More British madness: how is it racial discrimination to require a man not to walk off his job at odd hours? From the BBC, with thanks to Twostellas:
An appeals body has allowed a challenge by Mohamed Loke, from Aston in Birmingham, to an earlier employment tribunal's rejection of his claim.He claimed he was not allowed to pray at his local mosque while he worked at Calthorpe Special School in 2003....
Mr Loke told the earlier hearing he believed he was racially discriminated against because it was every male Muslim's duty to attend Friday prayers.
Calthorpe School caters for children with severe and profound learning difficulties.
The school claimed that on 9 June, 2003, Mr Loke was responsible for one-on-one care for a pupil and was told he could not attend prayers, but did anyway.
These appeals bodies are notorious. In general, and in all kinds of fields, they tend to hand down the most unreasonable rulings, merely to prove the need for their existence. It isn't that he is a Muslim. If he had been sacked for smoking ganja in class and claimed it was a religious duty as a Rastafarian, the result would probably have been the same.
If indeed Muslims must interrupt what they do in order to pray, that further reduces the jobs one can offer them. For obvious security reasons, Muslims should not be hired for jobs involving mass transportation (such as pilots, stewards, traffic control operators, train engineers, subway conductors, etc.), except for the selling of tokens, or change-making.
But any job that requires uninterrupted attention -- including most people who work in hospitals -- simply cannot be permitted to take time off to go to a Prayer Room for the five canonical prayers (and others). It just can't be done. It is not true that Islam and the non-islamic world can adjust to each other. Up to now the non-Muslim world has been falling all over itself to accomodate Muslims. In return it has gotten what we all see -- not only terrorism, but attempts by those not directly involved in terrorism to block efforts to deal with it successfully, to put the Western security services constanntly in a defensive mode, rather than demonstrating a willingness to help out. The few Muslims who have helped have done so, in every case, for large financial rewards. This is not exactly a stirring demonstration of loyalty like that of the Nisei Regiment, the 442nd, that was among the most decorated in World War II. Offered every chance to prove themseelves loyal, organized Islamic groups seem hellbent on doing otherwise.
Conclusions are being drawn. It is not what The New Duranty Times offers as its take, but opinions are hardening everywhere -- as what was at first naivete then became confusion, and now has become, not confusion, but a certainty that there is something mendacious about the army of apoologists, and menacing about the theory and practice, of Islam.
In point of fact, Muslims are allowed by their own law - or so I was taught - to have two of their five daily prayers before the working day and three afterwards, grouping them together. Let us not be daft, people: the world is full of Muslim shopkeepers, doctors, mechanics, chauffeurs, professionals and skilled workers of all kinds - I have known plenty - who do not suddenly break off work just because a specific time has rung. This man was simply a cheap little skivver with a religious varnish. Which makes the appeals body's decision that much more ridiculous.
Some Muslims in Canadian jails used this scam
as a ruse for their "Get out of jail" card,security guards thought the Muslims would keep their word since they argued they were "Good" Muslims that had to pray as part of
Quranic teachings.
A mosque is only a building when all the people leave,this is proven by the examples in Iraq where weapons and war was waged from inside them and not one World body for Islam spoke out against these action or even tried to stop
Mosques from being exploited under the rule of the Geneva Convention that Muslims love to cite
when it's THEIR ass in a wringger for Murder charges.
The irony is so sweet.
Yes I think this case is more along the lines of what Paolo claims. Most Muslims don't abandon their jobs for prayers. But this might be the tip of the iceberg. One demands it, gets it, then it will snowball. Just like when I was younger, most Muslim women didn't wear the veil, and certainly not the full burqa. Now, few don't wear at least some form of veiling, or total drapery, and it seems to be a beligerent political statement that's pushed onto us. We might find the same happens with Friday prayers. Bit by bit, first the camel's nose is in the tent, then the left leg, the right, etc. Aided and abetted by self-loathing, deluded multiculti-fanatics amongst us.
Laborare est orare - To work is to pray. Especially when that work is among the sick and vulnerable. And they don't come more vulnerable than a child with severe learning difficulties.
I'm a fat lady, I eat one meal a day, but it lasts from breakfast through elevenses,lunch, tea, dinner and supper.
I'm a Christian, I pray once a day, as I am in company with the Lord from breakfast, through elevenses,lunch, tea, dinner and supper.