tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115111221592419847.post7919676444441554006..comments2015-10-13T23:06:42.300-07:00Comments on Australia Tomorrow: Headscarf a la canteSqualid Shoeboxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00386246455480907460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115111221592419847.post-22573660184380081862008-08-12T01:18:00.000-07:002008-08-12T01:18:00.000-07:00"Many Muslim women working in fields such as law a..."Many Muslim women working in fields such as law and medicine felt that employers and colleagues saw them as less intellectually capable or professionally committed compared with other staff if they wore traditional Islamic dress..."<BR/><BR/>That is a blatant contradiction of the rest of the text, which says explicitly that qualification and competence is NOT an issue, but that the employers don't want to provide a stage for a religion/political movement they perceive (justifiedly) as aggressive and dangerous to their own culture. Taqqiya at it's finest!<BR/><BR/>"Some women felt they had to bow to pressure from employers and remove their hijab so as to secure employment."<BR/><BR/>In a free country with a free job market, employers can put as much pressure on their employers as they bloody well like. When I used to work for a publisher in London, I got an earful when I wore jeans at the office on a Friday. They were right, I was wrong, I knew the convention and had violated it. Had the employer violated any "rights" of mine? Clearly not. Why should a headscarf be treated any different? Wait... it's a Muslim thing and lo and behold, right is wrong and wrong is right.<BR/><BR/>"Employers have a clear legal duty to accommodate the religious practices of their workers,"<BR/><BR/>They have nothing of that sort, free country, free job market and all that. Human rights can be claimed only from the state, not from a co-citizen. But we are so shit-scared that we humbly give up one of the foundations of the rule of law, the freedom of contract, and nobody even notices.Evil Style Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03001686810994351436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115111221592419847.post-79145518106412703182008-08-11T15:28:00.000-07:002008-08-11T15:28:00.000-07:00So if I wear a Tshirt with a picture of Mo with a ...So if I wear a Tshirt with a picture of Mo with a bomb in his turban and the words mo sucks beneath it, the woman in a hijab serving me must tolerate that and not be rude to me. Just expressing myself just like she is expressing herself.John Sobieskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954797087827357102noreply@blogger.com