“He tells Eyewitness News exclusively that when he refused to work with pork, the major retailer sent him outside to gather carts. ‘Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,’ said Jean Camara, suing Costco.”
Note the paradox: he is claiming that he was subjected to religious discrimination, when what really happened was that he was prevented from discriminating against non-Muslim customers by refusing to act as cashier for those with pork and alcohol.
“Former employee suing Costco for religious discrimination,” by Kristin Thorne, WABC, February 24, 2015 (thanks to Marc):
NEW YORK (WABC) — A man is suing Costco for religious discrimination.
He tells Eyewitness News exclusively that when he refused to work with pork, the major retailer sent him outside to gather carts.
“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” said Jean Camara, suing Costco.
That’s why Jean Camara says he’s doing what he’s doing, suing Costco for religious employment discrimination.
The devout Muslim says he was working as a cashier’s assistant at the Costco in Sunset Park Brooklyn in September of 2012 when pork came across the conveyor belt.
It’s against his religious beliefs to touch either pork or alcohol.
Camara says after telling his managers this, they transferred him outside collecting the shopping carts.
Camara says they never told him why he was reassigned.
“I think that as the case progresses in the trial we are in now, I think the facts are going to come out and they’re going to speak for themselves,” said Chauncey Henry, Camara’s attorney.
Camara says he asked his managers if he could work in the electronics department, but his requests were repeatedly denied.
He ended up filing a human rights complaint against the company.
16 days later, he was fired for insubordinate conduct.
“We all share different beliefs so we all should be treated equally no matter what belief we have,” Camara said.
“It’s not OK to discriminate against someone for their religion. It isn’t OK. It isn’t OK to treat them differently others because of what they believe in. I think that everyone is entitled to the same treatment. I think that’s what this case is about,” Henry said.
Erik says
Here we go again…….
Ricky Black says
But he was asking to be treated differently. Here we go again, that hyper sensitivity that all Muslims share. Now he can get back on welfare check
Erik says
I know what you are saying. The big picture problem is in the West there are too many competing ideologies. This is never going to be compatible. I see no end in sight.
Bren says
He doesn’t want to be treated differently for being a Muslim, does that mean he wants to be the same as all other cashiers there and handle pork and alcohol?
Antonius Tanoso says
Exactly, this guy doesn’t understand the fact that we have to treat him differently because of his belief.
Moronic.
KrazyKafir says
Yup, the najis Kuffar had better just let Muslims pick and choose which department they would like to work in for religious reasons.
KrazyKafir says
Also, more proof that hiring Muslims is a fool’s errand.
TheBuffster says
Right. When you go to work for a company, you don’t expect them to let you choose what department you’ll work in. And if you have special restrictions because of your religion or disabilities, it’s the *company* that has fewer restrictions on where to use you.
Was there a spot open in the electronics department? If so, had there been a request by another employee ahead of his for that spot? Was this guy as knowledgeable about the products in the department as another of his fellow employees who was better suited to that job?
When you go to work for a retail store, they put you on the job that needs doing. Your job is to do the job that needs doing, not to demand that they put you in the job you want to do. And to use your religion as a bludgeon to make them bend to your will.
TheBuffster says
Oops! I said: ” it’s the *company* that has fewer restrictions on where to use you. ”
I meant to say “it’s the *company* that has more restrictions on where to use you.”
traci94 says
He CHOSE to work at a place that sells pork and alcohol. And, yes, he DOES want to be treated differently. I pray to God that he does not win this case; it’s absolutely ridiculous.
abad says
Another Muslim demanding special rights. Will it never end?
Gray says
Surely it isn’t surprising that, on one estimate, 80% of Muslims living in the West are unemployed and on benefits? In the private sector, you have to make a profit, or go broke. So who would be so stupid as to give one of these serial whinging troublemakers a job, so they can then spend their working days looking for something to be offended by, rather than actually doing what they were being paid to do in the first place? No doubt if this vile creature was given a job in electronics, as he was demanding, he would then be claiming to be offended by some of the programmes playing on the in-store televisions.
Angemon says
Oh, the hypocrisy. It’s muslims who are constantly demanding preferential treatment because of their religion. No jell-o in school lunches, special prayer breaks where non-muslims are expected to pick up the slack for them, foot-baths in airports, etc.
The brashness is staggering – the mohammedan asked to be moved to the electronics department. Would he have filled the suit if he was working at that department? And why is he claiming “religious discrimination”? Is the management required to cave in to all his demands? He couldn’t work as a cashier’s assistant because of pork and alcohol (a position that isn’t exactly heavy on prerequisites), so the management found another position for him. It’s up to the management to check an employee’s qualifications and decide whether they’re fit to a position or not.
