Posted on 08/15/2012 5:15:16 AM PDT by SJackson
"The Constitution tells me I can be Muslim, and I can wear the head scarf. Who is Disney to tell me I cannot?" A private company with a dress code that it is (at least so far) still free to implement. But the point of this case is to reinforce the principle that wherever Islamic law and American law and practice conflict, it is American law and practice that must give way.
"Muslim Employee Suing Disney Over Right to Wear Hijab," from KTLA, August 13 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A Muslim woman who worked as a hostess at a Disneyland restaurant is suing Disney, claiming the company wouldn't let her appear in front of guests while wearing her headscarf. It's a dispute that's been going on for about two years, but now the American Civil Liberties Union is getting involved.
It all started in August 2010 when Imane Boudlal, a Morocco-born U.S. citizen, worked at the Storyteller Cafe in Disney's Grand California Hotel.
Boudlal wears a headscarf, or hijab, but Disney said the garment didn't comply with its strict dress code.
Disney offered up a compromise hat for her to wear, but Boudlal said it made her look like a joke.
"The hat makes a joke of my religion and draws even more attention to me," Boudlal told KTLA at the time.
"It's unacceptable. They don't want me to look Muslim. They just don't want the head covering to look like a hijab."
And her point is that she wants to look Muslim. She wants to force Disney into featuring Muslims and showcasing the Muslim presence there. Disney doesn't want people to look like adherents of any particular religion -- they want people to get into the spirit of fun and fantasy that their games and rides and shows represent. But for Islam all must give way.
Boudlal had worked at the resort for two and a half years, but only realized she could wear her hijab to work after studying for her U.S. citizenship exam. She became a citizen in June 2010, and decided to challenge the Disney dress code a couple months later, on August 15.
When she wore her headscarf to work, Boudlal says she was told to take it off, work in the back where customers couldn't see her or go home.
She chose to go home, but reported to work for the next two days and was told the same thing.
Boudlal subsequently filed a complaint against Disney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission..
In a prepared statement, Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the company "values diversity and has a long-standing policy against discrimination of any kind."
"Typically, somebody in an on-stage position like hers wouldn't wear something like that, that's not part of the costume," Brown said.
"We were trying to accommodate her with a backstage position that would allow her to work. We gave her a couple of different options and she chose not to take those."
But Boudlal maintains that wearing a headscarf is her constitutional right.
"My scarf doesn't do anything to harm Disney or the guests," she told KTLA.
"The Constitution tells me I can be Muslim, and I can wear the head scarf. Who is Disney to tell me I cannot?"
Stockholm Syndrome.
Your employer. Freak.
Here, I’ll say it; Disney doesn’t want terrorist looking help in front of the paying customers..
If I were in Walt’s shoes, I’d assign her to an area with no public contact.
A pair of nicely browned pork chop earrings would draw attention from the hat and direct the eye to your attractive oval face and...
WTF!!!!!
Plucked eyebrows!!!!!!!
Stone the infidel Whore!!!!
Suppose she was hired to wear the Mickey Mouse suit. Picture her topping old Mickey off with a head scarf.
Where will it end? :-)
Does this mean there is now a magic camel ride; a hump-th-sheep venue, a little-boy-run contest?
Put her in clown makeup wearing a monkey suit with large prosthetic breasts and a huge badonkadonk. Make her go up and down the streets on all fours. And by all means wearing her veil under the ape suit.
$$$$.
My aunt’s neighbors are egyptians, who flat out told her, they hate the US but came to make $$$.
If you work at Disney, you are a “cast member”, like in a play. You are “on” the whole time. If she could not comply with the dress code of the role that she was offered, she should not have taken the job.
BTW, the last time we went to Disneyland, my son wore his 4-H club t-shirt, and a lot of cast members talked with us about it. You’d be amazed how many former 4-H club members Disney hires. They definitely hire for middle America friendliness and motivation, and people who won’t complain about their assigned hat.
I fully expect Disney to cave, as most companies eventually do in these situations.
Even aside from the legal aspects of this case, Disney has a huge financial incentive to keep this woman out of the public eye if she insists on wearing her Halloween costume to work. For one thing, I imagine there are hardly any traditional Muslims who include Disneyworld among their vacation destinations. Secondly, Disney's normal customer base is likely to be completely turned off if they encounter this clown during their visit.
“The Constitution tells me I can be Muslim, and I can wear the head scarf. Who is Disney to tell me I cannot?”
1. Not the Government.
2. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that you can wear a face covering everywhere............
Deal with it.........
They are appearing in their “get up” at Disneyland in Anaheim.
There are a lot of Orange County Muslims.
fire that bitch today or so help me God I will never spend another dime at Disney. I have spent over the years at least 70 weeks in the Presidential Suite in the Wilderness Lodge, 10 weeks with two suites at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, and two weeks at the WWof Sports while my son played baseball for the Elite 32. Thousands upon thousands have I spent but I will never go again if they give in to this bitch. I can give very detailed information if Disney does not believe me. I left $5 in a book just across the hall from the office in Room 7123 (Presidential Suite) at the WL, want to know I am serious, show me your credentials. 7121 is the adjoining suite where my kids stay. NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR. This is America and Disney is America, send the bitch packing or you lose my business.
Screw allah
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