Thursday, December 16, 2010

Safoorah Khan - Muslim Teacher

I am still pondering this one. 

She is a teacher at Berkeley School in the suburbs of Chicago
She is Muslim
She asks for 3 week unpaid leave to make pilgrimage to Mecca
School District twice turns her down
She filed a lawsuit in federal court
The government tells the school district to adopt policies to accommodate employee religious practices and beliefs, and to reinstate Khan with back pay and also pay her compensatory damages.
Then Khan filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity commission, which found reasonable cause that discrimination had occurred and forwarded the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.

More to follow, but this might be the lesson:  Be careful before you hire a Muslim!

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