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Muslims suffer because of Europe’s terror laws – Amnesty

Muslims suffer because of Europe’s terror laws – Amnesty

Europe’s reinforced terrorism legislation is discriminating against Muslims and refugees. In a report out on Tuesday, the campaign group Amnesty International says the legislation is “dangerously disproportionate” and is spreading fear and alienation. Security is meant to protect our rights & freedoms, not used to trample them. #Europe’s leaders, are you listening?

Woman Banned for Wearing Hijab

Woman Banned for Wearing Hijab

SHERWOOD, Ark. – A 20-year-old UALR student says she was the victim of discrimination at a Sherwood arcade Friday night. “A little hurt, again I wasn’t surprised.” Furdos Al-Ali has lived in Central Arkansas all her life but a typical Friday night out with friends ended with the UALR student being singled out. “We walked […]

How Muslim Women Are Rising Up Against Discrimination

How Muslim Women Are Rising Up Against Discrimination

A British parliamentary committee recently discovered what many people in Muslim communities have known for ages—that Muslim women face discrimination on account of their gender, their ethnicity and their religion.

Muslim Women Forced To Leave California Restaurant

Seven Muslim women who were forced to leave a California restaurant in late April are suing the business, saying that they were singled out because six of them were wearing headscarves at the time. The restaurant, Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach, is in an area that advocates say has seen an increase in hate crimes […]

CAIR: More than a dozen Muslims discriminated against at work

CAIR: More than a dozen Muslims discriminated against at work

More than a dozen Minnesota Muslims say their employers discriminated against them because of their religious practices, according to a claim filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Amarita Singh, civil rights director for the state chapter of the Council on Islamic-American Relations, said Truth Hardware and Doherty Staffing Solutions violated the workers’ constitutional […]

Wisconsin manufacturer fires seven Muslim employees over unscheduled prayer breaks

MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin manufacturer says it has fired seven Muslim employees for continuing to take unscheduled prayer breaks. More than 50 Somali immigrant Muslims at Ariens Co. recently protested the company’s enforcement of a policy of two 10-minute breaks per work shift — without accommodations for unscheduled prayer time. The 53 employees wanted the […]

Muslims Fired by Wisconsin Firm for Unscheduled Prayer Breaks

TEHRAN (FNA)- Seven Muslims have been fired by a Wisconsin company amid a prayer-break dispute. Muslim employees took unscheduled prayer breaks after the company ceased accommodating work stoppages that allowed workers to pray in accordance with their faith. Ariens Co., a lawn mower and snowblower manufacturer in Brillion, Wisconsin, fired its Somali Muslim employees over […]

Cameron calls to end Muslim discrimination against women

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called to stop the discrimination against Muslim women from within their own communities, and help them learn English to gain independence and better integrate. According to Cameron as quoted by The Times, it is time to confront the “backward attitudes” of Muslim men who have “damaging control” over […]