{"id":10022,"date":"2010-10-03T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2010-10-03T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T18:43:12","slug":"muslim-in-the-uk-woman-fired-for-not-wearing-a-headscarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muslim-in-the-uk-woman-fired-for-not-wearing-a-headscarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim in the UK woman fired for not wearing a headscarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1317342\/Muslim-woman-sacked-REFUSING-wear-headscarf.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Muslim woman has been awarded more than \u00a313,500 after she was sacked for refusing to wear a headscarf at the estate agency where she worked\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>However, within days of working there she was left feeling &#8216;very uncomfortable and intimidated&#8217; when Mr Ghafoor put it to her that she had not been brought up as a &#8216;good Muslim&#8217; and that if she had been his daughter she would not be allowed to work and would have been long since &#8216;married off&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He asked her to wear a headscarf at work &#8211; even though white  non-Muslim women he employed in the same office were never asked to and  never did.<\/p>\n<p>On the day she was due to start her third week in the job, Mr Ghafoor told her not to bother coming in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for Muslim women being free to choose whether to wear a head covering or not \u2013 and this coercion came from a fellow who was not even her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A Muslim woman has been awarded more than \u00a313,500 after she was sacked for refusing to wear a headscarf at the estate agency where she worked\u2026.. However, within days of working there she was left feeling &#8216;very uncomfortable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muslim-in-the-uk-woman-fired-for-not-wearing-a-headscarf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2064,2178],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-burkas","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}