Consumer Law
A Muslim Flight Passenger Accuses Southwest Airlines of Religious Discrimination
A Muslim woman from Dallas-Fort Worth is the focus of a religious discrimination complaint filed against Southwest Airlines on Tuesday after she said a flight attendant targeted her because she was wearing a hijab.
The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, sent a press release Tuesday about a complaint the chapter filed against Southwest Airlines.
A Muslim woman, who introduced herself as Fatima at a press conference on Tuesday, said a flight attendant insisted she did not speak English even when she responded to her and told her she could.
