Posted on 03/10/2005 2:40:02 PM PST by ambrose
DELL fires 30 Muslims over workplace prayer
Muslim civil rights group calls for rehiring, offers mediation
by OfficialWire NewsDesk
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 03/10/05 -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Dell Computers to rehire 30 Muslims workers allegedly fired from a plant in Tennessee for seeking to perform religiously-mandated prayers in the workplace. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also offered to help the company and its employees reach a mutually-agreeable solution to the dispute.
CAIR said the workers were fired from a Dell facility in Nashville, Tenn., after they sought to perform the Islamic "Maghrib" prayer each day after sunset. (While the window of opportunity to perform the other four daily Islamic prayers, the sunset prayer is tied to a particular time of day and therefore requires greater flexibility and creativity on the part of employers and workers. Muslims pray each day after the break of dawn, at midday, in the afternoon, at sunset, and in the evening.)
"Given sufficient goodwill on the part of all those involved, both the employees' legal right to reasonable religious accommodation and the employer's right to maintain smooth operations in the workplace can be maintained," said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar.
In a letter sent today to Dell President and CEO Kevin B. Rollins, Iftikhar asked that the Muslim workers be rehired pending resolution of the issues involved. He said CAIR staffers who have experience dealing with workplace religious accommodation are available to act as mediators between the Muslim workers and Dell.
CAIR publishes a booklet, called "An Employer's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices," designed to prevent just such incidents. The booklet is available by emailing pubs@cair-net.org. (Include name, address and phone number when requesting the booklet.) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires an employer to accommodate religious practices unless it causes an "undue hardship."
The Washington-based group has 31 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
Posted 3/10/2005 2:48 PM
If you have a warranty, I suggest sticking to Sonys own. The computers are great, until the power runs out... unless you want to carry a bag full of batteries with you everywhere.
I did a google search (under the Sony part # for my own batteries) and several companies do slightly cheaper compatible batteries but the max capacity (mAh) was the same so it would not have made any difference. Sony also warns of doom and gloom and overheating problems on non-Sony batteries.
I'm thru with VAIO's.
My old laptop was a DELL and the batteries on that lasted fine.
Sign me up!
Why? Can't beat 'em for cheap labor.
Count me in!
We can top up our bank accounts (lets declare ourselves a religious "charity") with frivolous lawsuits against those who "oppress" our "rights."
We can invent more and more up, errrm... I mean, point to more of our more obscure "scripture" as we sit in the sun and work on our tans.
If genuine Bible believers met 5 times a day, we would live ina different world.
In a medium sized country town in Australia, we have a meat-processing plant where the employees are 90% muslim. They are mostly single men. There is no mosque. There are no clerics. There is no trouble. There are no demands for special treatment. Many visit the homes of local residents, religion never enters into their activities, they go to football games, community picnics. They come from Afghanistan and Iran. Their employers speak highly of them all.
Where does the trouble start? With the Civil Libertarians, who need to be seen to justify their existence, and the clerics once a mosque is built. Generally with Saudi money.
Note: the employees of whom I write have shown no wish to formally practice islam. Methinks they would require to be DRIVEN to it.
He's much better looking than the other so-called "prophet" whose pic I posted yesterday!
True...but Homer J.'s groupies are a little less appealing.
Is It Forbidden for Women to Wear Jeans
Arab News ^ | Friday, 11, March, 2005 | Lubna Hussain, lubna@arabnews.com
Sounds like some hard-working men, a nice thing to see!
The CL's here are the same---always looking to start trouble and, as you well stated, justify their existence.
BTW, I was chatting with a "former" islamicist (an Afghani) the other day, he told me he had to leave the PROP because it was so "rooted in hatred"; something he could not stomach. He aslo could not bear to see women treated as chattel.
He, too, blamed the Saudi's for the lions share of the hate mongering.
That's it! I wanna be the Treasurer of our own little religious charity, I wanna make people give and give and give! I want a quarter of everything! Now, what are we going to call it, and who's the Prophet gunna be? Roll call time. Postions vacant. Put your names down now. Choose today; you want to be a follower or a Leader?
Here's some rules.
The Leader's word is Law.
No private ownership.
You gotta hand over your bank accounts and sign over all your real estate.
You get a new name. Every second boy gets called John.
Women must learn massage immediately and run when called.
I'm sure you can all think of lots of other goodies...this is going to fly! Ron L Hubbard designed his 'religion' on a table-napkin during dinner, and I'm doing mine on FR!
thanks for the ping----if she wants to wear jeans, good for her!
Screw the little twits that don't like it!
You're the treasurer? I'm good on that.....
I suggest that another rule is that we have to traipse around nekkid!
As for the quarter of all stuff---go for the gusto and demand half!
:-)
I agree most of the time, U-Boat, but when my ex-wife's mom wore jeans, there should have been a "wide load" sign on back.
"He too, blamed the Saudi's for the lion's share of hate mongering."
The filthy poison came out of mohammad's homeland and is still coming out of the same place. Our final reckoning will be with the Saudi's, and with a bit of luck there'll be a lot of muslims from other countries with us on our side...after we deal with Syria, IMO.
OK, so there has to be an exception or two ;-)
This reminds me of a story:
My better half was a jockey, and one day she come up to me after excercising a horse and lets me know that her bra had snapped and was at logger heads as to what to do for "support"
So I handed her two Band-aids!
The couch wasn't TOO uncomfortable, really!
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