They should have fired the bastard as soon as he refused to touch pork and alcohol and sued his ass for applying to a position when he knew beforehand he couldn’t do it.
How many cases where Jews who won’t touch pork sue their employers for finding another position for them?
KenD says
You write “it’s up to the management to check a potential employees qualifications and decide whether they’re fit”, but how much you wanna bet that it’s illegal or “discriminatory” to ask someone if they’re willing to handle pork, if you simply assume they are Muslim, or worse, if you’re brazen enough to ask if they’re Muslim outright?
In fact, it is the plaintiff who is being religiously discriminatory by refusing to handle the purchases of many non-Muslims.
I hope his lawyer is expensive.
Babs says
“Camara says they never told him why he was reassigned.”
He must’ve fallen out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Why was this complaint given court time?
Foolster41 says
Didn’t want to handle pork/alcohol, but doesn’t want to be transferred to pushing carts. One has to ask, what does he want?
The answer of course is money. Lots and lots of money, and probably sympathy for the Islamist supremacist movement.
This can be summed up as: “Heads I win, tails you loose”
Wellington says
Same old shit, courtesy of Islam, which denies mucho amounts of rights to non-Muslims when able to do so and when not able to do so goes to Plan B which is playing the victim card—–as this parasite has.
Message to all Muslims: Your religion is truly pathetic and a burden to all the world. I know you Muzzies won’t get this, but this is the truth of things notwithstanding. But then, how appropriate and telling that truth and Islam are not a good mix.
cs says
Is manager good enough for him? We can promote him, he is a victim, anyways.
boakai ngombu says
SqueekyCleanLatrine Mngr.
Jay Boo says
instead, he should be suing his local mosque in NYC for being part of the sick ideology that attacked New York’s Twin Towers on 911.
Peggy says
Jews don’t eart pork either but I have never heard of one suing because they want to change their job description. If you take a job working on a cash register then you have to put every item through. Do we now have no pork or alcohol registers just to suit them?
What’s next? No uncovered women through this registers because it offends the muslims? How far are we going to bend for these parasites?
What did the Muslims do twenty years ago? Did they not work in the same supermarkets selling the same products? How come they didn’t sue anyone then?
gravenimage says
Good point, Peggy. A Jewish person would either do the job or look for a new one. You don’t have vegetarians—I am one—or teetotalers and people in AA suing, either. This is purely a Muslim “grievance”, and is more about pushing Shari’ah compliance than anything else.
duh_swami says
An employer cannot force an employee to perform duties the employee considers immoral…( Not sure but I think it’s in the ‘Brown Act’) and the employer does not get to decide moral values for the employee.
In this case Cosco created a remedy by reassignment. I don’t think this guy has a case just because the remedy doesn’t suit him.
David says
Costco should have just heaved him. This is the type of ridiculous lawsuit that Holder has been encouraging. He is not even touching the pork or alcohol directly.
Richard Smith says
For quite some time we have heard “diversity is our greatest strength” – there is nothing great about the nonsense we now see on a daily basis. Is the guy really handling pork or alchohol? Isn’t this stuff packaged up? I don’t see how there would be a conflict with his religion. He is not being asked to directly handle pork or consume alchohol.
Suzanne Accashian says
How is it that you apply for a job knowing what the requirments are and then expect a place to be made for you based on your religion? He wants electronics well The Jewish person wants books and the Christian person wants shoes. We can’t tell our employers which department we want to work in. He said he refused to handle pork or alcohol, the department that they had is collecting carts. I am sure that senority gets off the registers and carts.
How did we get here as a country that people sue when they are offended, claim racism when someone doesn’t agree and sue because they don’t like a position they were put in based on their request to be moved? Crazy, the world has gone mad.
RobH says
Islamic lawfare is exactly what one can expect when hiring Muslims in jobs where they might have to be responsible for dealing with a) pork, b) alcohol, c) not being allowed to wear a niqab or burqa for safety reasons, d) any sort of uniform. They will fight you legally in order to put their big toe in the door to let the Sharia in. Then when you hire a Muslim, he or she must be allowed to pray five times a day. Is it any wonder why the people of this culture have done nothing positive for the world since Mohammad began his killing spree?
