AT&T Ordered to Pay Muslim Woman $5 Million in Workplace Harassment Suit
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A Missouri jury ordered AT&T to pay $5 million to a Muslim woman who said her coworkers harassed her after she converted to Islam, including calling her a terrorist and asking if she was going to blow up a building. (Image source: Kansas City Star)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair.
A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded Susann Bashir $5 million in punitive damages in her discrimination lawsuit, along with $120,000 in lost wages and other actual damages.
The Kansas City Star reported Saturday the award appears to be the largest jury verdict for a workplace discrimination case in Missouri history.
Bashir said in court documents that her work environment became hostile immediately after she converted, with her co-workers making harassing comments about her religion and referring to her hijab as “that thing on her head.”
“I was shocked. I thought, `What is going on?’” she told the newspaper. “Nobody ever cared what I wore before. Nobody ever cared what religion I was before.”
Bashir worked at AT&T’s office in Kansas City for 10 years as a fiber optics network builder before being fired from her $70,000-a-year job. She claimed she endured religious discrimination nearly every day of the final three years she worked there, including being asked if she was going to blow up the building and being called a “towelhead” and a terrorist. Bible verses were also left on her desk, she said.
AT&T said Friday it disagrees with the verdict and plans to appeal.
Despite the jury’s award, Bashir stands to receive much less than $5 million because Missouri law caps such awards at five times the actual damage amount, plus attorney fees.
Amy Coopman, Bashir’s lawyer, said attorney fees will be determined later by the judge.
The previous largest such verdict came in 2009, when Mohamed Alhalabi, an Arab-American Muslim, was awarded $811,949 in St. Louis County Circuit Court in a case against the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
That same year, a Jonesboro, Ark., jury ordered AT&T to pay $1.3 million to two former employees fired for attending a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention.
Bashir said she called an employee help line in March 2005 and asked the company to provide sensitivity training for her co-workers.
“It was a worthless call,” she said. “Nothing ever changed.”
The harassment continued and in March 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched an investigation after she filed a complaint.
She said that made some workers angry and led to the final encounter with her boss.
Bashir said she became so stressed out that she couldn’t return to work. She asked that her boss be removed or that she be transferred, but neither happened.
She was fired after not returning to work for nine months.
“By firing me, they stole my ability to work at a job I liked,” Bashir said.
She said the incident was hard on her mentally and physically and tore her family apart. She is going through a divorce, and in October she and her daughter moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she works as an apartment manager.
“I have mixed feelings,” Bashir said. “I’m happy not to be reporting to that management structure. But it’s hard in this economy to find a job with that level of compensation. I didn’t want to lose my job, because I felt I was doing good work.”
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Comments (270)
hauschild
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:45amAbsolute extortion. Embarrassing and pathetic.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:05amThanks to the Muslim in Chief, CAIR, DOJ and the rest of the left wing lunticks that preach diversity.
Report Post »I bet this woman has no actual clue or complete knowledge or history of the Islamic faith. Sounds to me she was a disgrunteled employee and found a way to strike back at them. I hope in the end if AT&T actually pays out the Feds are watching her bank account to see if large amounts will be moved overseas etc…just a thought. What a abuse of our justice system. Americans converting to Islam is a joke in my book….just take a look at Louie FaireyCON. = Radicals
muhamed
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:18amWhat’s wrong with calling the hijab…”that thing on her head?” That is harrasment? Isn’t it a thing, and isn’t it on her head? This woman sounds like a troubled person in need of attention….
We have gone too darned soft as a nation to allow this type of thing to happen or this type of verdict….
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:40amWhat makes her worth 5 million dollars even if she was harased?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:41amIf I only HAD a job; maybe I could convert and sue also…. $5M ???
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:43amShe looks more like a Nun…..
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:50am“That same year, a Jonesboro, Ark., jury ordered AT&T to pay $1.3 million to two former employees fired for attending a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention.”
Maybe AT&T doesn’t like any Religion? Or are Jehovah’s Witnesses not Christians?
Report Post »Great to see all the posts celebrating someone else’s Freedoms and Liberties being denied them.
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hoopsgulch
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:53amCatholic women should start wearing lace church veils to work. If a muslim has anything to say about it, BAM! Lay on a lawsuit demanding immediate termination..
