In PJ Media today I discuss a case from the Constitution’s “cake for a gay wedding trumps Muslim beer delivery” clause:
In a tight spot and need some cash? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is here to help. All you need to do is convert to Islam then refuse to do your job on religious grounds, and significant financial rewards await you.
Last Thursday, the EEOC won $240,000 for two Muslim truck drivers who had been fired for refusing to transport beer. The lucky winners, Somali Muslims Mahad Abass Mohamed and Abdkiarim Hassan Bulshale, had been fired by trucking company Star Transport. Their refusal was based on Islamic law.
One hadith describes Aisha, Muhammad’s beloved child bride, recounting:
When the last verses of Surat-al-Baqara [chapter two of the Qur’an] were revealed, the Prophet went out (of his house to the Mosque) and said, “The trade of alcohol has become illegal.” (Bukhari 3.34.429)
Due to this passage, Muslims not only cannot drink alcohol, but they cannot traffic in it, including driving it from one place to another. However, this rule is not hard and fast: Muslims who sell alcohol in convenience stores or do the job Mahad Abass Mohamed and Abdkiarim Hassan Bulshale were told to do can justify it by pointing to the Islamic principles of taysir, meaning “facilitation” or making things easier, and darura, the permission to do something that is normally illegal out of some necessity.
Not all Islamic scholars accept the idea that those principles allow Muslims to contravene Islamic law. They point to a hadith that depicts Muhammad saying the following:
It is obligatory upon a Muslim that he should listen (to the ruler appointed over him) and obey him whether he likes it or not, except that he is ordered to do a sinful thing. If he is ordered to do a sinful act, a Muslim should neither listen to him nor should he obey his orders. (Muslim 4553)
That’s what leads to lawsuits such as this one. Said the EEOC’s General Counsel David Lopez:
EEOC is proud to support the rights of workers to equal treatment in the workplace without having to sacrifice their religious beliefs or practices. This is fundamental to the American principles of religious freedom and tolerance.
That sounds lofty, American. But before you break out the fife and drum, consider that this case enforces the opposite of “equal treatment in the workplace.” It establishes Muslim truckers as having a special right to choose what they transport and what they do not, a privilege that other truckers do not have.
There is an indication that Star Transport is liable in this case on the grounds that they had the ability to reassign the drivers to a different task. According to the Washington Examiner, “the EEOC argued that the company could have easily reassigned the drivers but did not and sued it for religious discrimination. Star Transport admitted liability in March.” If they failed to reassign the drivers to some job that wouldn’t conflict with their religious sensibilities, then the company was indeed in the wrong, although not necessarily to the tune of $240,000. More often, however, the Muslims who bring these suits have actually refused reassignment to positions that would allow them to practice their religion without hindrance.
A Muslim woman named Imane Boudlal insisted on wearing her hijab while working at Disney. She sued after refusing multiple offers from Disney to place her in positions where her hijab would not violate their longstanding dress code. Generally, these cases have been political attempts to establish the precedent that where Islamic law and American business practice conflict, the latter always must give way. Gaining special rights for Muslims above and beyond what non-Muslims enjoy is in accord with the elevated status of Muslims over non-Muslims in Islamic law….
Read the rest here.

ballotcode says
This is all about anti-Christian and pro-Mohamedism.
There is a video of a guy doing a hidden camera routine where he went to Mohamedan bakeries trying to get a wedding cake for a same sex wedding. They wouldn’t do it. Why not sue them?
The un-holy alliance of the liberal left and Mohamedans is unfathomable.
Budvarakbar says
Past time to flip some tables in some ‘temples’ me thinks
mortimer says
The video of the Mohammedan confectioners refusing to do a ‘gay wedding’ highlight the manifest CONFUSION of American judges.
As George Orwell wrote: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
nothosaur says
I read an article that said that the Muslim bakers actually did NOT refuse to bake the gay-themed cake, but that the video was edited to make it seem that they refused.
They interviewed the Muslims involved and they all said that they were willing to serve Crowder exactly what he ordered.
It’s confusing, because in the video they are clearly heard saying “no” on occasion.
