Originally posted by Omega Vision
I'm not even entirely sure if the Quran forbids serving other people alcohol if they're not Muslim. She might just be taking it to an extreme because she's a new convert.
I don't even get that at all. I was a Christian so I went through the whole BS of "no meat on Fridays during Lent" and all that. I can see a person not being allowed to have certain things. But not being allowed to *give* them to other people? Why does it matter what someone else does?
Also the way you phrased it made it seem like they are allowed to serve alcohol to other Muslims? Or is it they are only forbidden to serve to Muslims?
Originally posted by SurturI think I addressed this in my first post.
But then the second she converted should of set off a light bulb in her head...because she would of *had* to of served alcohol at this job at some point. She had to know it was a thing.But what you just said makes it even worse to me and sets a weird precedent. Who wants an employee that *after* you hire them..a month later they suddenly up and decide "yeah I can't do certain things required of me because of religion".
You are kind of stuck because since it has to do with religion if you take any action...we are going to have to hear about it. In a normal job if a person refused to do their job they'd get fired, it's not news. But toss religion into the mix..
Biggest problem I see is if they did give her an exemption then..well, what about the clerk refusing to marry people due to religious reasons? She is in jail, she wasn't giving any exemption. I mean just like the whole "she wasn't muslim when she took the job" gay marriage was not legal when this clerk took the job.
The article makes it sound that she said she made sure accommodations were made so people were served the beverages they ordered.
I also think I mentioned some of the distinctions between this case as stated in the article vs what the Kentucky woman did. For instance the Muslim woman did not discriminate against people by only offering alcoholic beverages to certain adult citizens only and ignoring everyone else. The Kentucky woman also told her entire office not to issue the licenses. I doubt we would be hearing much if Kim simply had her other deputies issue the same sex marriage certificates while she only administered heterosexual ones.
Like other people said based on the what the article says I don't know if she should be fired. If she is still fulling most of her duties and this is the only thing she needs someone else to do I'm not too concerned about it. If there are things she can do instead of serving the drinks so that she is still being productive to the company it's not that big of a problem.
The issue becomes if the requests she is making to the company are unreasonable for them to fulfill. Like if she is asking for to not serve any alcohol on flights she is on. That would be unreasonable. Or if she were causing disturbances by being rude to people that are drinking.
Originally posted by Q99
Hm, if she was taking orders and then having her fellow attendants actually deliver them and generally made arrangements so no-one is unduely inconvenienced, then, yea, that's *not* a problem.