BBC: I’m Jesus, Fly Me!
A Catholic worker at Manchester Airport was suspended after hanging an image of Jesus on a staff room wall.
Gareth Langmead, 40, was sent home from his job as a car parks supervisor after a complaint from a Muslim colleague.
He was off work for three days while an investigation was carried out and later reinstated with a clean record.
Union officials accused the airport of overreacting and said Mr Langmead was upset by the incident, but the airport said he had not complained.
The airport worker, from Atherton, Greater Manchester, found the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as he was clearing out a desk drawer.
As he felt unable to throw it away, Mr Langmead hung it on a wall in the staff rest room, prompting a complaint it had been put up as “an act of provocation”.
[H]e felt unable to throw it away
? So the optimum solution, rather than taking it home and putting it on one’s own wall, is to decorate one’s (shared) workplace? I disagree with the muslim’s complaint of it being an act of provocation
(you know how sensitive ’some people’ can be).
Perhaps we should be grateful that muslims, although they can bitch about christians hanging up their sectarian propoganda everywhere, are unlikely to start fly-posting tableaux of Mohammed all over the shop.
Langmead has since been reinstated without prejudice. I expect the airport authorities got rid of the picture, or perhaps told him to take it home, where it belongs.
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