DJM says
“They interviewed the Muslims involved…”
And you automatically believed them?
Owen Morgan says
And it’s not as if we’ve heard the “Planned Infanticide” the-video-was-edited defence much, lately, is it? You don’t think these muslims could conceivably have got the idea from there, do you?
quotha raven says
To nothosaur, who sez, “It’s confusing, because in the video they are clearly heard saying “no” on occasion.”
Can you please supply a link to this video? Thanks v much in advance, if you can!
Cheers!
quotha r
Mo says
@ ballotcode says
“This is all about anti-Christian and pro-Mohamedism.”
Of course.
“There is a video of a guy doing a hidden camera routine where he went to Mohamedan bakeries trying to get a wedding cake for a same sex wedding. They wouldn’t do it. Why not sue them?
The un-holy alliance of the liberal left and Mohamedans is unfathomable.”
I didn’t understand it for a long time either. But slowly I realized it is because both groups loathe Christ and His followers, as well as America!
miriamrove says
Due to this passage, Muslims not only cannot drink alcohol, but they cannot traffic in it…
I was in Iran this past August. I bought a bottle of Dewers ( of course it is under ground and I paid a premium price. $200.00! The revolutionary guards traffic everything to Iran including alcohol! And they reap billions smuggling! So they (practicing) are duplicitous to say the least. If there is money to be made alcohol or any thing else they even throw their murderous pedophile prophet under the boss. M
Mirren10 says
That is *so* interesting, miriam.
The *hypocrisy* is to vomit. Is this underground trade common, and what happens to those who get caught ? Does anyone call out the government ?
On another note, I have been thinking of your brave son; I do so hope he is getting better, my thoughts are with you, and your son. Bless.
miriamrove says
Are you kidding? They dare not to call the government. Revolutionary guards are the government and ruthless, brutal and vicious. If one does that they can kiss their A…. good by.
Thanks for asking about my son. This past month have been a living hell. He agreed to go to rehab and did. When he came out he went to out patient rehab and it was for 30 days. After a few days he started drinking again. Prior to that the rehab people told us and all of his friends to send him a loving email but tell him that he needs to finish rehab or he can not stay with up. So his cousin whom he was staying with told he can not stay at her house. She offered to take him to Buffalo to anther place. However he went on his home. He did check himself to the rehab up there which is a good sign because he know he is messed up. But he showed up all wasted and they only take you when you are sober. They offered to put him up in the hotel until the next day but he decided to come back to NJ. This was this last Friday. He went and got his car only to go and drink and he ran into a tree and crashed his car. He was in the hospital for 2 hours. Good thing he was not hurt or some one else. But he did totaled his car. He then called another cousin of his who is the same age and they very close and asked him if he can stay him. His cousin lives in Philly. His cousin told him he will come to NJ pick him up in the condition that he checks himself to rehab This time in-patient rehab for 60 days. He is there now. It is going to take time but I know he is going to get it right. m
Angemon says
Sorry to hear about your son, miriam 🙁 . Hope he makes it this time.
Kepha says
MiriamRove: I am also saddened to hear about your son. My prayers are with your family.
gravenimage says
I’m so sorry to hear that your brave son is having such a rough time, miriam. My thoughts are with him–and with you.
Mirren10 says
Incidentally, my husband and I had a week’s holiday in New York, (September 21 to 28); I remembered you mentioning that cigar club; alas, we couldn’t find it ! We did have cocktails at Sardi’ s, however.
Do you know, all the time we were in New York, I kept thinking, every time I met a New Yorker, is this person Miriam rove ??!!
Where is that cigar club, babes ? XX
miriamrove says
So funny! Not sure where you live but next time let me know and I will take you and your husband there and buy you a drink. It is a very upscale place and I do lot of business there.
It is called Club Macanudo
26 East 63rd Street between Madison and Park but closer to Madison. 212-752-8200 is their number. Proper attire required. M
Mirren10 says
Thanks, miriam, next time we go, I’ll comment here, it would be lovely to meet you.
I am so, so sorry about the awful time your son is having, it must be hell for all of you.
gravenimage says
I hope you and your husband had a great time in the States, Mirren.
