Comments on: Muslim women wearing headscarfs face job discrimination /news/2013/05/30/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination/ News from the University of Hawaii Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: regina /news/2013/05/30/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination/#comment-581397 Sat, 18 Jun 2016 15:50:38 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=17125#comment-581397 I am a convert to Islam and in the short time I have been wearing hijab I have faced so much discrimination. It astonishes me how jobs promote diversity and religious freedom yet refuse to hire you when you wear a symbol of your religion. No one is ever asked to take off a cross but I have to take off my hijab. Its flat out discrimination.

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By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2013/05/30/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination/#comment-30058 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:26:56 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=17125#comment-30058 In reply to Michael Mueller.

[Are we speaking of Islamic indicators and not just Muslim attire?]

Read your List of disallowed organizations (might be federal only), though unfortunately, the federal government does not soft-classify Islam as problematic, (the List last-I-saw was only hard-problems): Certain ‘organizations’ -domestic or foreign- are banned business– You do not want to be in the same room, On the telephone-with, Etc.

The soft-problem with Islam is you do not want it harder by hiring:

Try think of it this way: Your daughter applies for work at a place that does money-laundering, taking-of-usury, tax-evasion, you don’t like because it’s bad business, because Islam forbids it, Whatever, But they hire her anyway because “she’s got religion”–and so–they corrupt your sweetie-pie-daughter in the ways of “The Bad Company:” they put her in accounting to record all their money-manipulations.

What–shall we say?

The question now is: Is your daughter a renegade-muslim because she did, Or, because that employer is a nation of ‘infidel’ corruption?

E.G. It was outright-laughable when President George W. Bush junior said that America would make loans to Iraq after ‘uprooting’ Saddam Hussein (they’d dug him out of a hole in the ground–like a plant), because Islam forbids the making of loans taking interest on money: Muslims are required by religious law to work–to earn their money. (Even the ‘filthy rich’ are require to work as corporate managers.)

What can we say–? Muslims don’t want to be mean about it–but–you should recognize that you don’t have easy freedom to hire a muslim: especially if your company borrows money from stockholders…banks.

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By: Michael Mueller /news/2013/05/30/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination/#comment-30057 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:37:07 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=17125#comment-30057 Thanks you Sonja for your scientific prove that adaptation to societies’ conventions improves personal success.
Please help me understand the difference between discrimination and job assessment.
Would it be discrimination if, as an employer, I decided that a candidate is more suitable for the job if s/he does not belong to a group of choice and openly displaying their group’s symbols (like a gang member for example)?

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By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2013/05/30/muslim-women-wearing-headscarfs-face-job-discrimination/#comment-30053 Fri, 31 May 2013 23:48:53 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=17125#comment-30053 But are these truly ‘religious’ head-scarfs…or ‘ADA’ head-scarfs…or–

We used to see women, decades ago, wearing head-scarfs in windy weather… Perhaps the discrimination is that the Applicant seems willfully refusing to remove a head covering (In banks for example it’s forbidden to wear)… Would it be different if the female Applicant wore a Sunday Hat, indoors, to the Interview? (Used to be common in churches; a religious expression.)

Generally job Applicants would seem capable of avoiding wearing any ‘not-this-job’ identifier-tag articles: Business clothes are in, Trinkets are out (little-jewels may be in, big jewels may be out), doggy-do tees are…

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