Comments on: Muslim chef cooks up a ‘religious discrimination’ case against the Metropolitan Police

By: Bacon-scoffing Muslim chef who lost discrimination claim faces Â£76,000 costs

Bacon-scoffing Muslim chef who lost discrimination claim faces Â£76,000 costs — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:51:25 +0000

[...] Hasanali Khoja accused the Metropolitan Police of failing to consider his Islamic beliefs when he was asked to handle pork products as a catering manager at a police station. [...]

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:39:07 +0000

Now he was caught lying.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-bill.html

A lying Muslim..

By: wayne barker

wayne barker — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:03:54 +0000

appologies for spelling errors as i have Dislexia – A.D.D

By: wayne barker

wayne barker — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:02:13 +0000

All comments taken into cosideration, these are the facts: Mr Khoja accepted his position on the pretence that he would not have to handle pork. He was later transfered to a different met building under the same title when he was told to handle pork. He may very well be another Mirority opportunist looking for some easy cash but the problem here is a breakdown of with communication within the Met. So unfortunatly under Mr Blairs ultra sensitive human rights stance this man is well within his rights to sue the Met, it just a shame that the money will be coming out of the tax payers pocket and not certain certain senior Met officials. Why Do so many people fail to read between the lines…

By: valdemar

valdemar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:26:49 +0000

Why should an irrational prejudice be given special status? If this guy had a sausage phobia (oo-er missus) I’d sympathise – but only if he’d sought treatment. That’s the problem with the religious, they never seek help. Except for legal aid, state benefits, tax breaks…

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:24:59 +0000

Dan – of course I’m joking – but it illustrates the point by taking it to the extreme – how can you even apply to a job where and reasonable person would know full well they might be expected to do something that is “against their religion”, be it cooking pork or handling alcohol.

I’m sure these people take these jobs knowing full well that the problem will arise, and that they could make a quick buck out of it. Either that, or they’re monumentally stupid !

By: Snark7

Snark7 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:09:19 +0000

All right then. I think we should solve this problem! Everyone: Don’t eat pork anymore! Start eating muslims.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:48:44 +0000

Er, I’m presuming Roger is joking. At least, I hope so.

I think that if your religious beliefs are going to stop you from cooking certain foods, then you ought to raise the question at interview since it’s a reasonable bet that not everyone shares your scruples.

I guess, if you were the best cook in the world, but didn’t want to cook pork, then if you said that might be a problem then you might get employed anyway to do everything except pork. If you were good enough.

You can’t expect people to second guess you, though. Not all vegetarians mind cooking meat. Not all pork-abstainers mind other people eating pork.

Dan

By: Tom Rees

Tom Rees — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:35:21 +0000

But Roger, that would be religious discrimination…

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:02:47 +0000

I look forward to the day when we can all exercise this kind of selectivism about our jobs. I don’t believe in god and believe that vicars, imams etc are evil people who deserve to be removed from existence – good job for them that i’m not a fireman who does his duty according only to his beliefs, eh ??