Complaint: Delaware youth detention center worker barred from wearing hijab

(Delaware News Journal) A Delaware agency discriminated against a Muslim woman when they barred her from wearing her hijab, a religious head covering, according to a complaint filed Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Not only was Madinah Brown ordered not to wear a hijab to her New Castle County Detention Center job, but when she wore it, supervisors made her clock out. One of the supervisors even yelled “Now you’re looking like a terrorist,” according to the report filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.

“This is a clear example of religious discrimination and the state of Delaware has no basis from preventing Madinah from working with her hijab on,” said Zanah Ghalawanji, a staff attorney with the CAIR, which is representing Brown.

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