A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Wednesday that it had filed a discrimination complaint on the woman\u2019s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An email seeking comment was left with McDonald\u2019s corporate headquarters in Chicago. A message was also left with someone who answered the phone at Gomez Enterprises LLC, which operates the McDonald\u2019s restaurant on Meadow Street in Chicopee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The complaint is the first step in the process for seeking monetary damages, according to CAIR lawyer Barbara Dougan. She also hopes it prompts McDonald\u2019s to better train its workers to prevent a similar incident in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnti-Muslim bias takes many forms,\u201d Dougan said. \u201cBut you can\u2019t go much lower than tampering with the food of a young child. We hope that McDonald\u2019s will find these actions as appalling as we do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Wednesday that it had filed a discrimination complaint on the woman\u2019s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. An …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-83317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-muslims"],"yoast_head":"\n