A Christian therapist in England who was suspended after being accused of evangelizing to a Muslim colleague has suffered another loss in court.
Would a Muslim be taken to court for sharing his or her faith with a coworker? Whether or not Victoria Wasteney was proselytizing to her Muslim colleague on the job or not is to be determined in court. However, there remains a larger issue: Western authorities are giving the impression that while Christians are studied under a microscope for accountability, Muslims are not. Some examples:
- University of California Berkeley Muslim professor Hatem Bazian has been openly calling for an intifada in America, and he has issued these violent calls at several venues throughout the United States.
- Nadia Shoufani, a Toronto-area school teacher who called a Palestinian jihadist who crushed the skull of a four-year-old Israeli girl a hero and martyr, was said to have been investigated by her school board and by Toronto Police. But there has been no followup.
- Farrah Marfatia, a principal of a Muslim academy in Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada was instructing parents to teach their children that “homosexuals are cursed by Allah as are the men who imitate or dress up like women.” Once again, there was no followup.
One can imagine the public outcry if Christians or Jews were preaching those same words — the court battles, the disdain. But where is the same reaction when Muslims say this? Instead, we see Victoria Wasteney, a Christian woman, in court for imparting messages about her faith’s love and healing to a Muslim colleague with whom she developed a relationship (or so she thought). While there are rules against proselytizing in places of employment, Wasteney was discussing her faith to a colleague, not to a client.
While Ms. Wasteney is being prosecuted in London, Sharia courts in Britain are sending Muslim women back to abusive husbands.
“Christian Hospital Worker Punished for Sharing Faith Loses Again in Court”, by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, July 29, 2017:
A Christian therapist in England who was suspended after being accused of evangelizing to a Muslim colleague has suffered another loss in court.
Victoria Wasteney, the former head of Forensic Occupational Therapy at a hospital in London, was issued a nine-month suspension by East London National Health Service in 2014 after an eight-page complaint was filed against her by a Muslim colleague named Enya Nawaz.
As has been reported, Nawaz and Wasteney, a born-again Christian, developed a relationship while working at the St. John Howard Centre in East London and at points discussed religious differences.
Nawaz’s complaint accused Wasteney of trying to convert her to Christianity. Wasteney reportedly offered to pray with Nawaz, gave her a book authored by a Muslim convert to Christianity and invited her to an event organized by her church.
Wasteney was also accused of putting her hand on Nawaz’s knee while in a prayer and asking God to come to Nawaz.
Wasteney was initially thrown off by the allegations because she thought they had developed a good relationship. She told the Daily Mail in 2015 that she only put her hand on Nawaz’s knee to comfort Nawaz when she was dealing with health problems.
“I put my hand on her knee to comfort her and asked if that was okay, and said, ‘Would you like me to pray for you?'” Wasteney told the Daily Mail, “She said yes, so I asked for God to bring peace and healing. She left the office afterwards and said she was okay.”
Wasteney has denied that her act of giving Nawaz the book I Dared to Call Him Father, was an attempt to convert her.
According to The Telegraph, an East London NHS Foundation Trust disciplinary hearing in February 2014 upheld three charges against Wasteney and found five charges to be unsubstantiated. In the hearing, Wasteney was convicted of “gross misconduct.”
In October 2015, Wasteney won the right to appeal the NHS’ action to the Employment Appeal Tribunal on the basis of religious liberty. However, Judge Jennifer Eady ruled against her in April 2016.
“What the court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today’s politically correct world, any Christian can even enter into a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not, potentially, later end up in an employment tribunal,” Wasteney was quoted as saying at the time. “If someone sends you friendly text messages, how is one to know that they are offended? I had no idea that I was upsetting her.”
According to the U.K.-based Christian Legal Centre, Wasteney filed for an appeal against Eady’s 2016 decision and appeared in court Thursday. However, a tweet from the advocacy group on Thursday explained that Wasteney’s “permission to appeal has been rejected” and the “legal battle goes on.”….
AuthorLee says
England, like most of Europe, has lost its way. Based on this legal action, English courts have accepted blaspheme (attempting to convert a Muslim) against Islam as a crime, thus giving Muslims superior status over other religions. Soon Jews will have to sit in the back of the bus.
gravenimage says
Exactly.
Andy says
England has lost it’s way due to turning there back on there Judeo-Christian heritage and allowing these political elite traitors to open the flood gates to people who will never assimilate into society.
