Tuesday 3 November 2009

It seems that, in Texas, a Mussulman woman applied for a job with CareNow, an employer who has a “no-hats” policy, and failed to get the job because she insisted she had to keep her headscarf on. The CAIR organization (Cuddly Allah’s Islamic Racketeers), has now written to CareNow asking it to “1) offer the Muslim applicant a position for which she is qualified and to allow her to wear her Islamic head scarf, 2) provide the applicant with a formal written apology, 3) clarify CareNow’s policy on religious accommodation issues and allow a religious exemption to the“no-hat” policy, 4) institute workplace sensitivity and diversity training for staff, and 5) compensate the Muslim applicant for the emotional distress she has suffered as a result of the discrimination”.

Frit, who once had to stay alive in the jungle for months on end, knows how to kill every type of animal, including ones with fur, using nothing but a loofer. Therefore he is qualified to work in a slaughterhouse. However, only last week, when he applied for a job as slaughterman in a halal slaughterhouse he was informed that the job may only be done by a Mussulman. This is not equal opportunity. This is straightforward religious discrimination. So Frit has now followed CAIR’s splendid example and written to the slaughterhosue asking it to “1) offer the Christian applicant Frit a position for which he is qualified and to allow him to turn up for work with a bottle of beer, his pork pie and no beard, 2) provide Frit with a formal written apology, 3) clarify policy on religious accommodation issues and allow a religious exemption to the“no-infidel” policy, 4) institute workplace sensitivity and diversity training for staff, and 5) richly compensate the Christian applicant for the emotional distress he has suffered as a result of the discrimination”.

CareNow appears to have relented and dropped its no-hat’s policy, so Frit is hopeful that the slaughterhouse will relent and employ him after all.The photograph shows the woman and headscarf concerned.