PJG says
Am I right in thinking that being moved to the electronics department would be something of a promotion? It surely would be easier work, and more skilled, than working as a cashier. Maybe it would suit his religious beliefs even more to be store manager?
gravenimage says
That’s what I was thinking, PJG—the Muslim is likely using his supposed “sensitivities” to inveigle an unearned promotion, and one he likely isn’t qualified for. But gathering carts is beneath him…
pdxnag says
As with all religious discrimination/accommodation claims I would insist that any remedy itself be neutral. That is, no legislative or judicial remedy is exempt merely because it can be called a remedy.
laura r says
its just a sue op, about the $. they take these jobs to sue. he knew what costco sells.
desidude2 says
As usual he wants special exception for himself while using his religion as a shield. I have seen many muslims in store having to handle all kinds of meat products. In fact most jobs in these stores requires you to handle pork or alcohol items, whether you are a cashier, or in stocking, or in unloading, He wants a special exception to bump off a person in electronics who had more experience or seniority in favor of himself.
If this guy wins then they lets give all the other religious minorities special exemptions, Jews, Hindus, Mormons, food allergies people, those who were former alcoholics and so on.
Larry A. Singleton says
“Duplicate comment. Seems you’ve already said that”
Where?!?!
I’ll post comments. Come back. And never see my comment.
Like right now.
Again; no offense but this comment function leaves much to be desired. Do I have to go to my Yahoo email in order to see it? What? I thought I caught on to this new system but apparently I’m missing something somewhere.
Larry A. Singleton says
(An “autofill” would be nice)
Here’s the comment I posted. I hope:
Former employee suing Costco for religious discrimination
http://7online.com/…/former-employee-suing…/532866/#
Any connection to CAIR counselor?
My comment on article: And pretty soon the employees are going to start tripping over the foot baths in the employee rest room. Identical to the ones that will be installed in public restrooms across America ala “Press 1 for English”. (I know what I’ll do when I trip over one of these foot baths.)
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.
Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print
•”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
•”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
•”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
•”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”
Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60
CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
http://www.americanthinker.com/…/cairs_silence_on…
Free Speech v. Political Correctness by Abraham H. Miller (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4862/berkeley-free-speech
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims, which are never justified, are actually quite uncommon, with hate crimes against Jews being over four times more common. Details here: http://www.islamist-watch.org/…/new-fbi-hate-crime…
Many women and girls around the world have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing a hijab. A list of some of them, with further links to the relevant news stories, is at this link: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/today-is-world-hijab-day
CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/…/federal-judge…
http://www.cbn.com/…/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to…/
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer (Booklet)
11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
http://www.jihadwatch.org/…/11-of-canadas-highest…
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, (and Holocaust in Rwanda), by Peter Hammond (This is an Ass-Kicking little resource of 276 pages.)
Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, The Clarion Project, Cross Muslims, Palestinian Media Watch, Muhammad unveiled, Religion of Peace and read Raymond Ibrahim, Efraim Karsh, Patrick Poole, Caroline Glick, Bat Ye’or and others.
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rubiconrest says
I have never seen raw pork sold at a Costco. It is always in packaging. If the man touches shopping carts, walks around the building or even drives around town he is touching, breathing and coming in contact with microscopic quantities of pork compounds. This is unavoidable. Living requires that he come in contact with ‘pork’ and therefore there is no reason for him to avoid the packages since he is already exposed.
Linda says
this guy is a plant….just to get his way….just like all the “others” who have demanded a change because of THEIR belief.
IF costco capitulates it will be considered a VICTORY for islam in their ongoing 1400 year old jihad to make all the world live under their political system called islam…
look at target….they just capitulated and handed islam yet another victory!!
This makes me sick!!!
and costco…please get rid of your halal lamb….I want regular lamb….give ME the choice!!!!
halal meat is poison to humans since it contains excessive amounts of stress hormones….and an unacceptable amount of adrenalin in the meat!
somehistory says
A cashier’s assistant….translation means: sacker or bagger. That is the employee that *assists* the cashier. It is common practice to send sackers or baggers out to bring in the carts when said carts are left all over the parking lot or put in the cart stalls.
It is common practice to use the sacker or bagger in this job or to take back to the shelves items that are brought to the checkout but not purchased by the customers. One who is hired as a bagger or sacker…or if he wants to feel better than other sackers or baggers…a cashier’s assistant…is used in many jobs around a grocery store. Cleaning toilets, break rooms, and the awful menial job of collecting carts are some of the duties of a sacker.
