Imane Boudlal got a job two weeks after moving to California, a hostess spot at a Disneyland Resort cafe.
She didn’t log many hours at first — it was April, the slow season — but as the summer of 2008 progressed, the 24-year-old worked more frequently as the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa’s Storyteller’s Cafe drew more tourists.
It was also, Boudlal alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday, when co-workers began taunting her, calling the Moroccan-born Muslim a “terrorist,” “camel” and someone who learned how to make bombs at her mosque. She complained to her managers both verbally and in writing, she said, with no results.
Now, Boudlal is suing the Walt Disney Co. in federal court, saying she was discriminated against and harassed for her religious beliefs. She also alleges she unfairly lost her job in 2010 after refusing to remove her headscarf at work.
The lawsuit claims that Boudlal, a naturalized U.S. citizen, decided to wear her hijab full time in 2010. She contacted her supervisors to request an exemption to Disney’s “look” policy, or general appearance guidelines.
Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the company tried to accommodate Boudlal’s needs — as it has with religious requests from other employees from various faiths.
“We presented Ms. Boudlal with multiple options to accommodate her religious beliefs, as well as offered her several roles that would have allowed her to wear her own hijab,” Brown said. “Unfortunately, she rejected all of our efforts and has since refused to come to work.”
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Go back to your islamic nation if you are so unhappy! What a damn joke!
I so agree with you. The is AMERICA a CHRISTIAN COUNTRY contrary to what BO tells the Arab nation.
Go away. Leave Disney alone and leave their family vacation resorts alone. STUPID woman.
Dont like the offers put to you by Disney? then see ya later go and get a job in say…….saudi arabia
This is America. If she wants to wear her scarf and let the world know she is Muslim then she can go back to her country. Companies have rules and regulations. If you can’t follow them then the company has every right in the world to do so. Foreigners are coming into OUR country and our government is coddling them. People here in America worry more so now about Muslims and bombs then ever and GEE, I WONDER WHY… Not a question. Just a FACTUAL STATEMENT
Perhaps the U.S. should outlaw hijabs like they’ve done in France. That would clear up the problem.
Totally agree.
I’m afraid we are going to see more of this kind of behaviorism from Muslims. They want things their way and no other way. This is America not a Muslim Country. Adapt like we would be required to do in your country.
If she goes back to Morocco, she can wear her hijab wherever she wants. What’s the problem?
I cant help but feel a little sorry for her,but rules are rules and we have to fallow them just the same.its called a dress code.
Wait, are Muslim women even allowed to work? I am all for religious freedom, but when someone is paying you for a job, you have to do it their way if you want to get paid.
So she wasn’t fired, she quit! Disney offered her several options to have a custom made hijab to go with her costume “look”, or to work in an area of Disney where she could wear her own. She was a FLAKE. She stopped showing up for work. Clearly all she wants is money from Disney. Hopefully Disney doesn’t bow to her and takes this fight to court. Then they should sue her for a malicious lawsuit, as well as slander. She lied about being fired for the Hijab. She quit and Disney did nothing wrong. They offered her costume coordianated hijabs and in fact another position so she could wear her own. She lied about this whole thing.
I have to ask the first question before going any further, Why do Muslims believe that the whole world has to cater to their so-called religion? Yet, no non Muslim can demand the same in any Islamic country, because under Islamic law non Muslims are DHimmi or non persons. So let’s gets one thing straight, we in the West must now tighten the screws and tell Musloms that they do not hve any priviliges and that they accept the laws or the country that they have immigrated to, or pack up and leave right away.
I do not hold with anything Islamic, nor do I hold their religious book as sacred, any more than the legends or myths of Mesopotamia whence they came from and were borrowed by the middle eastern peoples called Arabs in the 6th century. There have been false prophets galore in the middle east. and I cannot be bothered with their fairy tales.
Disney Land should open a Muslim ride- in it you get to be a muslim- get raped as a child, beaten by your husband, then stoned to death.
MAN – SCREW that bitch. I knew a girl who worked at Disney years ago, and you are not even allowed to wear makeup, jewelry, and any manner of garments and clothing articles. What makes her think she is so special.
She’s also a liar, 100%, they all are – it’s very easy to lob complaints about ‘what people say’ and even if they did call her names, she needs to suck it up. I’ve waited tables before and waiters are CUT throat because they live on tips. It’s the same as any ‘sales person’ who works for commissions. I’ve know waiters who specifically targeted new and/or young waiters to harass until they quit; it’s unfortunate, but, that’s life.
Also that lady does not look MOROCCAN at all. I’ve lived in Morocco, she looks malaysian or filipino.
And of COURSE she refused all their offers – with mudslimes it’s all or nothing – THEIR WAY or nothing.
OH I was hired as a cashier, but, I refuse to check out pork or even check out people who buy pork, screaming at other cashiers to check them out, but, if you offer me a job in another department or area, I whine and cry that I didn’t hire on to be something else; so it’s your fault if I get fired.
In Pakistan if some bitch complained about being fired they’d pour acid on her face.