Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has apologized to a Muslim woman who complained that a cashier in Utah mocker her veil, saying to her, "Please don't stick me up." The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the incident occurred on February 2.
According to the Associated Press, Rolando Rodriquez, a vice president and regional general manager for the company, sent the woman a letter saying that "I can assure you that the associate in question was disciplined in accordance with our employment policies as a result of the situation."
In addition, the store involved will hold sensitivity training sessions for its employees, with an emphasis on Islam-related issues.
It looks like Wal-Mart is handling this well, but I hope that the "discipline in accordance with employment policies" involved the immediate firing of the worker. If you need sensitivity training to know not to say stuff like that, you're probably too messed up to be working in retail.
Facebook's IPO Debacle, Day 3: Un-Friended and Dis-Liked on Wall…
Former Olympic Rower Turned to Minimalism to Pay Down $82,000 in Debt


Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
3-14-2008 @ 3:24PM
crilewood said...
All Americans should boycott Wal-Mart. They are a business built on greed and have no loyalty to the US or our values. We must not appease the fascist, bloodthirsty, hateful, and arrogant idealogy of Islam
2-24-2008 @ 4:32PM
Amah said...
First of all, before you open your ignorant mouth you should know all of the facts, not just the ones reported in the newspapers. The woman who filed the complaint is an American, both born and raised. She has just as much right to be here as you do. Where do you suppose she goes back to? Secondly, Americans only have something to say when Muslims stand up for themselves and demand the respect they deserve. What do you have to say each and every time a Jewish person is faced with anti-semetic comments and demands to be repected? Do you say they should go back to "Isreal?" Or when a black person is harrassed just for being black, do you say they should go back to "Africa?" Maybe you should get a job at Walmart and participate in their "sensitivity training." Or maybe your dumb, ignorant ass needs to go back to school and learn how to respect others and their beliefs, because you certainly didn't get that at home. America opened the doors to the foreign people. Invitied any and everyone to come and enjoy the American "dream." Now that people are taking America up on the invitations, American was to piss and moan about it. It's your baby, now deal with it. Oh, by the way, before you begin to "assume" that I must be amongst those looking to live the so called "American dream," and I came here from over seas, assume again. I too am an American.
9-20-2008 @ 8:51AM
ruru said...
I truly can't imagine the amount and depth of ignorance displayed in the responses. First of all, when did America become a follower? I thought America was the best country on Earth because of its democracy, because of its individual human rights, because of its constitution and because if you like it or not, America is a land of immigrants. Yes, you like everyone else (if not a NATIVE American) is an IMMIGRANT. The whiny immature response "well everyone else is doing it" just doesnt cut it unless you want to be sheep and that is not why America was created to give peeople inidvidual democracies. For some to say ignorantly if I may add "return to your country if you dont like it here" this was an AMERICAN born and raised. I would like to see a wal-mart cashier tell a racist joke to a African American customer or a Jew, or an elderly customer, or a disabled customer. Is the Black American expected to just laugh and tell the cashier "good one!". i gaurantee you would not hear the end of it, and rightfully so. this woman was just getting her groceries people. the majority of Muslim Women dont cover their faces. I have worked with wonderful muslim women, and pleasantly surprised at how "normal" they are. I would rather work with a Muslim woman wearing muslim clothing rather than an ignorant close-minded probably never been out of the state , can't correctly speak or write one language ,racist.
3-12-2008 @ 12:55PM
Carl said...
I think it is a sad day we live in when a muslim with a sheet and a vail is allowed to go to stores or the bank or other places and we should think oh that's ok they're muslim.But if a KKK in full dress did the same people would not say oh that's ok they're KKK,both wear a sheet and all you can see is their eyes. This might sound hard but am i right or not . By the way i don't like either one more than the other!