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:55amI wonder what that jury would have done is she had converted to National Socialism, painted a swastika on her forehead, wore a Nazi armband, goose stepped around the office and got harassed?
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 12:40pmAppeal ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:12pmServes them right but who will really be hurt maybe this will answer that.
Report Post »cwa-union.org
ReddenBlack
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:20pm@THE MONK
Well, idiot, that would National Socialism would be a POLITICAL orientation/identification, not a RELIGIOUS one. And while you would still be subject to harrasment, no jury would award you 5 million dollars. Your welcome
BTW, I make a practice of never hiring a christian to do my bookkeeping in my cabinet making business. If you believe in an invisible man in the sky who listens to peoples “prayers” and can make things happen…you are not trustworthy enough to handle my money.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:47pmRun away far far away.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:09pmAh, the Great Compassion of the Jury… Useful Idiots!
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:32pmThe original slave traders the Muslims are suing companies now? Sharia law baffons! PC = Muslim extortion. Osammy is watching porn with his three wives and using an old At&t Razor. I’m suing Sharia.. give me 5 million American you Musaffs! Muslims need to be charged for hate crimes against blacks need to sue Muslims.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:43pm@ THE_MONK — Good point on both items. I had the same ‘nun’ thought when I saw the photo!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:08pmhoopsgulch
Good thinking. That is definitely the way to go.
Report Post »toto
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:18pmShe said it was hard on her mentally, she was already mentally short a full load. I miss the time when companies could hire and fire as they saw fit, and could set whatever standards of dress and behavior they chose. More people were employed, more people acted respectfully of others, more people were happy, and having to associate with willful misfits of every kind and variety was not a work requirement.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:21pm@ReddenBlack
@THE MONK
“Well, idiot, that would National Socialism would be a POLITICAL orientation/identification, not a RELIGIOUS one.”
Well, the Muslim Brotherhood is now a political party based on a religious faith. Isn’t it? Most Muslims that practice Sharia Law want it to be the political law of the land, right? And you are aware of the laws in the US about discrimination in the workplace, right? It includes political as well as sexual orientation or religious affiliation, right?
“And while you would still be subject to harrasment, no jury would award you 5 million dollars. Your welcome”
I guess you don’t understand sarcasm;” you’re” welcome (spelled correctly). : )
“BTW, I make a practice of never hiring a christian to do my bookkeeping in my cabinet making business.”“ If you believe in an invisible man in the sky”” who listens to peoples “prayers” and can make things happen…you are not trustworthy enough to handle my money.”
When did I every say that?
Also, you are breaking the employment laws in the US by hiring based on religious affiliation, right?
Now you have a good day, sir. : ))
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:26pm9th circuit?
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:33pmWhen I see one of these American converts..it saddens me because I know that they have chosen their place in eternity..but we must all ask ourselves..if we should die today..do we know our destination.?
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 6:18pmMen should start wearing Kilts to work and proclaim they are now of the Scottish religion. It requires drinking scotch during prays 4 time a day.
Report Post »NukeHaze
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 6:41pmMedical malpractice suits where they cut off the wrong foor do not even get awarded this much money. This is tantamount to these vermin using our own justice system against us. I would like to see the video and audio of said harrassment. If there is a dress code she was in violation of and had agreed to before working and then converted, she is still bound by the dress code with only the exceptions of religious attire as required by her beliefs and allowed under the code she agreed to with her employment. The claims here seem to me to be hard to believe at best. CAIR being involved certainly decreases the ligitimacy of her claims. I have worked for AT&T in the past and knowing how the CWA union is, this kind of thing would never have gone that far as a craft technician or any other unionized worker. If her job was not considered to be craft, the fact she was making 70,000 per year says she must have been considered management level or in engineering as they define it and I can attest to the fact that such behaviour is not tolerated at all. The union there is especially oversensitive to the plight of anyone who is not caucasian or Christian. CWA could really care even less about those who do not pursue communism or socialism. Fat people are discriminated against there more than she EVER was. They get no protection, just as older employees do not. Only thing that matters is time in title and time in location.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 7:51pmI doubt half of what she said ever happened. This is b.s.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 7:54pmRecovering Neocon—-do you know the particulars of the Jonesboro suit either?? I highly doubt it. I know I and MANY others are 100% fed up with leftist trolls who lash out at Christians and demand they be silenced with the weak pathetic “you aren’t acting like a Christian” angle. Unless and until you speak up about the horrors of Islam, we shall continue to call you out each and every time for the opportunist hypocrite we all know you are.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 8:49pmMarci
If you would like to learn more about AT&T and their War on the Worshipers of The God of Abraham. This is a good place to start.
