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Prayer Meeting

Can employers meet Muslims' requests in the workplace?

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This story appears in the August 2005 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

When 30 temporary employees walked off the job in February,saying they weren't allowed to conduct sunset prayers, itbrought attention to Muslim accommodation in theworkplace.

Globally, there are an estimated 2 billion Muslims, with 7million living in the United States. "Islam is one of thefastest-growing religions in the world," says Rabiah Ahmed ofthe Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, DC,advocacy group for the American Muslim community.

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