Muslims in Europe dogged by bias, Amnesty says {boo hoo hoo}

CNN ^ | 24 April 2012 | Joe Sterling

[Cronos]

Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, an Amnesty International report said.

"Muslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress, such as the headscarf. Men can be dismissed for wearing beards associated with Islam," said Marco Perolini, Amnesty International's expert on discrimination. "Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes."

The report, titled "Choice and Prejudice: Discrimination Against Muslims in Europe" and issued on Monday, details the problem, with a focus on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.

..The report said employers have been permitted "to discriminate on the grounds that religious or cultural symbols will jar with clients or colleagues or that a clash exists with a company's corporate image or its 'neutrality.' "Wearing religious and cultural symbols and dress is part of the right of freedom of expression. It is part of the right to freedom of religion or belief -- and these rights must be enjoyed by all faiths equally." Perolini said

..The right to establish places of worship "is being restricted in some European countries, despite state obligations to protect, respect and fulfill this right," Amnesty International said. For example, the Swiss Constitution "has specifically targeted Muslims with the prohibition of the construction of minarets," it said. Muslims in the Catalonian region of Spain must pray outdoors "because existing prayer rooms are too small to accommodate all the worshippers and requests to build mosques are being disputed as incompatible with the respect of Catalan traditions and culture."

[GOPJ]

I agree. Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan comes to mind. However the quran and it’s antithetical outlook with regard to anything and everything outside of it makes it an extremely problematical document, and hence an extremely problematical system of thought. I think though that I should amend my earlier statement of “prejudice” to “antagonism with extreme prejudice”.

I agree. Thanks for saying the truth so well...

[GraceG]

[ So Ammesty is upset that some muslim man might lose a job because of his beard but doesn’t seemed concerned that the same muslim man may beat his own daughter to death because she talked to a man he did not know or approve of......
What a bunch of hypocrites....... ]

Employ all Muslim men working on machines with rapidly exposed rotating parts and all Muslim Women in outdoor jobs working in the sun.

They will either loose their beards and burquas or the problem will take care of itself.

[GreyHoundSailor]

As do I. The worst they have to deal with in Europe is nothing compared to the government-sanctioned persecution of non-muslims that exists in their home countries.

[Cronos]

the problem is the philosophy of Islam. That is evil, just as communism is evil

[GOPJ]

We know a tree by it’s fruit... Islam has a way of producing great evil...

[Cronos]

I think more importantly is the quantity of bad fruit. There are evil Christians, Buddhists, Hindus etc., but the sheer quantity of evil that is produced by islam, over the centuries is incredible

[GOPJ]

I totally agree with you. There are plenty of nice Muslims - but they're nice in spite of Islamic beliefs. Of all major religions, Islam's the closest to a cult, produces the most evil, creates the least good among it's adherents, and adds almost nothing to the cultures it infects. Also, they're involved in almost every war going on in the world today.

[tomkat]