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U.S FEDERAL GOV'T SUES CHICAGO SCHOOL OVER HAJ PILGRIMAGE'S DENIAL


WASHINGTON, U.S - The federal government sued a suburban Chicago school district Monday for denying a Muslim middle school teacher unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Makkah, Saudi Arabia, that is a central part of her religion.
In a civil rights case, the department said the school district in Berkeley, Illinois, denied the request of Safoorah Khan on grounds that her requested leave was unrelated to her professional duties and was not set forth in the contract between the school district and the teachers' union.
  • In doing so the school district violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to reasonably accommodate her religious practices, the government said.
  • Khan wanted to perform the Haj, a pilgrimage to Makkah that every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in a lifetime if they are physically and financially able to. Millions go each year.
  • Khan started in 2007 as a middle school teacher for Berkeley School District 87, west of Chicago. In 2008, she asked for almost three weeks of unpaid leave to perform the Haj.
After the district twice denied her request, Khan wrote the board that "based on her religious beliefs, she could not justify delaying performing Haj," and resigned shortly thereafter, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago.
Berkeley School District compelled Khan to choose between her job and her religious beliefs, the said.
Source: AP
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