Iranian-born scientist sues University of Alabama at Birmingham for discrimination

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Despite Ms. Moeinpour's reports of discrimination to Defendant Mayer in Human Resources and to her supervisor, Dr. Grubbs, Defendant Cagle continued to discriminate, harass, and mock Ms. Moeinpour on a near-daily basis because she was Middle Eastern and from Iran," the suit says.
33% : Moeinpour, 59, a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Iran in 1989, said that she has been struggling to find another job since she was fired and that she is surviving with the help of her daughter.
33% : "She told fellow employees that, because Ms. Moeinpour is a Middle Eastern woman from Iran, she is a non-believer in God, that she is stupid, and that she hated Ms. Moeinpour's accent."
30% : The woman, Fariba Moeinpour, said in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Alabama that Mary Jo Cagle, a data analyst at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, or UAB, taunted her for having a "weird ass" name, called her a "b----" and told her repeatedly to "go back to Iran."

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