http://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/7-31-09.cfm?renderforprint=1
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:22amThe story also says she’s going through a divorce. Gee, I wonder why…
Report Post »do_it_all_again
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:37amsensitivity training ?!?! I will tell you this ! After converting to the religion of hate and murder, The only sensitivity you would get from me, would be to know that I am watching YOU !
And you were not fired, by not going to work for 9 months,, you QUIT, simple as that !
You cry you were harassed ? Did you ever stop to think for a minute, just how uncomfortable you made your co-workers feel ?
Million dollar settlement my butt ! you made the choice to worship satan, so now you can live with the consequences !
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 3:04amOuch….talk about being beaten with an “Ugly Stick”. That gal would have to sneak up on a glass of water…
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 3:52amReddenblack:
“BTW, I make a practice of never hiring a Christian to do my bookkeeping in my cabinet making business. If you believe in an invisible man in the sky who listens to peoples “prayers” and can make things happen…you are not trustworthy enough to handle my money.”
Reddenblack, You are more of a head case than that jury. You don’t know jack about jack, Jack. I’m a Christian. A Catholic. Maybe not a very good one. But I would not steal a penny from your sorry ass face. It’s wrong. Get it!!!
If I took that single penny from you, I would feel real bad about it. So, I Wouldn’t. I wouldn’t want somebody to do it to me, so I wouldn’t do it to them. It‘s called the ’GOLDEN RULE’, Reddenblack! I’d rather that somebody steal from me, than that I did that same thing to him.
I Feel Better In ‘THIS Life’ That I Would Not Steal From You.
Grow up, Reddenblack! You talk like a simpleton.
Your Money!?! ….Makes me doubt the quality of your products.
Report Post »cantstandlibs
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:47pmBluefish:
That was just mean, but FUNNY as heII!
Report Post »Secularism
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:52pmEvery company have and/or should have a dress code policy . Religion is a private matter in this Country and should be conducted likewise in a private venue like your home, Church, Temple mosque etc… not in the work place or elsewhere in order to respect other faiths. I do not care to know what is your religion like you do not care what is mine. This is an atempt to tell America we do not want value and we want to impose ours..
Statement from the Muslims Brotherhood.
With the democracy that the devil ….gave you … we will conquer Yyou… the conquest has just began…
http://www.youtube.com/v/HmTWI2Ij8NY?version=3&hl=en_US
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:45amThe conduct of the AT&T manager was way off base in his treatmant of this woman, and the company’s failure to act on her complaint is unconsionable.
I do not agree with Islam for exactly the same treatment of other faiths in Islamic countries. You cannot claim the moral high ground over Islam if you condone conduct against them while condemning the same conduct against others.
“Say a prayer for peace.”
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:19amI 100% agree! There was NO REASON for the HORRIBLE TREATMENT she was subjected to!
This was not a normal level of attentiveness to security,but harassment; And it seems little to nothing was done to address her concerns. And the actions of the boss, (snatching her head-scarf from her head) is assault! That boss should have been fired, AND had charges filed against them!
Let‘s don’t let our INDIGNATION at the UNJUST CODDLING of Muslims by this current administration cloud our judgement on a CLEAR-CUT case of injustice!!!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:33amMy thoughts exactly. The law that is their to protect you must go for everyone. Not to the extent of unreasonable changes (such as stopping work to pray 15 minutes 5 times a day, or whatever) …but this lawsuit and award was brought about by AT&T…all she did was file the paperwork for them.
This is why for the last decade, I have had a complete non-fraternization policy with my co-workers. I don‘t want to know anything about them and I don’t want them knowing anything about me. I am friend-ly with them, but not friends. My friends are those I choose to be around after work, not those I am forced to be around while at work. I have zero interest in discussing work when I get off, so I avoid co-workers after hours.
