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A Muslim woman said she was fired as she refused to remove her hijab at work.
A Muslim woman was terminated from her job at a dentist's clinic because of her hijab.
She claimed her boss immediately took her aside and told her to remove it to keep a "neutral environment", adding that the hijab would offend patients.
On her third day of work at the Fair Oaks Dental Care in Virginia, when Najaf Khan went in to work wearing her head scarf, she claimed her boss immediately told her to remove it.
According to Khan, she was told that she would have to remove her hijab otherwise she would lose her job, and she refused, The Independent reported.
The story has since gone viral online.
Talking to the media, Khan said she was excited to begin work at the clinic and that she wanted to become a dentist.
"I was astonished because he had been saying I was doing so well. I received an email the Friday morning saying how much positive enthusiasm I was bringing to the dental office. I didn't think it was going to be a big issue. I was completely aware he might ask me, but I didn't know it would come down to the fact that if I wear it, I can't work there," she told told Fox News.Reacting to the incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for the dental clinic to reinstate Khan, as well as compensate her for economic and emotional suffering.
'The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on a Virginia dental office to re-hire and compensate a Muslim woman who was allegedly fired because she wears an Islamic head scarf, or hijab.'The Fair Oaks Dental Care clinic could not be immediately reached for comment, the Independent reported.
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