“A Muslim State Department ex-employee is suing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the agency for allegedly refusing to let her work from home on Ramadan….The suit alleges that after Zaki made her request, she was ‘subjected to ridicule’ and ‘harassing emails’ as well as ‘eye-rolling, dirty looks, huffing and puffing when she spoke [and] being overly criticized about her work product.'”
“Reps for Pompeo declined to comment, although an August filing from his attorneys insisted that the ‘defendant had legitimate, non-discriminatory, and non-retaliatory reasons for its actions.'”
The professional minefield is that if a Muslim of a victimhood mindset suffers any negative professional experience, he or she is liable to ascribe it to “Islamophobia.” Any employer is vulnerable to this kind of suit.
“Muslim State Department ex-employee sues Pompeo for discrimination,” by Jon Levine, New York Post, February 8, 2020:
A Muslim State Department ex-employee is suing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the agency for allegedly refusing to let her work from home on Ramadan.
Azza Zaki, 62, says she asked to telecommute twice a week during the Muslim holiday in 2017, according to the federal lawsuit she filed in June in Washington, D.C., seeking $500,000.
Zaki, who worked in the department responsible for handling complaints from foreign au pairs working in the United States, said she routinely made the request during Ramadan and had not had any issue for the previous seven years.
The suit alleges that after Zaki made her request, she was “subjected to ridicule” and “harassing emails” as well as “eye-rolling, dirty looks, huffing and puffing when she spoke [and] being overly criticized about her work product.” Zaki says she was also unfairly placed on “performance improvement plan,” something her attorney said was part of an effort to ultimately fire her.
“It was humiliating. It was insulting. It was something I have never experienced,” Zaki told The Post. “They are ignorant about the religion. This is discrimination and ignorance. Nobody bothered to come talk to me and ask why is this important. Why is it that you need to be at home. I would have explained.”
She retired in 2018 less than a year after filing an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against her supervisors, saying tension at work had become too much.
“I could not go through being sick all the time and stressed all the time. Not sleeping,” she said. “I was constantly thinking about all the problems at work and really doubting myself.”
Reps for Pompeo declined to comment, although an August filing from his attorneys insisted that the “defendant had legitimate, non-discriminatory, and non-retaliatory reasons for its actions.”…
Nauticos says
Probably hired under the Obama administration. In any case, a mistake…
toomanyhobbies says
insubordination….. FIRE HER!
Ca says
Yes
Obama’s attempt to take bbn over America with islam.
James says
We do not live in an Islamic Republic. What do people from that part of the world or converts to it should know better than what they do. In one of the 55 Muslim countries they do not even allow much Christianity or Judaism, and they would never give in to demands for privileging. I saw a docu on Egypt, and I was surprised to see a big historical Christian Church in Cairo. Perhaps they still allow Christianity because the Coptic Christians are still there. In Turkey they do not seem to respect ancient Christian churches at all. IN America they should try to adapt, and if they do not want to, they should move to a Muslim country or one that is highly Islamized.
eduardo odraude says
Christians in Egypt are frequently abused Islam-style.
maemae77 says
Perhaps that church pays a very high jizya.
Emilie Green says
“responsible for handling complaints from foreign au pairs working in the United States”
Ooh, tough work. The chances are extremely high that she’s incompetent to boot.
Ray Jarman says
Emilie Green,
Not only is she “incompetent to boot,” she probably received a boot to speed her exit from Foggy Bottom.
DJ says
Make her pay attorney fees when she loses. Only way to stop this BS.
Ray Jarman says
DJ,
You bring up great idea and there should be a law that states when someone or some organization like CAIR, should pay for the entire legal costs to whomever or to the government, local, state and federal, if the case is rejected by judge or jury. As you suggest, it would go a long way to stop the BS and bring an end to the land of litigation attitude in America.
ElderlyZionist says
It’s typical for attorney’s to take these cases ‘on contingency’. They get paid only if they win. Outlawing this practice would restrict access to legal assistance to people who can afford to pay their lawyers. I don’t think we want to do that, poor people also need and deserve redress through the courts. It would be better to sanction lawyers who bring frivolous lawsuits.
elee says
Whos responsible for vetting around here anyway? And who is handing out security clearances? Would you trust an employee whose scripture directs her not to obey you? See K 3:150-152. The only reason a Muslim could hold this job would be to subvert the government and culture of the west…….which includes America. She should never have been hired, and Pompeo should have fired her ASAP.
tim gallagher says
“She should never have been hired”. I agree, elee, but I’d go one further. She shouldn’t have been allowed into the country to start with. Nothing but trouble. Orban and the Hungarians have got it right. Keep Muslims and the neverending trouble they create out. This woman sounds like a complete parasite. How about the “it was humiliating, it was insulting” crap from this Muslim. Muslims continually humiliate and treat non-Muslims like garbage in countries where they have power. Muslims are the biggest hypocrites to be found in our world.
