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Posted on 01/20/2016 5:38:28 AM PST by Enlightened1
When a Wisconsin manufacturer changed its previously liberal policy on Muslim prayer times, dozens of Somali Muslims claimed they were forced to walk out of their jobs.
Before Thursday of last week, Muslims employed at Ariens Manufacturing were permitted to leave the production line two times per shift to pray two of their daily prayers to Mecca, according to local ABC affiliate WBAY Channel 2 News.
A spokesman for the company said they were forced to change that policy, however. His statement said:
We are asking employees to pray during scheduled breaks in designated prayer rooms. Our manufacturing environment does not allow for unscheduled breaks in production.
We are open to any of the employees returning to work under the new policy or will look for openings in shifts that do not coincide with prayer time. We respect their faith, and we respect their decision regardless of their choice to return to work or not.
The policy change affects the 53 Somali Muslims employed at the facility who say that praying only during scheduled meal times goes against tenets of their faith.
"If someone tells you, 'You pray on your break,' and the break time is not the prayer time?" Green Bay Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi told the station, "It will be impossible to pray."
The Muslim employees claim they had no option but to leave.
"We pray by the time," former Ariens equipment painter Ibrahim Mehemmed told the station while displaying his unemployment packet. "So they say, 'If you don't pray at the break time,' they give us this [unemployment] paper to just leave."
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I have zero sympathy for Moon God worshippers.
Welcome to America
Follow the rules or go back home.
You are not allowed to force YOUR religious beliefs onto others, or require them to accomodate yours. If they do voluntarily, then great.
Now... is this a setup? Is the company an obama supporter? Are they startign this so obama can issue an order forcing them (and EVERYONE ELSE) to comply?
In other words, are they willing to do this, but only setting themselves up so that the whole country can be knocked down with them?
FINALLY some SANITY!!
takes 10 minutes online to find out he’s based on a mood god that was worshipped at the time.
guess that would be to heartbreaking.
i’ve done Hundreds of hours or reading and research on my faith, and it certainly seems Christianity is the real deal.
but i STILL have moments of doubt.
these guys BLOW themselves up for a hoax. and a bad one at that!!
I have a new respect for that company.
...looks like the Alienorks lost that one! :-)
Hope this company can stand strong!
May be a set-up, may be a way to get money without working. Unemployment, unending and higher money than ever before, thanks to the usurper in the WH.
Ain't that refreshing....
This is just the first step to impose Sharia Law on society at large.
Well...bye.
Well, Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi, I bet you could pray anytime you like in Saudi Arabia. Give that a try.
The real question is this, as an employer how best to keep them away? Without bringing down the employment swat teams down upon you?
Since my needs are drivers for diesel trucks and i have my own main fuel tank i was thinking of spiking it with filtered used bacon grease, i know another guy who owned a barbcue rib shack, he drove a diesel pickup that had been blended. You could smell the ribs after he drove bye.
So we get bacon diesel exhaust, next?
Dogs! Where i live dog teams are very popular.
Pigs! And there is pig farms not too far away.
Other than that just subtle anti Islam signs all around the office and property.
Watch the company get sued and feel the force of fellow muslim-worshippers Barry and Val.
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