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UK: Stewardess Fired for Refusing to Wear Hijab, Walk Behind Male Colleagues During Saudi Trip
Weasel Zippers ^
Posted on 04/26/2009 4:37:03 PM PDT by Liam2007
A BRITISH air stewardess was sacked for refusing to fly to Saudi Arabia after she was ordered to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues.
Lisa Ashton, a £15,000-a-year stewardess with BMI, was told that in public areas in Saudi Arabia she was required to wear a black robe, known as an abaya. This covers everything but the face, feet and hands. She was told to follow her male colleagues, irrespective of rank.
Ashton, 37, who was worried about security in the country, refused to fly there, claiming the instructions were discriminatory. She was sacked last April.
“It’s not the law that you have to walk behind men in Saudi Arabia, or that you have to wear an abaya, and I’m not going to be treated as a second-class citizen,” Ashton said last week.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; dhimmitude; islam; saudiarabia; uk; workplace
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:37:04 PM PDT
by
Liam2007
To: Liam2007
To: Liam2007
Do US based airlines do this?
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:40:33 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: Liam2007
It was really for her own good. When she was caught by the religious police they would have beet her severely.
Still she shouldn’t have been fired.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:43:16 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Liam2007
Jeez....just who does she think she IS, refusing this???? Third in line to the Presidency of the United States or what???.....
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:43:52 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Sparky1776
Sharia is tyranny. Sharia is female slavery. Any business that engages in Sharia is dead to me.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:44:31 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find!)
To: driftdiver
When she was caught by the religious police they would have beet her severely. Series? They would've beet her?
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:44:44 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: Texas Eagle
LOL Well she woulda been the color of a beet after they beat her.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:46:05 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
they would have beet her severely.Pummel her with root vegetables? (Sorry, I haven't done that in a while.)
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:46:20 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find!)
To: Liam2007
Why not just send male flight attendants?
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:46:31 PM PDT
by
keepitreal
(Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Do US based airlines do this?I don't think any US airlines fly to Saudi.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:47:15 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: jimfree
Well they woulda beat her with a stick.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:48:35 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Liam2007
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:50:02 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Liam2007
I surely hope she ends up owning a chunk of her former employer.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:54:04 PM PDT
by
umgud
(I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
To: Liam2007
A year after the first Gulf War, an American oil mam returned to Kuwait. Walking with a sheik, he remarked on how things changed. “When I was here last, the women walked 15 feet behind the men. Now they walk 15 feet in front! What happened?” The sheik looked at him and said, “Land mines.”
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:01:00 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
To: driftdiver
That is series, nobody deserves a beeting...
To: waterhill
It’s the Harvard treatment.
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:07:24 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: waterhill
even at Thanksgiving dinner? now I’m really confused.
To: Liam2007
She got away easily. Women disobeying Sharia law sometimes get raped, severely beaten or murdered. She should count her blessings she doesn't live in one of these Muslim hellholes.
Of course, Britain is rapidly headed that direction, so she may yet get her chance to be treated like the second class citizen she assures everybody she is not!
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:16:06 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(Britannic inheritance will last longer in India and Australia than in the mother country-Mark Steyn)
To: Liam2007
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:22:18 PM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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