In America everyone has the right to practice whichever religion they decide. And for Jean Camara, Islam was his religion. And Muslims don’t eat pork. Even though he knew that Costco sells alcohol and pork products in their stores, Camara applied for a job at the store. But when he was assigned to manage the pork conveyor belt, he refused on this basis of his religion.
Costco understood his complaint and promptly transferred him to another department. Instead of working with pork, Camara would collect the shopping carts in the parking lot and bring them back to the store.
But Camara wasn’t happy with the job pushing carts. He saw it as a demotion even though he had been the one who asked to be transferred. He asked his bosses if he could be transferred again, but they refused.
After 16 days of consistent bad attitude from Camara, he was fired from his cart pushing job at Costco. Being fired enraged the Muslim employee because he thought he was fired for being Muslim.
“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” Camara told reporters, according to Conservative Tribune. “We all share different beliefs so we all should be treated equally no matter what belief we have.”
But the facts are clear. Costco (which is notoriously good to its employees) did not fire Camara because of his religion. If anything they were more than accommodating by transferring him away from the pork products. Camara was fired for complaining and having a bad attitude.
We can only hope his lawsuit against Costco is thrown out quickly.