I saw this and wanted to post it:
Pakeha Rabbit
Nobody is saying that Africans in Africa will ever be a minority.
Nobody is saying that Asians in Asia will ever be a minority.
So why are they saying Whites will be a minority in Britain in 2036?
And Sweden in 2024?
That’s because there’s MASSIVE non-White immigration and FORCED assimilation in EVERY White country and ONLY White countries.
Because there’s a program of White geNOcide.
They say it’s “anti-racist” but it’s simply anti-white.
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white.
Diversity is a codeword for white genocide.
England’s Christian Heritage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8LTgS7r3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_m-RCybzkk
Andy says
Britain: A Summer of Anti-Semitism
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10721/britain-antisemitism
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10721/britain-antisemitism
Frank J. Verderber says
Britain is an armpit of a country. Without its Commonwealth colonies, it would be considered third rate. I’ve been there and they don’t know how to plant trees on the landscape of sheep-dip. The common people are fun but have been dumbed down. Many are on continual unemployment. The Elites do what ever they think. No one goes to church there accept a few old people. I attended several of there churches. I thought I was in a crypt. Though the elites say they are Anglican, they are not. What they are is either some hapless cult called Anglo-Israelis, or Gnostic theosophists. The main economic endeavor is for Inner London bankers to take in laundered money from the Russian Oligarchs and Drug Cartels, and control the metals market. They have rejected Jesus Christ as their Lord, and are willing to receive the Devil incarnate. Brittan is the Whore on the Beast in Revelation. . READ MY BOOK AT http://WWW.SMASHWORDS.COM; NEW WORLD ORDER , PARTII
Adrian Johnson says
All this is the result of the Koudenhove-Calergi Plan. Look it up. It’s real: Angela Merkel was given the Koudenhove-Calergi Plan Award for 2015.
John Forbes says
I am waiting for the REAL introduction of SHARIA in the UK !
It cannot be that far off with current trends !
Fish says
Ñoooooooo
blitz2b says
I’m waiting for a former free European country (probably Sweden) to thoroughly become a failed Islamic state plunged fully into sharia and it’s barbaric consequences…. Maybe then other European nations will wake up to the reality of Islam…. Or maybe not!
According to Osama bin laden, people usually prefer a” strong horse” to a weak one. Islam’s stringent laws are proving to be the ” strong horse” all over the world and our very own liberal left is the vehicle to make the West weak in every way possible.
The result is obvious…. The strong horse will win….
shosh7154 says
Psalm 9:17
gravenimage says
There is nothing “strong” about cowardly, bullying Islam.
And don’t counsel surrender here. Most of us are fighting back.
Rufolino says
In purely legal terms this presumably means that England is now, first of all, Islamic.
Bob says
British courts, like the British police’re terrified of being accused of ‘racism’ and/or ‘islamophobia’, but here a clear example of ‘Christianophobia’ goes unremarked. Unless our presently political dhimmis extract their digits soon there’ll be no turning back!
angela davys says
If our courts and government and police Will not speak out and enforce our laws they should not be in their jobs .get rid of echr they only support criminals. abolish All legal aid .stop greedy lawyers with no morals protecting these people.these officials meant to be running the uk and protecting the tax paying citizens of the uk are in fact 100% encouraging the people that pull out the racist card just to get their own way. And are in fact failing in their duty to protect uk citizens. . The uk will be taken over in the not too distant future If our elected Government does not make a stand NOW the day we leave this dictating trash called the eu as well as the ecj and the echr . TM has written our own uk bill of rights which is all that the uk needs .Bring in our military and BJs big water cannons (knew they would come in handy )and sort it out while they still can if they do not i can see the people of the uk will be taking it into their own hands .Then the uk will turn into a war zone .It has to change and NOW the next civil servant that lets these people off back onto uk streets needs to be sacked on the spot .to be held to a/c for being a traitor to the uk .AND that is one act that must be reinstated .
Peggy says
Why are they so terrified of being called racist? Who are they trying to impress? The savages?
I don’t think fear has anything to do with it.
it’s all a grand design.
Bob says
British courts, like the British police’re terrified of being accused of ‘racism’ and/or ‘islamophobia’, but here a clear example of ‘Christianophobia’ goes unremarked. Unless our presently political dhimmis extract their digits soon there’ll be no turning back!
