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Anyone On Here Goin To Take Part.?
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It's stupid right-on tokenism, and an insult to their staff. The idea that 'trying on a hijab' for a few hours gives an insight into other cultures where staff may work is about as appropriate as asking them to close their eyes for a morning and 'experience' what it's like to be blind. These people need to be educated properly about religions, and stop...
13:19 Thu 08th Feb 2018
ichkeria - // All a bit daft, but I can't really see the reason to get so hot under the hijab about it :-) //
I think people get upset because, on the one hand, some women in other countries are oppressed by being made to wear this garment, while over here, civil servants mock their freedoms by playing dressing-up.
I think people get upset because, on the one hand, some women in other countries are oppressed by being made to wear this garment, while over here, civil servants mock their freedoms by playing dressing-up.
We can all have a little chuckle at the obvious idiocy of the "scheme", but there are more perhaps insidious effects to consider regarding the invitation. Would anyone in the office who declined to participate in the virtue signalling exercise automatically be tagged Islamophobic?
Was the "civil servant" him/herself an adherent of any religion in particular?
Was the "civil servant" him/herself an adherent of any religion in particular?
Ladybirder, you can bet your boots they were! (Actually, because you haven’t been around I posted a thread a little while back asking after you but no one had any news. Pleased to see you back. Are you ok?).
Togo is right. I know a major company that encourages its employees to embrace ‘diversity’ in all its forms, but predominately LGBT. It has set up a ‘friends’ system so that anyone belonging to a minority group knows they have someone to talk to if needs be. All the staff wear nametags on black ribbons around their necks but the anyone who volunteers to be a ‘friend’ is issued with a rainbow ribbon so that they, as a ‘friend’, can be identified by the needy ....which led me to ask the same question that Togo asked. Does that automatically render those with black ribbons ‘phobics’, ’bigots’, etc., etc?
Togo is right. I know a major company that encourages its employees to embrace ‘diversity’ in all its forms, but predominately LGBT. It has set up a ‘friends’ system so that anyone belonging to a minority group knows they have someone to talk to if needs be. All the staff wear nametags on black ribbons around their necks but the anyone who volunteers to be a ‘friend’ is issued with a rainbow ribbon so that they, as a ‘friend’, can be identified by the needy ....which led me to ask the same question that Togo asked. Does that automatically render those with black ribbons ‘phobics’, ’bigots’, etc., etc?
More on the situation in Iran referred to in the DM article:
https:/ /www.ir anhuman rights. org/201 8/02/wo man-arr ested-f or-remo ving-hi jab-in- tehran- refuses -to-rep ent-des pite-fa cing-10 -years- in-pris on/
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