The store should bring in other employees who were hired to sack groceries and ask them in court just what their duties were. Ask them if they were allowed to choose just what jobs they performed and in which department.
somehistory says
Until then, “clean up on aisle four”….a sacker/ bagger ….*cashier’s assistant* will be doing the clean up. This guy just wants to *clean up* in a different manner. $$$ without working for it….jizya
FactsRule says
He took a job at Costco knowing he’d have to touch the plastic that surrounds pork, which isn’t touching pork. Then, he refuses to do his job. Costco is nice enough to reassign him, but not to a dept. he wanted. He didn’t do what they wanted. They didn’t do what he wanted. It sounds to me that this was a perfectly appropriate reassignment. Hey, Costco, you hear that. Don’t settle with this stealth Jihad coward who obviously took this job in order to sue you. I hope he wastes tens of thousands of dollars and loses, God-willing. And, get out of America, damn it.
mortimer says
FR wrote: “He knew he would touch pork…he refuses to do his job”
That’s so he can ‘sit on his highhorse’ and tell dirty kafirs how superior and supreme he is…
…”I DO NOT TOUCH ZE PORK, YOU DIRTY INFIDELS!”
Agree with this too: “get out of America, damn it.”
mortimer says
DARURA cancels the need for these endless demands. As long as an employer says ‘no’ to Muslims demands, they will apply ‘DARURA’, the law of relaxing the rules so Muslims can get what they want and need to survive.
If we don’t remind Muslims of DARURA at every opportunity, they will continue to demand 1) the right to discriminate themselves against ‘others’ and women, 2) the right to never hear criticism of Islam, 3) the right to circumvent rules that apply to all employs, 4) the right to impose Sharia law on non-Muslims.
terry says
The west should expect more abuse by Muslims, like in this case. No one, living in the west, should be surprised by any similar act or even more aggressive ones by Muslims, which are on the way very soon in a place near you!
This is what one gets in a society where its leaders and large masses of its population sprint, without second thought, to kiss a*s of its never satisfied enemy, especially the more aggressive he gets, while despise and look with contempt on many of its own!
Such society even never deserve to survive!
Judy says
When you tell an employer you won’t do something you were hired to do AFTER you were hired for that job, you have no right to complain when you don’t like what comes across your belt.So go get a job where you don’t have to work with pork you idiot. Suing the company isn;t going to do anything but make enemies. aBut maybe that what his goal is anyway.
bernie says
It’s like if I get a job at a bookstore that I know sells risque, sexy books and magazines, or books on religions or philosophies I don’t agree with, then I refuse to handle such publications at the cash register. Then, when I’m assigned to a job cleaning the store of some such, I whine and complain that I’m being discriminated against for my religion,and I sue the store.
It’s nonsensical garbage. He should have checked the requirements of the job first, and then if they were incompatible with his religious beliefs, he shouldn’t have accepted the job. That store has the right to sell pork and alcohol, and bus and taxi companies have the right to insist that their drivers accept blind people who have guide dogs, or unveiled or unscarved women, or people who are carrying beer or pork products in shopping bags, or even people who are wearing Christian crosses, Jewish yarmulkes or Hindu vindis. If you cannot handle it, then look for another job, or better yet, take your whining butt out of the country.
I’ve read that a major reason why ethnic, non-Muslim Chinese in France (especially in the Chinatown in Paris) tend not to hire many Muslims is because the latter are generally seen as “too complaining”, and unwilling to work very hard, or adjust prayer times so that they don’t inconvenience the employers.
gungadin says
I have said it time and time again , if we keep bowing to “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” in all its forms, it will be the death of this nation and of others. We’ve become a nation of spinelsss WUSSIES
BC says
And still they ask, why are we not accepted by non Muslim society?
DM says
islam, is a CRIMINALLY SAVAGE POLITICAL AGENDA masquerading as a religion. DMH 04/2014
Bill says
You are absolutely correct. They refuse to accept our ways, then cry discrimination. Ship all their useless ashes back to the middle east.
sha says
sharia necessity vs obligation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m7FncBSNC8&feature=youtu.be
voytech says
Can’t do the job the your employer is giving you ? Simple Find another job clown smh
Sandra Dee says
Exactly! It’s so idiotic that he says he doesn’t know why they reassigned him! Hello if he refuses to do his job as a cashier because of his religion then he can go do something else like gather shopping carts. He expected them to cater to him and that’s not how it works here in America. You get paid to do the job they assign to you if you don’t then they assign you another job to do, it’s simple! He’s playing the Islamophobia card!
mortimer says
50 generations of inbreeding…cousin marriages and uncle-niece marriages.
Lowest average IQs in the world.
terry says
Mortimer,
It’s not inbreeding or genetic inheritance that causes this kind of low IQ. It’s Islam’system of beliefs and doctrines that are the culprit.
