{"id":776539,"date":"2020-01-04T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/04\/nigerian-woman-in-us-sent-home-from-work-for-wearing-hijab\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:43:49","slug":"nigerian-woman-in-us-sent-home-from-work-for-wearing-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/04\/nigerian-woman-in-us-sent-home-from-work-for-wearing-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Woman In US Sent Home From Work For Wearing Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/479.png\" alt=\"Image result for Nigerian Woman In The US Sent Home From work For Wearing A Hijab\"\/>Folake Adebola, a Nigerian woman working in the US, was sent home from work for wearing hijab.<\/p>\n<p>Adebola, also known as Stefanae Coleman, went to her workplace at Chicken Express in Texas, wearing her hijab when the company\u2019s manager asked her to remove it for violating the organisation\u2019s \u201cdress code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to it via her Twitter handle, Coleman said, Lemme say this I converted in AUGUST I didn\u2019t start working there till OCTOBER in the handbook they say they have \u201cequal opportunity for every religion \u201c so yes I FELT comfortable working there. I told my manager that I am Muslim and that I was waiting on my hijabs to come in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0UI International School Suspends Student For Wearing Hijab (See Letter)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She said things went south when she eventually started wearing hijab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI converted to Islam not too long ago and I started wearing my hijab, I went to work today and was kicked out because my hijab was not apart the \u201cdress code\u201d apparently and I wasn\u2019t allowed to wear it. Don\u2019t come to the chicken express in Fort Worth!!,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her manager in a video shared online is heard saying, \u201cYour job is your job. Your job has nothing to do with religion. The job requires a specific uniform. (The hijab) is not a part of the uniform; you as a paid employee cannot wear it. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coleman, also narrating her experience with CNN, said, \u201cOnce I clocked in, the manager said \u2018Take off anything that doesn\u2019t involve Chicken Express,\u2019 which I knew he was talking about my hijab. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I didn\u2019t react, I just went to the back and took off my jacket and my purse. Five minutes later, he called me into the office telling me that I have to take it off because it\u2019s not a part of the work uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folake Adebola, a Nigerian woman working in the US, was sent home from work for wearing hijab. 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