Posted on 03/01/2014 8:08:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
This story’s from Canada. But don’t worry, before you know it, a similar thing will happen in the United States. It will be interesting to see how liberals and their willing judicial accomplices will respond.
“Barbers in Toronto who refused to cut a woman’s hair have become the target of a human rights complaint, in a case that pits religious freedom against gender equality. When Faith McGregor went into the Terminal Barber Shop requesting a short haircut, she was told the shop only grooms men. The reason, co-owner Omar Mahrouk said, was that as a Muslim he could not cut the hair of a woman who was not related to him.”
The barber appealed to his Islamic religious beliefs for the refusal. This would be similar to an orthodox Jew or Islamic butcher who refused to slaughter a pig because of specific religious requirements regarding handling certain unclean meats.
While the rejection was not because the woman was a lesbian, it raises the same types of issues since the refusal of service had to do with gender. Under Canadian law, “business owners aren’t supposed to discriminate based on gender.” So what’s a Muslim barber to do?
Kind of makes you wonder why she picked this particular barber shop? Of all the barber shops in Toronto, she goes to one that is known for its Islamic beliefs. The place has been in business 1925 and no one has complained. Life goes on, even with the discrimination.
"Its client list includes former prime minister Paul Martin and actor Woody Harrelson, who can be seen posing with the owners in a photograph on the shop’s website. Some are standing behind the barbershop’s owners, pointing out that there are women-only spas and gyms."
If this woman doesn't like an all-male barber shop, then let go and open her own shop that only caters to lesbians. She's free to do so.
With the way the courts are ruling and the media are reporting on these types of issues, we're going to see homosexuals purposely going to places of business to test the legal limits of these new laws. The goal of the homosexual movement is to shut down all dissent. The next stop will be churches.
Because our courts have made the behavior of same-sexuality a special protected class, the rights of homosexuals trump religious freedom.
In the past, federal law has protected people from having to go against their religious beliefs when it comes to employment. For example, the EEOC sued a trucking company when Muslim drivers were fired because they would not deliver alcohol to customers.
“Star Transport, Inc., a trucking company based in Morton, Ill., violated federal law by failing to accommodate two employees because of their religion, Islam, and discharging them, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. . . .
“According to EEOC District Director John P. Rowe, who supervised administrative investigation prior to filing the lawsuit, ‘Our investigation revealed that Star could have readily avoided assigning these employees to alcohol delivery without any undue hardship, but chose to force the issue despite the employees’ Islamic religion.’”
The federal law protecting the Muslim drivers is no different from the Arizona law that Gov. Brewer vetoed.
“John Hendrickson, the EEOC Regional Attorney for the Chicago District Office said, ‘Everyone has a right to observe his or her religious beliefs, and employers don't get to pick and choose which religions and which religious practices they will accommodate.’”
Did you get that? “Everyone has a right to observe his or her religious beliefs.” So why do employees have a right to exercise their religious rights but not owners of a business?
Should Muslim barbers be forced to cut women’s hair? Should a Muslim butcher be forced to butcher a pig and other unclean animals?
Our government has opened a very big can of worms.
Ah!
The beautiful blonde jewess sits down in the hair tech’s chair, and drops her large handbag on the floor under her chair, whilst awaiting a hair makeover.
After ewe’s and ah’s, she pays the hair tech, kisses all the staff, and exits the salon. Yet, with the cellphone in her hand, one push of a button, and KaBoom, her handbag takes out the block.
Toot-a-loo ragheads!
Who are you to deny this lesbian the right to look like a well groomed Muslim man?!!
I am outraged.
Freegards
SIR YOU OFFEND ME!
I’m a bitter clinger...get it right ;)
I bet you have yer bible, yer gun, and yer bottle of bourbon right next to you as you freep. :-D I know, I do.
How do you kno...Oh I see you are with the NSA spying on me through my monitor! MODS!!! MODS!!! NSA GUY HERE!!!! ;)
LOL!.....All you have to do is put some tape over that camera and no one can see you. So, do that before I take snap shot of you and send it to you. LOL.
Oh sure...like you don’t have one in my lightbulb just in case right? We’re on to your tricks Mr NSA man ;)
No, that’s the FBI or BATFE depending on what you may be doing as a “self-described” bitter clinger. ;-)
Give ‘er the k d lang special and be done with it. That cut would earn the Janet Napolitano seal of approval, for sure. Those Muslim barbers might actually proposition her if she ends up looking enough like a fella.
The nice thing about all you G-men types in my house is that I really never feel alone. I just wish you’d help with the dishes...I hate doing dishes ;)
They are supposed to be public servants. If you whisper into your lighting fixture you could ask them to wash your car or something.
I think I prefer the "or something" kind of thing, like you could ask the NSA, and the other alphabet agencies, if they know where the sun don't shine.
I put my bets on the Muslims. They will not roll over. They are willing to die and take a bunch of lesbians with them. Muslims do not compromise when it comes to Islam.
Oh, wait, this is Canada. This presents a real quandary for the politically correct “diversity” thugs. The victim is a protected sexual minority and the oppressors are a protected religious death cult. What would Karl Marx do?
She was lucky that he didn’t cut her throat.
French-Canadian Lesbian Denied Shave by Male Moslem Barber
France Invades Canada to Protect French-Speaking Muslim Barbers From Nazi Lesbians
Lesbian RCMP servicewomen confiscate weapons from male Moslem Barbers in Canada region, Seize Babershop
Hey, 3Fingas? Have you checked w/ Rachel Maddow and his
twin sister, Chris Hayes, to see what they have to say about
this crisis? MSNBC should be all over this.
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