Disney allows employee to wear headscarf -- with a beret (freep this poll)

New York Daily News ^ | September 29, 2010 | Rosemary Black

[UncleHambone]

A beret may resolve a dispute between a Muslim woman and Disneyland, where she works as a vacation planner.

Noor Abdallah, 22, wanted to wear her hijab, a religious head scarf, at her job at a Disneyland Resort Esplanade ticket booth in Anaheim, Calif., reports the Daily Mail. But the theme park objected, and Abdallah refused another position where she would not be seen by the public, according to the Council on American-Islamic relations.

As a compromise, she has agreed to wear a blue beret that will partly cover her hijab.

Disney spokesperson Suzi Brown praised the company's willingness to work with Abdallah.

"Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has a long history of accommodating a variety of religious requests from cast members of all faiths – with more than 200 accommodations made over the last three years and this instance was no different," she said in a statement.

But isn't the first time that Disney has been embroiled in this kind of controversy.

Imane Boudial, 26-year-old employee from Moracco, is still batting Disney for over a year in order to be able to wear her hijab.

Last August, Boudial, who worked at the Storyteller's Cafe in Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa claimed that her supervisors had told her either to take off the hijab she had worn to work to observe Ramadan, to go home or to work in a position where customers would not see it.

It was only when Boudial began studying for her U.S. citizenship that she realized that she could fight for her right to wear the hijab, Ameena Qazi, a Council on American-Islamic Relations attorney told the Mail.

The case is still ongoing. The Council told the Los Angeles Times that it has received other complaints over the years from Muslim women who said they have been denied "front-stage jobs" with Disney because of their hijabs.

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[UncleHambone]

When a Disney cast member is hired, they know they have to meet the "Disney Look" and that they will have to wear a costume.

[Haiku Guy]

Drip... Drip... Drip...

Little itty bitty steps like this. The Muslims are in no hurry. If it takes them a thousand years to enslave and murder us all, that is fine with them.

Drip... Drip... Drip...

[AlexW]

Nest, we will have people demanding that they be able to work
wearing only their underpants.

I guess a business no longer has any rights.

[Loud Mime]

The liberals continue to support Islamic religious zelotry. There’s only one way to stop it: side with Islam because they are anti-abortion.

If we start supporting Islam because it is anti-abortion, the MSM and Democrats will rage against them.

/s

[Happy Rain]

Why would a woman who voluntarily belongs to a faith that not only allows but encourages the most evil and sadistic forms of misogyny want to advertise her idiocy?

[Mr. Wright]

I have been told that Muslim students in Detroit PUBLIC SCHOOLS are allowed to pray - Christian and Jewish kids are not allowed to pray via 60’s Supreme Court ruling.
I have also been told that the ACLU looks the other way since it involves Muzzies. Can any Detroit Freeper confirm or poo poo this alleged practice?

[Waverunner]

As a business owner you now have the right to support social engineering with countless hard working hours of your life,

[SkyPilot]

An Insane "Gay Days" Event at Disney by Martin Mawyer, CAN President There’s a new event this year during “Gay Days at Walt Disney World,” which begins June 2 and runs until the 7th. For all the “homosexual” boys and girls arriving in Orlando, there will be a “Gay and Lesbian Youth Meeting” at Cinderella’s Castle. This event is being billed as a place for kids of “ALL AGES” to “meet each other to make this day even more special!” (All exclamation marks and caps are theirs.) Not surprisingly, this event will take place behind Cinderella’s Castle and at the entrance to Fantasy Land. A lot can be read into this meeting place: Are we to believe that homosexual children are being treated like step children by the straight world, but old enough to engage in their sexual fantasies? Regardless of the hidden and subliminal messages, this event raises disturbing questions. For instance, how do children of ALL AGES know whether they are gay or lesbian? Does an eight-year-old know his or her own sexuality? What about a five-year-old. Remember, this meeting is only open to “Gays and Lesbians,” but children of ALL AGES. You might cringe at the thought that kids as young as 4 or 5 will be at this meeting, but they surely will be. You can count on it. Their homosexual parents WILL take their little kids and parade them around as Gay and Lesbian Tykes. But how do these kids know they are homosexuals? Forget about the little ones. How does a 13 or 14-year-old know he or she is homosexual? There’s only one way to know for sure. And that means these parents are allowing them to engage in sex. Yet, more probable, it’s because these parents are making a determined effort to turn them into homosexuals, by taking such actions as: Carting them off to “Gay and Lesbian Youth Meetings.” Yes, these young kids are being TRAINED (emphasis mine) into a gay or lesbian relationship. And what a great place to start? Disney World! Where fantasies come true! Take the little tykes into a seabed of 100,000 homosexuals, introduced them into the raucous sex that is all around them, show them other little children who are homosexual, and maybe they can force their homosexuality on their kids. But there’s a more insidious problem than just taking them to a “Gay and Lesbian Youth Meeting” at Cinderella’s Castle. This event is being advertised on the Gay Day website. And that means any sexual pervert in the world can see -– and make plans to attend –- an event where hundreds of little kids are going to be dropped off by their parents to meet each other. Pardon me, but this is simply crazy! Do the homosexuals not know that there are sexual predators in the world? Are they so warped in their thinking that they would dare drop off kids at an event being advertised on the Internet? ">

[Dead Eye Lane]

Dress her as a ghost. That should make her happy!

[rbg81]

Next step is full burkas. Then, all female employees must wear headscarfs, then burkas. But...they still have the mouse ears on top.

[Sooth2222]

Standard Mohammedan bear suit?

In the US, we've become so "open minded" that our brains have fallen out!

[relictele]

they have been denied "front-stage jobs"

I'm guessing fat, ugly males aren't high on the list either. Disney is show business and appearance and impressions are part and parcel of the gig.

What is a 'front stage' job in a cafe, anyway? Hostess? Waitress? It's not as if this person is being denied a chance to portray Pocahontas or Snow White.

This squeaky wheel may win the battle but lose the war - her name is well-known now and the next employer may take a pass.

[Hardraade]

Disney thought they won when they pressed Hamas to drop Farfur. Little did they know that Farfur was just moving to Disney...

[UncleHambone]

Just so everyone knows, Gay Days is not Disney sponsored.

[donmeaker]

So dress her as the Aladdin’s lamp princess... A good Muslim role model...

[donmeaker]

No worries for her, she has done her bit for the jihad, now she can get married, be one of 4 wifes, and pump out her 11 kids...

Demographics is destiny

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The CAIR Bear!!!!

[huldah1776]

Good question and may be deserving of its own thread as a general chat question?

[Venturer]

Nobody to blame here , but Disney. They hired her.

[cranked]

Despite her signing a contract to the contrary, it was the most POLTICALLY CORRECT thing to do huh, Disneyworld? *rollseyes* =.=