{"id":6504,"date":"2018-10-04T16:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6504-us-employer-denies-muslims-were-fired-from-airport-jobs-for-praying\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:36:55","slug":"us-employer-denies-muslims-were-fired-from-airport-jobs-for-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6504-us-employer-denies-muslims-were-fired-from-airport-jobs-for-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"US Employer Denies Muslims Were Fired from Airport Jobs for Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mubarek Mohamed says he was working at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a cabin-cleaner for about three months when he was told to hand over his badge.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Mubarek Mohamed says he was working at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a cabin-cleaner for about three months when he was told to hand over his badge.<\/h4>\n<h4>He and five or six coworkers had stepped aside from cleaning up an aircraft for daily prayer on Friday night. He says he was gone for about five minutes. That\u2019s when he says a supervisor started yelling at him, asking him what he was doing.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201c\u2018You have to come here to work, not to pray,\u2019\u201d Mohamed says he told him. He says the manager yelled at them the whole way back to the plane.<\/h4>\n<h4>The manager demanded their badges and told them to \u201cget out of here,\u201d he says.<\/h4>\n<h4>As it happened, Tuesday was supposed to be a day of action hosted by the SEIU Local 26 Union. Workers and supporters planned to demonstrate outside the Delta offices for their own union and a pay raise.<\/h4>\n<h4>Friday\u2019s incident meant the rally also became a day to back these fired workers, who, according to the union\u2019s press release, \u201cwere fired for exercising their freedom to practice their religion as protected by the law.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mubarek Mohamed says he was working at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a cabin-cleaner for about three months when he was told to hand over his badge. \u00a0 Mubarek Mohamed says he was working at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as a cabin-cleaner for about three months when he was told to hand over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[456,251,714,228],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-airport","tag-prayer","tag-support","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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