True, you can never have enough friends…but there are more than enough people on this planet to be friends with, that you don’t have to pick from people at work.
Report Post »CafeConservative
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:24amMy thoughts as well. While I have absolutely zero appreciation for Islam, either people with certain beliefs are allowed to work for your company or they are not. A bad joke here or there is one thing but persistent harassment cannot be tolerated. If you can’t maintain at least a semi-professional work environment, then you deserve to be sued. Perhaps $5M is a little large of a settlement but the company did need a wake up.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:49amDo they do the same for Christian’s?? Hell no! Aren’t we being harassed from every side? We have to remove our crosses, our nativity scenes.. whats the difference.. Its absolutely no difference at all! And why aren‘t we suing the hell out of our employers or our schools or even the athiests when they say we can’t wear a cross necklace.. or when we pray or read our scriptures in a public place?? Christian’s are being assaulted every day.. who stands up for them. And why don’t we sue,, because we are Christians.. we are above that.What would Jesus do? He would turn the other cheek.. thats what he taught us! Unlike some who sue to enrich themselves! Whats to stop every Islamist in this country to sue,like those cab drivers who complained that they were being harassed cause they were being penalized for stopping to pray… If we don’t stand up for our faith, or Jesus Christ soon.. we my as well kiss Christianity away! Soagain, I ask you.. what is the difference between a cross and a hijab.. or the thing she wears on her head?? Both are symbols of our faith and yet they can keep theirs and we cannot? I call that unfair!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:52amIslam is a CULT. Islam is anti-women; ISLAM has -0- to do with the GOD who created the Universe. ISLAM is from Satan. All that surrounds ISLAM is evil, deathly, warring. There is NOTHING PEACEFUL about ISLAM. Islam is a manic, crazed activity. They can’t even decide on ONE MESSIAH! It is man-made hell with the help of Satan. It was a rip-off of the Jewish and Christian faiths 700 years after Christ Died for us. Maybe now AT&T and the rest of the big boys will realize the damage this CULT has done to the world and join in those trying to educate the rest of the world about the severe dangers of ISLAM. Pray for the Islamic people who have been conned then trapped into this deathly cult, they cannot escape. Any woman who joins this cult on her own deserves what she gets and must have self-destruct tendencies.
Report Post »FINALLY: There is nothing wrong or anti-religious in standing up AGAINST ISLAM !!! It is the same as standing up against EVIL.
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 12:28pm@ abbygirl1994
Um…because they didn‘t tell her she couldn’t wear it. They made jokes, left pamplets/tracts from another religion in her work space, made physical contact (grabbing it off her head) and then they never responded to her complaints until she sued.
I’d have no problem if they said she could not wear it due to safety (machinery she may have worked around), a dress code, etc…but they didn’t…they just harassed her.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:05pm@JimCDew
Since when is Islam a religion? It most certainly is not. It’s more of an ideology.
People have to get tough because the world ain’t being filled with “nicer” people as the years progress. 5 million? It‘s a complete sham and I don’t give a rat’s ass whose “religion” (using the term lightly in the case of Islam) is being offended.
Candy-ass Central these days.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:50pmPATTY HENRY
Report Post »This women prays to “The God of Abraham”
who do you Pray to?
nzkiwi
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:26pmPeople need to realise that Islam is a cult steeped in violence and intolerance, that is being used by the leaders for their own ends.
They have targeted the west, and they say so openly. First Israel, which is in their midst, then America, and then the rest of us. They have made great strides in Europe using exactly these techniques. EXACTLY these techniques. Do you guys wish for America to end up in the same place as Europe is now?
They have made it plain in countless public statements that they are at war with the west and that domination is their goal. They have been frank in stating their strategies, and openly sneer at the wests culture of tolerance. They tell us these things openly and repeatedly.
TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD.
This has nothing to do with religion beyond using it as a tool for dominance and control.
To tolerate this creeping Sharia, is to tolerate a viper in your living room.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:11pm@PATTY HENRY
Islam is one of the three branches of Abrahamic religion, the other two being Judaism and Christianity. There are many similarities between the three religions. As far as being anti-woman all three religions (as well as many non-Abrahamic religions) are anti-woman when you look closely. Woman can‘t be priests and they can’t sit with men in Orthodox synagogues. Most religions hold women to be nothing more inferior beings and unclean temptresses. Leviticus 21:9–”And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.” I Corinthians 14:34-35–”Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” And so on and so forth.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:29pmI’d have trouble working with anyone in a hijab. I’d harass them too. I hate Islam. Islam is disgusting and has no place in a decent society.
