(MLive) Ayilah Yaseen walked into an interview last month hoping to land an internship, but she left embarrassed and shaken, according to a federal religious discrimination complaint submitted Wednesday.
The Oakland University student was to interview with Naji Gebara, the CEO of PGF Technology Group, a manufacturer in Rochester Hills.
Yaseen met him on April 3, but the interview ended before it began because of his discriminatory reaction to her Muslim faith, says the Michigan chapter of the Council on America[n]-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights advocate.
When Yaseen met with Gebara, the Michigan council claims to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she declined to shake his hand due to her religious belief of having no physical touch between members of the opposite gender who are not close family.
