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Is this Justice?
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I didn't post the link because it had to much other stuff on it, but this story is quite sick I think.
This is taken From Richard Littlejohn column. (I don't like that man, but I agree with him that it's not right these two people get money from all this!)
This is taken From Richard Littlejohn column. (I don't like that man, but I agree with him that it's not right these two people get money from all this!)
qouted by TheSun
Taken to the cleaners
TWO Muslim cleaners who were sacked for jeering during the two-minute silence for the September 11 victims have been awarded £14,000 compensation.
Arshad Ali and Aqeel Khan laughed, threw paper planes and made dive-bomber noises during the silent tribute at the Land Rover factory in Solihull.
Now they’re each £7,000 richer, after the cleaning company caved in and made an out-of-court settlement rather than face an industrial tribunal.
The men had the backing of their union, the TGWU, which claimed they didn’t know there was a two-minute silence.
In which case, they must have been the only two people in Britain who didn’t.
It was observed immaculately in offices, shopping malls, factories, railway stations and airports all over the country.
And, anyway, do they usually spend their days at work throwing paper planes and making dive-bomber noises?
Or was it just a coincidence that at the time they chose to do so all their colleagues were standing in silence to remember thousands of people slaughtered when planes dive-bombed into buildings in the USA?
Did they not notice that the production line had been switched off and the entire factory was still?
The cleaning company, Commando, should be ashamed of their craven surrender.
No doubt they were scared of being smeared as “racist”.
As I have remarked before, there appears to be one law for insensitive, militant Muslims and another for the rest of us.
Imagine what would have happened if the workforce had been predominantly Muslim and had been paying silent tribute to dead Palestinians when two white cleaners chose to behave in a similar fashion.
They’d have been hauled before the courts, not their employers.
Arshad Ali and Aqeel Khan should think themselves lucky they weren’t lynched.
That they’re £14,000 richer as a result is disgusting.
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I'd have kicked the crap in to them if they did that when I was around. It's sick, blatant disrespect.
As for compensation, I'll bet they were paid less than a years wages, and if it went to court there really was every chance that the men could have been awarded more (I'm not saying they should have, but they could well have been), so the company probabily did the right thing.
Nanny state.
Reminds me of when a proposal was put to parliament that the name Great Britain was racist and it should be changed to the "Community of Communities"
the national anthem is playing and i decide to sing keep the red flag flying as loud as i can?
when remebrance day is having its one min silence i decide to sing "who the fuck is alice"..............not that i would do any of these things but...what happened to freedom of speech AND expression? these things are not laws that we must obey surely?
when you salute a flag and i refuse to...........
Lot of people died that day, and all you had to do was shut your piehole for 2 mins and stay still.
fair enough, those two people wanted to rebel against that, they could have done it in another way that wouldn't upset people.
It sickness me that those two people made money out of doing something nasty and tackles. What kind of message does that send out?
Yes I know the world is a shitty and unfair place at the best of times, but even still.... I think that case was wrong, they should been fired.
This country is well and truly going down the pan.
You all are, in fact, drawing many conclusions from very little information (and even that comes from Richard Littlejohn - hardly likely to be remotely unbiased). The TGWU says they didn't know about the silence; this could surely be a real possibility?
And if they were doing it as a protest (perhaps against the fact that America's about to kill more than a couple of thousand civilians in Iraq) then they are entitled to do so; it is their freedom of speech and expression. Hamless, you say they could rebel in a way that "wouldn't upset people." Isn't the whole point of rebelling, of protest, to make an impact? Besides, to sack them for expressing free speech is actually illegal.
In future, I'd be more careful about getting whipped into hysteria about something Richard Littlejohn wrote.
I also still think the country slowly going down the pan.
I know I'm naive.