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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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To: Ellesu

So, this guy should be fired for not performing his job, just like that catholic pharmacist, who refused to fill birth control pills, should be fired from his.


61 posted on 03/13/2007 5:20:32 PM PDT by mrhansen
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To: brytlea
Since they also believe dogs are unclean, I wonder if she can scan dog food?

Good question. If you get an answer, please let me know.

Seriously.

Thanks and regards,

62 posted on 03/13/2007 5:33:32 PM PDT by LiberationIT
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I am so sick of their ****.


63 posted on 03/13/2007 5:49:29 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Those averse to pork must not be allowed to set foot in our country in the first place. For those already here we must make it possible to leave of their own accord.


64 posted on 03/13/2007 5:55:00 PM PDT by baubau (BOYCOTT Bank of America for Issuing Credit Cards to 3rd World Illegal Aliens.)
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To: LiberationIT
In looking, I found an interesting website.

http://www.islamicconcern.com/dogs.asp

It doesn't actually answer the question, altho it might be of interest to anyone wondering about dogs and Islam. However, it also contains this interesting but disconcerting passage:

All of creation is Muslim, submitting to Allah’s will—only man and jinn are granted a freedom of choice. So yes, even animals are Muslim.

In the Holy Qur’aan (S4:36) we are advised to do good to “… what your right hands own …” According to the commentator Imaam Faghruddin al-Rhazi, this refers to all those who have no civil rights, including animals. Thus, the verse lays down the duty of being good toward animals.

Is this passage suggesting that some people have no civil rights?

65 posted on 03/13/2007 6:21:19 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

Fire them and deport them.


66 posted on 03/13/2007 6:43:17 PM PDT by wilmington2
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Was she upfront with Target before they hired her telling them that she refuses to handle pork? If not then she should be fired immediately! This is getting totally out of hand with these people. Target being the leftists they are will probably cave in and make her the store manager.


67 posted on 03/13/2007 6:54:07 PM PDT by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: Michamilton

Thanks for correcting the record. :)


68 posted on 03/13/2007 7:17:29 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: silverleaf

That's their perogative. They own the business.

Target can fire him if they want, and I would support them 100% if they did.


69 posted on 03/13/2007 8:22:48 PM PDT by zendari
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Good for them. It is a nasty product. Now, fire them.


70 posted on 03/13/2007 8:31:15 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I wonder if they can be fired like Pharmacists who do not want to sell PLAN B????????????


71 posted on 03/13/2007 10:02:57 PM PDT by therut
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I'm not bothered by it. But if you can't do the job, you shouldn't be employed in that capacity. There's no ill will.


72 posted on 03/14/2007 12:54:21 AM PDT by jagrmeister
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To: adgirl
What you describe is truly the camel with his nose under the tent. And still our government increases muslim immigration more every year. Why are we so stupid?
73 posted on 03/14/2007 5:32:20 AM PDT by asp1
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To: therut
I wonder if they can be fired like Pharmacists who do not want to sell PLAN B????????????

I wonder if they will receive the same support on this forum as those pharmacists did.

74 posted on 03/14/2007 5:34:00 AM PDT by Wormwood (Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
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To: Wormwood

The joke of this is there are dozens (hundreds?) of products with pork in them in any grocery store. So if this is really a problem for somebody, they are going to be spending a lot of time just figuring out what has pork and what doesn't.


75 posted on 03/14/2007 5:41:34 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation
Oh I agree---these religious nuts are wasting everyone's time and should be fired.

Just like those pharmacists.

76 posted on 03/14/2007 5:43:07 AM PDT by Wormwood (Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
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To: Bahbah

Don't forget about the guy in Katy, TX, and his pig races on his farm - next to where they want to build a mosque!


77 posted on 03/14/2007 5:44:14 AM PDT by mathluv (Never Forget!)
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To: andonte

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


Report to work on Sunday, Christians. And take off that damn cross too.

I seem to recall how this site was up in arms when stories like that were posted here.

Cant have it both ways. If you want people to bend over backwards to accommodate Christian beliefs, then dont get upset when some other religion wants the same.


78 posted on 03/14/2007 5:47:29 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Have a bit of humor today. You wont be able to stand this crap for 15 minutes if you dont!)
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To: mathluv

Love the pig racing farmer :)


79 posted on 03/14/2007 5:49:47 AM PDT by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Can we tell them that a paycheck is called "bringing home the bacon"? ;-P


80 posted on 03/14/2007 5:51:58 AM PDT by MortMan (Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.)
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