Salty

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Amen, brother!

Reuters and AP would have a field day. Seeing how it's the other way around it's only local news.

HellaDumb

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I thought I was going to find **** in this thread!

pbchief2

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I see nothing different here than many companies I work for that do not allow you to carry firearms in their vehicles. I was dismissed for carrying mine in the vehicle while working out of town.

Kevin M

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She was fired for failing to comply with company policy, not for being non-muslim. I'm sure it was in her company guidelines that she read when hired.

Salty

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Since when is company policy limit you from eating a BLT? Let's not compare apples to oranges on this issue seeing how the CEO -is- Muslim. Eating pork during lunch doesn't effect the image of the company like a scandalous outfit -nor- disrupt work... it's bread, lettuce, tomato and bacon with mayonnaise. :baffled:

The company policy is obviously religiously influenced and ridiculous. If I started a company in Jacksonville, MO that forbid fried chicken, watermelon and colla'd greens you can bet I’d be coined a racist even though it's "company policy". Although my example demonstrates racism and the story at hand suggests religious discrimination, BOTH are against equal rights and should be treated as such.

Kevin M

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And Hooters waitresses are degraded by their sexist, chauvinist, and immoral (by some standards) uniforms. You remember the uproar over putting the Hooters in Natomas. Whether they are right or wrong is besides the point. If a woman got a job as aHooters girl and showed up for work in a turtleneck and sweatpants, she'd be fired to for failing to meet conditions she knew to exist.

I didn't say the company was right for making the policy. But this woman can't complain about getting fired after being warned for breaking the rules.

Furthermore, we're talking about policy, defined by religious people in a privately-run organization. It is just like a company, run by Baptists, which prohibits blasphemy. If you work there and say "God damn it" enough, you'd be fired there too. FYI, eating "unclean meat" is blasphemous to Muslims; it is defiance of the Word of God as they se it. It's far less petty than it seems to those of us not accustomed to the details of religions different than our own.

Salty

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I agree with you only if she refused to take of the turtleneck and sweat pants after being asked nicely by the management. Let's not forget that cleavage is Hooter's theme... this other woman simply got the boot for some bacon and pizza toppings because the CEO (a practicing Muslim) admittedly said "pork was considered unclean"

I can see her getting fired if she poured the scalding bacon fat over her boss' head but to fire her for a company violation that's prohibited under the EO act is asinine, illegal and un-American.

Wrong... you can get away with much more on private land, such as, the right to have private security possess firearms and things of that nature. However, if you violate state laws and the constitution your private land rights mean absolutely dick.

The CEO can write damn near anything in his company policy and every employee can abide by biting their tongue. But if these policies infringe on state, federal laws and constitutional rights and said employee decides to complain -or- exercise their rights, then they're null and void.

I deal with private property all the time and the property owners still pay taxes, have IRS liens and live on U.S. soil. The only way this CEO could have gotten away with this within "United States boundaries" is if his company was located in/on any foreign embassy or consulate which wouldn't conflict with his company policy.

Kevin M

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You're forgetting one thing- the Constitution only protects us from the government, not each other. The Bill of Rights doesn't apply in Civil matters.

Rock Strongo

That is a clear cut case of discrimination. Period.

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