Yearly Archives: 2013

French rail firm banned black and African workers from station for arrival of Israeli president ‘because they might be Muslim’

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SNCF logoBlack and North African railway workers were banned when the President of Israel visited France “because they might be Muslim”, it emerged today.

This was despite Shimon Peres specifically arriving in the country to work towards a Middle East peace agreement between Arabs and Jews.

The alleged discrimination took place when Mr Peres arrived at the Gare du Nord in Paris, the hub for high-speed trains travelling to cities including London, on March 8.

It is now the subject of an official complaint by the SUD-Rail transport union which says everything was done to ensure there were “no Muslim employees to welcome the Head of the State of Israel”.

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EDL anti-mosque protest in Plymouth

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Plymouth EDL anti-mosque protest (2)A protest by a right-wing group and anti-fascist campaigners passed off peacefully this afternoon.

Members of the English Defence League (EDL) from across the South of England descended on Plymouth after the owner of the Dance Academy claimed he was thinking of handing the property over to a charity to be turned into a mosque.

About 25 EDL members from as far away as Bournemouth and Weymouth staged a two-hour protest outside the former New Palace Theatre in Union Street. They were confronted by a about 25 members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

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MCB criticises Gove’s history curriculum

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One of the UK’s leading Islamic organisations has warned that plans to revise the school history curriculum risk ignoring the Muslim contribution to western civilisation – an omission that will only foster alienation.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which claims to represent more than 500 Islamic organisations, is calling for “everyone who cares about the education of British schoolchildren” to lobby the Department for Education (DfE) as the end of the consultation period on the plans looms.

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Muslim job seeker’s suit can proceed against Abercrombie & Fitch

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A federal judge has refused to dismiss a religious discrimination case brought on behalf of a job applicant who wore a hijab, a Muslim head covering, and was rejected by Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc.

Among issues cited in Tuesday’s ruling by a San Jose, Calif., federal judge in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc., dba Abercrombie Kids were the shifting reasons provided by the manager-in-training who interviewed teenager Halla Banafa and rejected her for a position as a stock room clerk in the company’s Milpitas, Calif., store.

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Food thrown at Wakefield mosque during late night attack

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Jamia Masjid SwafiaVandals threw food at a mosque during a late night attack.

Police are investigating reports of vandalism at Jamia Masjid Swafia mosque, off Park Hill Lane, in Eastmoor. Food was thrown at the side of the building sometime during the early hours of Thursday, April 4.

Officers from the central neighbourhood police team (NPT) have carried out door to door inquiries. And they have since upped late night patrols in the area.

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Fears of Muslim 
tensions in high 
security prison

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HMP Full Sutton (2)That’s the headline to an article in yesterday’s Yorkshire Post. It is based on a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, of an inspection carried out in December at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire.

The report found: “Black and minority ethnic and Muslim prisoners reported much more negatively about their treatment and conditions across a range of indicators than white and non-Muslim prisoners.”

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Ohio: Suit says Muslim’s firing was based on religious bias

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A North Side man has filed a federal lawsuit that says a Westerville-based logistics company fired him after he sought permission to attend weekly Muslim worship services that conflicted with overtime shifts.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of Yusuf Sufi, 23, by the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It says Exel Inc. used religious discrimination and retaliation, and wrongfully terminated him. Exel is a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL.

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