The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic relations filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against a gun shop whose owner declared his place of business a "Muslim-free zone" in a YouTube video that made headlines earlier this month.The owner, Andy Hallinan told USA Today that the lawsuit was "bullshit."His lawyer, Robert Muise, told that newspaper that there was no discrimination, and that people are "being turned away for public safety." He called the suit "bogus," and "frivolous." This is probably because according to some interpretations of discrimination law, you can totally refuse business to everyone in an entire religion, as long as you're consistent, and you claim there's some kind of basis—in this case, "safety."
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