Florida Muslim woman who wouldn't remove mask-like garb for gas service was arrested in July for beating up her daughter

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2/2/12, "Muslim woman La-Fleur Mohamed accuses Boca Raton Chevron of religious discrimination," Sun Sentinel, Ortega

"La-Fleur Mohamed, a Muslim for the past 12 years, says a Chevron employee humiliated her by barring her from a gas station because she wouldn't remove her head scarf.

"You can't come in here dressed like that," Mohamed said the clerk told her inside a station store west of Boca Raton in October. The clerk allegedly tossed Mohamed's gas money back at her and instructed her to leave.

Mohamed, 39, a Boca Raton married mother of four, has since been receiving assistance from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group with chapters nationwide.

At a press conference in Pembroke Pines on Wednesday, she and the group demanded that Chevron officials admit that religious discrimination occurred. And they want Chevron to start additional training companywide so that such violations don't happen again.

The group showed two letters from Chevron. The latest, dated Jan. 17, states the company reviewed the matter, didn't see evidence of discrimination, but took "corrective action to address this issue."

"The parties involved for my public humiliation need to take responsibility and accept that they did violate my rights and apologize," Mohamed said....

Mohamed, a native of St. Vincent in the Caribbean, pulled up to the station at 19345 U.S. 441 on Oct. 28, she said....

Her veil drew extra attention in July, when she was taken into custody on a domestic battery charge in Alachua County, accused of wrestling her daughter over a cellphone, according to an article posted online by the Gainesville Sun newspaper. It was her first and only arrest, and the charge was later dismissed, records show."...photo Sun Sentinel, via Debbie Schlussel (who said the facial garb looked more like a mask and I agreed. ed.)
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