Koran burner lost his job because of that protest
 

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...j_transit.html


Ummm though I disagree with the man's action of ripping Koran pages and burning them I think he's entitled to his own opinion and method of protest and that it had nothing to do with his job.

If somebody tore the bible or a copy of the constitution or whatever and set them afire in a Muslim Majority country or otherwise and got booted from his job because of it I'd help whatever I could to help the man get his job back.

If he didn't burn it on the clock, what do they think is the problem?

I guess they can fire people for thinking the wrong thoughts now?

I'd have no problem with him getting fired from a private business, actually, for any reason the owner wanted. The government, OTOH doesn't have that luxury.

I hope he goes to the courts with this. What a man does off the clock is his business and his alone, so long as it doesn't effect his ability to do his job. From the article it sounds like he was exercising his First Amendment right and when pulled aside by police cooperated with them. I may not have done what he did, as in burning the Koran, but that is his right as an American citizen and I say good on him for exercising that right.

The only thing he did wrong was to only burn one!:yep:

Good!

Yes, we have currently a public execution running in Germany, I refer to the debate around Thilo Sarrazin (former member of the board of directors of the German Bundesbank). He is not the first one being hunted to death by the PC insanes, but his fire is burning bigger than those in the recent past. That does not chnage the fact that he has 80+% of the population behind him. PC is a tyranny established and maintained by a minority that just claims to speak for all, and lives by the phlegmatism and resignation of the real majority disliking it.

Political correctness and Islamophilia have established a censorship of thought and speech in our societies. They decide on what is correct to think, to say and to do, and if you stray from that collective duty to say and to think the wanted, the right, the only acceptable things, then they will witch-hunt you and character-assassinate you without ever needing to check your arguments, with no mercy and with their hearts pumping oh so strong in their chests with self-righteousness. But the simple truth is - they are intimidated and are in fear, so they kickjump into obedience to the bully in advance, and their cognitive dissonance makes them believing their motives were noble. Cowardly bunch of weaklings.

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On the topic of political correctness who is to be the judge?!

Hate that word to me it's crap.

Do you know what the word means under tyrant like Hitler?

Political Correctness is like trying to pick up a **** from the clean end, and as Castout says, who is the judge?

I'm all for Political Incorrectness, its far more amusing and only offends those who deem themselves to be politically correct.

:haha:

PC....a sure sign of madness in the community.

I echo the sentiment in saying that I hope he takes his former employer to court.

Isn't New Jersey a Third World country ? :hmmm: :haha:

He worked for the state in New Jersey what do you expect. :doh:

First Amendment doesn't come in to it.

From the sounds of it he had a code of conduct that he agreed to as an employer of the transit system - he violated that and was fired as a result.

I wonder if he had been fired due to whipping his c*** out in public, whether there would have been this thread?

Seems to be a growing anti-Islam paranoia that blames everything on it regardless of the facts or not.

It is very simple: Indecent exposure is illegal. Ripping pages from a book is not. So yes, the First Amendment has everything to do with it.

Ah, but even if that were the case, why should something like this be covered under the code of conduct?

A city transit system can have a code of conduct that is explicitly unconstitutional? A code that applies to employees when they are not on the job?

Just want to say if he discriminated against Muslim in his work then he needs to be booted out of his job but kicking him out of his job just for protesting albeit with a controversial method is rather unfair.

Though I can understand the need to deter more people from following his lead that could cause consternation among the Muslim world.

NJ transit is an at will employer so he can be fired without cause. I have been unable to find the specific code of ethics so I can't opine whether he violated it.

I also don't know the legality of burning something on the streets of NYC, so he may have violated some city ordinance.

I am sure this will all come out in the lawsuit. Suing your employer seems to be the lottery of choice for getting rich quick, it seems. :nope:

I see no reason for the government to get involved at all in "deterring more people." They can deface whatever book they like as long as they own the book as far as I am concerned.