Posted on 10/06/2007 3:43:37 PM PDT by Pikamax
Sainsbury's (whose former chief executive, David Sainsbury, has donated £16 million to Labour) asks job applicants if they have 'issues' about handling certain products. "Where we can we will try and accommodate any requirements people have..." it says. This is their explanation for why its Muslim staff can refuse to handle alcohol.
Is such crawling likely to promote racial harmony? People with 'issues' about handling alcohol shouldn't apply to work in a place selling it.
That's what sensible Muslims think. A spokesman for the Muslim Institute says: "Sainsbury's is being very good. They are trying to accommodate the wishes of their employees and we commend that. The fault lies with the employee who is exploiting and misusing their goodwill."
Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain says much the same: "Muslim employees should look at the allowances within Muslim law to enable them to be better operating employees and not be seen as rather difficult to cater for."
So why does Sainsbury's allow job applicants to dictate what they will and won't handle? Perhaps the supermarket giant fears it will be accused of discrimination.
Note the careful wording of their statement to The Sunday Times: 'Where we can we will try and accommodate any requirements people have, but it depends on the needs of the particular store.'
Obviously the company doesn't feel comfortable telling Muslim applicants they must handle alcohol. Perhaps in today's political climate such a requirement might itself be considered discriminatory. A job applicant rejected on those grounds might take legal action against Sainsbury's. Or militant Islamicists might mount a protest.
There's no doubt some Muslims living here want us to change so we are more in tune with their beliefs. Some of the wilder ones want to destroy our 'infidel' way of life altogether. The Nobel Prizewinning author Sir Vidia Naipaul complained about the latter group to Radio 4's James Naughtie last week.
This is what he said: "What I dislike about it is this element of parasitism. These people who want to come to other countries from their own benighted places. They twist the laws, they hire lawyers, they do bad things to get residence. And then, having got that, they wish to destroy (the society) which has welcomed them. I think that is simply awful.
"At the most basic level it's a kind of ingratitude."
Trinidad born, Sir Vidia can speak candidly without fear. No white politician from a major party would dare voice these sentiments. Everyone's too terrified of sounding 'racist'.
Refusing to handle alcohol on religious grounds as a supermarket employee is part of the same malaise, but in a milder form. The Muslim officials quoted in the story blame the employees involved, but surely it's Sainsbury's which deserves our scorn.
So, too, does The Independent on Sunday, which led its front page yesterday with the headline 'Top Tory engulfs Cameron in BNP race row. . . Shadow minister says supporters of the far-Right party have "very legitimate views" on immigration.'
Shadow minister Baroness Warsi, an Asian, said the BNP had a race agenda and a hate agenda but its supporters mustn't be written off. "People who say 'we are concerned about crime and justice in our communities - we are concerned about immigration in our communities' have some very legitimate views," she said.
What's wrong with that? And why are Lady Warsi's views 'bound to embarrass David Cameron'? For the same reason that Sainsbury's strives to 'accommodate any requirements' mentioned by Muslim job applicants.
The morbid fear of appearing racist.
This is what he said: "What I dislike about it is this element of parasitism. These people who want to come to other countries from their own benighted places. They twist the laws, they hire lawyers, they do bad things to get residence. And then, having got that, they wish to destroy (the society) which has welcomed them. I think that is simply awful.
"At the most basic level it's a kind of ingratitude."
I'm tired of the we grovel for them in this country too.
Great post!
Brits are p***ys
I'm wondering how this culture can be so accommodating to the religious sensibilities of a horde of unwashed sand chasers, but apparently either unconcerned or downright hostile to the values of the religion that comprises the vast majority of the American electorate.
Here is the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister. Ethnic, immigrant, and defending Britain for the British.
And fluent in English to boot!
‘Brits are p***ys’
But the yanks are the ones building all the ‘footbathes’ to demonstrate their dhimmitude.
Actually it is NOT ingratitude. Yielding to the wants and needs of Muslims can only be interpreted as being weak. Only the vanquished yield in such circumstances. This weakness by the leadership in Great Britain will result in Shira law for all of England, IMO. It is just a matter of time.
‘Here is the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister. Ethnic, immigrant And fluent in English to boot!’
No thanks, you can keep Obama to yourselves. ;-)
And we “yanks” are in a hurry to redesigning our prisons so that the toilets face the correct direction as regards mecca, so as not to offend the ROP. /s
I dunno that all the Brits are pu**ys. I was in the UK recently, and there are a lot of soccer holigan types roaming around that I wouldn’t want to tangle with.
We can point fingers, but the fact is that the entire West has the same disease: that is, we are fearful of standing up for our culture and traditions to avoid appearing racist. Some countries suffer from it more than others, but lately the US seems to have it as bad as anyone. The “parasitic element” depends on this combined with our goodwill and uses it against us.
The healthiest thing for us as a culture is to do what is really in OUR best interest and tell anyone who doesn’t like it to pound sand. If someone calls us racist, the reply should be: “So?” followed by a right hook to the jaw. Only then will this BS cease.
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