💕💕💕 WINS!👊🏾 Me and @strizzzyeverywhere got to speak to @ceo_mohamad.paramount this morning on @g987fm and heard the message of love in the face of hate, unity in the face of divisiveness and solidarity in the face of intimidation. . So in support of the re-opening of @soufis_to restaurant, their family and any Canadian facing hate, death threats and discrimination, we encourage you all to visit #Soufis like we did today and stand for #LoveOverHate Mohamad Fakih... May Allah accept your intentions combined with your actions and continue to bless you with the might of diligence and compassion 🤲🏿 You are a REAL ONE! .......... The head of a popular Middle Eastern food chain says he will step in to re-open and run a small Syrian restaurant in Toronto that shut down this week after its owners received multiple death threats. Paramount Fine Foods CEO Mohamad Fakih says Huam and Shahnaz Alsoufi’s restaurant, Soufi’s, will open its doors Friday morning with its entire regular staff recalled. "I wanted them to feel they’re not alone in this – I will stand beside them, we will all stand beside them," he said. Fakih, who recently won a libel suit against an Islamophobic Mississauga blogger, said the Alsoufi’s will continue to take in the profits from the restaurant, and he and some of his managers are stepping in just to give the family time to get back in the right place emotionally and ensure they can feel safe as they have “gone through a lot” in the past week. The business, opened by the Alsoufis when they arrived to Canada in 2015, came under fire last week after the son of the restaurant’s owners was involved in a protest outside a fundraiser in Hamilton for Maxime Bernier’s far-right People's Party of Canada (PPC). Videos of the incident, show protesters harassing an elderly woman outside Mohawk College, where the event was held on Sept. 29. One protester reportedly called the woman “Nazi scum” and stuck a foot in front of her walker to prevent her from entering the building. The restaurant’s owners later confirmed that their son, Alaa, was one of the protesters at the event but denied any verbal or physical assault #DontLetHateWin #canada (at Soufi's) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3fcVlaFED_9zRAzeK4xLShgA70c3Zsz-sA6sU0/?igshid=557haz4nkggf
