LAS VEGAS – Strippers, hookers and drunks are welcome at las vegas restaurants. But one Las Vegas spot is taking issue with Muslim women.

A Muslim woman is making allegations against a Las Vegas restaurant located on the strip, after employees asked her to remove her hijab.

Louvenia Daan was at the Fireside Lounge, inside the Peppermill Restaurant on Las Vegas Boulevard, when a waitress asked her to take off her hijab. 

She tried to explain to the staff why she couldn’t.

 “I wear a hijab all day and I see hundreds of thousands of customers and I’ve never been treated like that ever,” said Louvenia Daan, a woman who wears a head covering because of her religious beliefs.

 The waitress told the Muslim woman she would not be served due to a policy at the restaurant.

 “She said ‘Oh I’m sorry that I called it the wrong thing, but you can’t wear that in here,'” said Daan. “It’s like telling a woman to stand in front of a bunch of people and be completely naked, like it’s a horrible, horrible thing,” said Daan.

 The Peppermill employees wouldn’t budge, so she left.

 One of the managers at the restaurant and lounge said the no-headdress policy is in place for security reasons: No one can wear anything that would cover their heads inside the Fireside Lounge. 

It’s so that the surveillance cameras catch the entire face.

 “It opens the door for this kind of bullying in public spaces where religious people aren’t permitted,” said Fateen Seifullah, a Las Vegas mosque leader.

 Over the phone, a Peppermill manager said this policy is only in place on the Strip and only in the Fireside Lounge. 

They’ve stood by it for 10 years, saying they’ve asked other Muslim women to take off their head coverings, and asked people of the Jewish faith to remove their yarmulkes.

Peppermill did post an apology on Daan’s Facebook after it became aware of what happened and called the incident a “miscommunication.” 

However, Louvenia says she’s reaching out to the ACLU to see if they have legal grounds to change the policy.