Proof: Many westerners who are whites, blacks and mixed develop the same mind set and violent behavior upon converting to Islam. Some of them, at least seemed to be very intelligent. Take Cat Stevens who was mixed, with a Swedish mother and Greek father who had converted to Islam.
On the other hand you have many, once isolated groups of indigenous people, all over the world who in the past inbred among themselves for generations, yet you won’t see in them the same mind set, belief system, readiness for extreme violence to spread then impose their religious beliefs and wage Jihad on others.
Indigenous people such as: Many groups and tribes living in the Amazon jungles, Peru; Innuits in Canada; Eskimos in Greenland and other extreme northern parts; Sami people in northern Norway; Nomad people of Siberia; Many indigenous tribes in central and western Africa; indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania;……etc.
TheBuffster says
And it’s not just the ideology of Islamic supremacism that leads to Camara’s kind of demands. The West’s ideology of multiculturalism encourages guys like Camara to try to get all he can from anyone who dares to not kowtow to his preferences.
When you have an ideology that goes beyond defending each person’s legitimate rights under the law, and starts to demand that the law force people to ditch their own preferences and business plans and policies to whatever religious idiosyncrasies a given person or group holds, then you can expect some members of that group to take advantage of that trend in the law and public opinion.
Camara’s gambit tests the resolve and self-respect of kafir society, and we’ve invited him to do so. Why should he not give it a go?
PRCS says
1. The ‘reporter’ did not quote the maggot, she clearly STATED:
“It’s against his religious beliefs to touch either pork or alcohol.”
Guaranteed that she has no idea what his ‘religion’ teaches.
2. I believe that Islam teaches that MUSLIMS are prohibited from eatingand that they are not supposed to facilitate the commission of that ‘crime’ by filthy unbelievers). We do still have every right to eat a ham sandwich right in front of them.
3. Surely the person who hired him asked ‘do you have any issues which would prevent you from performing this job?’
mortimer says
Ya think? They need it in writing, don’t they? And videotaped!
No Fear says
Should employers give themselves added stress by emplying someone with this type of mindset?
.
mortimer says
Employers will have to spell it out in the job interview with the help of a top lawyer. For instance, ask the candidate, ‘Is there any reason you cannot handle pork or alcohol because that is what we sell?’
If they say ‘no’, they are not eligible for the job. They have to find another job where there is no pork, like working in a stone quarry in Pakistan.
PRCS says
Enquiring about specific items/issues would likely be construed as leading and could likely be challenged in court.
Best to keep it completely generic, I think.
Perhaps Wellington will weigh in on this.
Aardvark says
I check the names. If I receive a CV from anyone with an islamic name, it goes directly into file 13 (i.e. the waste bin). There’s no shortage of job applicants, and avoiding the ones who will probably cause trouble is only common sense.
Arthur says
Perhaps they should move him to the books and magazines department and he can refuse to sell anything that isn’t Islamic theology and protest anything Muslims would find offensive (such as children’s books with pig characters).
Or maybe they can move him to the women’s clothing department and he can refuse to sell anything other than bedsheets.
Or maybe they can move him to the arts and crafts department and he can refuse to work with any art which depicts animals because that leads to idolatry.
Or maybe they can move him to the music department and he can refuse to sell any music which is not praises to Allah, since secular music and musical instruments are forbidden by Islam.
Or maybe they can move him to the photography department and he can refuse to work with images of people because Mohammed did not allow images of persons.
Or maybe they can move him to the toy department where he can refuse to sell the dolls because they have faces and good Muslims don’t allow faces on their dolls.
Or maybe they can move him to the pets department where he can refuse to work with dogs because Islam views them as unclean.
Or maybe they could move him to the seasonal aisle and he could refuse to handle the Christmas, Mardi Gras, St. Valentines Day’s, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, or Halloween decorations.
What the heck, send him outside to bring in the shopping carts. How could he object to that?!
voytech says
If I was the owner of that business I would have sent him to the door and not to gather carts if you know what I mean .
Blind Druid says
Absolutely brilliant post Arthur. LMFAO – Thank you.
Duck says
Good analysis of the situation!!
Duck says
We can’t treat him differently, but he can treat us differently……..do I have that correct?
Islam, the cancer of western society
mortimer says
He will object that his foreman is not a Muslim.
Miriam Luz says
Hilarious! Can I quote you?
terry says
Simply, a beautiful, hilarious and intelligent comment, Arthur!
gravenimage says
New York: Muslim suing Costco for religious discrimination
……………………….
