Posted on 06/27/2009 10:40:12 AM PDT by La Lydia
A devout Muslim police officer who claims his boss compared him to Osama Bin Laden, mocked his beard and referred to his prayers as “shouting and wailing”, has won £11,000 in damages against West Midlands Police. PC Tariq Dost, of Small Heath, said the comments made by his former line manager Darren Yates left him feeling hurt, humiliated and depressed.
An employment tribunal upheld PC Dost’s allegations that he had been treated with religious and racial discrimination and awarded the figure of £11,000 based on a psychiatric report measuring the scale of his hurt. Employment judge Hughes said: “The remarks made were offensive and more so because PC Dost is a very religious man.”
After the trial, PC Dost said: “I feel vindicated and very happy that the tribunal has found that West Midlands Police has treated me in a racially discriminatory manner and it saddens me that I have had to bring this action to get some form of justice. It wasn’t about the money as I had already refused two offers made to me by West Midlands Police. It was about the principle.”
But PC Dost, who was himself disciplined by West Midlands Police over his attitude towards women, had further allegations of victimisation rejected. He claimed his punishment for remarks made towards a female colleague where he boasted about his sexual performance and use of Viagra was harsher than that doled out to Mr Yates. PC Dost was fined 13 days’ pay and removed from his post as positive action officer, where he mentored ethnic minorities and women to apply to the police force, after discussing the sex drug with colleagues and telling one she wouldn’t be able to walk when he’d finished with her...
LOL!
Political Correctneess deserves scorn, but this officer is unfit to be on the police force.
I don’t know what it takes to fire a cop in Great Britain.
” and referred to his prayers as “shouting and wailing”,
Obama believes the Muslim call to prayer is “ the most beautiful sound on earth.”
I bet most non Muslims do not hear the call with the same affection.
“feeling hurt, humiliated and depressed”.
I wonder how all the non-Muslims persecuted under Islam over the centuries have felt? Officer, I have no sympathy for you.
When did Islam become a race?
There’s a headline trying to tell the whole story but confusing the heck out of me.
Things are getting so bad over there that I wonder when the British people are going to intervene-Directly!
I would want to know if there were witnesses, and were the remarks intended in jest or in seriousness. If in jest, an apology was in order. If in seriousness, the boss needs to be demoted. I wouldn't take that kind of thing in seriousness, although in jest people sometimes go too far, and apologize.
PC Dost was fined 13 days’ pay and removed from his post as positive action officer, where he mentored ethnic minorities and women to apply to the police force, after discussing the sex drug with colleagues and telling one she wouldn’t be able to walk when he’d finished with her...
Or we could just get them both to agree that they are both pigs, and drop the whole thing. They both probably need to be docked a week's pay, then shake hands and make up. And watch their mouths going forward. If you wouldn't say it in front of your mother, you'd better not say it in front of your female co-workers.
They like the word.
Like me, so many of us would be rich! I can empathize with his dislike for being compared to OBL, but do like the rest of us and suck it up.
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