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2007-07-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Muslim Workers at Nebraska Meatpacking Plant Complain of Religious Harassment

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Posted by Delphi 2007-07-24 11:24|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Mohamed Rage

Perfect. Just fuckin perfect!

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-24 12:08|| 2007-07-24 12:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Solution: Don't. Hire. Mohammedans.

Posted by Natural Law 2007-07-24 12:17|| 2007-07-24 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, said he had not heard of many Somali workers being fired or harassed since May. Prayer breaks are not in the contract, he said, but he hopes to revisit the issue in negotiations in 2010.

Useful tools they are. Albeit, I've gotta wonder if the other Union employees may "enforce" their own sort of "negotiations" after this stunt. The perfect blending of the left and the muzzies.

"I would never forgive myself and God would not forgive me if I do not pray on time because I want to earn some money," he said.

If your "god" is that freakin' anal, maybe you should look elsewhere my friend. If God (capital "G") is really God, then He can take your prayers at any time.

Posted by BA 2007-07-24 13:16|| 2007-07-24 13:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Somehow Grand Island and Muslim don't fit with the Grand Island I knew.... Oh well the invasion continues...

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-24 13:35|| 2007-07-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Let them eat pork.

Posted by McZoid 2007-07-24 13:50|| 2007-07-24 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Ima Ask The Imam for a fatwa on the hypocrisy of muslims working at one of the largest pork slaughter and processing plants. The moon god can't be pleased.

Posted by ed 2007-07-24 14:01|| 2007-07-24 14:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Give every muslim that can't assimilate a 1-way ticket back to the islamic sh*thole they came from.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-07-24 14:14|| 2007-07-24 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Why don't the Somali's apply for jobs with schedules that match their prayer times? The conflict makes them unable to perform their jobs as required.

It's not possible to accommodate a muslim's prayer schedule. Not even a 9-5 shift can do it without a very "flexible" lunch hour as prayer times change with the lengthening and shortening of the day as the year spins by.

Here's today's schedule for Toronto:

24 Tue 3:51 5:58 1:24 5:26 8:50 10:56

A truly pious muslim who prays all five times a day is getting only just under 4 hours of sleep a night. That makes them unfit to work. Any muslim not praying all five times a day isn't "pious" enough to demand a floating prayer break at work. Rock and a hard place, muzzies.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble">Thinemp Whimble 2007-07-24 14:24|| 2007-07-24 14:24|| Front Page Top

#9 If you give muslims extra breaks, then you have to give everyone extra breaks. Pretty soon, you don't have anybody cutting meat at all, just smoking and praying. Swift should put this to bed with a "foot meets ass" type of solution.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-07-24 14:29|| 2007-07-24 14:29|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm kind of surprised there are Muslims working there at all. Swift must be a pretty pork-intensive operation.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-07-24 14:36|| 2007-07-24 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 We should just let Swift use illegal aliens.

Posted by Penguin 2007-07-24 14:37|| 2007-07-24 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 We should just let Swift use illegal aliens.

Posted by Penguin 2007-07-24 14:39|| 2007-07-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 But do they have their own foot washing bathroom???
And just who checks their left hand after bathroom breaks?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-07-24 14:46|| 2007-07-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#14 The five- to 10-minute prayer, known as the maghrib, must be done within a 45-minute window around sunset

Complete and total BULLSHIT. All Muslims are absolved of wrongdoing if legitimate circumstances prevent them performing their worship in a timely fashion.

This is yet one more example of Muslims pushing the envelope in order to accustom Infidels to their incessant demands for preferential treatment. As bigjim said:

Swift should put this to bed with a "foot meets ass" type of solution.

Nothing else is required but filling out the pink slips.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-24 15:25|| 2007-07-24 15:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Parasites for Allen. I can't imagine what the Nabraska human population thinks of this.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-07-24 15:25|| 2007-07-24 15:25|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm picturing the first Islamic aircraft carrier: The AKBAR has turned into the wind. The first bird of the four ship flight is spun up, the catapault tensioned. The Cat Officer is about to signal Launch when, doh, it's time for prayers!

Posted by SteveS 2007-07-24 17:14|| 2007-07-24 17:14|| Front Page Top

#17 So, it's ok to stink of pig fat when you pray to Allah, but you can't do the prayers on your normally scheduled breaks?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-07-24 17:35|| 2007-07-24 17:35|| Front Page Top

#18 What a mental picture, Steve; a minaret instead of the island, camels instead of tow tractors, and 5 times a day the thing could point towards Mecca. Might be kind of interesting of prayer ( and mecca-pointing) time coincided witha Suez Canal transit. those flowing robe thingies could be downright dangerous when the WOD numbers got up there (lots of sail area)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-07-24 17:41|| 2007-07-24 17:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Seems to be the Somalis are the vanguard of the Islamic pushin the midwest. Somali taxi drivers wouldn't take dogs or passengers with booze. Somali cashiers wouldn't ring up pork or booze. Now Somali meatpackers are creating their own schedule.

Normally during the hiring process you are asked "is there anything that would prevent you from doing your duties." Since the morning prayer is not a sudden thing they should have brought all of this up in the job interview. Methinks they came out of a mosque one day feeling they suddenly absolutely had to pray at this time and were probably told US laws would protect them.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-07-24 17:56|| 2007-07-24 17:56|| Front Page Top

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