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Monday, July 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Don't lose your head (scarves)

Two Michigan Muslim women allege McDonald's refused to employee them because they wore the hijab. The kicker? It was a halal McDonald's.
Nathalie Gorman

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  • Monday, July 28, 2008 10:43 AM

    Racism more likely

    Having grown up in Dearborn, I think it was because the two women are African-American converts to Islam, and the hijabs were just an excuse.

    There have never been great relations between the local Arab (Muslim or Christian) and African-American communities. The former seem to have bought into a lot of preexisting American racism, the latter have seen the Arabs, about the only convenience store and small market owners in the city, as over-charging outsiders taking advantage of them.

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