Jun 18 2008
The Insanity of Appeasing Muslims
It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals how she was driven to the brink of ruin - and forced to pay £4,000 for ‘hurt feelings’ - after refusing to hire a Muslim stylist who wouldn’t show her hair at work.
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For a year, Sarah has been facing financial ruin, due to a compensation claim for £34,000 brought by Bushra, 19, who has maintained she is due that figure after being turned down for a job at the Wedge salon in London’s King’s Cross.
In the event, the tribunal ruled this week that while Bushra’s claim of direct discrimination failed, her claim for indirect discrimination had succeeded.
Sarah has therefore been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation by way of ‘injury to feelings’.
Although this is a smaller sum than she’d feared she might have to hand over, Sarah, 32, is still outraged.
‘I am a small business and the bottom line is that this is not a woman who worked for me,’ says Sarah.
The muslim in question was also rejected by 25 other salons and even though she admits that Sarah said nothing that could be construed as an insult, she opted to sue. My guess is that Sarah looked like the softest target.
This is what comes of the ludicrous notion that offended feelings deserve compensation. Moreover it speaks to the insidious control the state exerts over the private business owner who has less and less freedom to conduct business profitably or in accordance with their beliefs. Such interference with private enterprise becomes even more insidious when coupled with the additional threat posed by the very dangerous momentum with which sharia compliant banking is being implemented across the world. As it progresses, so does the imposition of sharia law.
Yet, we allow muslims continue to use our laws against us. And it isn’t just in England. Islam has global ambitions, and as one writer cautions, while warning of the acceleration of muslim sponsored censorship, it has become an issue that crosses all national boundaries.
“We can no longer be secure in the knowledge that our own laws or constitution will protect us. THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THREAT and we’ve got to be watching for changes globally rather than nationally if we want to be prepared for what is going to absolutely affect each one of us.” (source)
From refusing to wear uniforms, to protesting male western doctors treating muslim women, to muslim taxi cab drivers demanding special privileges , not to mention the pathetic dhimmis who acquiesce to muslim extortion, like the execrable Oregon principle who had the audacity to ban the Pledge of Allegiance in an American public elementary school, for fear of offending Muslims.
This list can go on and on - creeping sharia and cultural jihad continues, abetted by the left, in nation after nation.
What the hell is it going to take for Americans to freaking wake up? And it won’t be Barack Hussein Obama who finally gets a clue, the would-be president who finds the shrill islamic “call to prayer” melodic and permits advocacy of “honor” killings on his official campaign site...
In 1997, Sarah got a job at a salon on London’s Portobello Road, where she remained for almost a decade. In March 2006, feeling ready to spread her wings, she wrote a business plan, secured a loan and invested £5,000 of her savings into the lease on a small salon on Caledonian Road.
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‘I’d never felt as proud as I did on the day I picked up the keys to my salon,’ says Sarah.I was prepared to put my heart and soul into my business in order to make ends meet, and for the first few months, I worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, all by myself. ‘I barely saw daylight, but I didn’t mind because I was fulfilling my ambition.
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By March 2007, the business was doing so well that Sarah needed to take on another stylist. (source)
And then a muslim walked in. A muslim applying to an “edgy” salon, garbed in head scarf down to her brows. And she was looking for an excuse to sue, of that I have no doubt. Sarah interviewed her, discovered that she would refuse to remove her head scarf and that was the end of it in her mind. If style is the product that you sell, and hair is the showcase, it is rather obvious that a dour muslim with nary a wisp of hair showing isn’t a good match. Rather like applying to be a nude model and refusing to take off your clothes. A sensible person simply wouldn’t apply.
One morning in the second week of June 2007, an innocuous white envelope landed on Sarah’s doormat. It contained a letter saying that she was being sued for £15,000 for indirect and direct discrimination by Bushra Noah. This, the letter stated, related to compensation for injury to her feelings and lost earnings. Later, that figure was increased to £34,000.
And so it goes. In every country where muslims are seeking a stronghold, charges of discrimination and threats of lawsuits are becoming common. It is the same victim’s templates used by all so-called minorities. And small business owners simply trying to hold their own, to make a living, are confronted with a well oiled grievance machine with absolutely no support from their individual governments. In fact, too many governments are bending their knees to these extortionists.
If you, as an American, have no intention of bowing down before foreign gods, then you damn well better start fighting.
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