{"id":9031,"date":"2007-05-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2007-05-16T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:55:00","slug":"muslim-prayer-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9031","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Prayer Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Rocky Mountain News<\/i> wire<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Several dozen Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Neb. because their prayer times weren\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t accommodated.\n<\/p>\n

\n“They kind of issued the company an ultimatum,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.\n<\/p>\n

\n“They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d go unless they could pray when they needed to,” Hoppes said Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n

\nHoppes said 94 workers had quit, but the company put the figure around 70.\n<\/p>\n

\nSean McHugh, a spokesman for Swift at its Greeley headquarters, said breaks are governed by a labor contract and all employees are told about them during orientation for all new employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nCould this be an example of Muslim activists setting up a court challenge they hope will legally expand the scope of Islam in the US?\n<\/p>\n

\nAs far as I know, no other prominent religion routinely practiced in this country involves such a level of workplace concession—there would have to be several breaks for prayer, and it is unclear to me whether the employer is allowed to extend shifts to make up for time lost to religious duty—and, because the company isn’t violating discrimination laws, given that it clearly hires Muslims, the intent of such a suit (which, to be clear, is hypothetical at this point) would necessarily be to normalize Muslim prayer in business.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo if a court challenge can show that the multiple prayer ritual is conclusively tied to the authentic practice of the religion, might not a court conclude that hiring Muslims knowing that they cannot meet the requirements of the job is an end run around equal opportunity \/ anti-discrimination laws, and so order that Muslims be allowed, at corporate expense, to perform those prayer rituals?\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd if so, has not our fidelity to liberalism brought as closer again to sanctioning a form of religious fundamentalism?  Or would we merely be protecting Constitutional rights in such an instance?\n<\/p>\n

\nPaging Dinesh D’Souza…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rocky Mountain News wire: Several dozen Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Neb. because their prayer times weren\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t accommodated. “They kind of issued the company an ultimatum,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. “They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d go unless they could<\/p>\n

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