Hijab American Buay Song cos she is being asked to remove Hijab for identification purposes before boarding plane

[AhMeng]

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Bryan Ke·September 24, 2019·6 min read

Air Canada Forces U.S. Junior National Squash Player to Remove Hijab at the Gate

A 12-year-old Muslim girl was forced to remove her hijab by Air Canada employees after she had already passed security while boarding at San Francisco International Airport.

Fatima Abdelrahman, from Santa Clara, California, is a member of the U.S. junior national squash team and the very first member to wear a hijab while competing.

Abdelrahman was traveling with her team on August 1 to compete in Toronto. As she was about to enter the plane, an Air Canada staff member asked her to remove her hijab at the boarding gate.

“It’s a part of me. It’s something that I wear every day. It’s part of my daily life. I am proud to wear it,” Abdelrahman, who just turned 13, told ABC.

“The Air Canada agent looked at my picture, looked at me, and said ‘These don’t connect. You need to take it off,’ (as) he pointed at (my hijab). I said, ‘No, I can’t.’ He said, ‘No, you need to!’ I said, ‘No, I can’t, religious purposes,'” the teen explained.

Abdelrahman asked the employee if she could bring her to a private screening area, but the woman led her to a tunnel where passengers were boarding and forced her to remove her hijab there, Daily Mail reported.

“‘Just quickly take it off, so you can board,’” the female employee reportedly told her.

“So, I quickly took it off, didn’t really know what to do,” Abdelrahman continued. “All my teammates had passed, my coach had passed. I had no idea I was alone. So, I quickly took it off. She barely glanced (at the passport) and then up at me. And (then said), ‘Ok, hurry up! Hurry up! Go grab your stuff!'”

The teen said she felt she was singled out and pointed out how another person was allowed to board even though that individual was wearing a hat.

“First of all, the hijab doesn’t cover my face. So even though in the passport photo I was not wearing the hijab, you can still see my face, and see that it is the same person,” she said. “I saw someone wearing a hat, but they weren’t asked to remove it. Not trying comparing the scarf and a hat. But still, it does cover your head. So why was I asked to remove it, and not them? So yeah, I did feel discriminated against.”

“There is a history of Muslims… being picked (out), specifically on these issues. And that’s our concern,” said Ammad Rafiqi, the family’s lawyer from the Council on American Islamic Relations San Francisco Bay Area.

Rafiqi added that Air Canada had violated U.S. and California law by not providing Abdelrahman a private screening area, and said the TSA had already screened her and cleared her to fly.

“This is something Air Canada says is in their procedures, but either they don’t follow it, or it’s not something that’s in the training for their employees, and that’s the concern here,” Rafiqi said.

After the incident, the girl’s sister tweeted at the airline’s official account asking for an explanation.

Sabreen Abdelrahman@Sabreen_magdy

. @AirCanada pls explain why you pulled aside my 12yr old sister for flight 758 making her take off her hijab AT THE GATE?? AFTER she already passed security??

Thx for ruining her experience as the first U.S. National Team Squash player in Hijab + her first time traveling alone

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In its reply, the airline apologized for what happened and had asked for the teen’s flight details.

Air Canada

✔@AirCanada
https://twitter.com/AirCanada/status/1156999808042881024
Replying to @Sabreen_magdy

Hello Sabreen, we are truly sorry to hear about this situation and we certainly understand your concerns. May you please DM us your daughter's booking reference so we can better follow-up? /Mick

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Featured Image Screenshot via YouTube / CAIR on TV

 

[bobby]

 

[syed putra]

With AI, they can still identify the woman.

 

[syed putra]

What did she wear when playing squash?

 

[ChristJohnny]

Ban all moslem in your country - problem solved.

IQ and Race

 

[AhMeng]

Never say she cannot wear, but just ask her take off for proper identification purposes also complain so much. Please lah, unless you fly your private jet, otherwise, comply with rules for the safety of others. Jibuy!

 

[syed putra]

Never say she cannot wear, but just ask her take off for proper identification purposes also complain so much. Please lah, unless you fly your private jet, otherwise, comply with rules for the safety of others. Jibuy!

Hullo! Just showing her face in public is like being naked. Only close fsmily members allowed to see. Its done to ensure she remains a virgin.

 

[whoami]

Ban all moslem in your country - problem solved.

IQ and Race
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Ban them fm Malay archipelago?

 

[whoami]

She already gone thru and passed security check. I am sure FTF conducted. Airline employee not even a security staff. Primarily their job is to check boarding pass tally with passport. Discrimination. Having said the SO have the right to demand the pax to remove the hijab wore by xtians and jewish too.

Jewish woman

 

[greedy and cunning]

it is a special privilege enjoyed by the most limp wearing hajib

 

[Jungleland98]

Ban all moslem in your country - problem solved.

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So should that mean we also ban Singaporean that failed their school grades like you? I like you say IQ but never GCSE or A levels eventhough the correlation is 80-90% according to even bullshit peddler like Murray. I'm going by your own flawed data and even then u lost the argument

 

[whoami]

it is a special privilege enjoyed by the most limp wearing hajib

Already told u if ur sore eye over such, and cant live together with majority Muslims here in Malay archipelago, plse crawl back to ur motherland. Or over to western eruope or down under. There ur female members bogil also can bogil. Why are u not following the teaching of the bible? But follow the teaching of the churches? Nah...ur xtian bible said:

"For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. " [1 Corinthians 11:15]

 

[KuanTi01]

If they are really so suspicious of her and needs a full face and head identification despite already clearing security, why can't she be escorted to a private screening as stipulated by their own SOP? Also as a member of the U.S. junior national squash team, she is definitely not travelling alone.The team manager or chaperon missing in action? Pure discrimination in this case!

 

[whoami]

it is a special privilege enjoyed by the most limp wearing hajib

So when teres hate post on cheena, u dont kpkb why only ur race single out ya. But no worry. I wont participate in such hate post discussion. My only problem is with those rich and well do jiuhukia who keep asking for more privileges in a majority Malay/Muslim country.

 

[bobby]

 

[Valium]

Should ask her to show her CB. If she prefers a labia verification test.