Posted on 07/25/2008 8:17:32 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Two women claim in a lawsuit that a Michigan McDonald's refused to hire them because they wear the hijab, or Muslim headscarf.
Toi Whitfield of Detroit and Quiana Pugh of Dearborn say they were both told by managers at a McDonald's in Dearborn they would have to take off their hijabs to work, the Detroit Free Press reports. They filed a discrimination lawsuit Thursday in Detroit.
The Detroit area has one of the biggest Muslim communities in the United States, and the Dearborn McDonald's is one of only two restaurants in the chain that serves halal Chicken McNuggets that meet Muslim religious standards.
They'll take Muslim dollars, but won't hire Muslim female employees, said Dawud Walid, head of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Michigan.
The suit named McDonald's, the management company at the Dearborn store and the manager who allegedly refused to hire the two women.
A spokeswoman said the management company has a strict non-discrimination policy.
What is the probability that these two sought employment at
McDonalds for the SOLE PURPOSE of having their hijab challenged -for the purposes of a lawsuit? Eh?
I could not agree more.
It is also a "marker" to identify the woman as "one of our own" by Muslim men, putting them off-limits for uncouth behavior, or worse, that is acceptable to be directed to infidel women.
See rape in Scandinavia, where it is being used as a weapon by immigrant Muslims against the native Swedes, Norwegians and Danes.
I have not had any problems in UAE, Oman, Egypt or Yemen with clothing. I got moved to the front of the immigration line in Oman once when I was wearing an abaya and head scarf. Everyone else was Canadian and they were wearing shorts and tank tops, which is basically underwear in the middle east. Imagine a bus load of tourists showing up to US customs and immigration in their underwear and that's how beach wear worn anywhere but the beach/swimming pool is perceived here in the middle east. I bet that was the funniest thing those guys at the border post saw all day.
As to the rape of Scandinavian girls, maybe they need the same punishments in Scandinavia as they have here in UAE . . . lengthy jail sentences, followed by deportation of the entire family and a lifetime ban of re-entry and biometric scanning to make sure.
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