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COMMUNITY

Muslim family intentionally given bacon by McDonald’s employee files discrimination complaint

June 2nd, 20221 CHICOPEE, MASS — A Muslim woman in Massachusetts has filed a legal complaint against a McDonald’s restaurant whose employees purposefully stuffed bacon into a fish sandwich she and her son bought. "McDonald's made my children and me feel unwanted and worthless by intentionally stuffing a fish sandwich full of bacon for no other...

COMMUNITY

Federal commission finds that employer discriminated against Michigan woman fired during Ramadan

May 19th, 20220 FARMINGTON HILLS — The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a Michigan woman faced religious discrimination during Ramadan in 2019 when she was fired from her job for asking for reasonable accommodations. The woman had filed a federal complaint against her employer alleging she faced religious and gender...

COMMUNITY

Arab Muslim woman sues Walmart for discrimination

October 15th, 20210 DEARBORN — An Arab Muslim woman is suing Walmart for discriminatory treatment at the hands of fellow employees while she was working. Seenaa Suhail Najim, an Arab American, Iraqi refugee, fled her home country in 2015 due to the violence imposed by ISIS. When Najim fled Iraq, she was forced to leave her two teenage daughters...

Local

Ferndale officers stop Black Muslim woman in Detroit, coerce photo without hijab

September 15th, 20212 The Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) is asking the Ferndale Police Department to take action after its officers arrested a Muslim woman, subjected her to searches by male officers and coerced her to remove her hijab for a photo, violating her constitutional rights. At a press conference on...

Palestine

ADC: Workplace discrimination against pro-Palestinian voices on the rise

June 16th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is looking for a federal hearing and investigation into rising incidents of workplace discrimination against employees who have expressed solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli apartheid and occupation. The ADC says it is responding to a surge of...

COMMUNITY

Report shows Muslim advocacy group received more than 6,000 complaints in past year

April 26th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a report detailing nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans that the group received over the past year. The 2021 report is named Resilience in the Face of Hate. The country’s “largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy...

Opinions

George Floyd’s death amplifies living in a nation with White privileges

June 6th, 20200 In light of what has been happening recently I have a few words to say. Let’s put the pandemic aside for a second, but keep in mind we have all been locked up and quarantined in our homes for at least three months now and so all our voices are amplified and all our emotions are magnified. The killing of George Floyd was senseless and...

COMMUNITY

Exclusive: Arab American employee files discrimination lawsuit against Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn

August 3rd, 20190 DEARBORN — A lawsuit filed by former Beaumont Hospital employee Ali Saleh alleges that he faced discrimination based on his national origin and that he was forced to resign when he attempted to investigate and report a series of violations by hospital employees. The lawsuit was filed in the Wayne County Third Circuit Court on July...

COMMUNITY

Yemeni American Osama Saleh wins $4.7M lawsuit for being called ‘Bin Laden’

June 18th, 20190 BROOKLYN —A federal jury awarded $4.7 million to Osama Saleh, a Yemeni American who was punched and bullied by a co-worker who had repeatedly called him "Bin Laden" and "terrorist." Saleh went from earning $7.15 per hour as a stock clerk at the Pretty Girl women's clothing store on Knickerbocker Ave. in Brooklyn to being a...

COMMUNITY

Michigan officials and community leaders promote Census at rally, echo concerns over discrimination and under-representation

April 5th, 20191 DETROIT — Officials and community leaders gathered on Monday, April 1, to kickoff the Detroit 2020 Census effort. In a packed room at Focus: Hope in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan shared the podium with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and members from Detroit’s various nonprofit and activist organizations...

COMMUNITY

Former employees file federal discrimination complaints against a Dearborn Tim Hortons

December 21st, 20180 DETROIT — Three African American employees of a Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop in Dearborn announced the filing of federal discrimination complaints Tuesday at the office of attorney Nabih Ayad, alleging they faced racial slurs from management. The plaintiffs are Sharneisha Martin, 26, a new employee trainer for four years; John...

COMMUNITY

CAIR-MI files complaint against Greyhound for Muslim man kicked off bus

December 14th, 20180 FARMINGTON HILLS — CAIR-MI filed a discrimination complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights against Greyhound on behalf of a Muslim man who was kicked off of a bus for speaking on his phone in Arabic. Earlier this year, Abrahaim Mohamed, an American Muslim, traveled from Michigan to Ohio by Greyhound bus. A press...

COMMUNITY

Muslim police recruit settles discrimination lawsuit with city of Memphis

November 30th, 20180 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A settlement has been reached between a young Muslim man who filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Memphis, Mayor Jim Strickland in his official capacity and the Memphis Police Department Training Academy — but it's unknown what the terms of the settlement are. Tareq Elkhayyat, an Arab American of Palestinian...