I’m assured that my comment is a duplicate, but I can’t find the first!
Lawrence Deans says
Europe is lost to Islam. And this fact, as time goes on, is going to make life much more difficult for the us, here in The States. Thanks to god and The Founding Fathers for The Second Amendment to our Constitution.
Marina says
God, not god.
wool says
You westerners have to pay the prize for having relationship with muslims to exterminate Jews and Blacks in former time.you westerners will pay the prize for the way of your intervention in Iraq.you westerners will pay the prize for the way your women do commit porn
dumbledoresarmy says
NONSENSE.
What are you? Mohammedan in mask, or Russian troll factory stupidly attacking your fellow Infidels?
And if you think ALL western women ‘commit porn’ you are very, very, very wrong. Quit slandering the many, many decent women and girls of the western world, you foul-mouthed dementor.
As for Iraq… THAT is not the cause of the Jihad. The jihad doctrine of Islam causes the Jihad against not only the West but also everyone else who is not Muslim.
Frederick Middleton says
If they don’t want our prayers, they won’t get them. Nuff said.
Andy says
The Ugly Truth About Immigration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toTKacDgX_Q
gravenimage says
Most immigration is fine. But allowing in hordes of ravening, supremacist Muslims is insanity.
Lucia Bartoli says
For the record, muslims don’t dialogue about conversion with an “infidel.” They simply stab or behead him/her.
Jayell says
You’re wrong there. They’re at it all the time in/outside schools, universities, prisons. THEY can do it, apparently, but try it the other way round and they run snivelling to the police, their lawyer, etc., and the stupid dhimmi officials pat them on the head, wipe their nether regions for them….., anything, whilst dragging the wicked infidel kuffar through the courts, wrecking their careers….
This case must be AT LEAST the second on record in recent timea where a muslim has played this game. They clearly don’t want other people to like them – or other people don’t matter.
Wilma Stuart says
When will people (infidels) learn? It is very well known that moslims (can’t bring myself to use a capital M) practice taqiyya ie Deception & Lying, This quote is from ©2002 – 2017 Site developed by TheReligionofPeace.Com Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences.”
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them. This is what happened here! I shudder when I hear people say they have a very good friend who is a moslim! There are no moderate moslims they are all radical to different degrees. This situation is happening in Australia also. Report today that Bondi Council in Sydney have rejected an application for a Synagogue citing terrorist issues, meanwhile we have a mosque on every corner!
SV says
Yes they do it’s called Dawah.
Esperanza Barco Alonso says
Never trust Muslims! Even though they smile at you, in the bottom of their hearts they will curse hoy!
Santa Voorhees says
And yet there was no arrest made when muslims took the streets calling for Sharia to be imposed and to behead those who refuse it.
Shame on the UK!
john spielman says
well the good news from the UK is that the two street preachers who were charged and convicted of hate speech for preaching Christ to mohammedans and were fined 10000 dollars have had their convictions over turned by a higher court!
Lorn Ferguson says
@ John S.,
I hope to GOD what you say is true and accurate! The loss of free speech is enabling a nazislamo takeover……they can do what they want…rape,pillage, murder, subjugate and defile w/ impunity while citizens that speak out against the behavior is arrested and labeled racist????? HOW MUCH SENSE DOES THAT MAKE????? CAN ANYONE LET ME KNOW WHY????
Karen says
That is good news!!
Kepha says
The bad news is that there are still judges and prosecutors who, in an ostensibly Christian country, would still bring those who proselytize Muslims into court as criminal defendants.
Michael says
She wasn’t prosecuted, she was disciplined by her employer. She sued her employer in the Employment Tribunal and lost.
I’ve read the judgement, and it’s likely that the reason was that she had failed to maintain boundaries between her position as a senior member of staff in relation to a subordinate. The judgement would still have been correct even if Islam had been found to be a seditious belief system unworthy of respect in a democratic society. Which it is.
Darryl Kerney says
if she was a boss in some way to the muslim woman, then yes, it might have been inappropriate.
but how fortunate for sharia followers, they can use our laws to enforce sharia, simply by complaining she got the infidel punished for daring to discuss her non islamic faith, islam wins.
Joe says
As far as the story goes here, there is no hostile work environment. I don’t see where the lady did anything wrong. The boundaries are meant to protect the employee. How could the tribunal rule that the employee was threatened?
