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M&S tells Muslim staff they CAN refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork
Dailymail ^ | December 2013 | Sophie Jane Evans

Posted on 12/22/2013 4:00:45 PM PST by gooblah

Marks & Spencer has told Muslim staff they can refuse to serve shoppers buying alcohol or pork, it has been revealed.

The chain has granted checkout workers in more than 700 stores permission to politely decline to serve customers for religious reasons.

Instead, shoppers are being asked to wait to pay for certain items at a different till.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: england; mands; muslim; ungland
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To: Pearls Before Swine
This should be a well-publicized qualification for the job of cashier.

Well, it would be wise to assign staff with religious (or any kind of) limitations to roles that aren't objectionable.

But that's a management function...

21 posted on 12/22/2013 4:33:24 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: gooblah
Ungland...
22 posted on 12/22/2013 4:34:00 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: gooblah

But all you Christian employees? F you! You’ll do whatever the customer asks and like it!


23 posted on 12/22/2013 4:37:23 PM PST by servo1969
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To: okie01

Sure, it’s a management function—that might be responsive to customer pushback, or revenue fall-off.


24 posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:10 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Ajnin
This deference reinforces their belief that they are superior to all others.

You would deby Muslims the deference you believe is due to Christians and Jews?

I don't see quite how you can bring that off, under the Constitution.

On the other hand, Islam's "imperialist and supremacist ideology" is antithetical to the Constitution. Suppression of women, honor killings, disrespect of other religions, etc. should be prosecuted accordingly -- without any deference whatsoever.

25 posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:24 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

!Can non-Muslim staff refuse to serve Muslim shoppers?!

don´t be silly..racism,not that islam is arace in my view, is one way street with muslims.


26 posted on 12/22/2013 4:41:13 PM PST by Christian1
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To: GeronL
Which they do not have, according to the courts.

But which we agree they should have, right?

27 posted on 12/22/2013 4:41:42 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: gooblah
Muslim staff they CAN refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork
Wegmans, in Rochester NY, allowed something similar a year or so ago with a mooselimb cashier. Believe me, Wegman's shoppers got REAL vocal and put an end to that crap in a real hurry.
28 posted on 12/22/2013 4:43:12 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: gooblah
Religious, what a farce
29 posted on 12/22/2013 4:44:41 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: okie01

I believe the exception releasing Muslims from handling pork is a special exception for Muslims. I do not for one minute believe that if a Christian refused service to a Muslim they would not be fired.

I believe if a bakery wants to refuse to make cakes for a Homosexual couple they have that right, but of course they don’t. The case is in court right now whether or not the Obmacare requirement to pay for abortifacients will be held up.

I believe that to force anyone to buy any product they do not want is wrong.


30 posted on 12/22/2013 4:47:11 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: oh8eleven

So if I understand what the Muslims want... They get to refuse to serve anything that go against their faith. But then may I ask why a Christian is not allowed to make the same denial of service when he refuses to serve a gay couple, it is against his faith. But the Christian will get fired or a lawsuit against him.


31 posted on 12/22/2013 4:49:40 PM PST by wdnhrse
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To: gooblah

If that happened to me, I’d leave everything on the checkout belt, walk out and never come back, probably with a loud “You’ve got to fuching be kidding me?”


32 posted on 12/22/2013 4:54:57 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: okie01

Of course.

M&S can have this policy, but they need to be prepared for the backlash too.


33 posted on 12/22/2013 4:55:07 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: gooblah

A chain store, in a country that likes its booze and bacon (and oh, that British bacon!), at Xmas time, is allowing its employees to basically goof off. Good going, Marks & Sparks.


34 posted on 12/22/2013 4:59:02 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: oh8eleven

Not at all surprised. It seems to be getting more reported in Great Britain than at home.


35 posted on 12/22/2013 5:00:28 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: gooblah

never heard of this place but its just as well because its not some place I could ever support...


36 posted on 12/22/2013 5:01:34 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

An upscale department store cum grocery in the UK.


37 posted on 12/22/2013 5:04:10 PM PST by oblomov
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To: gooblah
It will be interesting to see what happens if Muslim employees also refuse to serve gay customers based on religious grounds.
38 posted on 12/22/2013 5:11:43 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: catnipman
If that happened to me, I’d leave everything on the checkout belt, walk out and never come back, probably with a loud “You’ve got to fuching be kidding me?”

Or you could yell, "he's got a bomb".

39 posted on 12/22/2013 5:12:29 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: okie01

Sounds reasonable
BUT
1. The Muslim doesn’t make, cut, count, prepare, wrap, or actually sell the liquor or pork;

2. The Muslim’s name is not on the label.

3. The Muslim happens to live in a Judeo-Christian country that up until 1965 refused to make mandatory the selling of both abortifacients AND birth control.

So let’s go full-bore. Why not allow the muzzies to stone OUR adulterers and gays as well as their own and force 6-times-a-day howled prayer in every city or town in which even one of them lives. And, oh yes, let’s compound yet another wrong and call it right.

Sorry—I’ve had it.


40 posted on 12/22/2013 5:16:39 PM PST by Mach9
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