Terminology

[LustyLew]

Hi guys,

Odd question time!

I'm having to send a general email to my company due to abusive messages that have been circulating between employee's. Now I need to find a word for people who are abusive towards another religion.

Just like:

People who are abusive to gay people are called homophobic.
People who are abusive to foreigners are called racist.

So what about faith?

Example I caught today "Yeah, still she's a dirty, filthy muslim." This came from a young Hindu guy. Now, I dont give a toss what he does outside of the company, but inside, on my network, that's not on.

So, any ideas?
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[veeeffarr]

xenophobia?

[TheShaggyDA]

Religious bigotry should cover it.
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Theophobia?
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[veeeffarr]

Technically, a potato isn't a sex toy but hey who gives a fuck!

[hellkat]

Islamophobia
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[LustyLew]

Tough isn't it!

A mate has suggested "intolerance of religious difference". But hmm, I wanted something one worded with lots of syllables.

Oh, hellkat, what's this about potato sex toys? Your punters getting frisky again?!
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[TheShaggyDA]

[tatters]

Islamophobic is the latest left-wing liberal bullshit used these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Muslim


Anyone who follows islam is sub-human but theres no need for stereotype abuse like "dirty, filthy" etc.
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[msgander]

https://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employees/DiscriminationAtWork/DiscriminationAtWorkArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10026449&chk=Co7Ovo
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[Annabella]

That constitutes harassment of religion and belief.

This is covered under the Race Relations Act and Protection from Harassment. Any violation of either within the Public Sector are grounds for dismissal. I think you are right to offer a general warning, and if you see a reoccurrence of the behaviour then a verbal warning would not be overly harsh.
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[LustyLew]

OK, I'm going to be sending out my e-mail later on today after consulting with HR and the board fo directors.

However, I need to know where I stand with monitoring these things.

Now, like most companies we reserve the right to monitor email. However, the comments Ive noticed have been transmitted between two people using the 'net' command and the windows 'Messenger' service.

Now for me to find these messages I've had to go into the Event Viewer, so I have to access their machine directly. I was viewing it remotely to troubleshoot another problem and noticed all the messages.

I personally would think that comments found like that on a company PC should still be valid as grounds for disciplinary action of some sort?

To put it into some kind of perspective, not only have they made comments agains someone elses faith, but they have made racist and homophobic comments. They have insulted at least 7 other members of the office. I for one think it's not on.
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[Annabella]

[FreshAL]

[feef]

[TheShaggyDA]

Allophilia is having positive attitudes for a group that is not one's own. I came up with antiallophilic, as someone who does not have positive feelings. Nowt to do with sex, nor Allah.
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[feef]

[cqueen]

[hellkat]

[Harold_Shand]

Don't send an email and don't escalate the issue. Have a word with them face to face and explain emails are monitored and if it continues you'll have to do something about.

No need to get people in the shit over flipant emails, surely?
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[anders]

[Harold_Shand]

Thinking about it, getting them in grief for this would be outrageous. Have you thought about being a traffic warden?
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[Harold_Shand]

... and something else, your bosses and your organisation do not give a fuck about you. It's US against THEM.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[LustyLew]

Oh well, not to worry. Seems I'm not the only person who has spotted these. This other guy is a 'team leader' so I'll let him take the flak.
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