An American Muslim Woman, Tahera Ahmad, who works at Northwestern University as the director of interfaith engagement, said she was discriminated against on Friday as a flight attendant allegedly refused to give her an unopened can of soda on a flight from Chicago to Washington D.C."I am sitting on a United Airlines flight in the air 30,000 ft above and I am in tears of humiliation from discrimination," Tahera Ahmad, Director of Interfaith Engagement and an Associate Chaplain at Northwestern University, posted on Facebook. According to the post, the flight attendant allegedly refused to give her an unopened can of Diet Coke due to the airline's apparent policy. But Ahmad then notice the same attendant giving an unopened can of beer to someone else and confronted the attendant saying she was clearly discriminated against.Tahera wrote that the attendant answered: "We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people, because they may use it as a weapon on the plane."Appalled at her behavior, she asked passengers around her if they witnessed this discriminatory behavior, but a man sitting in an aisle across from her allegedly cursed her. "He then leaned over from his seat, looked me straight in the eyes and said, yes, you know you would use it as a weapon,'" and allegedly cursed her again.United Airlines released a statement on Saturday afternoon, following a boycotting campaign against the company."We are reaching out directly to Ms. Ahmad to get a better understanding of what occurred during the flight," the statement read. "We are also discussing the matter that Ms. Ahmad describes with Shuttle America, our regional partner that operated the flight."