Glenn Mack, Jr. vs. Whole Foods Market

Glenn Mack, Jr. was a three-year employee of Whole Foods Market who had received numerous accolades for superlative performance. All of that changed when he notified his supervisor that he was using his earned vacation time to make a religious pilgrimage to Mecca. He was told, quite succinctly, that his job would not be guaranteed upon his return. Keeping true to that threat, Glenn was demoted from full-time to part-time status and eventually fired on pretextual grounds. CAIR-PA represents Glenn in a matter currently pending before the EEOC and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

• CNN coverage of Glenn Mack, Jr. vs. Whole Foods Market
• Take Action: Tell Whole Foods: Don’t Fire Employees for Being Muslim
• Press Conference (November 8, 2011) Prepared Remarks by Amara Chaudhry

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Anti-Muslim Profiling By Law Enforcement

CAIR-PA has joined other CAIR chapters nationwide to monitor anti-Muslim trainings conducted by, or for the benefit of law enforcement personnel. CAIR-PA submitted requests to local, state, and federal law enforcement pursuant to the federal Freedom of Information Act and the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law.

• Press Release from CAIR-National
• RTK Request to Philadelphia Police Department (pdf)
• → RTK Request Reply from Philadelphia Police Department
• FOIA Request to U.S. Attorney’s Office (pdf)
• Anti-Muslim Training Materials (USAO-MDPa) (pdf)

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XXX XXXXX vs. U.S. Department of Defense

A federal employee with over three decades of service was offered a merit-based promotion which required a top-level security clearance. Unfortunately, he has been denied the required security clearance on the basis that his recent pilgrimage to Mecca caused him to have “contacts with persons in places in the Middle East.” CAIR-PA is hoping that the DoD will reconsider this denial and its stated policy which we assert is openly discriminatory and which has a disparate impact on American Muslims. We are willing to consider litigation if other options fail.

• Letter to DoD (Redacted) (pdf)

A case with similar facts is currently being litigated by private counsel in federal court in Northern Virginia. A copy of the complaint in that case is posted below:

• Hegab v. Long (U.S. Dist. Ct. E.D.Va.) (pdf)

DISCLAIMER: The case Hegab v. Long has no affinity, affiliation, or other connection with CAIR-Philadelphia or any other CAIR chapter. The inclusion of this complaint herein is for educational purposes only.