DEARBORN -- Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management about the situation was rejected.This particular gym has already tried to appease the Muslim population:
"The manager told me, 'You have to respect her (the patron), but she does not have to respect your God,'" said Wardeh Sultan of Dearborn. "I've had my membership for seven or eight years, and I've never had a problem with praying there.
"I told that manager, 'I can't believe you said that'" Sultan said. "Honestly, I feel humiliated and I feel ashamed, right now, to go back to Fitness USA."
The allegations are among a series of recent complaints by Muslims who say they are free to practice their religion in the United States, until someone tells them they cannot. Recently, the same Fitness USA facility enacted a new dress code to allow Muslim women to wear more modest clothing, in compliance with some Islamic practices.
If Dearborn sounds familiar, you can refresh your memory regarding previous problems in that town here. With each publicized complaint, others will be further emboldened. How long until we all have to hear the call to prayer five times a day?
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