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Tag: Cermak Family Aquatic Center

ABC: Muslim Family Sues Forest Preserve for Discrimination

December 30, 2010
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The Chicago Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) filed two complaints in Circuit Court on behalf of Mahmoud Yaqub, his wife, and two children. The Cook County Forest Preserve is being sued for religious discrimination because Yaqub and his family were denied admission to a swimming facility.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC, ABC 7, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Circuit Court, Cook County Forest Preserve, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Mahmoud Yaqub, WLS, Yaqub

CAIR-Chicago Files Complaints Against Cook County Forest Preserve District on Behalf of Muslim Family

December 30, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago filed two complaints in circuit court today against the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. The complaints were filed on behalf of a Muslim family that was barred from entering a children’s water park last year because of their clothing.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, Press Center Tagged ABC, ABC 7, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Christina Abraham, Circuit Court, Cook County Forest Preserve, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Mahmoud Yaqub, Sun-Times, WGN, WLS, Yaqub

WGN: Muslim Family Claims Discrimination at Public Pool

December 30, 2010
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Complaints of discrimination were filed by a Muslim family against the Cook County Forest Preserve. The complaints claim that county employees at a public pool kicked a Muslim family out because of what they were wearing.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Christina Abraham, Cook County Forest Preserve, discrimination, Lyons, public pool

Chicago Sun-Times: Muslim Family Claims Bias at Pool Owned by County

December 30, 2010
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The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed two complaints Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court claiming employees at a public pool discriminated against a Muslim family from Lyons based on their attire.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Chicago Sun-Times, Christina Abraham, cook county circuit court, discrimination, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Lyons, Steve Metsch

UPI: Family: Anti-Muslim bias at public pool

December 30, 2010
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The parents were not planning to swim, only to supervise their children, the lawsuit said. They had previously been admitted when not wearing swimsuits.

“A week later, I sent my sister to go to the water park,” Yaqub told WLS-TV, Chicago. “My sister doesn’t wear the Muslim veil on her head. She went in a running suit, or pajama. She wasn’t wearing swimming trunks. The same lady that denied us entry let my sister in with no problem.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Brookfield, Cermak, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Christina Abraham, Cook County, discrimination, Family: Anti-Muslim bias at public pool, Forest Preserve District of Cook County, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Lyons, Mahmoud Yaqub, Muslim, public pool, UPI, woman

Chicago Tribune: Suits – Woman denied swim access due to Muslim dress

December 30, 2010
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A Brookfield man filed two lawsuits against the Forest Preserve District of Cook County alleging that his wife was denied access to the Cermak Family Aquatic Center because she was wearing traditional Muslim dress.

Mahmoud Yaqub went to the aquatic center, which has a wading area, fountains and sprinklers, with his wife and two children.

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Brookfield, Cermak, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Chicago Tribune, Christina Abraham, Cook County, Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Lyons, Mahmoud Yaqub, Muslim, Suits: Woman denied swim access due to Muslim dress, woman

WLS 890 AM: Muslim Family Claims County Violated their Rights at Pool

December 30, 2010
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Two lawsuits were filed Wednesday on behalf of a Muslim family which was allegedly barred from entering a Cook County recreational pool last year because of their clothing.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Christina Abraham, discrimination, Forest Preserve District of Cook County, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Lyons, public pool

Chicago Tribune: Public pool discriminated, agency says

October 15, 2010
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A Muslim family was wrongly denied access to an aquatic center in Lyons last summer when employees told them their clothing violated the facility’s rules, state officials said Friday. “This incident is a blatant example of anti-Muslim discrimination,” Christina Abraham, civil rights director for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement. “Everyone is entitled to the equal enjoyment of public places.”

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged anti-Muslim, Bias, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Chicago Tribune, Christina Abraham, Civil Rights Director, Cook County, discrimination, Faten Alaraj, favorable decision, Gerry Smith, Headscarf, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Islam, Islamophobia, Lyons, Mahmoud Yaqub, Muslim, Muslim family, water park
 
 
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