Ren says
No accommodating measures whatsoever for muslims as islam is not a religion. Endorsing Muhammad, a pedophile and a terrorist is rather insulting and humiliating.
Wellington says
Whenever I read something like this I think about the religious non-Muslims in Muslim countries and how their religious priorities are not only not recognized but in many cases it would actually be dangerous to even request them.
To ALL MUSLIMS: There is so much wrong with your religion. One of the things wrong is that you demand from others what you will not yourselves give to those “others.” Thus, you are guilty of a huge double standard as well as hypocrisy. Particularly loathsome is the way you Muslims use freedom in free societies to make demands that could actually result in death were non-Muslims in Muslim lands to make similar demands.
EVERY Muslim should be ashamed of their religion. The fact that they aren’t itself speaks volumes and is indicative once again of just what a burden Islam truly is to mankind—the worst religion over the longest period of time in all of human history. Islam disgusts me.
Westman says
I’m surprised that Muslims are not demanding an Islamic calendar and accompanying clock that shows the time in Mecca on all US government office walls. Oh, no! Did I just plant the idea for a new Islamic sensibilty-demand?
Aussie Infidel says
Good one Westman. And don’t forget to set aside a special room for daily prayers; and mark the quibla or direction of Mecca; and make sure there are prayer rugs available – all at taxpayer expense of course.
No Muslim should ever be allowed citizenship in any Western country. Islam should be banned – not because of its religious content – but because it is mostly (60%) a political ideology which is a threat to our national security.
Muslims owe their allegiance to the Ummah or world-wide diaspora of Muslims, not their country of residence.
Hoppla says
Don’t forget the Tora is the law and constitution of Judaism not our US laws, this is just the same what the Quran is for Muslims. . Muslims could use that against us if we kick them out of all the Christian countries.
gravenimage says
Once more, the vile Hoppla is pretending that Jews are trying to impose Judaic law on Gentiles as Muslims are trying to impose Shari’ah on Infidels. Moreover, Jewish law is not even the law in Israel; whereas the horrors of Shari’ah are rife in Dar-al-Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
Savvy Kafir says
Excellent post, Wellington!
James Lincoln says
Excellent – and informative – exchange involving Wellington, Westman, and Aussie Infidel…
elee says
They are not capable of shame. That would entail free thinking, having thoughts and opinions of their own, and recognising the humanity of kafirs, all of which are western notions alien to the Fat Dwarf Cult. It is culpably naive for any first world decision-maker to fail to recognise this basic truth.
WPM says
During Ramadan she cannot eat when the sun is shining ,she can stuff her face before dawn and after dusk. If he job is answering the phone, logging on the computer ,taking notes no hard physical labor then why can she not do her work at the office? Is skipping lunch that great a hardship , is she a mind reader that she can interpreted what is a dirty look mean, huffing ,puffing more opinions then facts? Is she the first person who has a supervisor who does not “like or love her” not a reason to sue .She retired(age 62 ) because of the stress after filing the complaint ,according to the article her performance was subpar before and after Ramadan. She was put onto a “performance improvement plan” how dare her supervisor try to mentor or improve her performance or document she is not pulling her weight.
elee says
A famous study found that one of the reasons for the universal underperformance of Muslim governments is that, between teasipping and rolling out the prayer rug, the employees actually spend a bit more than two hours a day actually working. Well of course, how should one expect a Muslim to work effectively for a man-made government? See K 3:155. Can I get a tax refund for whatever this woman got paid?
gravenimage says
Muslim State Department ex-employee sues Pompeo for $500,000 for discrimination over eye-rolling and dirty looks
…………………….
Good grief…
FYI says
Why is she not covered up with a hijab in that picture,especially in front of infidels since her ‘holy’ koran demands it?
What hypocrisy.
Her religion insists that her value is HALF that of a man {k2:282} due to what her child raping polygamous “prophet” muhammed said was due to “the deficiency of a woman’s mind”:how about that for “discrimination and ignorance”?
She needs to go live in Saudi Arabia in retirement as she is clearly not grateful enough for the privilege of living in the west like most of these hypocritical disloyal muslims.
kirk says
This is just another type of jihad they use,
gravenimage says
Yes it is, kirk–“Lawfare”.
