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June 20th, 2008

How I nearly lost my business after refusing to hire a Muslim hair stylist who wouldn’t show her hair | Mail Online
It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals how she was driven to the brink of ruin - and forced to pay £4,000 for ‘hurt feelings’ - after refusing to hire a Muslim stylist who wouldn’t show her hair at work

For Sarah Desrosiers, meeting Bushra Noah was not a moment in her life that she would describe as especially memorable.

Not only was it brief - lasting little more than ten minutes - but it was rapidly obvious to Sarah that Bushra was not the person for the junior stylist position she was trying to fill at her hairdressing salon.

Sarah’s reasoning? Quite simply that Bushra, a Muslim who wears a headscarf for religions reasons, had made it clear she would not be removing the garment even while at work. (read more at link above)

This is not even in the same realm as “over-zealously politically correct.” It’s in a realm alllll by itself. And when you get to the end of the article and the woman doubled the amount she was asking for “to account for the hate mail she’d received after bringing the case…” that’s really the icing on the crazy-cake.

  


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