Obama EEOC Fights for Religious Liberty -- for Muslim Truckers

American Thinker ^ | 10/28/2015 | By Daniel John Sobieski

[SeekAndFind]

Well, at least they were not told to bake a cake for a gay wedding. In President Obama’s fundamentally transformed America, Christian bakers are forced by the blunt instrument of government mandate to cater a gay wedding regardless of their religious beliefs, but Muslim truckers can now refuse to transport alcohol because their Muslim beliefs and Sharia law prohibits it.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission press release cheerfully chirps about its victory over Star Transport, a trucking company based in Morton, Illinois:

A federal jury in Peoria, Ill., has awarded $240,000 to two Somalian-American Muslims who were fired from their jobs as truck drivers at Star Transport, an over-the-road trucking company, when they refused to transport alcohol because it violated their religious beliefs, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which brought the case. The trial started on Oct. 19, and the jury returned its verdict the next day after 45 minutes of deliberation.

Judge James E. Shadid, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, found in favor of EEOC after Star Transport admitted liability in March 2015. The resulting trial was to determine compensatory and punitive damages and back pay. The jury awarded Mahad Abass Mohamed and Abdkiarim Hassan Bulshale $20,000 each in compensatory damages and $100,000 each in punitive damages. Judge Shadid awarded each approximately $1,500 in back pay….

"EEOC is proud to support the rights of workers to equal treatment in the workplace without having to sacrifice their religious beliefs or practices," said EEOC General Counsel David Lopez. "This is fundamental to the American principles of religious freedom and tolerance."

[Jack Hammer]

“In President Obama’s fundamentally transformed America, Christian bakers are forced by the blunt instrument of government mandate to cater a gay wedding regardless of their religious beliefs, but Muslim truckers can now refuse to transport alcohol because their Muslim beliefs and Sharia law prohibits it.”

In one sentence, the author says everything you need to know about the religious bias, ethnic prejudice, and blatant hypocrisy of the Obama administration.

[Campion]

Religious freedom in Obama’s America for Muslims, not for anyone else.

[Regulator]

Somalian-American

No such animal.

Except in the fevered imagination of the average MSM Journalism Major idiot.

[scooby321]

He screwed up and changed the law for all.

[I want the USA back]

This is obviously not going to be in the local rag. They don’t want anyone to know that 0 is illegally favoring his favorite religion and deliberately persecuting Christianity.

[SgtHooper]

Gotta have some way to deliver those escplodeing devices.

[Amagi]

I remember when people chose to emigrate to the United States to assimilate into the American culture and work toward their version of The American Dream.
Now illegal alien invaders flock (aided and abetted by the fundamentally transformative POS POTUS) to this country primarily to mooch off the tax-payers and force Shariah Law on the nation.
I submit it is not being racist in the slightest to hold these illegals in contempt, similar to the contempt a fundamentally honest person has for the pathological lying POTUS.