Crying All the Way to the Bank

(August 2008)

 

 

The Daily Mail:

 

“I was prepared to put my heart and soul into my business in order to make ends meet, and for the first few months, I worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, all by myself.”

 

Muslim applicant Bushra Noah, pictured below, does not fit the image. She is pointedly, reproachfully, un-funky, a silent admonition to those infidel women who dare to flaunt their hair and a deterrent to precisely the kind of customer Desrosiers wished to attract:

 

in May, I assumed common sense would prevail and it would be thrown out. Not so. While the direct discrimination case failed, those “hurt feelings” netted Noah £4,000 ($8,000) of Desrosiers’ money. Not bad going for a ten-minute interview. Nice work if you can’t get it. I should be so hurt.

Desrosiers railed against this injustice:

 

“I’ve worked hard all my life  –  how can it be possible that someone can come into my shop, talk to me for ten minutes and then sue me for £34,000? How is that possibly fair?”

 

prints some nasty cartoons? Riot. The Pope says something you don’t like? Riot and bleat. Ezra Levant reprints the cartoons? Sue – your “human rights” have been breached. Mark Steyn expresses concern about Islamic demographics? You don’t get the job you want? Bleat, whine and sue for hurt feelings. It beats working for a living.

Islam is doing what Islam has always done: taking territory by any means possible. For Muslims in the West, tears are more effective than guns. We cannot stop Muslims complaining, but can ensure that the squeaking gate does not always get the oil.

The Independent, Popham and Portilho-Shrimpton:

 

Under what legislation, is not clear. In any case, as Thompson points out, criticism of Islam is not unfair:

 

This article first appeared in Pajamas Media in July 2008

 

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