Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate

Washington Post ^ | Jerry Markon

[chris37]

Jesus H. Christ, I have had about all of this sh!t as I can handle.

If there is gonna be an apocalypse, then bring it on, ‘cuz it is mother ****in’ time!

[John Locke]

It smells more than planned - it smells fishy. A woman is not permitted to make the Haj alone - she would have been stopped at the airport on arriving in Arabia.

Moslems are also discouraged from giving up their source of income to perform the Haj. One of the four required isteta'at for the Haj is that the pilgrims can support themselves before, during, and after the Haj.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Justice Department lawyers examined the same set of facts and reached a different conclusion: that the school district’s decision amounted to outright discrimination against Khan. They filed an unusual lawsuit, accusing the district of violating her civil rights by forcing her to choose between her job and her faith.

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"The Corner" (Mar 21, 2011): Civil Rights for Me, But Not for Thee [excerpt] The Washington Times reports on yet another frontier where the Obama Justice Department thinks civil-rights laws apply only to minorities of color. This time it’s bullies. As the Times reports, if you’re a white punk, you’ll get their attention. If you’re a white victim of bullying, though, then you’re on your own. The view on the left that civil-rights protections are meant only for minorities goes back quite a ways; it is only in the Obama administration that civil-rights color-consciousness has been turned up to 11 (though it might have been this bad under Clinton had his first choice for the DOJ civil-rights division, Lani Guinier, been confirmed in 1993).

The view that civil-rights laws should not be color blind was perhaps most explicitly asserted way back in 1985, when Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Ramirez, two longtime leftist stalwarts on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, issued an official statement in their roles as commissioners that said, “Civil rights laws were not passed to give civil rights protections to all Americans, as a majority of this Commission seems to believe. Instead, they were passed out of a recognition that some Americans already had protection because they belonged to a favored group; and others, including blacks, Hispanics, and women of all races, did not because they belonged to disfavored groups.”

Draw deeply on that first sentence: “Civil rights laws were not passed to give civil rights protections to all Americans . . .” That would come as news to the folks who wrote the Civil Rights Act of 1964.....[end excerpt]

[bill1952]

So, a Catholic hospital can now refuse to do abortions, right?

[bill1952]

i got your back on that one.
It is time.

[CondorFlight]

Try saying you want Good Friday off...

[Republic]

If we have a justice dept that does not support the rule of division between church and state-then we have a justice dept that does NOT uphold our Constitution.

For the DOJ to get involved in this is absolutely wrong and smacks of upholding the desires, demands and proclivities of one religion against another.

[Republic]

I wonder if Fox News has done a story on this. It makes me just sick-been thinking about it all day.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It’s no wonder so many people think obama is a Muslim.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I wonder if Fox News has done a story on this. It makes me just sick-been thinking about it all day.

It was on Fox & Friends this morning.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Like she didn’t know she wanted to go on a haji prior to taking the teaching job...this was an all of a sudden, I have to go now moment. Muslims are required to make one trip some point in their life..

Exactly...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Muslims are the chosen people of these black racists — Obama and Eric Holder.

It looks that way...