Posts Tagged ‘Hijab’

Abercrombie + Hijab = Fired

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:12 No Comments

Seems like Hijab stories won’t be ending anytime soon. Once again a girl is fired for wearing a Hijab. This time, I don’t personally know the girl the way I did in Hollywood Video case.

A Hijab (head scarf) wearing stock room worker was hired in San Mateo, California to work at a subsidiary of Abercrombie [...]

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I Can’t Help You Ma’am, You’re Wearing a Hijab!

Friday, February 6, 2009 23:25 No Comments

A woman in Oakland goes to a bank in Oakland, she just wants to deposit money and guess what the teller says “I can’t help you with your transaction, you are wearing a Hijab!”. As absurd that may sound, that is exactly what happened at Community Bank of the Bay in Oakland when Safa [...]

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Update in Hollywood Video Case

Sunday, April 13, 2008 21:24 No Comments

I talked about a girl being disqualified from an interview at Hollywood Video because she was wearing a head scarf a week ago and I am happy to report an update in that case.
Apparently, a CAIR representative contacted the manager to mediate the matter explaining that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of [...]

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Hollywood Video disqualifies a Girl Wearing Hijab during a Job Interview

Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:14 2 Comments

My wife told me about her friend who just got booted from a job interview at Hollywood Video store in Los Gatos, CA because of her Hijab (head-scarf) which Muslim women usually wear. At first I couldn’t really understand anything and was really surprised because California as a whole is very diverse and you see [...]

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