Moral Dilemma

Picture a situation where you're responsible for recruiting for a position for one of your clients. As the CVs start streaming in you become hopeful at the quality of some of the applicants and breathe a sigh of relief that maybe this won't be as laborious a task as you had initially envisaged.

You email the CVs of the most suitable applicants to your client, pat yourself on the back for a job well done, and move on to more interesting demands on your time.

The next day the client phones you to speak to you about something 'unofficially and off the record'. He explains, rather awkwardly, that the fact that most of the candidates sent were muslim may be a problem. He stresses that it's not his prejudice, but that the MD is a Gujarati hindu and there are a number of fairly orthodox hindus working within the office. He confides in you that he's a bit reluctant to bring a muslim person into that environment as he wouldn't want them to be subjected to any inadvertant tension.

What would you do?

It's a fairly simple matter to find a non-muslim that could fill the same role, but would you feel yourself morally compromised? Would you feel compromised enough to turn down a few thousand pounds worth of business for the sake of your morals?