A “devout” Muslim is suing Costco for religious discrimination after he refused to handle pork as it came across the checkout conveyor belt.

Jean Camara says he was working at a Brooklyn Costco as a cashier’s assistant in September 2012 when pork needed to be bagged. He refused.

He asked to be transferred to the electronics department but the store said there were no positions available and instead, assigned him to collect shopping carts in the parking lot.

“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” Camara tells ABC 7.

It’s unclear why he waited so long to file a lawsuit, which alleges religious employment discrimination.

According to Camara, he filed a human rights complaint against the company and 16 days later, he was fired for insubordination.

“I think that as the case progresses in the trial we are in now, I think the facts are going to come out and they’re going to speak for themselves,” says Chauncey Henry, Camara’s attorney.

“It’s not OK to discriminate against someone for their religion. It isn’t OK. It isn’t OK to treat them differently others because of what they believe in. I think that everyone is entitled to the same treatment. I think that’s what this case is about.”

Jihad Watch notes Costco actually prevented discrimination against Camara by not forcing him to handle the pork.

The Independent reports an Abercrombie & Fitch employee sued the clothing retailer because she wears a hijab and the company said Samantha Elauf’s garb did not meet its “look policy.”

That case is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.