Muslim staff can discriminate based on their religious beliefs.

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135. I think its broader than that, though I can see the problem in this thread.

I think there is a degree of anti-religious intolerance in general and these threads seem to attract the same group of members.

It's really hit or miss with juries.

To be fair, I think there are other groups on DU who see intolerance and even bigotry when it comes to things that they pay closer attention to.

It is what it is, I guess, but I am sad to see it flourish here.

Not surprised necessarily, but saddened.

We have some friends in the UK that we have had to distance ourselves from because they have become infected with this rather nationalistic islamophobia that has become such an issue there. This article just feeds that fire starting with it's headline.

At any rate, this is not the kind of liberal/progressive idealism that I hold dear.