{"id":42866,"date":"2014-03-02T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/detroit_fp_muslim-american_man_wins_nearly_1-2_million_in_job_discriminatio\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T23:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:15:30","slug":"detroit_fp_muslim-american_man_wins_nearly_1-2_million_in_job_discriminatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42866","title":{"rendered":"(Detroit FP) Muslim-American man wins nearly $1.2 million in job discrimination case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His co-workers may have not seen past his beard, but the jury did.<\/p>\n<p>A Muslim American man from Ypsilanti, Mich., has won a nearly $1.2-million jury award after successfully arguing he was harassed, taunted and discriminated against at work because of his religion, race and appearance &#8211; most notably, his long scruffy beard.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Aboubaker, 56, a U.S. citizen and Tunisia native with four advanced degrees, was awarded the judgment on Thursday following a two-week jury trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were stunned,&#8221; said Aboubaker&#8217;s lawyer, Shereef Akeel, who stressed to the jury that his client had several strikes against him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/02\/28\/3297609\/muslim-american-man-wins-nearly.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His co-workers may have not seen past his beard, but the jury did. A Muslim American man from Ypsilanti, Mich., has won a nearly $1.2-million jury award after successfully arguing he was harassed, taunted and discriminated against at work because<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42866\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,149,426,597,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-islam","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}