A YouTube video that has gone viral shows an actor/comedian going to three Dearborn-based Muslim-owned bakeries, which supposedly refuse to make him a custom-made gay wedding cake.
Natasha Dado of the Arab American News reports that the people in the video (see below) claim they were falsely portrayed as refusing to make the gay wedding cake.
The video, entitled "Hidden CAM: Gay Wedding Cakes at Muslim Bakeries?" was made by comedian, actor and former Fox News contributor Steven Crowder, the Arab American News reports. The video has gotten over 2.6 million views.
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The video shows Crowder visiting three Muslim-owned bakeries and claiming that all three refused to take the order for a gay couple's wedding cake.
The Arab American News notes that the video was posted after Indiana's "Religious Freedom" bill was approved on March 26.
Crowder says the point of the video was to show while so many have attacked the conservative Christians, no one has really focused on the discrimination against gays by Muslims.
The Arab American News reports:
In the video Crowder is shown at Golden Bakery on Warren Avenue asking for a wedding cake for a same sex couple.
A Golden Bakery employee said he told Crowder to go across the street to Hallab Bakery for the order, because Golden Bakery does not make wedding cakes.
The employee, who did not want to be identified, said Crowder misrepresented him and others in the video.
“I kept explaining why we don’t make wedding cakes here, but he didn’t show that part in the video,” the employee said. “I am only upset because what he did is not right. He is accusing us of something we never did.”
Employees at Hallab Bakery told The Arab American News the employee from the bakery who was featured in the video does not know English, so he didn't understand what Crowder was asking.
-- Allan Lengel