Laura says
Because if the muslim says she felt threatened the tribunal will go along with that, even though it was untrue. You should know by now that they nearly always come down on the side of muslim complainants/litigants.
Ginger says
As far as I remember, it was a male relative who insisted the Muslima should complain.
Juan says
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4738836/Plans-migrants-French-hotels-slammed.html
Tangata says
We cannot blame Muslims when it is the very non-Muslim western institutions that are voluntarily acting to commit cultural suicide… Yes it is the lunacy and madness of Western Cultural Marxism and Islam is simply taking advantage of this.
c matt says
In a sense, blaming Muslims/Islam/Mohammedans is like refusing to take medicine and then blaming the virus for overtaking your body.
Peggy says
Not if the body is not willing to fight.
Tangata says
We cannot blame Muslims when it is the very non-Muslim western institutions that are voluntarily acting to commit cultural suicide… Yes it is the lunacy and madness of Western Cultural Marxism in the halls of government at the very top of western society imposing itself on the whole of Western Society and Islam is simply taking advantage of this.
Elizabeth L. says
Exactly!
But it is not only our leaders imposing Cultural Marxism on us; people in general have accepted it too.
These are the consequences of rejecting God.
R Russell says
Being on the receiving end of harassment admitted by the criminal to be because he ‘hates all religions’, I researched online the info guidelines and was astonished to discover that whilst many individual faiths are identified, Christianity is obvious by its absence.
http://www.report-it.org.uk/files/hate_crime_operational_guidance.pdf
This doesn’t surprise me for Christians are persona non grata in the UK. We are, unless there is revival, entering a time where persecution, and severe persecution is just around the corner.
What I must say, and it is for the protection of Christians, (For it seems to me this lady was deliberately set up) they must remember that whilst they are working their contractual hours, their time belongs to their employer. Any enquiries from apparent interested parties must be kept until off working premises and conducted in neutral ground. If the contact is genuine then they will understand and comply.
We have to be as wise as serpents as well as gentle as doves. Let us use this wisdom.
Lydia says
All I can say is:
Keep on preaching sister!
That is our call and we will be persecuted for it.
faraway says
This is madness;the Uk has lost it’s way.I’m not religious;for me it’s all a load of hocus-pocus.But I defend this woman’s right to talk about her faith to anyone.
Fair views TH says
UK and EU are sinking like the Titanic into the Islamic hellhole because they have received too much “waters” i.e. Muslum immigrants and petrol dollars.
Fair views TH says
All because of their elite traitors.
Anne Smith says
Anyone should be free to discuss their faith in their leisure time. However when at work it is best to leave beliefs and faiths outside the door. This should apply to Muslims, too.
This woman seems to have been a bit silly, and was clearly led on by the Muslima who then turned on her. Silly not to realise that the Muslima was ;playing her like a fish on a hook.
gravenimage says
UK: Christian woman prosecuted for talking about Christianity to a Muslim colleague
…………………..
Unless Ms. Wasteney continued to aggressively proselytize after being asked to stop–and there is no indication that this happened–then this is appalling.
Karen says
You and I, and other people of common sense/good will would think so. But in the workplace, Ms. Nawaz didn’t really owe Ms. Wasteney any second chances. If a hostile environment was being created, even if only in her own perception, she has no obligation to ‘coach’ the ‘perpetrator’ to better behavior. This is to protect the victim, and seems very appropriate in cases of sexual discrimination or exploitation, and more serious offenses. But the hostile environment can be created in myriad ways, including speech, jokes, religion, etc. Years ago a Baptist co-worker almost daily reminded me that I needed to be re-baptized. He could probably be sued or disciplined today, but of course, although annoying, that’s just not the type of thing I consider hostile. What is the injury? None, that I can tell. I think Ms. Nawaz should have taken a similar stand, and considered what the injury was, instead of what seems like political opportunism.
Peggy says
Actually the Muslim B’s response should have been to tell her that she isn’t interested and only if the persisted could she be disciplined.
It’s up to an individual to tell the other person that his/her remarks/gestures and not welcome.
Unless it’s an obvious case of bullying an innocent remark about one’s religion cannot be considered cause for discipline if the other person didn’t tell them to stop.
gravenimage says
Ah….right. Don’t you realize that a Muslim just having to peacefully deal with Infidels is considered “hostile”?
Karen says
Sad, but true, graven. You and Peggy have the kind of common sense, reasonable perspective that should prevail….but often doesn’t.
