Muslim worker loses out in Tesco booze bid

Evening Telegraph
October 29, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1017/muslim-worker-loses-out-in-tesco-booze-bid

Excerpt:

A Derby Muslim who sued Tesco for religious discrimination after he was asked to handle crates of alcohol has lost his case.

Mohammed Ahmed, who worked in a warehouse, said the job was against his Islamic beliefs.

The 32-year-old, of Upper Dale Road, Normanton, also accused Tesco of victimisation and harassment during a three-day employment tribunal in Birmingham.

His job at the supermarket giant's Lichfield depot involved the transportation of various goods, including alcoholic drinks, on fork-lift trucks.

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