ToDAZED "But It's Cuuuultural!!"
Not my culture, Slackjaw.
MN Beryl Dsouza was late and in no mood for delays when she stopped at a Target store after work two weeks ago for milk, bread and bacon.
So Dsouza was taken aback when the cashier—who had on the traditional headscarf, or hijab, worn by many Muslim women—refused to swipe the bacon through the checkout scanner.“She made me scan the bacon. Then she opened the bag and made me put it in the bag,"
But wait—here is the crux of the matter.
"Many of these people are refugees. They may have been tortured. And they came here having never held a book in English,” [a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Minnesota] said. “They’re already adapting to our society. We need to adapt to them, too."
Uhm… No. It didn’t work like that with the Irish, the Italians or even, contrary to myth, the JOOOOOOOOs. You come here, rescued from torture, starvation and poopin’ in the sand and it becomes your job to take charge of your religious obligations and find a job that won’t get in your way.
Tar-Jay responds.
”...we continue to explore reasonable solutions that consider the concerns of team members while ensuring that we maintain our ability to provide the highest level of guest service."
Move this one to electronics. Or shooooooz. Whatever. And quit calling your customers “guests.” If I were a “guest” you wouldn’t need check-out personnel at all.
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers are required to make reasonable accommodations for a person’s religious practices if it doesn’t impose an undue hardship.
A customer’s personal preferences is usually not a factor in deciding whether a religious practice is protected in the workplace, noted Khadija Athman, national civil rights manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.
And here it is—the smoking gun steaming CAIRbabble. Demonstrating their usual willingness to work things out…
But. Sense still exists in the frozen north:
"It’s about one ethnic group imposing its own beliefs on the rest of us,” said Manny Laureano, 51, of Plymouth, who plays trumpet for the Minnesota Orchestra. “It goes against the whole idea of this country as different groups of people who came together to create a single culture."
An American culture.
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