A former A former Medical College of Wisconsin professor, Zainab Basir (right), is suing the medical college, alleging she was disciplined for arriving late to work after attending a religious service on an Islamic holiday and was ultimately terminated as retaliation when she filed a religious discrimination complaint.

As you can see by the graphics below, Muslims suing their employers has become widespread in recent years, aided and abetted by the litigation jihadists at CAIR.

BizTimes Zainab Basir, who had worked for MCW for nearly 20 years when her contract ended in February 2017, filed the lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin.

Basir, a Brookfield resident, alleges she received discriminatory treatment when she arrived late to work after attending a service for Ramadan Eid, a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims, in 2015.

After protesting that treatment, she was served a non-renewal notice, she said. The Medical College of Wisconsin issued a statement Wednesday, saying it “vigorously denies” the claims filed in the complaint.

Basir alleges that, when her supervisors learned she was absent from work that morning to attend the service, they immediately changed some of her professional duties and announced the decision to others in the department. The complaint indicates that Basir considered the change in her duties discipline for missing work to attend the religious service.

Basir sent an email to her supervisor, pathology department chair Saul Suster, opposing the change in her professional duties. At that time, Suster asked Joseph Kershner, dean of the school of medicine, to approve a non-renewal one-year notice for Basir, according to the complaint.

Basir filed a religious discrimination complaint in October with the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division, which was cross-filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In December, her supervisor denied her permission to speak at a professional conference and to attend two other professional conferences, the complaint alleges. When Basir protested, Suster “compromised Dr. Basir’s standing within the department by his negative inferences about her during faculty meetings,” the complaint alleges.

On Feb. 26, 2016, Suster issued Basir a terminal one-year contract, citing a “lack of general fit within the Department of Pathology,” according to the complaint.

MCW issued a statement denying the claims in the complaint.

“The State Equal Rights Division conducted a thorough investigation of all of Dr. Zainab Basir’s claims following her complaints from 2015-2016 to that agency and dismissed Dr. Basir’s complaints with findings of ‘no probable cause,’” the MCW statement said.

“The matter has proceeded subsequently through administrative agency proceedings until Dr. Basir recently chose to remove her case to federal court, a forum available to all plaintiffs in employment disputes. MCW is confident in the merits of its defenses.”