SAN FRANCISCO — A Jordanian-born Muslim who worked as a sales associate for AT&T Mobility is suing the company for discrimination, claiming he was harassed and accused of being a terrorist at work, and then fired when he complained.
Plaintiff Ahmad Abu Samaha worked at AT&T’s Market Street store in San Francisco from 2011 until he was fired last year. Samaha’s manager told Samaha he believed “all Arabs were terrorists,” and said he didn’t want Samaha to “come to work one day and blow up the building and become a suicide bomber,” according to the complaint filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court. In Samaha’s presence, another co-worker said he would be “worried for his life” if he noticed a Muslim or Middle Eastern passenger on his flight, according to the complaint.
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