Posted on 08/04/2016 10:56:31 PM PDT by KMG365
GARY, INDIANA — A woman who went to buy charcoal was discriminated against and kicked out of a Family Dollar store for wearing a niqab and hijab, according to a report from ABC 7.
Sarah Safi, 32, went to the store to buy some charcoal for a family barbecue, ABC 7 reports.
“I might have made it 10 steps into the store and I hear the lady behind the counter say, ‘Ma’am, you need to take that off your face or you need to leave my store,” Safi said.
She then began to record the exchange with the clerk on her cellphone. Safi told the clerk she wears the niqab and hijab for religious purposes. The clerk, who identified herself as the manager, still insisted that Safi leave.
“I understand, but you have to understand too this is a high crime area and we get robbed a lot. You need to remove that from your face or remove yourself from the store,” the clerk says in the video.
With her children waiting in the car, the clerk told Safi if she didn’t leave the premises she would call the police.
On her way out, the employee was kind enough to say, “have a blessed day.”
Kudos to the manager. The niqab and the jihad I mean hijab, are the antithesis of Americanism.
When in America, do as Americans do. Life will be much easier for all of us.
Isn't that a serious crime in places like Saudi Arabia?
And for good reason.
So what’s the story here.
He did the right thing.
Can’t have people without their faces showing in your store.
Makes it a LITTLE hard to identify if they rob from you.
“My doctor says I need to take a laxative!”
“Not in my store you don’t!”
Sounds like the manager was strictly not profiling, since no one with face covered would be allowed in the store.
Safi, the religious claimant, says that women come in all the time in bikini tops and nobody tells them to get out.
The Muslim woman says on the recording:
“This is a religious garment, ma’am.”
“This’s a kountree where its freedom of religion and its freedom of speech. I have a right to wear whatever I want to wear.”
There’s no indication whether this is the first time she’s been in this store, or not. The news outlet didn’t think that mattered so they didn’t ask her.
She then describes the agony of deciding whether to let the police come and have her children “see this”, or just leave the store and “go”. She decides to go, but is brought to tears over the injustice of being told to uncover her face, or leave the store.
I’d see you and raise you Dave in the tribal makeup, but it’s too much trouble on my phone. ;)
She’s American born, probably from Kentucky originally, based on the drawl she has.
Go into a bank with your face covered and see what happens next—won’t be pleasant. Go home, muzbag.
Here you go :o)
"Give me a bottle of anything and a glazed donut...to go!!!"
Not only drove herself to the store, but left all her kids sitting in the car!
I call that a good small start.
Needs to be repeated across the country every day.
Don’t let Hillary hear you saying that...she’ll tell you “that’s not who we are as a people”
"Pardon me, maam, but if you're interested, I know a place where you can buy a pistol to shoot the sorry a****** who's making you wear that thing....."
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