A veteran New Jersey transit employee was reinstated in his job after he was fired for burning pages of the Quran while off duty in a protest over the Islamic community center near ground zero in New York City.
Under the settlement, the man also got $25,000 for pain and suffering, back pay and legal fees. A Muslim advocate group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the man should not have been fired for exercising his First Amendment rights. -db
From the Star-Ledger, by Ginger Gibson and Chris Megerian, April 22, 2011.
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Actually happy he got his job back.
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