‘Fort Dix Six’ Father: My Pizzeria Is Ruined Since Son’s Arrest
wnbc.com
COOKSTOWN, N.J. — The father of one of the six men described as radical Islamists and charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business he’s nurtured for years is all but ruined since his son’s arrest.
Muslim Tatar, who has owned Super Mario’s Pizza for five years, says that his lunchtime crowd from nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix has largely disappeared, replaced by empty tables and nasty words from passing motorists.
“Now I am a target,” the 52-year-old Tatar told The New York Times for Saturday newspapers, adding that his business is “99 percent dead.”
Tatar’s son, 23-year-old Serdar Tatar, was arrested Monday along with five others.
Since authorities announced the arrests on Tuesday, Tatar’s father has had a cook and two waitresses quit out of fear they would be targeted, said Warren Cline, another cook at the pizzeria.
“Normally we’d be almost full. People liked this place, and Tatar is a very friendly owner,” Cline told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Saturday’s newspapers. “But people drive by, they give us the finger.”
Cline said delivery business is also hurting since the restaurant can no longer bring food to Fort Dix, about three miles away, or McGuire.
Federal authorities say there is no evidence that the elder Tatar knew of his son’s plot, and Muslim Tatar said their relationship had waned in recent years, as his son had fallen in with what he described as a bad crowd.
Muslim Tatar came to Cherry Hill from Turkey in 1992, working his way up from a dishwasher and saving enough to buy Super Mario’s five years ago. A few years ago, Tatar says his son, who went to high school with several of his alleged coconspirators, fell in with the wrong people and soon moved to Philadelphia.
“I have no idea of this problem,” Tatar said of his son’s role in the alleged plot. “I’m shocked. I’m very shocked.”
After receiving death threats, Tatar decided he had to take some sort of action to protect his business. Outside the restaurant, he hung a sign reading: “Under New Management.”
Wild Thing’s comment…….
Good grief, I am so sick of people like this. Who can blame the soldiers and their families for not wanting to eat there! If his business is in the toilet because his son is a terrorist, I don’t have any sympathies.
Go back to your Muslim country you jerk. If you don’t get it, even if it is your son, then you don’t belong here.
What if his son was one of the terrorists that was involved with 9-11, my guess is he would be complaining about getting the finger then too.
So, he is a liar too!
After receiving death threats, Tatar decided he had to take some sort of action to protect his business. Outside the restaurant, he hung a sign reading:”Under New Management.” Is he or is he just saying that like the way Muslims are taught to lie.
Now I am a target,” the 52-year-old Tatar told The New York Times for Saturday newspapers, adding that his business is “99 percent dead.” ……….I’ll take that over our soldiers at Ft. Dix being 100% dead.
There is specific doctrine in the Koran that calls for lying to deceive “non-believers” in order to continue the Jihad. I don’t believe a thing this guy says. You know when your Son has gone crazy from religion. He chose not to do anything or try to stop it.
Loyalty is first and foremost to Islam, not to any Western host country whose shores these barbarians decide to darken. Islam is inassimilable and incompatible with the United States, period!
Boo Hoo! What does he expect?? Flowers?
So we have the Muslim family members of their jihadist family members playing the victims now? Welcome to JIHAD PIZZA TO GO Chrissie! And we liberated them from Slobo Milosevic’s Serbian death squads? The SOPRANOVICS??
PS: Like comedian Ron White say’s, “…They call me TATER!” At least Mr. Tater Head knows that he is a target ahead of time, because there’s hundreds of U.S. soldiers at Ft. Dix that didn’t know that they were… targets!
Oh boo hoo! His son’s an idiot and HE RUINED the business, so daddy dear needs to suck it up.
He’s the one who raised this child. Why is he surprised now?
Maybe he should rethink his religion.
Welcome to America. That’s what happens to the families of any person who commits or plots a heinous criminal act. Do you think the family of Tim McVeigh is held in high esteem? Quit your whinning and start condemning your son’s actions and the religion which sanctioned his actions.
SO CRY ME A FRIGGEN RIVER!!!
I am so surprised at how little I care. Not really.
Darth, good name for them, “SOPRANOVICS”.
Darth, exactly there is a big difference.
Lynn I agree, he should do that.
Bob, ditto, your right. Families pay a price too, that is just how it is.
Tincan Sailor, hahaha good song and comment. haha
razOr, I know, haha he think the rest of us will feel sorry for him…..NOT.
Wait…”Muslim Tartare?” is that halal?
CAN I HAVE A LARGE PORK PIZZA TO GO