'Multicultural prayer room' was for Muslims only

A great story here from the National Secular Society about Donald Holden, a Royal Mail employee, who was sacked for leaving Odinist literature in a prayer room at his workplace.

The prayer room was designated as a "multicultural room" but was monopolised by Muslims.  The Royal Mail dismissed Mr Holden for "religiously aggravated harassment directed against the Muslim faith".

Tolerance, it seems, only goes so far.  The Muslims working at the Royal Mail demanded special treatment but were not prepared to extend their tolerance to an Odinist.  When they complained, the company's terrified bosses gave Mr Holden the push.

An employment tribunal has found in Mr Holden's favour and he will probably be awarded a six figure sum in compensation.  The Royal Mail is still a state owned company so ultimately you and I will bear the cost of the company's cowardice in the face of demands from a few aggressive Muslim employees.

Comments

[Rastaman]

What one hand taketh away, the other hand giveth. Your government (the politicians) may not be standing up to defend your Freedoms but on the other hand your courts don't seem to be backwards about it.

There will always be examples of outrageous and craven behavior in all branches of any democracies government, and there will always be examples of Justice properly served. The real criteria is the number of one versus the number of the other, and what the people do about it.

In this case, hurrah for the court in its decision. Cases like this, when they hurt government enough financially, can sometimes do more to keep things on the right track than public outcry.

[Rastaman]

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[Edwin Greenwood]

As well as paying for Mr Holden's thoroughly-deserved compensation, taxpayers and Royal Mail customers are also paying for something else. From the linked article:

“I was able to see for myself, that certain names and signatures, evidently belonging to Muslim employees, recurred time and time again in the signing-in book, sometimes three or four times in a single shift, and that the duration of their stays was half an hour or more. Some would call this ‘skiving’.”

[j0nz]

Spineless behaviour from the dhimm-whitted management at Royal Mail. I mean how thick can you get?

[fukUislam]

An unsurprising report, considering the disgusting and menacing growth of this nasty and backward religion in the West. Fuck these people, fuck their women-oppressing nonsense, their childish tactics of violence whenever they are questioned or challenged, and their arrogant insistence thay they should be given special respect. What is sad and troubling, however, is the way they HAVE established themselves in this way, so people like the Royal Mail behave like that. Recommendation? Next time, instead of placing Odin literature in their skive-off little boys-club refuge, place one of those Danish cartoons. If they dont show other people respect, they dont deserve any.

[el tom]

without wishing to draw adf hominem attacks, I would say that the BNP, Rastaman, are hardly paragons of liberalism.

They are the same as the hardline islamists, just from a white person's perspective.

More to the point, your parading of an iraeli flag on your site doesn't exactly sit well with party policy on Zionism.

silly little fascist.