And September is typically one of the best times to visit New York.
I know it’s grim–but did you get down to Ground Zero?
Mirren10 says
Hi, graven.
We had an absolutely *wonderful* time, I adored New York.
Yes, we did a tour, saw the survivor tree, and the 9/11 fountains, and the museum. It *was* grim, and heart breaking, but very inspiring, also. I felt that New York had put two fingers up to islam.
Joseph says
I am sick to my stomach about this. If a muslim can win against a major company like Anheuser-Busch with all its lawyers then what chance does the average guy have?
How many court cases do you think there are against small business owners and your basic home owner? This type of jihad is just one ploy to destroy the American way of life. They are using our own laws which are there to protect the “little guy” against us.
When someone goes off the deep end and goes on a rampage because a muslim stole everything he had via the court system all we will hear about is the poor persecuted muslim.
Like ballotcode said when a muslim bakery refuses to bake a gay wedding cake nothing is done about it. When a Christian refuses (on legal grounds) they get sued.
Persecution of the non-muslim in the USA is rampant and is only going to get worse. I have a feeling that many people will go to jail because they just couldn’t take it anymore. What took a lifetime to build a muslim can take away with one little court case.
quotha raven says
To Joseph, who sez, “What took a lifetime to build a muslim can take away with one little court case.”
Please don’t forget, Frank, that we in the USA have been promoting the lawsuit culture for half a century, smashing businesses left and right. The gay couple, for example, closed down that bakery that refused to serve them up a wedding cake, and that really WAS a small business. I’m sure gays, feminists and numerous ethnic groups have been busy making hay in this regard, so it should be no surprise that Muslims jump on the bandwagon with aqll the other greedy crooks who with their lawsuits support the slip and fall lawyers and line their own pockets, a loathsome lot..
And, small detail, but had this particular Muslim sued Anheuser Busch, they might not, in fact, have beat the battery of lawyers you refer to. I believe the story indicates they sued a smaller company, Star Transport who are in the business of delivery, not manufacture.
I’m not indicating any support whatsoever to the Muslims who brought this suit, but let’s not just drive the car off the road.
Cheers!
quotha r
quotha raven says
Sorry – I meant mine above to address Joseph’s comment, not Frank’s.Cheers! qr
Budvarakbar says
“What took a lifetime to build a muslim can take away with one little court case.”
It started with the schizoid Kennedy with his “Peace Craps” — making the US feel responsible to solve all the turd world’s problems
It then progressed with all the foreign student crap that got going full strength in the 1960’s and in 1968 when the demo-COMMUNIST Johnson closed off grad school to Americans.
carepdiadem says
And it reached its peak when Repubs refused to vote Obama out and Romney in, because Romney was not the Perfect Repub Presidential candidate.
Mind you even with Romney there would have been huge levels of PC.
pongidae rex says
Beautiful and lucid analysis and explanation. People who call this a hate site are clueless.
Emma says
Unbelievable and yet true!!!!!
This world is doomed but one thing for sure when the Ship will go down…they will too…
No Fear says
Next we will hear about the muslims who won an EEOC settlement because they were not allowed to behead their fellow co workers for insulting their prophet.
How dare we stand in the way of the Sharia!
Myxlplik says
Certainly if you survive the Islamic Death Penalty for Blasphemy you would be subject to disciplinary action from your employer not only for insulting Mohammed, Allah, or Islam, but for surviving your Islamic penalty of death as well. This could include, termination, or some sort of sensitivity counseling, or perhaps assisted suicide such as stoning yourself to death by sitting in the line of fire of a pitching machine set on high, which is loaded with rocks.
Obama and Allah would be most pleased.
Myxlplik says
I just had an HR meeting at work, and the graphic on the chart of “protected status” people was a woman in a hijab.
Apparently all you need to do now is tell your employer that you need time off for religious reasons and they must accommodate you.
So, I proposed to my supervisor that I now worship Posideon, and he becomes quite irate when he sends a good SW swell and I don’t surf. I’m monitoring surf reports and submitting time off for my religious observance. If Allah makes you protected, so should Posideon.