Sounds like Costco *did* try to accommodate him—but it just wasn’t enough for this litigious Mohammedan. What a surprise…
mortimer says
He wants to cash in, obviously. Which makes us all LUUUUUUUV and respeeeeeect Muzzies, right?
Jerk.
jay says
I’m sure Al Sharpton and Obama would love to hear his story of pain and oppresshun.
mortimer says
So ‘painful’. So ‘melodramatic’.
LPC says
Seems to me that getting away from the pork handling and being assigned to picking up shopping carts is a respectful religious accommodation. Was Mr. Camara hoping pork avoidance would make him store manager?
bekka says
I’m a religious Jew. I had SUCH a hard time when I entered a nursing home to do my internship and encountered the smell of bacon. I had never before seen bacon, smelled bacon, and I found the smell revolting. In the morning, the whole nursing home smelled of it and my stomach would turn, and I dreaded coming because I couldn’t stand it. And then I had to sometimes feed it to patients, and I didn’t know what to do with myself!!!! I didn’t want to touch it, as it not kosher, and i didn’t want to by mistake touch it, and then maybe i would by mistake lick my fingers…? I would wear gloves, and feed the patients, feeling so gross. Eventually, I got used to it (took a few months!!) and I ended up returning the nursing home to work there- and it didn’t bother me (I think they got a new cook!).
I never thought to complain about it!!!!!!! This was my job, this was my role, this was what I had chosen to do.
We live in a beautiful country of religious tolerance, freedoms and liberty. That DOES NOT mean that we can demand of others to change the environment around us to conform to our religious beliefs. If you can’t handle it, get a different job, put on gloves, suffer working with the shopping carts. It’s a small sacrifice to pay for upholding ur religious beliefs. But don’t take advantage of this countries religious tolerance to make demands of others.
mortimer says
Beautifully written, bekka, and I love you for saying so. But I LOVE BACON. Yum! And, bekka, I’m still living after years of enjoying it. I love the Lord God of Israel, but by gosh, bacon is delicious. I understand your respect for the Commandment, but I’m not Jewish. I’m glad my church allows bacon!
BC says
He was not asked to handle bacon as you were. The pork was wrapped in plastic as all meat is sold that way. Therefore there was no way he had to touch except to push it along the conveyor. He is just doing the usual Muslim thing of making a big issue out of it. Obviously if t you work on a cash register you cannot choose what items come along it.
Oliver says
Bekka,
I am also a Jew, although not observant. I also never eat pork products, or shell fish 9 or any fish, for that matter).
About 30 or so years ago, i was living in a rural area of a southern state, and got a job as an assistant manager of a restaurant.
TWO OF THEIR MAIN DISHES ( depending upon the meal, and time of day) were bacon and ham and pork chops; and fish products of different types.
I never ate any of them. However, when I had to cook, or serve or whatever, i did so.
I was never (I worked there about 8 or 9 months then moved out of state) why i did not eat bacon, etc.
When I was in the army, I merely said I was allergic to pork products, never questioned.
This creep just wants to extort money.
And, after all, this IS NEW YORK WITH CUOMO AS GOVERNOR AND DE BLASSIO AS MAYOR- THE MAYOR WHO COMPLAINS ABOUT COPS NOT RESPECTING HIM, BUT CONSIDERS SHARPTON A FRIEND.
Cosco is one of the MOST LIBERAL (politically) large firms in America.
Probably the last firm that would discriminate.
mortimer says
I wouldn’t hire anyone with a prayer bruise. Why?
1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Misogyny – repression of women 9 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 10 Genocide 11 Ethnic cleansing 12 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 13 Torture 14 Plundering 15 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 22 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects
Fr. Basil` says
What do you mean by “prayer bruise”?
Are you talking about making prostrations?
Orthodox and Byzantine Catholics, as well as other Eastern Christians, make them all the time.
Where do you think the mahometans picked up the practice? You don’t think they actually invented anything afresh, do you?
Georgina says
A Prayer bruise is the blue mark on the forhead of truely devout muslims – caused by banging their head on the floor repeatidly 5 times a day while waving their bums in the air to intimidate/nauseate us.
Mahendra Singh says
Million dollar signs are floating before his eyes. Win a huge
judgement, like 50 million dollars, and this Camara character
is set for life.
cjp says
He’s lucky they sent him outside to get carts. If I did something like that at my job, I would have been fired. So would ANYONE else.
blake says
it would be easy enough to just not hire muslims. But the problem is, thanks to PC liberals, after each interview you need to detail exactly why you did not hire them and have it reviewed by head of HR. I suppose you could find a reason but it often ends in lawsuits for muslims not getting hired, like that stupid muslim who sued Abercrombie and Fitch.
