Ex-Apple Lawyer Sues claiming Apple
fired him due to his Muslim Religion
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Posted on 03/04/2016 2:18:57 PM PST by Swordmaker
A former attorney for Apple filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the company violated anti-discrimination laws by failing to accommodate his religious beliefs.
In a complaint filed in state court in San Jose, Feras Mousilli claims the company refused to print Arabic on his business cards, and repeatedly told him he was not a “cultural fit.” Mousilli, who lives in San Francisco, also states that Apple AAPL refused to re-schedule weekly meetings with his supervisor so that he could attend Friday prayers.
Mousilli, who is of Syrian origin, also claims Apple was a hostile environment in which other employees, named only as “John Doe,” repeatedly told “inappropriate jokes about the war in the Middle East, ISIS terrorists, and the war taking place in Syria.”
An Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Mousilli says he was fired by Apple in January 2015 on the grounds that he breached confidentiality rules by showing a prototype of iWatch to family and friends. He claimed this was a pretext to fire him.
“I didn’t display anything that wasn’t public already,” said Mousilli by phone. “I showed a Mickey Mouse display of the watch that had already been paraded on stage by no less than Tim Cook.”
He said he the real reason that Apple fired him was because it did not wish to abide by a legal duty to accommodate his religious rights.
The lawsuit seeks at least $25,000, including for back wages and for other monetary and punitive damages along with compensation for emotional pain and suffering. The complaint, spotted by Courthouse News, also claims that Apple failed to accommodate physical disabilities relating to his blindness in one eye and color-blindness.
The new discrimination suit comes during a sensitive week for Apple. The company is currently locked in a bitter battle with the federal government, which is seeking a court order to force Apple to decrypt an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the dead terrorists in the San Bernardino shooting in December.
(Story was updated to add Apple declined comment)
Racist, bigoted and xenophobic You can decide which.
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Is that the difference between freedom
of religion and religious liberty?
Freedom of religion -— you are free to believe as you see fit.
Religious liberty -— other people have to rearrange their affairs to accommodate your beliefs.
Perhaps he was wearing his religion on his sleeve, hoping to cause incidents to get fired so he could sue. . .
The ironic thing is that a Christian lawyer in a Muslim country wouldn’t have been fired - he would have been beheaded.
I have SCHADENFREUDE!!!!!!
:)
What, exactly, is an "inappropriate joke" about ISIS terrorists?
That they are Muslims?
Or that they are evil?
What?
Likely a CAIR member with a mission
I was waiting for someone to notice that. HEHEHEHEHE. It's a tenet of the Muslim Faith that all Muslims must be allowed to share employer's trade secrets with other Muslims. . . especially family and friends if they pinky swear not to tell anyone else about them. Didn't you know? It's in the Koran!
[ Apple AAPL refused to re-schedule weekly meetings with his supervisor so that he could attend Friday prayers. ]
Boo dee frickin hoo!
I thought Friday braying were Friday evening, unless they are all day...
Can;t mosques have late Friday services... well probably not, Allah apparently can’t work around a schedule...
They only have cutting humor. . .
[ Likely a CAIR member with a mission ]
CAIR pronounced Kah-Ear, not CARE....
An Isis comedian gives a new meaning to the phrase he “slays them in the aisles”. . . “
A nasty bunch of Muslim with ties to the brotherhood. They have spent decades trying to get radio folks fired
Rest assured I too am as appalled at this inappropriate anti-Muslim racism by the KUPERTINO KLAVERN of Apple racists. I shall be protesting by stomping my big ass ipad pro to bits...forthwith!! And mailing them back to TIM KOOK in KUPERTINO.
Time to buy more Apple products
Go back to where you belong.
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