Stealth Jihad or Hysteria?

During the recent Tyson Chicken controversy, I published an article at FrontPage in which I argued that Tyson and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) should not have agreed to make Eid al-Fitr a paid day off for employees at the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on the grounds that it set a bad precedent for accommodation of Islamic practices at a time when the Muslim Brotherhood is pressing forward a stealth jihad agenda of trying to impose Islamic Sharia law bit by bit and make American businesses and individuals grow used to the idea that Muslims must have special accommodation.

Thought you’d be interested in this:

Tyson restores Labor Day holiday following din
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 8/12/2008 4:00:00 AM
An English-language advocate says a recent decision by Tyson Foods to reinstate
Labor
Day at its processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee, shows that ordinary
Americans are
fed up with multiculturalism and Islamic pandering.

Tyson Foods created an uproar when it announced recently that its Shelbyville
plant would
no longer have Labor Day as a paid holiday, but instead that the 1,000 affected
union
employees would have October 1 off, which corresponds to the end of the Muslim
festival
of Ramadan. The move reportedly was aimed at accommodating the 250 Somali Muslim
employees who work at the Shelbyville plant. (See earlier article)

But in a news release, Tyson has now announced they have reached a new agreement
with
the union, adding the controversial Muslim holiday as a paid day off this year
only; but in
the future, Muslim workers will have to give up their personal holiday —
usually their
birthday — to have that day off.

Jim Boulet of English First says it is a great victory for the people. “The
American people
rose up and said, ‘Look, in the United States its time for the immigrants to
adapt to our
ways — not the other way around.’”

Boulet suggests there would be no mutual respect given if the tables were
turned.
“[E]specially given that an immigrant to an Islamic country had darn well better
adopt Islam
— and try to build a church in Saudi Arabia and see how far you get,” he adds.
“But the
Islamicists come to this country and they use and abuse our legal system in
order to
impose their religion on the rest of us. Well, for once the people have risen up
and said
not here, not today. It’s a big victory.”

At the time of the original announcement, the union negotiating team argued that
naming
October 1 a paid holiday was “extremely crucial, since this holiday is as
important to
Muslims as Christmas is to Christians.” But within days, residents of
Shelbyville expressed
their outrage over the decision, calling for — among other things — a boycott
of Tyson
Foods.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=210640

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