Posted on 08/22/2011 4:56:58 AM PDT by SJackson
"We know that some of our employees would like a guaranteed prayer time every day. That is not the legal requirement, and it would be impractical to accommodate this without shutting down the production line."
Indeed -- especially since the prescribed times for Muslim prayers change slightly each day. But the Denver Post, as you can see, has decided that these Muslims demanding prayer breaks are victims -- "I'm sorry, I was only praying," and "It's not a good thing when you have a family and you are supporting your wife, your kids" -- and hence must be accommodated, despite the disruption that such accommodation will cause to the plant.
There is a consensus among Muslim scholars that obligatory prayers can -- in fact, must -- be made up at a later time. If, then, one is working and can't get away, one can make up the prayers later. But that is not acceptable to these workers, which reveals that the objective here is not primarily to fulfill a religious obligation, but to make American businesses bend. Here again, wherever American business practice conflicts with Islamic law, it is American business practice that must give way. There is never any bending, any accommodation whatsoever in the other direction.
"Fort Morgan meatpacking plant strives, struggles to accommodate Muslim workforce," by Eric Gorski for The Denver Post, August 21 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
FORT MORGAN — One afternoon this summer, Asha Abuukar said, she approached her supervisor at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant and got permission to go on break. She washed in accordance with Islamic principles and prayed in a "reflection room" Cargill has set aside where beef is boxed and sealed.
When she returned two minutes late, she said, her supervisor told her that if it happened again, she would be fired.
"I'm sorry," Abuukar, 41, who also runs a Somali market in town, recalled replying. "I was only praying."
Although Cargill's Fort Morgan operation has escaped controversy over accommodating the religious needs of its Muslim workforce, an undercurrent of problems exists, according to current and former workers and Somali translators.
Company officials say they respect religious rights and follow the law but cannot undermine a plant that produces 4 million pounds of beef daily.
"We know that some of our employees would like a guaranteed prayer time every day," said Cargill spokesman Michael Martin. "That is not the legal requirement, and it would be impractical to accommodate this without shutting down the production line."
He said the company accommodates the vast majority of daily prayer requests.
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers cannot deny a "reasonable" religious accommodation request as long as it does not pose an undue hardship, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Muslims pray five times a day at prescribed times that move depending on the sun's position. That can pose challenges for plants with many Muslim workers. One-fourth of Cargill's 2,000 workers are Somali, company officials say.
The number of federal workplace-discrimination complaints filed by Muslims shot up in 2009 and 2010, to almost 800 each year, the EEOC says. Those numbers eclipsed the decade's previous high mark the year after 9/11.
"It's not a good thing when you have a family and you are supporting your wife, your kids," said Abdinasser Ahmed, a former Cargill worker....
muslims are not interested in assimilating in America. They want everything their way. If employers are stupid enough to hire muslims, serves them right to have to deal with this crap. islam will never, ever be able to co-exist in free society.
Start processing pork products, problem solved.
Begin processing piggies. End of problem.
The solution to problems like is an easy one. Recognize that the United States is a Christian country founded to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” and quit importing people who would deny Liberty to the posterity of the men who founded this country.
Somalians are the worst of the worst of the worst of immigrants. Only idiot countries take them in. They are useless lo-IQ Muslims and a public burden (welfare etc) in America, Canada, UK and Europe
Process PORK occasionally and productivity should increase.
If you want to pray on the job then go back to where you came from and take your Camel with you.
Every single accomodation to islam is a one-way ratchet click on the road to Sharia law.
The muslim trojan horse jihadists understand this perfectly well.
Naive infidels don’t understand it until too late.
Only traitors would intentionally introduce Somali “refugees” to their own nation.
It’s akin to putting botulism in the kindergarten milk supply.
Of course, the only meatpacking area that can accomodate your prayer needs is the pig slaughterhouse.
Hope that helps heaps!
You can never say I haven't accomodated them!
The worst part is that we’ve got so many angry muslims with access to our food.
>> If employers are stupid enough to hire muslims, serves them right to have to deal with this crap.
Absolutely! Just as the liberals think its great to use blacks and hispanics to crush white America and to bring in muslims to crush Chrisitianity in America, I’m sure the plant management thought it would be great to bring in cheap “immigrant” labor who wouldn’t complain about deplorable working conditions.
Just as the liberals will learn the consequences of their actions when they’ve succeeded and the blacks and hispanics and muslims come for THEM, the plant management is learning the costs of bringing in uneducated foreigners who don’t have an American work ethic and bring a religion called “Submission” into their workplace.
Hey, I know! Let's turn angry muslims into food!
I’d really rather ship them to Japan and pack them around the crippled nuclear reactors.
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
” One-fourth of Cargill’s 2,000 workers are Somali, company officials say. “
Is that nationwide? Or just this one plant in Colorado?
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