{"id":1386,"date":"2015-02-06T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2015-02-06T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T23:07:07","slug":"is-hijab-by-definition-un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/02\/06\/is-hijab-by-definition-un-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hijab By Definition Un-American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is courtesy of Travel Industry Today, a Canada-based organization:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is asking Delta Air Lines to take action after an employee threatened to remove a Muslim family from a Detroit-bound flight when another passenger harassed the mother over her head-covering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Washington-based civil rights group says the Arab-American family was aboard the plane Monday preparing to leave Fort Lauderdale for Detroit when a passenger berated the hijab-clad woman and her four children, saying, &#8216;This is America.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group says a Delta employee took no action against the harassing passenger, instead telling the woman and children to change seats. 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