A Muslim officer with the New York City Police Department alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday that her colleagues harassed, threatened and even physically attacked her because of her religion. Alamrani joined the department in 2006 and converted to Islam the next year, the suit states. She says she did not have any problems with her co-workers until she began wearing a hijab at work in 2008. She alleges that two defendants named in the suit, Josephine Barone-Baur and Leanna Brown, physically attacked her, called her “Muslim bitch” and attempted to rip off her hijab in 2012. In recognition the growing amount of harassment and discrimination that Muslims — or people perceived to be Muslim — face in the workplace, the U.S.

Source: Huffington Post February 04, 2017 21:40 UTC