{"id":7911,"date":"2019-08-08T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7911-air-canada-blasted-for-allegedly-asking-girl-12-to-remove-hijab-before-boarding\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:24:58","slug":"air-canada-blasted-for-allegedly-asking-girl-12-to-remove-hijab-before-boarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7911-air-canada-blasted-for-allegedly-asking-girl-12-to-remove-hijab-before-boarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada blasted for allegedly asking girl, 12, to remove hijab before boarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Air Canada is under fire after an employee allegedly asked a young girl in a hijab to remove her headscarf after the 12-year-old reportedly passed through airport security ahead of a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Air Canada is under fire after an employee allegedly asked a young girl in a hijab to remove her headscarf after the 12-year-old reportedly passed through airport security ahead of a flight from San Francisco to Canada, the girl\u2019s older sister claims.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 1, Fatima Abdelrahman was flying from San Francisco International Airport to Toronto for a squash competition, Canadian news site Narcity reports. It was Abderlrahman\u2019s first time flying alone without family.<\/p>\n<p>After having her passport checked and passing through airport security, an unnamed Air Canada employee reportedly pulled the girl aside and insisted that she remove her headscarf, the preteen told City News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked me to take the scarf off\u2026 as in the passport photo, I wasn&#8217;t wearing my scarf,\u201d Abderlrahman claimed. \u201cI told him \u2018no\u2019 repeatedly, and he told me \u2018you have to.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was definitely really mad. There were people in front of me wearing sunglasses, hats \u2014 they didn\u2019t tell them to take it off,\u201d the girl told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The squash player\u2019s older sister, Sabreen Abdelrahman, was so infuriated by the alleged incident that she took to Twitter later that day to call out the airline.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, Sabreen told City News that reps for Air Canada have since informed her that \u201canyone who is wearing religious or cultural clothing is entitled to having a secure place, a private place, for a check, if need be, which my sister was not granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Canada is under fire after an employee allegedly asked a young girl in a hijab to remove her headscarf after the 12-year-old reportedly passed through airport security ahead of a \u00a0 Air Canada is under fire after an employee allegedly asked a young girl in a hijab to remove her headscarf after the 12-year-old &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19675,"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":[128,96,252],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-headscarf","tag-hijab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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