COMMUNITY

Discrimination complaints forces city to revise confusing gazebo ordinance

September 22nd, 20180 DEARBORN – Inconsistencies in ordinances have been causing confusion among city officials, as residents who have gazebos on their properties complain of excessive ticketing and press administrators struggling to iron out the enforcement language, to find a fix. Although City Council members attempted to tackle this issue last...

COMMUNITY

CAIR-MI files civil rights complaint on behalf of Muslim boxer

September 14th, 20180 FARMINGTON HILLS — On Thursday, Sept. 13, the Michigan Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) announced the filing of a Michigan Department of Civil Rights complaint against USA Boxing in support of 18-year-old Michigan boxer Basheer Abdur, a Muslim who was barred from competition because of the beard he believes he...

In Our Opinion

Drifting backward, repeating America’s shameful history

June 29th, 20180 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 will be remembered as a shameful day in the history of the United States of America. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump's executive order banning citizens of Muslim-majority nations from entering the country. The decision fulfilled a campaign promise by then-candidate Donald Trump. No one can spin...

Local

Dearborn places tough conditions on hookah bar after parking lot shootings

June 29th, 20180 CORRECTION: Although its unfortunate to make errors in a story, The AANews cares deeply about reporting the facts and issue corrections when necessary. This article has been updated to attribute quotes to the names of two current City Council members, instead of members who left the Council earlier this year. An earlier version also...

COMMUNITY

Arab American cop files claim of discrimination against his employer

May 11th, 20180 SAN JOSE, CA — A Lebanese-American police officer in San Jose filed a claim against the city and his employer after enduring years of harassment based on his ethnicity and religion. Oakland’s KTVU reported Tuesday that San Jose police officer Nabil Haidar, a 22-year veteran of SJPD and a Muslim, endured taunts about his religion...

U.S.A

Starbucks to close 8,000 U.S. stores on 5/29 for racial-bias training

April 17th, 20180 Starbucks Corp will close 8,000 company-owned U.S. cafes for the afternoon on May 29 to train nearly 175,000 on how to prevent racial discrimination in its stores. Starbucks’ roughly 6,000 licensed cafes will remain open. Starbucks said it would make training materials available to the employees of those stores, who are employed by...

U.S.A

NYPD settles Muslim surveillance lawsuit for $1 million

April 13th, 20180 NEW YORK CITY — Last Thursday, a group of Muslim owned-businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups reached a settlement with the New York Police Department (NYPD) in a federal lawsuit challenging the discriminatory surveillance of American Muslims in New Jersey. Filed in 2012 in federal court in New Jersey, in Hassan v....

COMMUNITY

Yemeni American teacher alleging she was fired because of hijab sues Melvindale schools

February 20th, 20181 MELVINDALE, Mich. — WXYZ Channel 7 reports that a fifth grade teacher could have been forced out because she wears a hijab. A lawsuit was filed last week against Melvindale/Northern Allen Park School District. Amirah Mosed, the teacher, alleges she was mistreated while working at Allendale Elementary School, saying she was...

U.S. Politics

Federal Appeals Court: Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims

February 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump's travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday in another legal setback for the policy. The Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 9-4 vote,...

COMMUNITY

Study: Americans’ favorable opinions toward Arabs and Muslims improving

December 8th, 20170 WASHINGTON — A growing number of Americans hold favorable opinions of Arabs and Muslims, a new survey by the Arab American Institute (AAI) shows. The survey released Tuesday found attitudes toward Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have risen to the highest levels in a decade. Conducted two months after the White...

COMMUNITY

BRIDGES meeting with federal official focuses on ‘Terror Watchlist’

October 6th, 20170 DEARBORN — To those who are regularly held for questioning at airports or border crossings and believe they may be wrongfully placed on a federal watch list, the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center has news: You are most likely a terrorist or somehow connected to a suspected terrorist. In Dearborn, where about half of residents are...

COMMUNITY

‘Listen to America’ bus tour stops in Dearborn, hears from Arab and Muslim Americans

October 6th, 20170 DEARBORN — East coast media outlets have been accused of being out of touch with middle America, so The Huffington Post embarked on a multi-city bus tour on September 12 titled "Listen to America." In each city, HuffPost partnered with a news organization to host an event so that it could record stories from local residents. The...

COMMUNITY

The city that bears the brunt of the national terror watchlist

October 4th, 20170 With a large population of Muslim and Arab Americans, Dearborn has the most per capita residents on a shadowy and unaccountable watchlist. It is nearly impossible to find out if you’re on it, let alone get your name off. By Christopher Mathias, Rowaida Abdelaziz, Hassan Khalifeh, and Afaf Humayun DEARBORN, Mich. — There’s...

Local

Rasmea Odeh deported to Jordan

September 22nd, 20171 DETROIT — Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh, was deported to Jordan and left the U.S. from Chicago O'Hare Airport on September 19. Odeh was convicted of lying on immigration forms and sentenced last month. Federal prosecutors said Odeh lied about being convicted in Israel in the late 60s for two bombings, one of which killed two...

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