Posted on 03/22/2011 7:56:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BERKELEY, Ill. Safoorah Khan had taught middle school math for only nine months in this tiny Chicago suburb when she made an unusual request. She wanted three weeks off for a pilgrimage to Mecca.
The school district, faced with losing its only math lab instructor during the critical end-of-semester marking period, said no. Khan, a devout Muslim, resigned and made the trip anyway.
Justice Department lawyers examined the same set of facts and reached a different conclusion: that the school districts 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.
As the case moves forward in federal court in Chicago, it has triggered debate over whether the Justice Department was following a purely legal path or whether suing on Khans behalf was part of a broader Obama administration campaign to reach out to Muslims.
The decision to take on a small-town school board has drawn criticism from conservatives and Berkeley officials, who say the government should not be standing behind a teacher who wanted to leave her students.
The lawsuit, filed in December, may well test the boundaries of how far employers must go to accommodate workers religious practices a key issue as the nation grows more multicultural and the Muslim population increases. But it is also raising legal questions. Experts say the government might have difficulty prevailing because the 19-day leave Khan requested goes beyond what courts have considered.
It sounds like a very dubious judgment and a real legal reach, said Michael B. Mukasey, who was attorney general in the George W. Bush administration. The upper reaches of the Justice Department should be calling people to account for this.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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!
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.
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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 its bullies. As the Times reports, if youre a white punk, youll get their attention. If youre a white victim of bullying, though, then youre 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]
So, a Catholic hospital can now refuse to do abortions, right?
i got your back on that one.
It is time.
Try saying you want Good Friday off...
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.
I wonder if Fox News has done a story on this. It makes me just sick-been thinking about it all day.
It’s no wonder so many people think obama is a Muslim.
It was on Fox & Friends this morning.
Exactly...
It looks that way...
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