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3rd March 2014, 07:13 AM
$1.1 Million Awarded Muslim Man in Beard Discrimination Claim
Posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2014 at 3:33 am. by: Rick Wells
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In spite of the high concentration of Muslim residents, someone (http://pamelageller.com/2014/03/detroit-jury-awards-muslim-man-record-1-1m-beard-discrimination.html/) in Detroit didn’t get the memo that they must be treated as the preferred class in America, along with homosexuals. Equal treatment can be considered discrimination unless overwhelming evidence proves otherwise. In the interest of self-protection, special treatment and over-accomodation is the order of the day.
Detroit is broke, and now it is more broke, to the tune of $1.1 million after a jury determined that a Muslim man was fired from his job of 17 years because of his beard. He had the beard for the entire time of his employment, but once he lost his job he determined that it was because he was a Muslim and his associated unkempt appearance. Most jobs require minimum grooming standards and many prohibit facial hair. Still, the man, Ali Aboubaker, 56, didn’t feel he was accommodated enough.
His former employer, the county government denies any bias, saying Aboubaker, simply wasn’t qualified. Why it took seventeen years to figure that out is a bit curious.
America opened up its doors to Aboubaker when he came from Tunisia twenty years ago. He became a citizen and a member of the large Muslim community in the Detroit area. It is surprising that there would be discrimination against those sporting the familiar long beards in view of the large Muslim representation within the population.
As a supposed result of losing his job, Aboubaker lost his house, even though there are plenty on the market for ridiculously low prices, some advertised as low as $1. He claims he also lost his family and his wife of 26 years. Maybe she’s the one who didn’t like the beard.
There’s always difficulty when you go through a loss of income, most relationships survive the adversity. If theirs was on shaky ground to begin with, at what point does it become the fault of the county?
Aboubaker’s attorney called him destitute. Long before the six years it took for the processing of the lawsuit, if Aboubaker really wanted work, he should have gone to North Dakota. Jobs there are plentiful, even for guys with scruffy appearances. In fact, being scruffy can be an asset in rough and tumble North Dakota. Then again, that would have involved taking some responsibility for yourself instead of relying upon a court system to reach into the pockets of your former employer, and there is that empty space on the sidewalk.
His attorney claims that Aboubaker would get picked out in an airport for secondary screening. That may be so, and it might be justified. Grandmothers in wheel chairs get the same treatment, largely because of the actions of guys around the world that look like his client. They don’t expect the great equalizer of government to step in and redistribute some wealth to make everything better.
Attorney Akeel said, “After the verdict, he broke down crying because this is what is America to him. And I tell you, the facts of America shined yesterday.” If this is what America is to him, it explains much of the problems America, the nanny state of deep pockets, faces with its citizenry of today.
The verdict shows, Akeel said, that Americans really can look past the surface and realize all citizens deserve the same basic rights, no matter where they came from or what they look like.
“The people saw through all of this, and they saw a simple, humble man who was just terribly wronged,” he said. “They saw past the beard, saw past his name, bypassed all of the negative stigma and they just looked at the facts and the evidence and they gave the man what he lost. I mean, we got a verdict of $1.1 million which it just, it stunned the court.”
Akeel called the case one of the most influential he has ever been involved with.
Perhaps attorney Akeel is correct, that the jury looked past the bias, perhaps they also bought into a different bias and empowered some opportunists who saw a chance to strike it rich, claiming discrimination, and never having to work again.
The county plans an appeal.
Posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2014 at 3:33 am. by: Rick Wells
http://www.conservativeinfidel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/531-ali-aboubaker-awarded-muslim-payday.png (http://www.conservativeinfidel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/531-ali-aboubaker-awarded-muslim-payday.png)
In spite of the high concentration of Muslim residents, someone (http://pamelageller.com/2014/03/detroit-jury-awards-muslim-man-record-1-1m-beard-discrimination.html/) in Detroit didn’t get the memo that they must be treated as the preferred class in America, along with homosexuals. Equal treatment can be considered discrimination unless overwhelming evidence proves otherwise. In the interest of self-protection, special treatment and over-accomodation is the order of the day.
Detroit is broke, and now it is more broke, to the tune of $1.1 million after a jury determined that a Muslim man was fired from his job of 17 years because of his beard. He had the beard for the entire time of his employment, but once he lost his job he determined that it was because he was a Muslim and his associated unkempt appearance. Most jobs require minimum grooming standards and many prohibit facial hair. Still, the man, Ali Aboubaker, 56, didn’t feel he was accommodated enough.
His former employer, the county government denies any bias, saying Aboubaker, simply wasn’t qualified. Why it took seventeen years to figure that out is a bit curious.
America opened up its doors to Aboubaker when he came from Tunisia twenty years ago. He became a citizen and a member of the large Muslim community in the Detroit area. It is surprising that there would be discrimination against those sporting the familiar long beards in view of the large Muslim representation within the population.
As a supposed result of losing his job, Aboubaker lost his house, even though there are plenty on the market for ridiculously low prices, some advertised as low as $1. He claims he also lost his family and his wife of 26 years. Maybe she’s the one who didn’t like the beard.
There’s always difficulty when you go through a loss of income, most relationships survive the adversity. If theirs was on shaky ground to begin with, at what point does it become the fault of the county?
Aboubaker’s attorney called him destitute. Long before the six years it took for the processing of the lawsuit, if Aboubaker really wanted work, he should have gone to North Dakota. Jobs there are plentiful, even for guys with scruffy appearances. In fact, being scruffy can be an asset in rough and tumble North Dakota. Then again, that would have involved taking some responsibility for yourself instead of relying upon a court system to reach into the pockets of your former employer, and there is that empty space on the sidewalk.
His attorney claims that Aboubaker would get picked out in an airport for secondary screening. That may be so, and it might be justified. Grandmothers in wheel chairs get the same treatment, largely because of the actions of guys around the world that look like his client. They don’t expect the great equalizer of government to step in and redistribute some wealth to make everything better.
Attorney Akeel said, “After the verdict, he broke down crying because this is what is America to him. And I tell you, the facts of America shined yesterday.” If this is what America is to him, it explains much of the problems America, the nanny state of deep pockets, faces with its citizenry of today.
The verdict shows, Akeel said, that Americans really can look past the surface and realize all citizens deserve the same basic rights, no matter where they came from or what they look like.
“The people saw through all of this, and they saw a simple, humble man who was just terribly wronged,” he said. “They saw past the beard, saw past his name, bypassed all of the negative stigma and they just looked at the facts and the evidence and they gave the man what he lost. I mean, we got a verdict of $1.1 million which it just, it stunned the court.”
Akeel called the case one of the most influential he has ever been involved with.
Perhaps attorney Akeel is correct, that the jury looked past the bias, perhaps they also bought into a different bias and empowered some opportunists who saw a chance to strike it rich, claiming discrimination, and never having to work again.
The county plans an appeal.