but because it offends some Muslims this small business owner must either stop serving bacon or install a new fan that doesn't offend Muslim noses.
While this may sound a bit funny, it's no laughing matter to the owners of this small cafe. It is a problem, because no one would want to smell bacon if it makes them sick, but maybe they need to move, and not the business which has been there with its fan for years. The problem is bacon smells, but to force a business to stop cooking it is ridiculous.
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geez....
I like the smell of bacon.The whole city should all have it for breakfast and see how those that this offends likes it then...
I'd take anything they say with a pinch of salt.
Did I ever tell you about the missionaries in AZ who tried to convert me? Real gung ho 19 year old "men" (or so they thought they were), their first time out, and they were going to get a conversion that night if it killed them, and believe me, I thought of it (not the conversion, the other thing! LOL).
When the two virgins tried to tell me how to be a good wife, I drew the line. I also poured myself a big cup of coffee, downed it, and then downed a tumbler full of vodka. LOL
The female missionaries that were around before were very nice, and we became friends, the next set of male missionaries that came out were nice too, and the missionaries we met in Guelph were also very nice, but the two guys I mentioned above should have been recalled. LOL I finally ended the conversation by asking why a sexual position was named after people who were most commonly virgins when they went out to do their work. Between that, and the cut of coffee I had in my hand, they dind't bug me anymore. :)
I take no issue with Mormons in general, heck I MARRIED one, just the radicals, in the same way as I take issue with the bacon-banning Muslims, and other radicals, but not the whole religion in general. If a radical crosses me, I WILL get even!!!
On the original topic of bacon, I wished I'd had a pack of bacon on me one day, walking through downtown Guelph.
There was a middle-eastern man standing at the crosswalk, but he had his back to the road. He must have been looking for someone. I'm legally blind, and I am usually in a hurry to get off the curb and cross before the light changes, because I can't move that fast. The second that walk-light comes on, I want to be off of that curb.
I politely asked the man to excuse me. Well, I'll be damned if he didn't start SCREAMING at me, and demanding how dare I speak to him, and ask him questions. I looked him straight in the eye, and told him that in my country people don't talk to people that way. If I'd had a pack of bacon on me, I'd have thrown it at him!!
My Iranian friend Farah rubs a little variety store, where she sells sandwiches. Her Halal Chicken sandwiches sit next to her ham sabdwhiches, all of which are delicious. They're wrapped in seran rap, but they still sit side by side in her fridge. She also sells Danish butter cookies. When Iranians were calling Danish pasteries Rose Of Mohamad pasteries she was putting her tins of Danish butter cookies in the window. Come to Canada, and I'll buy you lunch at her store, and coffee at Second Cup.
New York and Philadelphia have more Jews in them than Israel has, and their religion also forbids eating pork, but you never see them imposing on their neighbors or whining because they can smell bacon from the neighborhood diner. Obviously Jews are good neighbors whereas Muslims are definitely not!
If I lived in Manchester, I'd make a point of eating there every day and ordering double bacon with absolutely everything. Then I'd go home and fry bacon by the pound, my kitchen window open and a fan deliberately blowing the lovely fragrance all over the neighborhood. Nobody has s right to impose their own belief system on others the way the damn Muslims want to.
And nobody gets sick from the smell of bacon. That's definitely all in their narrow-minded heads! Again, you never hear Jews whining like that or claiming that the smell of Taylor pork roll and cheeseburgers makes them sick. Just note the difference between two communities! I hope the people of Manchester stand up to those moronic Muslims!
It would appear only ONE family has complained. This strikes me as political correctness run amok.
As I've said, foreigners should take EVERYTHING written in a rag like The Sun with a HUGE pinch of salt! They are not known as the gutter press for nothing.
I don't feel we need to!
I rest my case regarding The Sun newspaper and its lack of honesty.
I was wondering. I've heard a little bit about the British tabloids. :) In a way I wish the US press had more stuff like that. Most of our papers are kind of stuffy about facts. Now that my local market has moved the "Enquirer," "Star," et al. to a place where you can't look at the covers while you're waiting to check out I have to depend on Gather for scurrilous nonsense.
I find this no more offensive than the Christians who throw a fit about saying Merry Christmas or having their religious symbols on public land.
Actually that is not true. They replaced the fan recently but didnt bother to get the permit the local government required.
I think there is more to this story not that I would expect any of you with the exception of Ishbel to bother to find the truth.
Oh and as far as I can tell this wasnt "Muslims" it was one family that complained.
My neighbors sniffed approvingly at the smell of fruitcake-baking from my apartment--and accepted samples from the oven, and I sniffed approvingly at the smell of latkes frying and enjoyed their samples!
The Sun is a scummy, red-topped newspaper - lying is their usual form of reporting.
sharon james
The Sun really likes to stir up trouble, where none is real.
Why won't people read the comments above so they can see that the original article, as published in The Sun is a loada crap?
The idea that anyone would post info from The Sun is just preposterous. It's almost THE worst 'newspaper' in the UK.
You might be interested to do a websearch with Liverpool Football Club?+ The Sun newspaper, to give you a flavour of why I am so appalled at this article.
I did. Fascinating stuff. That Kelvin MacKenzie is something else.
those people should grow up and move to another spot if the smell bothers them
According to a reporter on the Sunday Times who spoke to the relevant department in the local town hall, it wasn't a Muslim family that complained (in this instance) it was a WHITE, ANGLO SAXON BRITISH FAMILY.
Many posters on here, including you, have immediately jumped on the anti-muslim bandwagon, based on the words of a Sun so-called reporter.
As for the Sun.......I have no idea about their relaibility. ethics, etc. I simply commened about an article after I had gone to the original publication, in this case, The Sun, and reacted to the story as published.
Figures.
I'm a white lady, abd could raise the same argument, if I chose. That wouldn't make it right. The point is that extremeists should not try and take our rights away to suit their beliefs.
Another point is that peopke if other religions should not kowtow to extremeists of other religions by taking rights away from their own, in your example, white kowtowing to radical Muslim.
I don't care what the religion, it has no right to force itsself upon those not if that belief.
Lots of Londoners take exception to all the Eastern Europeans in their city. If they are here legally, I don't give a damn what they do - so long as they don't expect me to eat pickled cabbage or borscht.
I used to live in Wenatchee, WA where they have orchards for apples, pears, peaches, etc. for over a century. During the 90's builders built homes next to the orchards and occasionally, since the direction of the wind is not a certain science, overspray would drift over the new homes. Some of the homeowners complained and eventually there were "right to farm" laws passed saying that since the orchards were there when the homes were purchased, and that people who bought the houses should know about the spray that the owners could pound sand. The same thing should be done in this case.