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8/27/2009
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Wis. Court Dismisses Muslim Employee's Bias Claim
Author: Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press Source: WCCO (WI)
Title: WIS. COURT DISMISSES MUSLIM EMPLOYEE'S BIAS CLAIM
  A principal's order that a Muslim employee stop wearing a religious hat and ring was not discriminatory because it was never enforced, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.
The District 4 Court of Appeals said former Case High School hall monitor Fard Mohammed never stopped wearing the black skullcap known as a kufi and the "pilgrimage" ring and was never disciplined for doing so. That means that no religious discrimination occurred despite then-Principal Bryan Wright's 1998 directive, the three-judge panel ruled.
Wright told Mohammed to stop wearing the kufi and the ring because school policy prohibited students from wearing those items as part of its effort to control gangs. Mohammed said he wore both as symbols of his faith.
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| Have To Agree With The Court.... | Aug 29th. at 11:38:56 am EDT
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TheStormofWar (Salt Lake City, Utah) - Email Me
assuming all the facts are true. If the "rule" was never enforced (probably smart on the principal's part) , then it's pretty much meaning less.
I abhor discrimination based on faith (or anything else for that matter) , but also abhor persecution complexes when non actually exist.
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| Yes, It's A Dumb Case. But... | Aug 29th. at 10:40:12 am EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
While the treatment of minority religious garb and symbols as "gang related" has been and remains a problem in too much of Wisconsin...
The only reason this case dragged on so long in such a bound-to-loose state has do with the fact that the former employee is...a bit dumb, sadly. Possibly not entirely honest either.
Yes, the case was an exercise in how not to bring a case to fruition in the courts, how to look like an idiot, and how to repeatedly cloud the real issue.
The case:
[Web LINK]
That being said, many here in Wisconsin often get away with not **directly** enforcing religious prejudice, if you know what I mean, but that doesn't make them stellar or respectful of religious diversity. It just means that people who very intelligently navigate the many indirect methods of pervasive prejudice and who intelligently handle the court system, well, they're fewer in number.
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| Okay So Let Me Understand | Aug 28th. at 11:02:57 pm EDT
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WitchPoet (Claremont, California) - Email Me
Someone was told by a boss to remove religious garb but it was never enforced? So he sued? The suit isn't for being humilited in HOW he was asked to remove them, It is just that he was asked at all.
Can you say frivolity?
You just KNOW CAIR has to be involved in this one!!!
Find More info -- HERE
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| "Uppity" And/or Disciplinary Problem; Hard To Tell | Aug 28th. at 6:38:27 pm EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
"because school policy prohibited students from wearing those items as part of its effort to control gangs"
Yeah, that's how they handle it, the threat of pluralism, the threat of other religions becoming openly lived, in Wisconsin.
And of course, here in Wisconsin it's so typical that uppity religious minority individuals suffer series "of disciplinary problems...complaints" making establishments look good in court and people unearthing real religious prejudice look like doo doo.
Doesn't mean he couldn't possibly be guilty of anything but...just saying...these things are all too easily fabricated against individuals here, with much collaboration, some of it knowing and some of it coincidental and when the two coexist, for sure they're scouped up and used in a focused way.
It's hard to know what to believe sometimes.
But one thing is for sure -- forbidding one to dress according to their faith is not a way of controlling gangs. It's a way of keeping "uppity" religious minorities in their place.
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