PHOENIX -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing hotel company TOG, which owns the Four Points by Sheraton in Phoenix, of discriminating against an employee by subjecting him to a hostile work environment because of his Iraqi national origin. The EEOC also charged that by allowing the continued and escalating workplace harassment, the defendants forced the employee to resign. According to the EEOC’s suit, EEOC v. TOG Enterprises, doing business as Four Points by Sheraton, et al., (Case No. CV-10-1230-PHX-SRB), employee Basil Massih was subjected to unlawful harassment by the defendants because of his Iraqi national origin. The alleged harassment included mimicking Massih’s accent, ethnic slurs such as “camel jockey,” mocking Arab ululations, and taunting and jeering at Massih relating to news stories about Iraq and the capture of terrorists. The EEOC alleges that Massih complained to a nu...