Posted on 10/10/2007 11:42:22 PM PDT by camerakid400
AN AIRPORT suspended a Roman Catholic worker after a Muslim colleague protested about an image of Jesus pinned up on a staffroom wall.
Gareth Langmead, 40, was stunned to be sent home from Manchester airport after putting up the image of the Sacred Heart.
Bosses are said to have ordered the car parks supervisor to be escorted off the premises after the Muslim complained.
Mr Langmead was only reinstated three days later after an investigation found that his action was not intended to be “malicious or provocative”.
The row comes a year after BA check-in worker Nadia Eweida was suspended for wearing a cross at Heathrow. Yesterday friends and union representatives backed Mr Langmead.
One friend said: “He’s really gutted about this. “When he found the image in an office drawer, he thought it would be nice to pin it up. “In the end he was treated like a criminal and walked off the premises. He wasn’t trying to annoy anyone.
He is Christian and it is a Christian piece of art. What is wrong with that?” Unison union official Glyn Platt said: “Suspending him was an over-reaction – this could have been dealt with informally.
“It would have been more appropriate for someone to have had a quiet word with him, or to ask him to take the picture down if it caused any offence, rather than take any action. “There are no guidelines on what should or should not be pinned on a wall.”
It is understood that Mr Langmead found the picture while cleaning out an office. He felt unable to throw it in a bin because of its religious importance and could not take it home in case that was seen as theft.
It is understood the co-worker who complained alleged that hanging the picture was an “act of provocation”.
But the investigation ruled that Mr Langmead, of Atherton, near Wigan, had not meant to cause offence.
A Manchester airport spokes- man said yesterday: “This investigation was concluded swiftly. “The employee has returned to work with a clean record.
“We have agreed with our airport chaplain that he and his team will work with the employees involved to foster a greater level of understanding of each other’s beliefs and how this applies to the workplace.”
I thought the Muslims were supposed to revere Jesus as well, although they consider him a profit, not the Son of God.
Actions speak louder than words, and the complaint by the Muslim and the overreaction of the employer both show how far Western Civilization has fallen.
Opps, prophet, not profit. Mods, please fix before I get ragged for the idiot I obviously am. :-P
Don’t worry about it. The vocabulary police are sleeping.
Well, they do in their own way. The thing is, Islam prohibits people from creating any image of any prophet or religious figure. They consider crucifixes and most Christian art to be profane.
If you ever get the chance to visit any of the ancient Christian churches in the middle east, you’ll notice that the Muslims have chipped the faces off all the statues and paintings of Jesus. This is why.
The problem was with the “image”. They avoid depicting people in their art.
We should form a religion which is offended by beards and women with head coverings. Then what would the PC police do? We need to do something to show the stupidity of this stuff.
We are making a very serious mistake, moving in more Muslims into our midst. I honestly don’t have a quibble with them, but they act like they own the place, and it’s beginning to wear just a wee bit thin by now. They snap their fingers and long term citizens jump ten feet high.
What gives? This is simply idiotic.
Imagine going to another nation and making an ass out of yourself like these people seem pefectly willing to do.
Too many of them are proving themselves to be unable to assimilate.
So the persecution of Christians begins....
Should I have ended my post with a sarcasm disclaimer....? Or not?
ping if you’re interested...
Opps, prophet, not profit. Mods, please fix before I get ragged for the idiot I obviously am. :-P
That would be 'oops', not 'opps'...
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
I wonder if the headline writer meant to raise the specter of a literal axing.
If one had actually occurred, who here would've been surprised?
There is very very very low tolerance for this crap in the UK amongst the 19-26 generation. I have seen YouTube videos of squads of young men in ski masks threatening to kick every Muslim out of the country their way if they continue to attack innocent people and force Islam and its way of life on them.
Muslims are begging for fights any way they can get one. They are pure attention whores.
It all goes to show how to get respect—murder thousands of people.
No we’re not.
This is the danger of liberalism.
By making people bend over backwards, by branding them racists if they object, by not letting such things happen gradually in the culture, all that happens is resentment and violence.
By forcing people to “accept” one another before they are ready to, all you do is create hard feelings and make the process longer.
Shows you how stupid people are; if this is true.
The great Lion, Britan, is not roaring anymore; rather squeaking.
Whatever do you mean? Certainly an American can go to Iran and demand that the Ayatollahs punish an airport worker for displaying something Islamic. I'm sure they are very accommodating to the sensibilities of people with other belief systems. Why they might even use a sharp blade on your neck instead of a dull one.
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