‘Cowards’ attack owner of Salah’s in Bradford over Palestine

Salah’s in Bradford targeted by ‘brain dead’ Palestinian supporters

For these individuals and groups to start attacking these businesses is out of order and it’s not from Islam.

The owner of a burger joint in Bradford was left needing stitches after Palestinian supporters attacked him outside his takeaway, FtLion has learned.

Owner of the popular Salah’s on Leeds Road, Salahudin Yusuf, was assaulted by members of a group comprising of 40-50 people, a close friend of the owner has said.

Mirban, who has known Salahudin since he arrived to the UK from abroad, told FtLion how a group of angry protestors gathered outside the shop to demand he boycott Coca-Cola.

Draped in Palestinian flags, Mirban revealed how the mob “were saying on loud speaker last night [that] ‘they sell coke from underneath the counter and we’ve warned them multiple times'”.

Mirban added how members from the rowdy crowd were “threatening them to stop selling certain products, example coke” despite Salah’s having “removed [the product] two months ago”.

Believing them to be “predominantly a Muslim crowd” whom employees at Salah’s did not recognise, he described how these “cowards… sent some women [from the group] forward [and] who started shouting abuse”.

It was at this point that the “men came forward and carried out an attack” like “the cowards that they were”.

He said: “He was defending his business. They’ve approached on to his business and carried out the assault outside the shop,” during which the “owner was hurt and suffered stitches to his lip”.

Salah’s 2nd site vandalised with Israeli flag spray-painted outside

Mirban insisted that everyone involved with Salah’s, including Salahudin, were “with the rest of the world” in their condemnation of Israel’s attack on Palestine.

“We are for the Palestinian cause. Any attacks on innocent people we condemn. But we’re purely a business. For these individuals and groups to start attacking these businesses is out of order and it’s not from Islam.”

But according to Mirban, this is not the first time that the Salah’s brand has been targeted.

Their second site in Bradford’s Great Horton Road suffered vandalism after a “Jewish flag [was] spray painted on the business [premises]” about a month ago.

He said that it was “completely wrong from the opposition side saying that we support Israel and its cause. We are for the Palestinians – our brothers and sisters – we support them open heartedly. But we don’t need to show the world what we do and what we give.

“These individuals and this group targeting his business and him saying that he’s supporting Israel: they’re brain dead, they haven’t got a clue.”