More Grovelling: Scottish Doc's Can't Eat Lunch at Desk During Ramadan

[Mike Ellis]

LMAO at this one, in Europe the endless charade of political correctness has reached heights of idiocy that no one ever dared contemplate.

You just can't make up stuff like this...

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: Doctors give in to Muslims

DOCTORS GIVE IN TO MUSLIMS
Monday August 13,2007
By Tom Fullerton

DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks - in case it offends their Muslim colleagues.

Health chiefs believe the sight of food will upset Muslim workers when they are celebrating the religious festival Ramadan.

The lunch trolley is also to be wheeled out of bounds as the 30-day fast begins next month.

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Health chiefs in Lothian and Glasgow will give all employees time off to pray and to celebrate Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan.

But Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as Lothian NHS boards also issued the advice, warning workers not to take working lunches, and said all vending machines should be removed from areas where Muslims work.

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A NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesman said: “As a large organisation we recognise that many of our staff, patients and visitors will be participating in Ramadan.

“We have therefore made information available to our staff to raise awareness of Ramadan and help to answer any questions they may have.”

NHS Lothian said: “We have recently agreed a quality and diversity strategy and as a responsible and pro-active employer we will continue to promote a positive culture which recognises and respects diversity both in our workforce and in the people we serve.”