A school district is being sued for not allowing a Muslim teacher to take unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Federal Government has brought the case on behalf of Safoorah Khan, claiming that it is a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
It is the duty of every Muslim to join the million of pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca at least once in their lifetime - and the middle school teacher had hoped to go in 2008.
Duty: Safoorah Khan was denied by her school district unpaid leave to attend the Hajj in Mecca, an annual pilgrimage for millions of Muslims
Khan had started at Berkeley School, in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, in 2007 and asked for unpaid leave of three weeks to visit Saudi Arabia.
After the education district twice denied her request, Khan wrote to the board that 'based on her religious beliefs, she could not justify delaying performing Hajj'.
She resigned shortly thereafter, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court.
Federal prosecutors say the leave was unrelated to her professional duties and was not set forth in the contract between the school district and the teachers' union, thus violating her civil rights.
Payback: Berkeley School District 87 has been told to reinstate Miss Khan with back pay and also pay her compensatory damages
Berkeley School District compelled Khan to choose between her job and her religious beliefs, the lawsuit said.
The government asked the court to order the school district to adopt policies that reasonably accommodate its employees' religious practices and beliefs, and to reinstate Khan with back pay and also pay her compensatory damages.
In November 2008, Khan filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which found reasonable cause that discrimination had occurred and forwarded the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.
The school district would not comment.
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I would like to see them all go and never come back.
this is unfair to the school district, she should have had that put into her contract before she signed it.
WELCOME TO PALESTINE! WHAT A BUNCH OF HAPPY HORSECHIT! THE ACLU TOLD SCHOOLS THAT THEY HAD BETTER NOT SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS BUT THIS MUSLIM WITCH GETS BACK PAY BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T GIVE HER TIME OFF FOR A PILGRIMAGE! WHAT ABOUT SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? I GUESS THAT ONLY APPLIES TO CHRISTIANS! BOY OH BOY, THIS COUNTRY IS A CHITHOLE NOW! THANKS NOBAMA AND YOU LIBERAL LOONS!
Remember what aclu stands for
A=Anti
C=CHRIST
L=LIBERATION
U=Union
They are for all others religions but Christians For the most part they are non Christians and are very hateful of our faith there are quite a few maslams in that org. and we all know how hateful maslams can be .
When rats and insects become a pest . What do you do.......Enuff!
Good we don't need people like her teaching in our schools. I back the school for not allowing her to take that time off! Mark this as a RED LETTER DAY! I agree with the school this round.
Wiccan
have to agree with you on that she should have been fired you never know what will happen to her, maybe someone will do a jehad on her, it would serve her right.
Dear Fellow Patriots;
Watch this one very closely. The Supreme Court has continuously ruled against Christian displays, beliefs, and the like.
Christianity is a "belief system", Muslim and the pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca is a "belief system". There is no difference in the belief systems. Both are religious to the person on either side.
The Supreme Court should not, and cannot, under the rules of their Oath of Office (Defend the Constitution) enter a decision for either side of the dog fight. Otherwise, they will have just violated and overturned all of their prior decisions against Christians; on second thought, let us Pray that they will find a case in favor of the Muslim teacher to take unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
With that decision, the general population of Christians can then file a motion in any future cases to "politely take your case and stick it up your arse". SCOTUS has overruled on all future cases. We now have open practice of religion everywhere. We uncover the Cross in the Mojave Desert, we place our notices "In God We Trust", "Under God" back into everything that they have stated take it out of.
The Clock basically is zero'd out. We can even send thank you notes to the SCOTUS.
Billy
you got that right then the Christians will be able file suit for thing also and use this case as the precedence so they better watch out. They are opening a VERY BIG CAN OF WORMS and if they are not careful it will turn out that the worms are really rattlesnakes. And we all know what rattlesnakes do when their upset That's right they strike and their strike can be DEADLY.
Thanks Paul;
I wasn't sure I made the points adequately clear.
Have you taken a look at the United Nations Treaty, which is part of our law by our Constitution. Our President signs it and we abide by the UN Treaty. Well, the UN adopted the UDHR (google UDHR) and Article 18 gives us as any religion unbelievable freedoms.
Bet you have never seen the Article 18 referenced in any Case filed in the United States. WHY. Once you read the UDHR, you will begin to wonder what in the hell is our SCOTUS up to?
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