Rob says
There are none so blind as those who cannot see we are sliding into chaos
somehistory says
Jesus said that Christians must be “innocent as doves” and also they must be “cautious as serpents.”
Snakes are careful where they slither and ones such as rattlers and some others, bite first and leave the questions to others to ask. A rattler warns first, but is ready to bite, not seeing the intruder as a *friend.* Doves are symbols of peace and harm no one. so the Christian is careful where they go and to whom they offer loving-kindness from God.
Christians must suspect any moslem of backstabbing treachery. Don’t let them get too close. The ones that want out of the devil-worshipping death cult, will find the way, and the ones that don’t, will use any kindness shown as a weapon against the Christian.
brane pilot says
Islam is really not the issue. Islam hasn’t changed in 1600 years and it is not going to change.
The issue is the total collapse of competent governance in the West, and its unanimous and unconditional groveling before Islam while welcoming mass Muslim immigration.
THAT is the issue.
Karen says
I suspect that Ms. Nawaz was initially open to the prayer sessions, (or was merely being polite) but was later coached into her current perception of offense. In today’s model of employee relations, a sexist is a homophobe is an (Christian) evangelist, so perhaps she is within her rights, by letter of the law. But how much better if, as a person of faith she a simply said ‘no, thank you’, and ended the matter. Instead she is driving a wedge, playing victim, and using the force of law to ruin another human being. Not terribly nice, and in my mind reinforces the perception of revenge as inherent in Islam. Did Ms. Wasteney create a hostile work environment? Then Ms. Nawaz has a case. Does this seem likely of the gentle mannered Wasteney? Not from where I sit. Can Islam turn the other cheek? Unknown.
mortimer says
England has an official, established church. There is no question that promoting Christianity in a legally Christian country is lawful.
The lawyers should have no difficulty having this case thrown out if they know what they are doing. The trouble is the judges who don’t understand Christianity and the requirement of all Christians to teach and make disciples.
Peggy says
One thing that puzzles me is, how come speaking to someone about your religion is against the law in UK?
Speaking about any religion you belong to has never been against the law otherwise Jehova’s witnesses would be prosecuted every day.
If it’s hasn’t been put into law one should not be charged with any crime as it’s not a crime.
Or is it now?
Louis says
Just shows the UK Establishment panders to Muslims at the expense of Christians.
They should examine where their true values rest…….with Brits or with the Ummah!!
Noel says
This article uses the words proselytizing & evangelizing as if they had the same meaning. Evangelize means to tell people about your God and hope they respond. Proselytize means conversion by force – convert or I will kill your children, rape your wife and then torture you before killing you.
gravenimage says
Noel, you are mistaken in your belief that proselytizing specifically means violent forced conversion:
Definition of proselytize
proselytized; proselytizing
intransitive verb
1
: to induce someone to convert to one’s faith
2
: to recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause
transitive verb
: to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proselytize
Jedothek says
Just when you think that the deterioration of freedom cannot become any worse, it gets worse. The freedom of religious people to preach to and to try to convert others is fundamental to religious freedom . The first amendment protects it. Is there a parallel protection in Britain? If so, it is certainly being ignored in this case .
Robert Wagner says
In the United states, would a Muslim baker be prosecuted for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?
Karina says
The UK seems to be more like a United Kingdom of Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
If the muslima, Nawaz, wanted to avoid Christianity, why did she apply to work at the St. John Howard Centre?
St John Howard… has the word “SAINT” in it, no?
😉
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “(The) East London NHS Foundation Trust disciplinary hearing in February 2014 upheld three charges against Wasteney and found five charges to be unsubstantiated. In the hearing, Wasteney was convicted of “gross misconduct.”
Typical leftopaths, projecting again – who’s really guilty of GROSS MISCONDUCT here?!
Like I keep saying: Any and all legislators, judges and educators who put criminals’ subjective hurt feelings above objective facts should be fired and JAILED.
solange silverman says
No one should be proselytizing to others, but they should also not have to face court for it, just because someone, somewhere got offended. Great Britain is not so great any more, sorry to say.
June B says
What about our school children been shown around mosques, my grandson had to go against his dads wishes, isn’t that the same thing, are they trying to convert them?
lurch says
Political correctness is a one way street these days, they can do and say whatever but the moment we open our mouths we are called racist.