Video on Vision Islam's Facebook page shows Sarah Safi getting kicked out of a Family Dollar store in Gary, Ind., because she was wearing a niqab and hijab. (Photo: Provided by Vison Islam) 
 
 Update, Aug. 4, 2:02 p.m. 
 
 Dollar Express released a statement regarding the incident: 
 
 “We deeply regret the incident that occurred recently at one of our stores in Gary, Indiana, and we are committed to taking steps to ensure that no customer is ever treated this way again. The conduct of the assistant store manager at that location was not in accordance with company policy and we are addressing this matter with her. We are also taking this opportunity to address with our workforce the importance of meeting the needs of a diverse customer base and providing a shopping environment that is respectful to all of our customers.” 
 
 Original story: 
 
 A video posted by a Muslim woman as she was being tossed from a Family Dollar store in Gary, Ind., is generating buzz on social media. 
 
 "You're telling me I have to leave this store," Sarah Safi told a clerk on the video posted on Vision Islam's Facebook page. "This is a religious garment ma'am." 
 
 "You have to understand that this is a high crime area where we get robbed a lot," the clerk told Safi in the video. 
 
 "This is a country where we have freedom of religion and freedom of speech," Safi told the clerk. "I have a right to wear whatever I want to wear." 
 
 Safi zoomed in to get a clear image of the clerk before exiting the store. 
 
 "I'm really saddened. I was born here, raised here all my life and I've never been to an establishment and been treated like this," Safi told abc7news.com. 
 
 Safi also told abc7news.com that she wants an apology. 
 
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 A woman from Gary, Ind., says she was discriminated against and kicked out of a Family Dollar store for wearing a niqab and hijab, and she caught part of the exchange on video.Emotions are still raw for Sarah Safi, 32, who is used to being stared at for wearing her religious Muslim garment. But the mother of four said she had never before experienced discrimination like she did Monday at a Family Dollar store in Gary, where she went to purchase charcoal for a family barbecue."I might have made it 10 steps into the store and I hear the lady behind the counter say, 'Ma'am, you need to take that off your face or you need to leave my store,'" Safi said.At that point, Safi began to record the exchange on her cell phone. Safi, who was born and raised in Texas, moved to Gary a few years ago. She told the clerk she wears a niqab and hijab for religious purposes; the clerk, who identified herself as the manager, insisted Safi leave."I understand, but you have to understand too this is a high crime area and we get robbed a lot. You need to remove that from your face or remove yourself from the store," the clerk is seen saying on the video."I told her this country is a country of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and I have a right to wear whatever I want," Safi said.While her children waited in the car, the Family Dollar employee told Safi if she didn't leave the store she would call the police."Do I wait for the police to come and let my children see this, or do I go head and just go and let Allah handle it how he sees fit?" she said she asked herself. She left.The worker also had parting words for her as she was on her way out."Have a blessed day," the employee says on the video."I'm really saddened. I was born here, raised here all my life and I've never been to an establishment and been treated like this," Safi said.Safi said she had been covering her face in public for years, and the only thing she wants is for the Family Dollar employee to apologize."I would like to sit with her and speak to her about what I believe in, because maybe if she heard and really listened to what I believe it I would open her heart," she said.The employee in question did not want to speak on camera. ABC7 Eyewitness News has reached out to Family Dollar for comment, but have not heard back. 

 What was supposed to be a quick stop for a family cookout turned into a lesson in discrimination for a mother who said she was kicked out of a store for wearing a Niqab, NBC 5's Ash-har Quraishi reports. (Published Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016) 
 
 What was supposed to be a quick stop for a family cookout quickly turned into a harsh lesson in discrimination for a mother of four who said she was kicked out of a Family Dollar store for wearing a niqab. 
 
 The incident, which was captured on cell phone video and took place in front of Sarah Muzdaher Safi’s children, began when Safi stopped inside a Family Dollar store in Gary, Indiana, Monday afternoon wearing the traditional Islamic veil. 
 
 Safi said she had gone to the store to pick up charcoal and was shocked when an employee demanded she either take off the niqab or leave. 
 
 In the video, an employee, who identified herself as a store manager, can be heard saying, "Yes ma’am, if you can’t remove that from your face, I’m going to need you to leave the store." 
 
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 "I’ve worn my garments for a long time," Safi said. "I have never been treated like this in any establishment. Ever." 
 
 In the video, Safi tells the clerk she is wearing a religious garment. 
 
 “I understand, but you have to understand this is a high crime area where we get robbed a lot, you need to remove that from your face or remove yourself from the store,” the employee said. 
 
 The clerk told Safi to leave two more times before wishing her a “blessed day.” 
 
 "It's not just a blatant violation of the civil rights laws of this country but it's also a violation of the basic laws of decency and morality that you don't treat customers this way just because they have a different cultural background or a different religion,” said Ahmed Rehab with the Council on American Islamic Relations. 
 
 Family Dollar, which is owned by Dollar Express, did not respond to NBC Chicago’s request for comment. 
 
 Safi claims she contacted the chain about the incident and was told they were looking into it. 
 
 Safi said she won’t be going back to the store, but has a message for the woman in the video. 
 
 “I just want to understand….like I wish people would do of me. Just try to understand. I want to explain to her what I believe,” she said.
– An Indiana woman who just wanted to buy charcoal for a family barbecue was kicked out of a Family Dollar in Indiana for wearing a traditional Islamic niqab, NBC Chicago reports. Soon after Sarah Safi entered the store Monday in Gary, an employee identifying herself as the manager told her to remove her veil or get out. According to the Indianapolis Star, Safi explained that the veil was a "religious garment." "This is a country where we have freedom of religion and freedom of speech," Safi told the manager, who replied that the Family Dollar was in a "high-crime area" and gets robbed a lot. As Safi, a mother of four, left the store, the manager told her to have a "blessed day." Safi, who posted a cellphone video of the incident to Facebook, says she's "never been treated like this." The 32-year-old Muslim was born and raised in Texas and has been wearing a niqab for years, WLS reports. "It's not just a blatant violation of the civil rights laws of this country, but it's also a violation of the basic laws of decency and morality," a spokesperson for the Council on American Islamic Relations tells NBC. Safi says all she wants is an apology from the Family Dollar manager.