Religious tension in workplace on the rise (MY FRIEND ! ! !)

[ClayZ]

I am appalled, Khaled is my friend. I have known him for 7 years. He is a kind man, a good father, and is married to a young lady I have known for 20 years. ARGH! I can not believe this country!
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A Muslim immigrant working on contract for Microsoft filed a complaint against the company last month, saying he was interrogated about his Muslim-inspired, anti-war Web site, then abruptly fired.

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http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=religiousuit11m0&date=20070211
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Khaled Mohamed hadn't given such issues much thought when he took a contracting job at Microsoft last year.

A week before his contract was to expire, the 39-year-old was questioned about an anti-war Web site he maintains and how often he accessed it and other Web sites while at work.

He was subsequently escorted from the premises, he said, and told he'd never do work for Microsoft again. An immigrant from Egypt, he filed a religious and national-origin discrimination complaint with the EEOC against Excell Data, his direct employer, and against Microsoft.

Microsoft declined to comment on his case, but within days of his complaint made him eligible for rehire. Excell said Mohamed's contract was terminated because he violated Microsoft policy against using company resources for personal reasons.

Mohamed said in his six months at Microsoft, he'd only twice accessed his own site, waronislam.net, which harshly criticizes the U.S. presence in the Middle East. The site characterizes the war on terror as a war against Islam and features graphic photos of the dead. "I think they believed my views were too extremist... ," he said.

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[Az]

1. I am going to chalk this one up to some middle management repug

It sounds like upper level management reversed the descision. The firing had already been done and they could not rectify that without inviting a lawsuit so they did what they could.

Not everything nasty that a Corporation does is due to it being an asocial artificial entity. Sometimes the cogs in the machine manage to express their own petty bigotry.

[CrispyQ]

2. Personal anti-war blogs bad. Fantasy football good.

If any company I have ever worked for went after the fantasy football group they would have to fire about a thrid of the company.