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Some Muslim workers at Target refuse to handle pork
Buzz.mn ^ | 12 Mar 2007 | Chris Serres

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: boycott; eatbacon; fanaticism; islam; muslim; pork; porkcouncil; ringitup; sharia; slave; triumphalism
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Of course, they wouldn't actually be *touching* the pork at all. But as most of us know, it's not really about pork, now is it?
1 posted on 03/13/2007 2:10:03 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I don't want them touching food for humans anyway.


2 posted on 03/13/2007 2:12:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

How odd. She can't touch the outside packaging, but she can get a paycheck drawn on funds from its sale.


3 posted on 03/13/2007 2:12:37 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I wonder if Target allows Christian cashiers to avoid scanning things like CDS with filthy lyrics or R rated movies that go against their beliefs?
Just wondering....
susie


4 posted on 03/13/2007 2:14:09 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Get them the hell out of this country!


5 posted on 03/13/2007 2:14:12 PM PDT by lesko
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

This is typical of the nonsense that Muslims in America want to perpetrate on us.

I say, get the hell back to where you came from if you don't want to deal with our way of life.

How long are we going to put with this crap?

What about separation of church and state? Scan the damn bacon, towel heads.


6 posted on 03/13/2007 2:14:26 PM PDT by andonte
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
They would be touching the plastic not the pork. If they don't want to do their jobs, they should be fired period. If the employer gives in, the next 'demand' will no doubt emerge anyway with these muzzies.
7 posted on 03/13/2007 2:14:33 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I guess they would rather touch the stuff to make a bomb, then touching the bomb itself and then touching the tape that straps the bomb to their bodies.


8 posted on 03/13/2007 2:15:54 PM PDT by Kimmers
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To: brytlea
I wonder if Target allows Christian cashiers to avoid scanning things like CDS with filthy lyrics or R rated movies that go against their beliefs?

Excellent point.

9 posted on 03/13/2007 2:15:57 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Pray for America. She needs it." - Ted Nugent)
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To: andonte

I cannot scan towels or sheets because some dirty muzzie might wear it during a suicide bombing.


10 posted on 03/13/2007 2:16:25 PM PDT by gruffwolf
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Are they allowed to live on the same planet with pigs?

Can they live in an area with pig farms?

Can they watch a Porky Pig cartoon or check out a DVD that has a picture of Porky Pig on the cover?

Brits have banned piggy banks to avoid offense. Piggy banks are a pretend representations of the animal, fgs!


11 posted on 03/13/2007 2:17:27 PM PDT by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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"Are there some Muslim workers at Target who feel they have to suppress their beliefs to avoid conflicts?"

Gee, maybe its time to re-think the value of those beliefs in a modern world? If she can't do the work, her job should go to someone who can. When I was a kid, I once told a Muslim at our dinner table that the mystery meat he was eating was pork. It nearly flew out of his mouth across the room. My mom made me apologize. ;)
12 posted on 03/13/2007 2:19:42 PM PDT by Melinda
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To: brytlea

Perfect post.


13 posted on 03/13/2007 2:20:35 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: Bahbah
Can they watch a Porky Pig cartoon or check out a DVD that has a picture of Porky Pig on the cover?

Not such a rhetorical question. Wasn't it last year that Muslims in Britain got all offended about an image of Piglet that was displayed somewhere?

14 posted on 03/13/2007 2:21:00 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

"Some Muslim workers at Target refuse to handle pork"

Then put them to work stocking feminine hygiene products


15 posted on 03/13/2007 2:23:27 PM PDT by Domicile of Doom (Hey boy why is there dirt in my hole? I dunno Boss.)
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To: brytlea
I wonder if Target allows Christian cashiers to avoid scanning things like CDS with filthy lyrics or R rated movies that go against their beliefs?

I was about to draw a parallel with a local checker who won't handle shellfish. I believe her reason is an allergy rather than religion.

Anyway, you observation make more sense and is certainly a better parallel.

Being non religious, I have to ask myself would either one (the Muslim or you theoretical Christian position,) bother me. Answer; nope, as long as there was backup close by to complete my transaction.

16 posted on 03/13/2007 2:24:38 PM PDT by LiberationIT
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Too bad. If they can't live in this country where you may see pork anywhere, they should leave. Let them go to a country where there is no pork but there is a lot of stoning of women, rape, murder, head-chopping and neck slicing.
Hypocrites. Forbid pork but allow murder!


17 posted on 03/13/2007 2:25:26 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
This is really odd. First the cabbies at the airport, now the cashiers at Target. If you aren't familiar with what's going on in this area, here's a quick synopsis: the Muslims cab drivers will not transport people with guide dogs, or people with alcohol from the airport. This is the same airport that where the six Imams got kicked off the plane for "praying," and it's the first area to elect a muslim to Congress. Something is going on. I have a feeling this is going to be ground zero for something, I don't know what, but just watch.
18 posted on 03/13/2007 2:25:36 PM PDT by adgirl
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Ah geez, not this &^%# again. If you're not willing to do the job, don't apply or get fired when you don't do it. Doesn't matter what your reason is for not doing it - religious, ethical, whatever. Religion doesn't exempt you from job requirements.


19 posted on 03/13/2007 2:25:43 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Yes, it was, and it was by no means merely a rhetorical question.

They know that Americans are pretty sensitive about respect for other people's religiion and its practices and they will use this against us any way that they can.

Recall for example the refusal of taxi drivers in Minneapolis to transport customers carrying packaged alcohol or having dogs with them.

They will push this stuff further and further until we have bent over backwards so far that we will break.

Grrrr.


20 posted on 03/13/2007 2:26:23 PM PDT by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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