On May 4, Susann Bashir, a 41-year-old Kansas City, MO, woman who converted from Christianity to Islam in 2005, was awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found that AT&T unit Southwestern Bell had created a "hostile work environment" after her conversion.
Bashir joined the company in 1999. By all accounts, those first half-dozen years were without incident. In fact, court documents indicate her work had been commended in the company newsletter mere months before converting. ...