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<http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1> NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM REASON #85:
AT&T ordered to pay Muslim baghead $5 million dollars for
religious
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barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>
<http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Unknown-1.jpeg>Kansas
City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5
million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications
giantAT&T created a "hostile work environment" after her conversion,
according to a judge's order issued Friday.
*REUTERS<http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-woman-wins-5-million-verdict-t-discrimination-224006771--sector.html>
*(H/T Bill) * Susan Bashir, a 41-year-old married mother, sued AT&T
unit Southwestern Bell for what she said was a pattern of offensive and
discriminatory conduct by her supervisors that began when she converted to
Islam in 2005, six years after she started working for the company as a
network technician.*
<http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Missouri1.jpg>After
Bashir started wearing a religious head scarf known as a hijab, and
attending Friday mosque services, her *managers and co-workers called her
names including "terrorist,"* and told her she was going to hell, said her
attorney Amy Coopman.
*A manager repeatedly told her to remove her hijab, insulted her for
wearing it, and once physically grabbed Bashir and tried to rip the hijab
off her head, according to the suit.*
Bashir complained to human resources and then filed a formal complaint
alleging discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission and was subsequently fired in 2010. Though Bashir's complaint
alleged she was fired in a retaliatory action by AT&T, the jury did not
agree, and no damages were awarded on that charge.
After several days of hearing testimony and deliberation, a jury in Jackson
County Circuit Court on Thursday ordered AT&T to pay $5 million in punitive
damages on top of $120,000 in actual damages.
AT&T spokesman Marty Richter said the company would appeal.
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*barenakedislam <http://www.endtimestoday.com/?author=1>* | May 4, 2012 at
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