Religious discrimination or not?

[Zebo]

They should counter sue for negligence and unfullfilling her contract. She knew conditions, time and place of employment before taking job and agreed and is now trying to weasel out of it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

They should counter sue for negligence and unfullfilling her contract. She knew conditions, time and place of employment before taking job and agreed and is now trying to weasel out of it.

Exactly!!!

 

[werepossum]

Why can't she go next year?! I don't get it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj

The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th and last month of the Islamic calendar. Because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, eleven days shorter than the Gregorian calendar used in the Western world, the Gregorian date of the Hajj changes from year to year. Ihram is the name given to the special state in which Muslims live while on the pilgrimage.

The pilgrimage is supposedly the same time each year, 8th through 12th of the 12th month. However, Muhammed screwed up his calender, so the Islamic year actually slides 11 days each year. (I said solar, it's actually a lunar calender instead of being a solar calender.) Therefore the real date of the hajj slips 11 days each year, so depending on the year, if she can't make it this year, next year it falls 11 days earlier and so on. I read either here or somewhere else that had she waited eight years, the hajj would have fallen outside of her regularly scheduled school work days. Instead she decided she had to go her first year of employment, which fell at a time that pretty much negated any value in having hired her. Kinda like hiring a football coach for nine month, then a month before the season starts he says he'll need vacation the first three weeks of the season.

 

[Throckmorton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj

The pilgrimage is supposedly the same time each year, 8th through 12th of the 12th month. However, Muhammed screwed up his calender, so the Islamic year actually slides 11 days each year. (I said solar, it's actually a lunar calender instead of being a solar calender.) Therefore the real date of the hajj slips 11 days each year, so depending on the year, if she can't make it this year, next year it falls 11 days earlier and so on. I read either here or somewhere else that had she waited eight years, the hajj would have fallen outside of her regularly scheduled school work days. Instead she decided she had to go her first year of employment, which fell at a time that pretty much negated any value in having hired her. Kinda like hiring a football coach for nine month, then a month before the season starts he says he'll need vacation the first three weeks of the season.

Yeah, I know the date changes. But next year she can quit her job and go fulfill her superstitious duty, or the year after that, or whatever year. Maybe she could even switch to some administrative job later so she wouldn't be needed during the hajj...

BTW, do Muslims really believe that if you don't make it before you die, you go to hell?

 

[davmat787]

BTW, do Muslims really believe that if you don't make it before you die, you go to hell?

That would suck if true, just think if you are flying to the Hajj and the wing falls off, or some terrorist blows up the plane! BTW, you wouldn't believe some of the stories I have heard and read from pilots who did charter Hajj flights. To be fair, some of the passengers might have never been in an aircraft before, but trying to cook in the aisle? No problem! Live animals onboard to run around? Check.

 

[werepossum]

Yeah, I know the date changes. But next year she can quit her job and go fulfill her superstitious duty, or the year after that, or whatever year. Maybe she could even switch to some administrative job later so she wouldn't be needed during the hajj...

BTW, do Muslims really believe that if you don't make it before you die, you go to hell?

That I don't know. I know they are supposed to make hajj before they die IF they can afford it, but I don't know the supposed penalties.