Target Sports, Michigan Gun Store, Agrees To Stop Selling Targets Wearing Muslim Garb (PHOTO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliA gun store in Royal Oak, Mich., is being praised by the local chapter of a Muslim rights group after agreeing to stop selling targets that depict an AK-47-wielding skeleton in a turban and robe.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), voiced his concern to Target Sports about the gun-range targets, fearing they may cause gun owners to view any Muslim in traditional garb as an enemy.
After “an extremely non-hostile meeting” with the store owner, the owner promised to stop selling the item, Walid told the Free Press. But Thompson Target — the Ohio-based manufacturer of the life-sized target called “Crazy Bones” — appears less willing to give in to Walid’s pleas.
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