UK cop gets 11 K pound as compensation for ‘Osama’ slur
June 27th, 2009 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANILondon, June 27 (ANI): A Muslim cop won 11,000 pounds in a religious discrimination case - after his boss said he looked like Osama Bin Laden.
Darren Yates made several remarks about the length of 42-year-old Tariq Dost’s beard.Yates compared his West Midlands Police colleague to a newspaper picture of al-Qaeda chief Bin Laden - and once referred to Muslim prayer as “shouting and wailing”.According to The Sun, constable Dost told a Birmingham employment tribunal he found the comments “ignorant”.
Judge Pauline Hughes said: “This was a sustained course of conduct.”
She said the remarks were offensive, more so because Dost was “very religious”.
Dost, 40, said Yates laughed at his off-duty Islamic clothing and said: “You look like a terrorist.”
Dost, who had filed a case of racial and religious discrimination against West Midlands Police, won the claim, though victimisation was not proven.He said later: “This was never about money, it was about principle. I feel vindicated.” (ANI)
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