Source: Time
She was placed on a 12-month unpaid leave
A Muslim flight attendant says she was suspended from her jobbecause she refused to serve alcohol to a passenger due to her religious beliefs.
Charee Stanley, a flight attendant with ExpressJet, filed a discrimination complaint with theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission in Detroit last week, CNN reports. Stanley said the airline’s management was aware of her religious beliefs and that she had arranged with another flight attendant to handle passenger requests for alcohol. (Muslims are barred from consuming alcohol.)
But Stanley said in the complaint that she was placed on a 12-month unpaid leave on Aug. 2 after another flight attendant complained that Stanley wasn’t fulfilling her duties. The complaint also mentioned that Stanley possessed a book of “foreign writings” and wore a headscarf.
Lena Masri, an attorney representing Stanley on behalf of the Detroit chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the complaint had anti-Islamic overtones and that Stanley had received approval from airline management to not serve alcohol.
“It was at the direction of the airlines that she began coordinating with the other flight attendant on duty so that when a passenger requested alcohol, the other flight attendant would accommodate that request,” Masri said, according to CNN. “We know that this arrangement has worked beautifully and without incident and that it hasn’t caused any undue burden on the airline. After all, it was the suggestion of the airline.”
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Categories: Addiction, Americas, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, The Muslim Times
Alcohol is harmful to health. The western nations know that but do not do (and cannot do) anything about it. In Islam, it is said that wine is the mother of all evil.
It is also said by the prophet Muhammad that:
1. Paradise lies under the feet of your mothers.
2. Pay the laborer before his sweat is dried.
3. Do not say anything in the absence of a person what would hurt him if you said it in his presence. (That is an advice against back biting.)
There are so many other such good words of advice and wine being the mother of all evils is an important piece of information for all the world.
The airline company could accommodate the flight attendant easily if they wished and if her other work was in good order.
But it is up to the airline to form its own rules and attract more business……
This lady is of course entitled to her beliefs; however, if those beliefs mean she cannot, or won’t, do the job for which she is paid, she should look for another job. It’s no different to the Christian fundamentalist clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples.
This woman is a fraud. If she truly believes in this and wants to be such an observant Muslim, she should resign from this job and find work where she is not required to serve alcohol. Trying to make money by suing the airline is nothing but greed. Using the name of Islam is one more example how the Muslims are ruining the reputation of their own religion. Anyone who supports her does not know Islam.
She should be fired.