September, 2009 -

Swift Acted With Bias:Muslims were discriminated against by the meatpacker, the federal panel determines

Euro-Islam15 years ago15 years ago02 mins

A federal panel said Monday that it believed Greeley meatpacker JBS Swift violated the civil rights of more than 100 Somali Muslims it fired last year after a walkout over religious differences at the height of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest time. The determination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission comes exactly a year after hundreds…

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Interview with Selçuk Şirin: “Turkish Youths Have Multiple Identities”

Euro-Islam15 years ago15 years ago03 mins

In a recent study about the political identities of Turkish youths, Selçuk Şirin finds that Kurdish youths feel more discriminated against than other Turkish youths, whereas young Armenians in Turkey do not feel more political pressure than Turks of the same age. Jan Felix Engelhardt spoke to the New York-based professor of applied psychology about…

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