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Hammad El-Ameen grew up Christian, seeing depictions of a white Jesus. A child in segregation-era Dalton, he watched his father retrieve food in the back of restaurants and remembers himself entering the movie theater through a side door.
According to Chattanooga Police, since April of 2023 there has been 31 service calls at Shady's Corner and 14 incidents leading to police reports.
A conflict between zoning regulations and rules of a city board has resulted in a bar next door to a house of worship being allowed to sell beer.
The Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board reversed its April 6 unanimous decision to deny a beer permit for Shady's Corner at Thursday's meeting, clearing the way for beer sales at the bar and restaurant next door to the Islamic Center on Cemetery Avenue.
The nibbling began at 8:07 p.m. The robed muezzin sang the call to prayer on stage, and seated along tables before him, dozens of Muslims with plates full of snacks began, in the tradition of their prophet Muhammad, to eat dates.