Savvy Kafir says
This Muslima claims: “They are ignorant about the religion. This is discrimination and ignorance.” — and that she had never been “humiliated” in this way by her co-workers in the past. More likely, the eye-rolling and nasty comments were from exasperated infidels who actually DO know something about her vile religion.
She also says: “Nobody bothered to come talk to me and ask why is this important. Why is it that you need to be at home. I would have explained.” Maybe none of these annoyed infidels gives a flying f*ck about the requirements of her religion — aside from Islam’s requirement for all Muslims to hate all non-Muslims, and its command to convert, subjugate, or kill all infidels.
PRCS says
“They are ignorant about the religion.”
1. She wanted to telecommute from home, because the commemoration of Muhammad’s first ‘revelation’ is important to her.
Important to that unveiled Muslim woman–albeit for just two days a week–of Ramadan’s roughly 30 consecutive day run.
Don’t know what the Department’s staff knows about ‘the religion’, but it’s seems that SHE (like so many Muslims (Qanta Ahmed, Rashida Tlaib and Irshad Manji as exeamples)–is either ignorant about her ‘complete way of life’, is intentionally fooling the gullible among us, or is just practicing ‘her own personal Islam’.
2. Recalling this recent JW post, gotta wonder which category she was in–7% or 93%?
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/93-of-muslim-public-officials-would-not-express-support-for-the-constitution-they-swore-to-uphold
93% of Muslim Public Officials Would Not Express Support for the Constitution They Swore to Uphold
Wellington says
That 93% figure, PRCS, should resonate and resonate “voluminously” with all non-Muslims in America. The fact that it won’t, not even close in fact, represents an even greater problem than that figure does in and of itself.
Thus again it being demonstrated, QED and all that, that blind ignorance to evil, for whatever stupid reason, is actually worse than evil itself, a point driven home by both the Judeo-Christian tradition and by non-religious thinkers like Ayn Rand.
PRCS says
I do agree.
gravenimage says
Good posts, PRCS and Wellington.
Dusty says
It’s probably closer to 100%. They do practice Taqqya after all.
James Lincoln says
First and foremost, a muslim should not be working for the US State Department – PERIOD.
That being said, according to ADA, a worker must be able to perform “the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.”
Telecommuting, depending upon the nature of the work required, cannot automatically be considered to be a “reasonable accommodation”.
Wellington says
Agree on both points, James. But what is deuce difficult about implementing your first point is that the First Amendment will disallow discrimination against Muslims UNTIL it is codified and adjudicated that Islam, though a religion, is also a totalitarian ideology which would gut the First Amendment of all meaning if only it is allowed to do so.
This is all wrapped up with the sound idea that the Constitution is not a suicide pact and no constitutional amendment is absolute, as Leftists already have plentifully argued regarding both the First and Second Amendments but in stupid, highly unproductive ways. As examples, with respect to the First making the destructive distinction between free speech and hate speech and with respect to the Second by, among other deceitful arguments, making a distinction between “the people” and a “well regulated Militia.”
The Left in America ruins everything it touches—the Constitution, statutory law, American history, bathrooms, pronouns, late-night comedy, the Boy Scouts, borders, the NFL, the Oscars, education, most surely freedom—ah, a very, very long list and indicative of the fact that the preservation of America REQUIRES defeating not one but two opponents—Islam AND Leftism.
Well, after this cheery comment I’m inclined to think you might do well by having an IPA. Just sayin’. In any case, always good to read your comments here at JW. So long for now.
James Lincoln says
Thanks, Wellington, for your informative and thoughtful reply.
As always, best wishes.
Shreyas says
Nobody is forcing this lady to work on the US if she wants to practice her religious doctrines that can affect her work or her performance. Being an American will give her more options to work in any of the countries that are compatible to Islam & grant her the exclusive privileges she is asking for.
Keys says
How dare that burqa-less “lying dog-faced pony soldier” ask for 2 work days a week at home ! Just because Christians get it for the 40 days of Lent, she thinks she should be treated the same ! She must be on the “No More Malarkey” bus.
/sarc off
Keys says
Son of a Mohammad !
My post just subjected the professional Azza Zaki to scripted “eye-rolling, dirty looks, huffing and puffing” and “ridicule”, but I am not paying the $500,000 jizya sought by legal jihad.
somehistory says
Of course she had not trouble getting her way during the pretender’s time in office. moslims had it made and laid in the shade while ‘o’ was handing out the candy.
Now, she is expected to stay in the office and actually work and she whines and refuses to go by the rules set out. Why should she get to stay at home just because she isn’t supposed to eat during the day? Was she afraid that the multitude of other moslims in the SD would see she was not “fasting” like she was supposed to do?
