Posted on 05/22/2013 5:24:40 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
A town in western Sweden has agreed to pay damages to a man who was told he wouldn't be hired if he refused to shake a woman's hand for religious reasons.
The decision by officials in Trollhättan to pay the man 30,000 kronor ($4,500) means the municipality won't have to face a review of the case by Sweden's Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen).
The incident stemmed from an office visit by a man who had been offered an internship with the integration division at Trollhättan municipality.
When the man was set to meet a female supervisor at the office, he refused to shake her hand, explaining his religion forbade him from shaking hands with women unless he washed his hands directly afterwards.
The female supervisor then reportedly told the man that he could not intern at the office if he was not comfortable shaking everybody's hand. She also allegedly added that the office had hand sanitizer that he could use.
While the incident was later reported to the Equality Ombudsman, the national office that investigates suspected cases of discrimination, the case was settled before the ombudsman began its investigation, with Trollhättan municipality choosing to pay damages to the man.
"The intern candidate explained that his religion forbade him from shaking the hand of a woman he did not know," municipal spokesman Said Niklund told the TTELA newspaper.
"By law, a person who feels they've been disadvantaged because of their religion has a right to damages. We made a mistake, we took responsibility for it, and the person was compensated."
The incident has reportedly had repercussions at the workplace, however, damaging the morale among the staff at Trollhättan's integration division. An investigation into the workplace environment is under way.
The leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats said on Saturday the party planned to report the municipality to the Ombudsman for Justice (Justitieombudsmannen, JO), stating that "equality is more important than multiculturalism".
"This case is extremely upsetting... it is absurd and makes a mockery of equality and Swedish values," party leader Jimmie Åkesson said in a statement.
Proving beyond a doubt a certain belief system is not a religion but a cult of retards and the liberal mind has no limits to its stupidity.
The problem this Moslem is going to face is simple ~ no one in his current small social circle at his place of employment will even talk to him ~ he's on his own in a country that has a small social distance.
He could have a stroke sitting at his desk and they won't call for the medics until he begins to stink ~ typically there's no air conditioning in that country so that would be a real problem.
I say that this is not journalism. Why is this even news? I guess its a slow news day. Arent the riots enough.
Possibly...it's hard to tell since they conveniently omitted the man's name. Though it isn't too hard to guess.
Two things: 1st, an individual in Sweden??
2nd, he gets rewarded for not shaking hands?? LOL!!
Good points.
Cut off the offending hand.
Then cut off the offending head, and stuff the hand into it.
Soooo-eeeey!!
His religion forbids a gesture of equality with women, but raping them, even when they are children? That’s okay.
The Swedes deserve EVERYTHING that is happening there.
can’t shake her hand, but could rape her as kaffir and feel just fine about that.
personally i am getting to the point of not shaking hands or huhs or kisses to others anymore, just for hygiene reasons. in business, just have a card ready for their outstretched hand.
I swear to God, no matter where you look in the Western World, ALL the political leaders appear to me to be suicidal in constantly caving in to these people, and in some cases encouraging more immigration of the same.
Another post had the Muslims in Switzerland (where they are 5% of the population) demanding that the white cross on their national flag be removed as it no longer represents just the Swiss.
One wonders what it will take before these multicultural imbeciles - here and abroad - wake up. All I can see is bloodshed for the rest of us as we try to take our countries back.
like most of Europe and parts of America now. When we let in third world immigrants over decades then this is the result and the country turn into the cess pit of another third world country
I look at Jante Law as the perfect rules for collectivists, not individualists.
The Vikings were pretty sociable folks ~ no room for an individualist on a long boat ~
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