Posted on 12/20/2009 10:15:27 AM PST by La Lydia
A Muslim chef who lost a claim of religious discrimination against Scotland Yard after complaining he was forced to cook sausages and bacon faces a legal bill of more than £75,000. Hasanali Khoja accused the Metropolitan Police of failing to consider his Islamic beliefs when he was asked to handle pork products as a catering manager at a police station. The £23,000-a-year chef claimed suggestions by his bosses that he should wear gloves and use tongs left him 'stressed and humiliated'...But Mr Khoja, 62, lost his claim in May after a police employee told an employment tribunal how she saw Mr Khoja eat bacon rolls and sausages.
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has now won a ruling ordering Mr Khoja to pay its costs, which total at least £76,200. In its costs claim, the Met said Mr Khoja 'knew that he had asked for a bacon roll two or three times for personal consumption before bringing his claim and throughout the conduct of his claim'.
'The fact that he had knowingly come into contact with pork products before bringing the claim shows that the claim had no reasonable prospect of success from the outset.'... Mr Khoja, who is still employed by the Met, claimed at a hearing in Watford that he could afford to pay only £80 a week as he has little income, lives in rented property and is struggling with £30,000 legal bills of his own. But the court discovered he had sold another home last year, splitting profits of almost £200,000 with his wife and two sons. The decision is another setback for the police chef, who believed he was on course for a large settlement when he launched his case in 2007....
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When the local Imam finds out, dude is a dead man! No apostacy in Islam!
Ha!
Shows how far the brits have sunk that this clown thought he could cash in and get away with it.
By gum! I’m going to convert to islam and establish a new career of suing for fun and profit.
By the way, I love the UK Guardian. They have the perfect dose of celebrity bread and circuses to lighten my miserable existence.
I’m glad he was not able to “pork” the system as he’d hoped. Western nations need to deport all muslims post haste.
Yet they arrive, and all of a sudden want hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years of tradition to be bucked because of so-called religious reasons.
Now, what does happen a lot is that groups bring their "traditions" to the country their moving to, which is arguably bad enough, but these Muslims are the only ones I know that want to actually change the traditions of the country their moving to so as to fit them. And the UK, most of the time, acquiesces to this stupidity.
Well, evidently in England there are police chiefs and police chefs.
So a police chef wouldn’t handle a pig, hmmmmmm.
Exactly. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Nooo, when they come, they make demands and expect others to pay for their supposed hurt widdle feelings. They’re always scheming and planning. Sad thing how so many bend over backwards for them.
As for the pork eater in the article, no virgins or raisins for him.
No Virgins for him!
Oes noes! However will he pay for those RPGs and the C-4 now?
If you don’t like the image? Vote Conservative and start getting people back to real jobs.
I love it when a plan falls apart!
Word of advice: Do it in America where there are no consequences for losing, and shysters will take your case on spec for a cut of the profits.
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