Aardvark says
See my post above. They don’t need to even get as far as an interview. Ditch the CVs as soon as you realise what they are – the names are a dead giveaway.
More Ham Ed says
Tequila made him remember taqiyya.
A must watch:
Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya
allan carr bryan says
If that’s the case why didn’t the Personnel Department just ask him what job he’d like,
what hours does he want to work
how much salary would he like,
would he like to be picked up and dropped off to work,
would he like somebody to wipe his ass….the list is endless.
As a Contracts Manager here in the UK, the first thing I ask when negotiating with anyone is have they read AND understood all paragraph’s of their Contract of Employment?
If they confirm this, I get them to sign the said Contract, then, they have no comeback at a later date.
This buffoon is clearly trying it on, he was offered another position within the company, he has broken the Contract in my opinion so eventually termination of contract is on the cards for refusing to carry out his job.
danny says
Until the US aknowledge they are with war with Islam, the problem will persist. American is in for a fall, slowly, if they dont kick-out these Islamic traitors in their midst.
It is shocking that an employee will refuse to do an assisgned job and still go ahead to sue his employee. Most muslims in the west are not there to work but to subvert the local law and chaos chaos for the enthronment of sharia.
These are what the west fail to see about these muslims.
PRCS says
Another issue:
1. Will he deny service to homosexuals?
2. Will he refuse to speak to women co-workers and/or customers?
All potential employees need to be asked if they have any issues which would prevent them from performing the job.
Transmaster says
I US needs to handle lawsuits like they do in the UK. The loosing party has to pay the court costs and the legal fees for the entity they sued.
Employers are going to have to have signed agreement with employees spelling out what they will be expected to do. If they have a religious exceptions to please make them known up from.
Brother Mark:) says
If you listen to what the complainant is saying, one might wonder whether or not he was an EMPLOYEE.
The management has the right to put him pretty much wherever they want, as long as it isn’t something so derogatory that it can be seen as punitive. If he didn’t want to work with pork and alcohol and they transferred him to stocking shelves, that would have been very much their right to do so as well. Now, if they fired him when he first gave his objection, that of course, would be different.
ANOTHER nuisance lawsuit.
Should we be surprised?
Brother Mark:)
http://www.talktruthful.com
Karole Conaway says
Business in America need to stop bowing down to muslims! They are suing business owners who refuse to give in to their demands. And lawsuits against police. For example: A female muslim was arrested (it didn’t state what for) and when they asked her remove her head and face covering for her mug shot, she refused. She is suing the police department! They are a lawsuit crazy bunch. Do not hire them unless you tell them first that you will not be making special concessions to them!
sidney penny says
Bit like the Muslim taxi drivers who did not want o pick up passengers who bought duty free alcohol at the airport..
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2827800
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2006/10/more-on-those-alcohol-shy-minnesota-taxi
sidney penny says
God damn Costco- Al Sharpton
sidney penny says
Did Costco allow him to take time off to pray 5 times a day especially when there are customers at the cashier?
Did Costco allow him to take time off on Friday afternoon to go to the mosque when there are customers at the cashier.(and pray Death to America?).
Well , now he will be praying for death to Costco.
Jax Tolmen says
It strikes me as ungrateful of the plaintiff to sue a company that tried to accommodate his (stupid) religious beliefs by giving him a new position (at the same rate of pay I imagine) as opposed to simply terminating him for refusing to complete the job as specified in his employment contract.
I got in trouble off a Muslim store manager when I was also a manager at McDonald’s many years ago for refusing to allow the Muslim staff to take time off to eat during ramadan – right in the middle of the busiest period of the day. My defence was, and still is, that it is their choice to come to work and if they cannot perform what is required of them then they shouldn’t be working. It was discriminatory towards the other staff members who had to pick up the slack.
Oliver says
I thought that during ramadan that muzzies don’t eat, until after nightfall. is that wrong?
Personally, is muzzies all starved to death, i would not see a great loss. to humnanity
NVM says
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andrew sapia says
Could a Christian say he doesn’t want to touch the gossip magazine? Of course not, if he felt that way he should look for another job. Also, I don’t believe it is unlawful in Islam to touch alcohol I’m not even positive that there is a total ban on drinking it. Either way, if your religious views are that strong you should not work at a place that sells pork. A company cannot run this way. It is not discrimination he doesn’t get to pick his next favorite position. The company decides where he is needed. They can’t give in to this and every person of conscience should be writing letters of support to Costco.
