Swift plant refuses to give in to Muslim employee demands for prayer breaks
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A company spokesman says breaks are governed by a labor contract and all employees are told about them during orientation for new employees. The head of the union local also said the contract makes no provisions for prayer.
Jan Markell is founder of Olive Tree Ministries. "Since when did a population in America of one to two percent start changing the way 98 percent of the rest of Americans have to live?" she asks.
"We don't see the Swedish immigrants doing this. We don't see even Jewish cultural things being thrown in the face of the rest of America's non-Jewish population or -- you name it -- the Irish. When they come to America, they become American. They blend in, they assimilate. Not so with the Muslims."
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posted by pela68 at 00:59
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Show me a country where Muslims assimilate, and I will introduce you to a Snowman in the Sahara Desert.
Tuesday 12 June 2007 at 04:27:00 CEST
Well to be fair, I strongly believe that individual muslims can assimilate. It´s the muslim collective that can not.
I do not know for ceartain if it´s the western ideology of multiculturalism or the ideology of islam that is to be blamed (or a combination of them both).
I think we in the west has to throw out multiculturalism and instead embrace good old humanistic pluralism (you are welcome here if you fit in). The muslim countrys on the other hand should throw out islam all together and replace it with... Pretty much what ever.
I do not mind people having a religion. I do mind when it is a fatalistic, totalitarian, collectivistic and inhumane belief system- which islam is.
I believe in freedom of religion but with an imperial twist- there also has to be freedom from religion.
But yes. We are yet to se this snowman in Sahara...
Tuesday 12 June 2007 at 08:34:00 CEST
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