Post Tagged with: "discrimination"

19Aug
2010

Disney restaurant hostess sues for permission to wear hijab

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0819-disney-hijab-20100819,0,5537139.story Looks to be another casualty in the war against Civil Rights. Boudlal informed her supervisor she wanted to wear the hijab and they said they would check with corporate, but she never received a response. Later on, Disney’s costume department went as far as fitting her for a hijab designed to work with her costume, but they never followed through. Boudlal attempted to follow protocol in effort to get permission to wear her hijab, but the system just didn’t respond. And now, [...]

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27Feb
2010

Symbolic Violence at UCSD

I want to spread awareness about a terrible incident at UC San Diego. My cousin, Mustafa Shahryar, who goes to school there called me to tell me that as he was leaving the library, he heard a grown African-American man crying on the phone asking “how can I study if they want to kill me?” My cousin asked him what was wrong and the guy took him to the 7th floor of the main library and hanging from the ceiling [...]

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