Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance by Pamela Geller

Author:Pamela Geller [Geller, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2011-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

The Mosqueing of the Workplace

In the summer of 2010, a Muslim woman, Imane Boudlal, was turned away four times from her job as a restaurant hostess at the Storytellers’ Cafe in the Disneyland Resort’s Grand Californian Hotel. Boudlal was persistently violating the company’s dress code by insisting on wearing a hijab to work. By sending her home, Disney was simply sticking to its own standards: the Orange County Register reported that “Disney is known for its strict dress code, called the Disney Look, which has been in place since 1957.”120

Sue Brown, a Disney spokesperson, explained, “The company values diversity and has a long-standing policy against discrimination of any kind. Ms. Boudlal has worked for the company for more than two years and recently made the request to wear a hijab, and we have been working directly with her on accommodations. In the interim, we offered reasonable accommodations to allow her to work during her scheduled shifts, which she declined.”

Boudlal refused to take any job that would remove her from public view: “I’m not going to accept to work in the back.”

That made it clear that her insistence on wearing hijab was not just a matter of her personal piety; she wanted to make a political statement. Here was a woman who, after working for years at Disney, decided to challenge Disney’s dress code and ultimately to sue Disney for the right to wear the hijab at work.

This case was not about the hijab, this was about Islamic supremacism and imposing Islam on the secular society. Cultural icons are a favored target of this tactic: that’s almost certainly why Disney was chosen for this showdown.

The idea was to establish and enforce the principle that wherever Islamic law and American customs, practices, business policies, and laws conflict, the American side would have to give way. That’s why Imane Boudlal insisted on working in public: she was showing that Islam was stronger than Disney’s fifty-year-old dress code, and could make the richest, most powerful of corporations bend to its will.

This is the stealth, cultural jihad.

Challenges to institutional dress codes by hijab-wearing Muslims are growing increasingly common. In March 2011, a Muslim defendant sued Orange County, California, for being forced to remove her hijab while in jail.121 In September 2009, a Muslim girl sued Abercrombie & Fitch, claiming that the edgy clothing manufacturer had denied her a job because she was wearing a hijab.122 In November 2009, CareNow, a medical clinic in a Dallas suburb, apologized to a Muslim doctor and changed its no-headgear policy after initially telling her during a job interview that she couldn’t wear her hijab. Initially, CareNow’s President, Tim Miller, was unapologetic: “I would apologize for any misunderstanding, definitely…but I don’t really feel like there is anything that we did that is wrong and our policy is wrong.” But the following day, inexplicably, Miller had completely changed his tune: “We apologize to Dr. Zaki for the misunderstanding. We will clarify our policy, and will continue our ongoing sensitivity training.”123

Obama’s White House has come down on the side of the hijabs.

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