A SMOKER was refused cigarettes at a Cambridge store because the Muslim shop assistant said it was against her religion to sell tobacco.
A 31-year-old woman, who asked not to be identified, was shocked when she attempted to buy a pack of 20 cigarettes at the WH Smith store in Market Street and was turned down.
She said: "I asked for a pack of 20 Lambert & Butler and the woman behind the desk asked me if they were cigarettes.
"When I said they were she told me that it was against her religion to sell them - I couldn't believe my ears.
"I rang up the manager to complain and he said the shop assistant has to ask someone else to serve them for her if a customer wants tobacco.
"If she had just said, I can't serve you, then that would have been fair enough, but the thing that really annoyed me was the way she gave me a lecture as well.
"She started saying she doesn't agree with smoking, that it kills you - I was really gob-smacked."
When contacted by the News, the store's assistant manager, who refused to give her name, said: "It is true that Muslims can't sell cigarettes - I used to be Jehovah's Witness and I wouldn't on religious grounds either."
She said the customer should have realised the shop assistant was a Muslim, and would not sell her tobacco, because she was "sitting there in her full robes".
Asked why the store had someone who would not sell tobacco working behind the till, she said: "It is against the law to discriminate against people on religious grounds".
However, a leading Muslim denied the claim it was against Islam to sell tobacco, and said he had Muslim friends who smoke.
Asim Mumtaz, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in Cambridge, said: "I don't think there is any basis for refusing to sell cigarettes.
"Islam, like most religions, is against anything that injures health or the body, but there is no ban on cigarettes or on smoking.
"The holy Koran is quite specific about intoxicants, alcohol and other drugs which cause a person to lose control are forbidden, but cigarettes are not forbidden so I am surprised by this."
5 comments:
How can the store not allow discrimination against their employee on religious grounds.
(I assume this means they must be allowed to work on any counter in the shop)
Yet allow their employee to disciminate against customers on religious grounds.
(Pick and choose what products they can handle)
This may not be a life and death issue, but I draw your attention to the female Muslims being trained as life guards in Australia, which could be a major problem if you are a drowning Christian.
There are two Jihads going on in the world the violent one e.g. 7/7. The second one is the insidious Jihad, the aim is to piss off the Kuffars so they will accept Sharia and come round to the Muslim's way of thinking.
The political correct authorities in this case the Store's management are already acting as Dhimmis.
I say that we Boycott all such retail organisations that follow such damming procedures.
Unbelievable ! Next they will be refusing to sell bacon, pork chops, dog food....the list is endless.
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