Ayatrollah says
I have a sure fire way to clear this up. Don’t hire muslims.
Biff H says
Islam identifies what is deemed unclean (dogs, pork, spirits, infidels, etc.) for the Moslem. They are all equally vile and there is not a pecking order per say that prompts the faithful to avoid one with more vigor than the other. You can choose to fixate on what you think is within your power to control and ignore or be oblivious about the infidel detritus, dog hair and dander that settles on the clothes and lodges in the lungs and mucous membranes that is a consequence of human interaction in a public space. Ablution rituals before prayer will not address the cross contamination and DNA sampling of any prayer rug in any mosque in America will bear this out. They defile their hokey places because the perimeters for cleanliness are unachievable. Moslems constantly demand the unachievable because this is their lot in life and they want all of us to share in the misery that is Islam.
Ren says
‘Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,’ said Jean Camara
How should one treats a muslim if he is different then?
A muslim has assume his “strange” belief and be treated as such.
ISSY ESPINIA says
Hello other people have jobs collecting carts, so how was he being treated different! Many people want different positions in their jobs, everyone can’t get what they want! He had a position, he couldn’t full-fill it, so were they suppose to fire someone in the area he wanted just so he can get the job! SHUT-UP!
Shelly says
He’s lucky his boss didn’t fire his a$$ for insubordination! I’m fed up with Muslim’s using their so called religion as a means of harassment and a way of moving their agenda to the forefront! I pray the judge that hears this case is clued in.
Jae M says
The article says they did fire him for insubordination. If he doesn’t want to work around pork then don’t work in a grocery store! He chose to work in a place where pork is present. His real agenda? That pork will be banned as offensive to Muslims? Or that when the world doesn’t revolve a Muslim’s belief system, the world needs to change-not the Muslim. Costco should counter sue for the cost of going to court.
Bill says
I am beyond sick and tired of these animals coming here with all of their demands telling us what We need to do for them. If they don’t like it here go the f— home.
Joseph says
Did he state these facts when he applied for the job? NO, because he would not have been a cashier. That is falsification of a application. Grounds for termination. You don’t apply for a job and get hired THEN tell your employer “I CAN’T DO IT”. He is lucky they gave him a 2nd chance.
Gary says
He refused to work with pork, so they told him to do something else. How is that a problem?
Americanpatriot2014 says
when you go to work in a GROCERY store in AMERICA one should know they will be working with MEAT products — if your religion does not allow you to be around said products DON’T TAKE THE JOB — don’t start trying to CHANGE THINGS because of your religion —- adapt…….simple — if you can’t work around pork don’t work in the grocery — FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE TO AMERICA – THIS is how it starts.
Jeff says
But Muslims even claim to be different. They claim to be the best of people and non-Muslims to be the worst of creatures.
If your religion precludes you from doing your job then you can either expect to be fired or given a different job. This guy is a real swine.
Julia says
So many of these bogus lawsuits are filed just so they can say Muslims have the highest number of workplace discrimination claims. That statement in itself holds a lot of political power, it doesn’t matter that they’re all frivolous lawsuits, nobody looks that far.
Bukkdem Jizheads says
Costco donates loads of money to democratic politicians and sells halal lamb. So I am glad they are being sued by this puke.
DJM says
Its time for me to start exercising my religion at work. My religion forbids me from doing actual work. My religion requires 8 hours of meditation in from of a television. My religion requires me to wear slippers and pajamas all day. My religion requires me to consume several beers a day. Oh, and my religion requires regular raises and bonuses.
So, I’m ready to join the workforce. I hope no one discriminates against me!
voytech says
My religion is very similar but I’m ready to convert lol
Stephanie Hawkins says
They told him to collect carts, but he wanted to work in electronics….poor baby! It doesn’t work that way. Your employer tells YOU what job you will be doing. If you don’t like it , leave.
Don says
I don’t see this as religious discrimination…I see this as more of areligious accomodation!
Joe Murphy says
Does anyone know of a religion which forbids you from working hard? 🙂 If anyone knows, don’t keep it a secret, share the good news!
Bruce says
Pat Condell had a great rant about this problem in Britain, about a month ago. Here is the link:
http://www.patcondell.net/islam-in-the-workplace/
I agree with Jae M – Costco should counter-sue this guy and his slimy lawyer, for wasting everyone’s time with a frivolous lawsuit.
haramharry says
So he gets sent to electronics, can’t sell tvs because there’s alcohol and pork commercials running. can’t win with guy