Report Post »ncgrammie4
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:39pmWhen I went to work for the phone company in the late 60′s we were told that “we hired you to be a good employee, not a good anything else”. We had to make our outside life coinside with our committment to our job. Everyone understands that. What if nurses refused to wear uniforms or work certain hours, or prayer times, when dying patients need them? As far as the harrassment, who hasn’t felt harrassed a time or two in their life. Get over it and quit complaining when it fits your purpose. I am a practicing Christian and don’t go around demanding special treatment.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 8:04pmI could see it getting out of hand and excessive when it’s a union workplace and the leadership failed to act and as the union thugs thought they could never be fired continued harassment all with the approval of their supervisors. It serves the company right to become union but the cost will not come from their pocket it will just be tacked onto your next phone bill unions their untouchables had it come out of union pockets they probably would have nipped it in the bud.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:45am$5 million finances a lot of terrorist.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:13amWell said “I agree”
Report Post »jeann
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:13amI agree
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:13pmSo… whom gets the Money? — This Slave… or her Master?
If you become a Muslim… not only are your Women slaves… but you can beat the crap out of them!
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:22pmYour proof? Oh that’s right you have none. You just spout b.s and other idiots back you up on it.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:43amGee, who would have thought that after 9/11 in 2001….and that after her “ conversion” to Islam in 2005, she might be looked upon with a certain amount of suspicion ?? Oh, and let me guess : she is just a friendly, co operative, social fellow worker . Not a social misfit itching for a little disharmony and office disruption ? Oh, no. Am sure she has no history of problems getting along with people….
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:50amThey grabbed her hajib?
By the looks of her, she should be wearing a berqua
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:40amShe was fired after not returning to work for nine months. Sound justified to me. What I wonder is why it took them 9 months to fire her. Anyone else would have been fired after 2 days.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:48amI know a lady who had evidence that her boss was stealing every day from the store he managed…she was his secretary. She contacted the proper people and told them that she loved her job but would not return to work until he was fired and replaced. She was out 3 months before they fired him.
Now, they could have easily fired her as well for “not going to work” but they didn’t. She got her old job back and back pay.
This lady has a mountain of evidence showing she was harrassed, that she reported it, that she gave them options –fire the man responsible for stopping it, or transfer her– it’s not that she was out 9 months, it’s that they failed to act on an OBVIOUS problem for 9 months.
They knew there was a problem, they knew she had evidence of the problem, they refused to act on the problem…and ultimately they retaliated against her by firing her. I’m sure they thought they had their “ducks in a row” to prevail in court…but they were wrong.
AT&T did everything but get on their knees and beg for a lawsuit and a large judgement against them…their wish was granted.
And for the record, I despise islam and muslims.
Report Post »cdcats8
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:40amI didn‘t know Muslim’s got divorced. Does she still follow that religion?
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:48amTechnically, her ex-husband is allowed to behead her for divorce, right?
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:49amShe converted from being a Christian to Muslim..other news outlet reported.
Report Post »krjones
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:00amCan he have sex with her until six hours after the divorce?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:39amThe Muslim way……..use our courts to advance their agenda. It happens again and again with C.A.I.R. being the chief offender in this high stakes game of America Losem.
Muslims are always offended, Muslims are always complaining of mistreatment, Muslims are Muslims.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:56amInteresting which groups play the Blame Game . So many social misfits. So many angry, disruptive losers.
Report Post »NukeHaze
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:05amSo she got offended that someone, her supervisor(?), allegedly insulted her hajib? Was the color of it disagreeable? Making women wear hajibs and burquas is tantamount to making slaves wear shackles in this culture. She was offended that someone insulted her shackles. Just wow. For people who define freedom as the complete and total subjugation to allah’s will, we cannot expect to ever understand them. The radicals anyway, Dr.. Zhudi Jasser is one of the great outspoken true peace seeking muslim practitioners and is NOT involved with CAIR and the other support groups. How long do we continue to aid and abed those who wish nothing but to deceive us until they can kill us as is written in the part of their Quo’ran that says what to do with those who do not follow allah. Freedom is not being subjugated but having the ability to make decisions of your own. What they should understand but do not is that true conversions is never done by force but through the heart (soul, spirit) per the Spirit of God.
