A Canadian airline is facing backlash after a Muslim woman was allegedly humiliated when a Flair Airlines staffer forced her to remove her headscarf in public at Toronto Pearson Airport before boarding a flight to Winnipeg.
Afsara Raidah, the woman's daughter, shared the incident on social media, saying her mother was "humiliated" by "a Flair Airlines employee" at the gate for flight F8641.
"Flair Airlines, you violated my mother's rights and humiliated her at Toronto Pearson Airport today. We will not stay silent," she wrote.
"This was Islamophobia. This was a violation of my mother's religious freedom and basic human rights. It happened in Canada, a country that claims to value diversity, inclusion, and respect," she said.
Raidah also said the employee insisted that her mother remove her hijab because her passport photo was taken before she began wearing it, even though her face was fully visible.
