And this week’s prize pillock is …

… A LAWYER called Steph, who must be the only non-Muslim on the planet who thinks that the award of £4,000 to the egregious little opportunist Bushra Noah was a good thing.

Well, actually, she doesn’t – she thinks that Noah, whose presence in Sarah Desroises Kings Cross salon would have sent clients running screaming for cover – should have received a great deal MORE!

Desrosiers went running to the press and publicised the story, which led to Noah receiving hate mail. For some reason the tribunal didn’t take that into account when awarding compensation.

Steph, “a practicing Catholic” – keep practicing, lady, you might soon get it right – likens the vivacious Desrosiers to “a cheap crack whore” – and in tortuously mangled, badly punctuated paragraph – says:

She is whining to the press that she has done nothing wrong and that she has lost £40,000 of her salon’s annual income but it was entirely self-inflicted, her argument that she refused to employ Noah because wearing the headscarf would have a negative impact on her business’s stylistic integrity was obviously not true, apart from the fact that Desrosiers’ unkempt, poorly dyed pink hair, and jailhouse tattoos, don’t ooze style, there are plenty of successful stylists and salons with observant Muslims working in them. Also, Desrosiers, commenting on Noah being turned down for other jobs because of the headscarf, said ”Well, what do you expect?” – which is pretty good indication that she doens’t (sic) think employers should employ observant Muslim women …

Phew. You need four extra-strength Anadin and a long lie-down in a darkened room after untangling that little lot …

Her remark that ‘people’s feelings get injured every day’ completely misses the point – when people’s feelings are injured by an employer, who needlessly discriminates against them: they have a right to sue.

No Steph, it’s YOU who is missing the point – by a mile. One of the thousands of supporters who left messages of support for Desrosiers on dozens of blogs in the past week made this very valid point:

If someone has a fundamental imperative to keep every thread of hair on their head covered up, why would they want to devote their professional life helping others to do precisely the opposite?

Call me cynical, but I think that Noah – like so many others who insist on rubbing people’s noses in their imbecilic piety – saw a chance of jumping on the gravy train. There is every indication that she (or someone manipulating her) knew full well that, by playing the “religious discrimination” card, she had an excellent chance of forcing the PC-driven authorities to docilely roll over and cough up the cash.

As I said in an earlier post, this is case – which should never have come before a tribunal – is bound to open the floodgates to a great many more spurious claims for “hurt feelings.”