21 December 2012

The British workplace must become more accommodating to Muslim women

A recent report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community revealed that Muslim women are encountering discrimination at work from the application stage, through interviews, at recruitment agencies, and in the workplace itself.

Some individuals were even compromising their religious beliefs by removing their hijabs and changing their names to English sounding names in order to obtain employment.

[A COMMENT] There are so many things wrong with this article, I don't have time to talk about them, but what I will suggest Reyhana is that if the British culture is so offensive to you that you cannot work in it, why not go to a nice Muslim theocracy like Iran, and see how well they utilise ambitious and intelligent women. [independent.co.uk] Read more