They would have us convert or die. If I remember a third of the host of Heaven was cast out for this communistic way of thinking. This is an evil and socialistic societies, communism, fascism, all would take away free will and remove the individual’s ability to choose to live up to potential gifts from their Creator. Capitalism is not perfect but it allows the most free will opportunites of any society ever in the history of Earth. The 5,000 year leap CANNOT have been for naug
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:39amSurprisingly we need to follow France’s lead. Ban burquas, ban calls to prayer that interfere with public movement, ban Sharia, make them comply with the law of the land, no religious exemptions or separate laws. Then maybe they will self deport and leave us alone. They are clever and very willing to use a fair and equitable system against itself, and it is their calling to lie to succeed against us.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:00amMaybe we should rethink that; France is getting ready to vote in a Socialist government.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:35amJust the burqa thing not advocating for socialism here.
Report Post »HolyCrap
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:48amOK, while we’re at it we need to ban that cross around your neck and the christian music you play in your office on company time. That’s fair, right?
Report Post »alrightalready
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:38amNew U.S. Law for January 2013: Jury awards capped in all fed courts at 5X actual damage awards. Nice move Missouri. Next Law: employers have ability to enforce their own company dress codes during office hours in the office, including no headgear. This is what happens when Sharia hits U.S. streets. Did she really need to cover up after 2004 in Kansas City?
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:38am“I was shocked. I thought, `What is going on?’” she told the newspaper. “Nobody ever cared what I wore before. Nobody ever cared what religion I was before.”-Susann Bashir (2005 convert)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>“SHOCKED” !
” I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
Report Post »” my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.”
-Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942)
barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:03amDUH. Maybe no one cared what you wore BEFORE because you dressed like other American females – not like the foreigners who had murdered 3,000 of your fellow citizens on 9/11 and who were still killing Americans in the Middle East . DUH. I am just surprised that her bosses didn’t fire her for ” stupidity !” I mean, how dense and clueless is that single comment. I sure would not want anyone with such poor judgement handling my business affairs. Oh, and am sure she was just a joy to work with ! A real positive spirit in the office ! Ho. Ho.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:55amRiiight…and if someone grabbed your yamulka off your head to clean their glasses, or the cross lapel pin off your jacket to pick their teeth with…well, that would have been hunkee-doree.
If we can’t set aside our hate to protect someone different from us, we can’t expect those laws to protect us.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:37amumn…umn…umn…this is pathetically sad.
Report Post »LastAmerican
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:37amEffing unreal.
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:36amI have personal experience with JW;s. They are required to convert you. If they cannot do that, they are forbidden to associate with you. Tell me how this could work in the workplace?? I am a Christian. If I did that I would be booted in a heartbeat and there would be no rewards in court. I used to be tolerant of others and their religion. The great divider has changed all that for everybody. Especially Christians.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:19amantrancher, – You said of the JW’s; “They are required to convert you. If they cannot do that, they are forbidden to associate with you.
You have been misinformed and your statement is not accurate.
Report Post »If you are indeed a Christian as you claim, you would understand what they are trying to do for you. Matthew 28:18-20
PaxInVeritate
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:11amYELLOWFIN…
Report Post »“If you are indeed a Christian as you claim, you would understand what they are trying to do for you. Matthew 28:18-20″
Being that she is already a Christian she shouldn’t need for JW to try an convert her to what she already has accepted… that Jesus Christ is her Lord and Savior.
I find it to be a form of harassment after telling the same JW‘s that come to my door that I’m Catholic and enjoy being so. Yet they return every 3 months or so… the same fracken people who look at me like they never met me at my own door. I politely say, “No thank you.”, and that “I’m practicing Catholic and will remain so till my last breath and please once again do not come to try to convert me. Have a good day.” Sure enough, 3 or 4 months latter the same friggen JW people return to my door step. On top of that, I live on a private 1/4 mile road. *Sigh* ENOUGH already!
YellowFin
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 12:00pmPaxInVeritate,
I was responding to antrancher’s comment on how it was inaccurate.
