A 22-year-old US-based Nigerian Muslim lady identified as Folake Adebola has taken to Twitter to narrate how she was sent home from her job in Fort Worth, Dallas, for wearing a hijab.
Adebola who disclosed that she converted to muslim in August 2019 just before she started working at Chicken Express restaurant in October 2019, revealed that the day she was sent back home was the first time she wore the hijab to work.
She revealed that she had told her employer clearly that she was a Muslim before they employed her. Adebola who went ahead to post a short video of herself being confronted by her employer while pleading with him stating “It’s part of my religion… I felt like if I work here y’all could be able to accommodate my religion”, also stated that her employer sees things very differently as he said that the traditional Muslim headress is; “a different thing” and part of her “personal life out there”. According to her boss, it has “nothing to do with religion”.
Read her tweets below;
I 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 “ dress code” apparently and I wasn’t allowed to wear it. Don’t come to the chicken express in Fort Worth!! pic.twitter.com/xiulAEJS8y
— Folake Adebola 💕 (@naemuulaa) December 30, 2019
This is when he called me into the office after he got of the phone with the area coach pic.twitter.com/LdH1w94BCX
— Folake Adebola 💕 (@naemuulaa) December 30, 2019
I 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 “ dress code” apparently and I wasn’t allowed to wear it. Don’t come to the chicken express in Fort Worth!! pic.twitter.com/xiulAEJS8y
— Folake Adebola 💕 (@naemuulaa) December 30, 2019
But wait – there’s more ❤️ I don’t ever gotta do anything for clout ☺️ pic.twitter.com/Po9rAyV3sp
— Folake Adebola 💕 (@naemuulaa) December 31, 2019
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