A Taco Bell employee is unemployed after she was captured on video by a customer making anti-muslim remarks.
New York Daily News reports that Tarek Hamdan entered the drive-thru on Tuesday to pick up food after fasting all day for Ramadan. After being questioned to why he was buying so much food in the wee hours, and responding he was eating before dawn, the unidentified employee shared her unsolicited, hateful remarks in a now viral video.
Instead of losing his cool, Tarek recorded the exchange and attempts to educate her on his faith. He later posted the video to social media.
“I’m going to tell you right now, until you call me and change my mind, Muslim mother—–s can suck my d—,” the worker told Hamdan through the window. “Because they tore down my country, they killed thousands of my people, so you need to change my mind.”
“It’s not what you think and what you see in the news,” Hamdan said. “Those people, we don’t follow those people. Those people are monsters. Those people are disgusting. Those are the people that make the religion look bad.”
Taco Bell ultimately fired the employee and issued the following statement.
“We welcome everyone in our restaurants and do not tolerate this type of behavior. This is a franchise location and the team member involved no longer works for this franchisee. The franchisee has reached out to the customer to apologize.”
To see the full video of the hate speech, ignorant rant from the now terminated employee, flip the page.
