Posted on 03/13/2007 2:10:00 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Edited on 03/14/2007 5:36:01 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I'm a reporter who covers Target for the Star Tribune and the other day, I got a call from someone who said that an employee at the Target store downtown refused to run his bacon through a scanning machine. He was mighty upset, arguing that the cashier had "no right to work as a cashier at Target" if she wasn't prepared to swipe his groceries.
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"I told a Muslim that...he was eating...pork"
LOLOLOL!!
Too bad it wasn't caught on tape.
ping!
This is just the beginning of what I fear will be a long hard road toward a future with Islam.
LOL. I bet you don't see any muzzies in those stores!
Or, Moo & Oink in Chicago.
Next, law enforcement will be banned from using K-9's to take down a Mooslim bad guy?
It was a face/look I'll never forget!
When I was a teenager I worked at Pizza Hut with this guy from Syria. He was Muslim and wouldn't eat pork. He made pizzas with it though. I guess it depends on how devout they wanna be.
'..ironic that Target..won't allow Savation Army buckets at Christmas.....'
excellent point; as is, the pharmacists who don't want to dispense morning after pills......they didn't get away with inflicting their religious beliefs on their employer or customers. Double standards which CANNOT be tolerated. Americans need to wake up.
Kind of makes me want to get a stamp made at Staples. I would use red ink and it would say, "This Money Sprayed With Pork Fat." I'd stamp every bill.
I live in suburbia and have noticed a lot more Muslim women, with their heads covered, working at Target, Wal-Mart, etc. I see them quite often now. I haven't had one refuse to scan anything of mine...yet.
There is a huge Somali population in Minneapolis and they are getting louder with their demands. With our first elected Muslim, Keith Ellison, I am just waiting for him to start making noise at the capital. He apparently was at the little conference with the infamous 6 Imams right before their little airport performance. The conference was about working the media. As if they haven't been doing that already.
There was a guy who called in to one of our local talk radio shows, who worked with a Muslim (Somali). Somehow they got into this conversation where the Muslim told him that he hated America and Americans and he wants to see Sharia implemented. This non-Muslim was incredulous. He asked the Muslim "Why are you HERE then?" and the Muslim replied, "For the freedom and the money." When non-Muslim pointed out to him that "don't you understand that if you had your way, that you wouldn't HAVE the freedom and the money that you came here for?", the Muslim would not speak to him for two weeks. And they had been friendly up until that point.
I imagine there is a lot of that hatred brewing here in the Midwest. It frightens me. I will not be surprised to hear of some Mega Mosque being built downtown. Or next to the Mall of America. UGH.
Sadly, this city is ripe for dhimmitude. I am related to some that will fall right into that line.
"If we must accommodate Muslim, more specifically Somali, cashiers by scanning our own groceries or being patient while someone else comes to do it, they should accommodate us by not maintaining a peculiar odor that can make a pregnant woman gag.
I am sick of having to be culturally sensitive, while this sensitivity is not being reciprocated."
Bet she is an American convert...they are the worst at this kind of thing.
We must boycott Target over this. The Ragheads stick together and everyone is afraid to criticize their medieval attitudes and ways.
I wonder what would happen if a Target employee refused to scan condoms or KY Jelly on the basis of religion? I wish I knew a Target cashier so I could convince them to do this and force the issue. Muslims find gays offensive, so would it be OK for her to refuse to serve someone she thought was gay or Jewish?
Dock their pay. If they don't like it get out of the US, we don't want you here anyway.
I am not going to ring up a towel next time at work sighting my 1st amendment rights to discriminate against certain ethnic groups that wear them on their heads as hats.
Whenever a Christian takes a stand on something they get fired.
> Whenever a Christian takes a stand on something they get fired.
Untrue.
In Banks v. Service America Corp., 952 F. Supp. 703 (D. Kan. 1996), the court upheld the right of two employees who continually greeted customers with phrases such as "Praise the Lord" and "God bless you." The employer, which ran the cafeteria in a factory, preferred "Hello. What can I get for you today?" as the standard greeting. Even though around 25 complaints were received, the court determined that it would not unduly burden the employer to let the employees use the religious greetings, basically because there was no showing that the customer dissatisfaction would significantly affect the employer's profitability.
A similar situation arose in Powell v. Yellow Book USA Inc., 445 F.3d 1074 (8th Cir. 2006), where a recently converted evangelical Christian felt obligated to expound her newfound religious beliefs to co-workers and to post religious sayings in her workplace cubicle. When another employee complained, the evangelizing employee stopped talking to that employee about religious matters, but continued posting religious material in her cubicle.
The complaining employee continued to complain, and the employer moved that employee to a cubicle farther away. In rejecting that employee's claim of religious harassment, the court ruled that an employer "has no legal obligation to suppress any and all religious expression merely because it annoys a single employee," and that the employer acted correctly in moving the complaining employee to another cubicle. Id. at 1078.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167904927807
That's not entirely true - Four States (Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Dakota) have passed laws allowing a pharmacist to refuse to dispense emergency contraception drugs, and Colorado, Florida, Maine and Tennessee have broad refusal clauses that do not specifically mention pharmacists.
On the other hand, Illinois passed an emergency rule that requires a pharmacist to dispense FDA approved contraception, and California pharmacists are required to dispense prescriptions and can only refuse to dispense a prescription, including contraceptives, when their employer approves the refusal and the woman can still access her prescription in a timely manner.
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