{"id":426240,"date":"2010-03-12T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011332537_discriminationinmuslimhiring.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-12T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:23:11","slug":"discrimination-in-muslims-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426240","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination in Muslim’s hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denying job to man makes sense in light of current events<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was shocked to read that a Muslim man couldn\u2019t get hired by World Relief, a Christian relief agency, because of his religion [\u201cRelief organization rejects job applicant over his faith,\u201d NWWedensday, March 10]. What was World Relief thinking?<\/p>\n

So what if the Muslim god Allah wants to blow up the world, if necessary, to get it to convert to Islam. So what if \u2014 on the same date \u2014 it\u2019s reported that six Christian workers for World Vision were murdered by Muslims in Pakistan [\u201c6 World Vision workers killed in attack,\u201d News, March 10]. Give the guy a job!<\/p>\n

By the way, I also think it\u2019s ridiculous that farmers won\u2019t hire foxes to guard henhouses.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Thalhofer, Vashon Island<\/em><\/p>\n

Discriminatory practices protected legally<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muslims are absolutely opposed to any and all attempts by anyone to tell the people of any faith community how to conduct their affairs. Every religious community of whatever faith, wherever situated, has an absolute right to freely exercise their religion within their religious community. World Relief reaches out to people of all faiths to serve them and within their organization \u2014 which is religious work for them and secular work for all of the people they help \u2014 they should suffer no criticism or regulation of how they manage their affairs, whether in hiring or anywhere else.<\/p>\n

This Christian group is explicitly exempted from the Civil Rights Act\u2019s prohibition of \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d hiring practices. This is entirely consistent with the U.S. Constitution. It is also consistent with Islamic law and the religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism \u2014 all three of which call upon the faithful to join together in the performance of good works that serve humanity and reject any imposition by others to obstruct or manage their good works.<\/p>\n

America is one of the only places in the world where religious liberty is both a social ideal and a social reality. There aren\u2019t many other countries where religious liberty is so firmly established as a foundation principle underlying all liberties, written into a social contract, spread throughout the entire justice system and in the hearts of all Americans.<\/p>\n

Making an \u201cissue\u201d out of World Relief\u2019s policy is nothing more than an attempt to interfere in the conduct of Christian affairs \u2014 by Christians\u2014 and to establish a precedent allowing the public to regulate the free exercise of religion, eroding that very religious liberty that makes America a beacon of light for all humanity. I categorically refuse to participate in the pillorying of World Relief for doing what they believe God wants them to do.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dawud Ahmad Al-Amriki, Springdale<\/em><\/p>\n

Won\u2019t tolerate religious discrimination<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply by publishing the article about the reason for Saad Mohammad Ali\u2019s being turned down for employment by the World Relief organization, The Seattle Times makes a huge but unspoken point with which I agree.<\/p>\n

Faith-based operations like World Relief are to be praised and encouraged for the work they do. However, as suppliers of revenue to the U.S. and subsidiary governments, I and my fellow taxpayers ought not to be forced to support any trace of religious discrimination or any other style of bigotry through it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s way past time to tidy up the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Roger Milnes, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denying job to man makes sense in light of current events I was shocked to read that a Muslim man couldn\u2019t get hired by World Relief, a Christian relief agency, because of his religion [\u201cRelief organization rejects job applicant over his faith,\u201d NWWedensday, March 10]. What was World Relief thinking? So what if the Muslim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}