As far as your feelings that they are harassing you and this makes you angry, this is unfortunate, but they are doing what our Lord Jesus commanded Christians to do in these “last days”. Matthew 24:14
Jesus taught his disciples to do exactly what you are angry over.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:36amPretty Mus“lame” IMO. I’m not a endorser of work place harrassment of any type, but I see this as another motivator for Islam/Muslames to get at us, as a whole, throught the court system… one case at a time.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:33amIt seems a little harsh to fire someone for not coming to work for only 9 months. There should be a federal law that requires companies to retain absent employees for at three or four years.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:40amTry firing someone in some European countries ….ha! (not funny)
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:51amWe already have one, it’s in the New York City school system. They have dozens and dozens of teachers who can’t go back into a classroom, but their UNION contracts say they can’t be fired either.
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barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:53amSPIRITED: yes. And that is just what the Obama Far Left Democrats have planned for us : to be just as dysfunctional as Europe…all basically ” anti-capitalist “…
Report Post »BradLee
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:32amSo…she couldn’t handle being talked about behind her back, so she stopped coming to work for 9 months, got fired, and sued for it???!?!?! Wow. Must be nice.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:32amActually, she looks more like a Roman Catholic nun and that is just as perverse as being a Muslim.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:38amFe, Fi, Fo, Fum. ..I smell a Lefty ! Know they hate the Catholic Church. Just like Big Brother Obama.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:40amWhat’s the matter? Those old Catholic nuns scare you? You poor little wimp, go get your bottle and your mom will read you a story.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:23pm@barber2
Catholic Church aka Pedophile Paradise.
Report Post »Z
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:32amThat’s bull. It was her choice to convert. That was not the image of the employee they hired. They should have had a dress code.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:32amOh how nice. This money will buy many bombs to kill us with. I love Muslims, they’re so cuddly and cute – like snakes.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:19pm@disenlightened
Report Post »Yes, it’s a good thing that Christians would never do something like that. Wait, I’m being told that Christians have bombed schools in Northern Ireland, created death squads in Lebanon and elsewhere to kill civilians (including children) simply because they aren’t Christian, perpetrated the Spanish Inquisition in which “men of God” created torture instruments and methods never before used so that they could spread the glory of the Lord. I don’t believe it! I bet all that stuff was just made up by liberals.
lynnissmart
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:29amJust another manipulation of our system…..I do know someone who has a job, her spouse has a job and yet she is on welfare and her kid goes to a private school paid by guess who…..us!!!!
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:58amSimple, turn them in!
Report Post »Fitzzz
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:29amExcuse me, but she does not show up to work for NINE months, so they fired her
Report Post »My question, why did they wait so long
Next when she was hired did she go to her interview wearing her headscarf ?
After converting, did she want special privilages ?
bikerdogred1
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:26amThis looks like a law suit that was in planning for many years.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:42am…10 years or 10,000
>That is the motto.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:25amThe convenient ‘conversion’ was used for this end result,she knew she would be harassed and that‘s most likely her motivation for ’conversion’,a lawsuit with some cash at the back end. I wonder how successful an American would be in a lawsuit against some company in any **** hole middle eastern country.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:15pmYeah , she converted and then waited three years to sue over harassment. A brilliant plan. p.s. You’re an idiot.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 3:04pmYou‘re trying to hurt my feelings and you’ve failed you fool.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:20amWell, good for the jury, they just aided the cause of Islam. They sure know how to work our system to their benefit.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:44amjust using the system to destroy the system….
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:02amTop down, bottom up,inside out! It’s the Obama ptogram!
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:13pm@NHwinterF
They “aided the cause of Islam” by telling AT&T that the years-long abuse of this woman was wrong and will not be tolerated?
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:17amIs there any way to stop this madness or have we already gone too far over the cliff?
Report Post »lisalake
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:57amDo not hire muslims-they are here to destroy. Plain & simple.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:23pm“Do not hire muslims-they are here to destroy. Plain & simple.”
They can come in claiming to be an agnostic or whatever… then all of a sudden it’s a Hijab wearing sue happy (by design) Muslame convert and you’re stuck. It’s like being stuck with an affirmative action “appointment” for a job they may have no business being in and looking for any reason to claim discrimination…
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