And, the moslims always say how it is “humiliating” and “hurtful” and her additional “insulting.”
She calls it “discrimination,” but then says he didn’t understand about the “religion” and “why she wanted to be home and why it was important.’ Well, if he was ignorant of her “religion” and the other stuff, on what basis was it “discrimination”?
Do all people of other religions who work at the SD get to stay home and be paid on their “holidays”? If they don’t, then to say “No” to this moocher is no different. Only if the others who are not moslim get to stay home on two days of every week for a month can it really be called “discrimination.”
But the topper: he rolled his eyes. Oh how very awful. No wonder she quit such a cushy job.
Mike Casmer says
Let me get this straight. I’m a veteran, with a college degree and born in this country. Why can’t I get a job with the State Dept.? Oh, never mind, I know.
IslamKills says
Stupid article, stupid post. She is not complaining about her being Muslim and he firing her. If you read between the lines it’s more of a “he said”, “she said” situation. This being part of Islam is a HUGE reach.
There are and will always be ,Muslims who work during Ramadan and say nothing! You all pretend every Muslim is crying about being treated fairly with Muslim holidays. You know dam well that’s not the case.
Sincerely,
Dirty “Harry” Mohammed
Wellington says
Not a part of Islam? Are you this dense? Take Islam out of the picture here and what would the half million dollar lawsuit be about?
As for “all” pretending every Muslim, blah, blah, blah…., you set up a straw man and then knocked it down. But the reality is that enough Muslims play the victim and it has become nauseating, as Islam itself is.
So tired of Mo’s creed. Oh yeah, worst of all is that Islam and freedom are completely incompatible and one knows this by now or should know it. There are many reasons why I despise Islam but the number one reason is that Islam is a mortal enemy of liberty.
Joe says
You should read the article. She claims that she was discriminated against because of her religion.
James Lincoln says
IslamKills says,
“Stupid article, stupid post.”
You are correct Joe, he did not carefully read the entire article…
gravenimage says
Oh, I imagine he did, James. Despite his username, “IslamKills” is a thorough-going apologist for the horrors of Islam.
gravenimage says
Actually, this kind of “Lawfare” is rife, as the mendaciously named “IslamKills” well knows.
maemae77 says
Meet the so called moderate Muslim. Psychological terrorism is their specialty, along with indoctrinating our youth through out our society.
drew webb says
Personally I think they should all be ex employees!!!
Don Ameche says
Seems this was an example of Zaki prosecuting ‘ Civilization Jihad’ against the US. A push for Sharia and manipulated dhimmitude. That the US State dept should bow to islam and its priorities.
Giacomo Latta says
Don’t Immigration officials at least hand out a pamphlet that says, ”This is how this country works?” Employers and employees agree to something called a collective work agreement which dictates everything. And if you don’t like that then turn around and go back to wherever the hell you came from. I’m sure it would be worth the cost of the pamphlet.
gravenimage says
If only, Giacomo. Also letting Muslims know that it is not legal for them to rape children and slaughter Infidels might be a good idea. But that would be “Islamophobic”…
OLD GUY says
EYE ROLLING, WOW! Just another attack by the Muslim/Islam world on our way of life. Every time they don’t get their way they will use our system of laws to make them appear to be a victim. This is just an attempt to infiltrate our country with their religion of hate.
Tom says
The jihad of a thousand cuts. Sliver by sliver they assert their supremacy and before we know it we are living in an Islamic autocracy.
“When Muslims are in the minority they are concerned with minority rights. When they are in the majority there are NO minority rights.”
Using our institutions against us to bring down our “miserable house” is a major plank in the Muslim Brotherhood manifesto. Seems many in the public service field have got that message loud and clear.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Tom. That’s why this is called “stealth Jihad”.
Bob Thompson says
I am getting a Million Dollar’s worth of cheap thrills by eye rolling at her and giving her the mostest and dirtiest looks possible (which she deserves).
Paul J Howell says
I have looked at several sites that explain Ramadan and the Muslim religion and not one says anything about a prohibition of work or a requirement to not leave the house. It sounds like someone wished to lighten their workload and was using a month-long religious observance as an excuse.
Shirley Ann says
Muslims in Our GOV, Local, State or Federal, is the Most Dangerous Decision, ever made by the, LIBS IN CONTROL OF “So Called” CIVIL SERVICE. As soon as Muslims are WELCOMED into GOV SERVICE, THEY GO FROM WHINING TO DEMANDING Perks.associated with their CULT. The PENTAGON IS ONE OF THE MORE PRO-MUSLIM PANDERERS, but the MUSLIMS are usually SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR DEMANDS FOR PERKS OR CASH!