Claim:
A Muslim cashier demanded a 17-year-old Christian boy remove his cross necklace while inside a Shields sporting goods store in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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For years, social media users have copied and pasted the details of an alleged politically charged incident involving a Christian and a Muslim. The story, set inside a Shields sporting goods store in St. Cloud, Minnesota, tells of a Muslim cashier demanding a 17-year-old boy to remove his cross necklace.
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As one example, on Aug. 22, a Facebook user posted (archived) the account of a woman wearing a headscarf serving as a cashier. The story does not use the words "Islam," "Islamic" or "Muslim," though users seemed to infer the religion from a reading of the text:
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A young 17-year-old boy was shopping in St. Cloud, MN, at a sports store, called Shields. The cashier was a lady who was wearing a headscarf. The 17-year-old was wearing a necklace with a cross on it. She told him he would have to put his cross under his shirt because it offended her. He told her he would not do that. Then he told her that he thought she should take her headscarf off. She then called for the manager. The manager came out and told the 17-year-old to just put his cross under his shirt and everything would be fine. The boy again refused to do so and at that point he left the items he had intended to purchase and walked out.
Several customers who had been in line behind him had heard the conversation...
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