A Muslim woman in the American state of Indiana was asked to leave a grocery store for wearing a niqab.
Sarah Safi, 32, reported the incident as when she entered a Family Dollar store in Gary, Indiana and was almost immediately asked to leave. Safi ask the store’s manager, “You’re telling me I have to leave this store?”
The manager, named Jaime replied, “Yes ma’am if you can’t remove that from your face I need you to leave the store.” When Safi tried to reason with her, the manager threatened to “have police remove her.”
I’m the manager, and I’m telling you to leave my store, Safi reminded her that it was a free country which not only believed in but upheld the principle of religious freedom. However, the woman was unmoved.
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Safi later told that she was “really saddened” by the incident. “I was born here, raised here all my life and I’ve never been to an establishment and been treated like this,” she said. “I would like to sit with her and speak to her about what I believe in, because maybe if she heard and really listened to what I believe it I would open her heart”
