{"id":1149,"date":"2013-09-09T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2013-09-09T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:28:40","slug":"a-f-wrong-to-fire-hijab-wearing-salesclerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2013\/09\/09\/a-f-wrong-to-fire-hijab-wearing-salesclerk\/","title":{"rendered":"A &amp; F Wrong to Fire Hijab-Wearing Salesclerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/press-center\/press-releases\/12129-cair-sfba-las-elc-win-judgment-against-abercrombie-fitch-in-hijab-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">have announced<\/a> a legal victory in a lawsuit against clothing retailer Abercrombie &amp; Fitch over the firing of a Muslim worker who refused to remove her religiously-mandated hijab (headscarf) as a condition for keeping her job.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR reports that U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled Abercrombie &amp; Fitch violated federal and state civil rights laws against workplace discrimination when it fired Hani Khan in 2010 for refusing to remove her hijab. 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