9/11 bias threatens Muslims' careers

[sabra]

http://insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3042417

9/11 bias threatens Muslims' careers
Report: Arab Americans' dress, names a hurdle to being hired, while harassment can be too much to bear

A Muslim engineer who works at a leading technology company is called a terrorist by his co-workers and told that on Halloween he should dress as one.

A teacher at a vocational college tells a Muslim student who wears a hijab, or head scarf, that she is not allowed to wear it, and if she does no American will hire her.

A pilot tells a Muslim employee at an airline company he looks like a terrorist.

These are all accounts of workplace harassment documented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in California. The report shows that 18 percent of harassment incidents occur at the workplace, second only to occurrences at government agencies at 19 percent, many of which are also employment-related cases.

[OneBlueSky]

1. so much for the notion that Americans are . . .

a fair-minded, compassionate people . . .

[sabra]

2. but Bush said, everything has changed after 9/11 !

:sarcasm:

[BSDRebel]

3. not surprised...

no offense to those Americans who do not feel they are this way (god bless you), but I've often thought that there is a very sizeable portion of the American public which is closet racist and nationally chauvinist. One of the reasons why most of my friends are either foreigners or non-whites. I've met only a few whites that I can hang with. The rest just make me sick with their USA #1 stuff.

[defiant1]

4. Well that's what happens....

When your country is populated by small minded idiots.

:puke:

Jennifer should of just chanted "terrorist, terrorist" right back at them.

[thingsarelookingup]

5. we've learned nothing in 60+ years

check out www.itvs.org/facetoface