A Muslim employee who as fired from her job as a hotel housekeeper at the Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady, New York has filed a lawsuit against the casino and its supervisors, claiming religious discrimination.

Casino.org The lawsuit asks that Spady be compensated for lost income and benefits, damage to her “career,” psychological and emotional distress, humiliation, and mental and physical pain and anguish, as well as with punitive damages. Spady seeks economic, non-economic, compensatory and punitive damages, as well as interest, attorneys’ fees and other costs.

Roma Spady — a 57-year-old devout African-American Muslim — wore a hijab to work, and says she was harassed, retaliated against, and eventually fired after working as a housekeeper at the casino’s hotel for more than a year. (If she’s so “devout,” what was she doing working in a gambling casino which is forbidden in Islam?)

A former employee of Rivers Casino & Resort is suing the casino and several supervisors there, alleging she was harassed because of her Muslim faith and then unfairly fired after complaining about the harassment.

The case was filed Tuesday in state Supreme Court in Schenectady County by Shegerian & Associates law firm on behalf of Roma Spady. A spokesman for Rivers said Thursday the casino would not comment on pending litigation. Henderson did not return a request for comment.

The lawsuit targets Rivers, its corporate owners and five unidentified people who work at Rivers as supervisors or human resources managers. “We plan on vigorously prosecuting this case to vindicate our client’s civil rights and will seek to hold the responsible parties accountable,” Henderson said.

The lawsuit was filed on Feb. 19 in Schenectady County Court. In the court filing, Spady maintains that after her first year at Rivers, she was transferred to work under a different supervisor, identified in court papers only as “Jim.” He was described as “a self-proclaimed ‘redneck’ — who made “repeated discriminatory comments … at the plaintiff,” the filing continued.

It contains the following assertions and allegations:

Last November, Spady filed a discrimination charge with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which in December told her she could sue the casino.

“It’s one of the most common types of cases we deal with,” Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) , told Casino.orgabout denial of reasonable accommodation so employees can practice their religion.