Mattress Firm Refuses To Sell To Muslim Woman

My best friend and previous romantic pursuit was Muslim.

Romantic pursuit before that was, too.

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My uncle is muslim.

:D

How DARE you want to fire that guy for being a bigot? Thats discrimination.

I think I may be Muslim.

I'm saying that if you are going to advertise to the public without qualifications, then you are not allowed to discriminate based on race, religion, or gender. That is the law of the land. If you don't like it, you're certainly welcome to go try one of those countries that do allow blatant discrimination. I suspect you'd quickly come to appreciate the difference.


Really? So even though I'm an atheist, by selling to a Christian, I've agreed that salvation through Jesus is the only path to God?

I mean...really?

Good. Glad some people here have solid ground! Employer during college was a Muslim. Loved his wife, but not him.


Did you have a good experience with that guy? In my personal experiences with Islamic men, not all, they were very disrespectful.

No, but you're consenting to their way of life.

"I'm okay with you being a Christian, I don't care."

Also who hasn't known a muslim?

***I knew a guy who had a hard time regetting his security clearance because he converted to muslim. But he eventually got it while the guy who was a dual canadian/american citizen was forced to get rid of his canadian citizenship

Are you making fun of me or serious? >_____________>

Why do you continually think it's a matter of their religion? What if he has had prior experiences with her or her family?

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Of course I'm consenting to their way of life, lol...this is America. They are free to be Christian if they so choose, because freedom is one of the ideals upon which we are based.

The point is, the manager of that store had no -legal- right to refuse a sale based purely on the fact that he may disagree with their Muslim way of life. He was free to DO it, but not legally.

That is the crux of the matter. Sure, he can do it...but he's going to lose his job, so it doesn't seem overly intelligent...unless he likes being unemployed. 8)

Did their fathers threaten them with death for sullying the family name? Funny that people are upset over not being able to buy a bed. I'm sure some more deserving mattress company sold them a comfortable bed and the employee was at least chastised.

The bottom line is that under current law that this was discrimination. Whether that's right or not is a moot point unless you're going to start a case with the supreme court.

We all agree, the most prevalently violent group of people in the world right now are religious people. Thankfully, we have laws protecting them from us.

I think once I'm well off I will buy a store and refuse service to people at random. But offer such low prices that people want to come anyways just to see the ***storm that happens when I turn away someone who is going out of there way to display there religion or is a minority but no one care about all the others I also turn away

Do you have any evidence of this? If not, it's pure supposition. I could just as equally say, "Well, maybe he had a bad dream last night that an evil Muslim family was going to come to his store and give everyone the flu, and he was only thinking of the health of his employees"...yeah, I could take a wild guess in that department, but doesn't make much sense without evidence. ^,^

What? What laws are protecting us from Muslim Extremists? We cater to every minority whim.

Heh...I hope you have good lawyers, too, because in this sue-happy nation, you're undoubtedly going to meet with many lawsuits. Consider the price of lawyers, you best be VERY well off. 8D

Do you have any proof it was about religion? If not, it's pure supposition. etc

No no, read the wording. We have laws protecting them from us.

That and we have too many people like you. But I will make my point

Oh oops.

Still doesn't change the fact that everyone caters to every minority and religious nut's whims.

Do you realize that if someone with an explosive vest walked into a room with a bomb strapped to their chest but didn't explode it and were captured without being seen trying to detonate it that they would probably be charged with felony possession and not attempted murder?

Like I said, laws protecting them from us.

Its like everything else here... laws are made to protect those who need it, therefore making it necassary and then many others abuse said laws to benefit themselves...

As I already said, if you have any idea why the man called her a "security risk" that had nothing to do with her obvious Muslim garb, I would love to hear it.


Actually, you really don't know me. I find the proclivity of so many in this nation to sue based on anything that upsets them to be absurd. I rather hope this family doesn't take that route. However, I also believe in freedom, and as such, I do not see any legitimate reason this man had for refusing them service other than religious and/or racial discrimination.

The Constitution is in place to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. I have no desire to return to the days of segregation.

Thank you!

Also, I'm a bit amused at how amazed everyone is at seeing someone in this country being racist/bigoted. After all we have a long and illustrious history of racism and bigotry like every other country in the world.

If for one year I don't see a story about a racist or bigot I'll walk around in slack-jawed amazement for the rest of my life. I swear.

You know if you physically try to stop someone from stealing stuff from a store you will get fired and you or most likely the store could get sued even if all you do was block there way?

I had a friend that worked at best buys as one of those guys that just stands around looking intimidating to discourage thfs. And yeah almost everytime it was a ghetto looking black guy. Well at least on the big stuff. I bet you if anyone brought it up that he would question a black guy carrying a huge tv out of a store even if he didn't see him buy it they would've fired him and call it discrimatinator. And yes one time he caught a guy actually trying to carry out a large screen tv. He even had a receipt to make it seem legit... except it was for a few weeks before that he had already returned lol

Because people that are hiding something usually have something to hide? Because guess what it does happen. Who knows what's concealed under there. If a guy came in a huge bulky trenchcoat I'd also be worried. In fact more so lol.

Why do alot of stores ask kids to leave there backpacks at the front?