May 6, 2007

Workplace Discrimination Against Muslims after 9/11

[...] Hadji said that in late 2004, he reproached a customer for harassing a Tunisian waiter. Hadji said he asked the customer to leave after the diner said, “If you don’t like it, go back to your country,” and “I fought two wars to get rid of people like you.”
The restaurant’s owners ordered Hadji to [...]

May 6, 2007

Types of workplace discrimination experienced by Muslim Women wearing Hijab

Source:atwork.settlement.org
The issue of discrimination experienced by Muslim women who wear hijab when they apply for work was established in 2000 through consultations conducted by Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW) with Muslim serving organizations and through surveys of labour organizations and institutions such as the Ontario Human Rights Commission to find out what information these [...]

May 6, 2007

Muslim Scholars Look at Conflict Between Islamic Tenets and Job Duties

May 05, 2007
By Omar Sacirbey
When the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America convenes later this year, the few dozen Islamic scholars will try to hammer out an answer to a question vexing the North American Muslim community:
How do Muslims reconcile the mandates of their faith with jobs that may require actions prohibited by Islamic law?
It’s [...]