{"id":3513,"date":"2015-08-13T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:20:59","slug":"gun-shop-declared-muslim-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/08\/13\/gun-shop-declared-muslim-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Shop Declared Muslim-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in Muskogee County, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/local\/muskogee-county-gun-range-posts-sign-saying-establishment-is-muslim\/article_6ecad16f-04d2-5986-8b54-0506261e1c21.html?mode=image&amp;photo=\">Tulsa World reports<\/a> that a gun shop has declared itself a &#8220;Muslim free establishment&#8221; in defiance of Oklahoma Civil Rights laws.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a725-1402. Discriminatory practice.<br \/>\nIt is a discriminatory practice for a person to deny an individual the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of a &#8220;place of public accommodation&#8221; because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The preceding section contains a few specified exceptions, none of which appear to apply here.)<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, this particular gun shop and range is only about an hour&#8217;s drive away from the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General, Office of Civil Rights Enforcement, located at 15 W. 6th Street in Tulsa. They have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok.gov\/oag\/documents\/public%20accommodations%20complaint%20form;%20revised%20with%20new%20address.pdf\">handy form<\/a> that you can fill out if you happen to be denied service on account of your religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>So, there is always that. Somebody please inform CAIR.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is sad to see an Oklahoma business join the clearly illegal movement to deny service to American Muslims, and&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dcxBwiboXE\">http:\/\/t.co\/dcxBwiboXE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CAIR Oklahoma (@cair_oklahoma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cair_oklahoma\/status\/631879655574896640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unrelatedly, does anyone have a hijab that I can borrow over the weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in Muskogee County, the Tulsa World reports that a gun shop has declared itself a &#8220;Muslim free establishment&#8221; in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-politics","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}