Durre Sharif, left, holds her 3-year-old son, Zain, at their home in Newberry Township. Sharif, originally from London, said York County has been very welcoming to her family overall, and the ‘Death to Islam’ sign at a West York bar represents the sentiment of a small minority.  The Muslim Times’ growing collection to diffuse Islamophobia

Source: Ydr.com

By Brett Sholtis; bsholtis@ydr.com @BrettSholtis on Twitter

When she’s not busy working as a marketing and communications consultant, Rabiya Khan likes to take photos, kayak on Lake Redman and organize family parties.

The 38-year-old York woman was born in London, went to high school in Lancaster and moved to York in 2006 to be closer to her parents. She has two sisters, a 12-year-old son and two cats.

She’s also Muslim, and she wonders why bar owner Jeff Seitz wants her dead.

“When you’re calling for death of a religion — how would you kill Islam?” Khan said. “You would kill all the Muslims. You can’t kill a religion; you kill the followers of a religion.”

Seitz’s West York bar, The Other Place, has had ‘Death to Islam’ signs posted inside since shortly after 9/11. About a year ago, he posted another sign with the same message in his bar’s window, visible from the street.

“I just put a sign up of how I feel and almost all of my customers feel,” Seitz said. “No one ever complained about it.”

Though the signs are hardly new, they’ve been getting a lot of attention recently since an anonymous Facebook user began telling people about them.

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