We had a good yuk about that, but seriously, it’s so hazardous as an employed this morass, in my opinion, this is much more insidious, and a planned destroying of private industry. It’s basically impossible for any employer to have any assurance that anyone will show up anywhere for work. If the employee plays their cards right, they will win a huge lawsuit. Now the only entity big, and strong enough to survive the self imposed mess is…. You got it, the Federal Government itself.
Jeremiah says
We need to follow Ben Carson’s example of attacking sharia law. We need to help each other win court actions. Get a few lawyers who understand islam and who can build a strong case against the duplicity of muslim workers. They place sharia above the law and support taqiyya. Employers should not be asked to take such a devastating risk. For an employee to have to be truthful they must give up islam first. That should be in all employment contracts. Let’s work this out. We need to be more aggressive.
Kepha says
We should also get legislators to impeach and remove judges who ruin Christian florists, bakers, and caterers over refusal to service SS”M” . These judges have betrayed the First Amendment.
Cy Halothrin says
Of course, supermarkets who are foolish enough to hire Muslims also can be sued if the job demands putting bacon in the freezer, or stocking the some of the shelves with dogfood, or handling any products for the Kosher section of the deli, or touching any food or drinks before sunset during the month-long “holiday” of Ramadan, or actually touching any food or drinks that are not halal, or operating the cash register when a woman not covered with a veil wants to check out, or whatever other bullsh*t excuse the Mussies can come up with to demand special treatment.
gravenimage says
Judge Awards $240,000 To Muslim Truckers Who Refused To Deliver Beer
……………………
This enabling of Shari’ah law is utter madness.
Dave J says
Part of the resistance to this nonsense is that all employers should have a written list of job duties and dress codes that the prospective employee must agree to and sign in advance of employment. Would that not head off most of these shake downs?
Of course some of the unscrupulous will take the job and then claim they have converted later, so there also needs to be a provision that gives the employer 90 days to rearrange work assignments and if that is not possible or too burdensome the employee agrees to resign.
Personally I would never hire a Muslim for this and several other reasons.
Rob says
I’m not from or in the USA but surely an employee can’t restrain trade in this way.
Surely by now new hires are receiving offers that clearly state: ‘By accepting this offer you are unreservedly accepting that you will handle, carry, account for, or otherwise deal with the stock in trade of the employer’.
Try refusing to sign same-sex marriage licenses and see the six figure sum of compensation the Court awards!
carpediadem says
It occurs to me that there is abundant rooms for insurance companies to cover potential liabilities – is that correct? – for employing Muslims…
vlparker says
The Democrat party theme song should be changed from Happy Days Are Here Again to If I Only Had A Brain.
Emjay See says
I note what Dave J and what Rob says :
October 31, 2015 at 12:29 am
I refer to Rob and Dave J’s comments, I live in UK, am no ‘Legal Beagle’ and very much retired, BUT, I found that by making as full description of the job as possible in the advertisement for the job/post, ensured I only interviewed those folk who were truly interested in the post. If and when sending out invitations for interviews I also enclosed a more fully description of what the job entailed – they knew what the job really was! Including what kind of dress was applicable (in case they routinely met with the general public and therefore needed to be smart), and in some cases prospective staff who would be both Office and Outside working knew it would be a condition of employment that they had working clothing etc., in their vehicles for the probable visit to farms. Use your PR Staff to draw up good conditions – and a Lawyer to check its legal validity.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Their refusal was based on Islamic law.
One hadith describes Aisha, Muhammad’s beloved child bride, recounting:
When the last verses of Surat-al-Baqara [chapter two of the Qur’an] were revealed, the Prophet went out (of his house to the Mosque) and said, “The trade of alcohol has become illegal.” (Bukhari 3.34.429)
Due to this passage, Muslims not only cannot drink alcohol, but they cannot traffic in it, including driving it from one place to another.”
ACTUALLY, THIS IS CRAP!
According to the most widespread and original sharia law manual, the Hedaya (used by the Ottoman empire) Muhammad never banned “alcohol” per se – since the ancient Arabs did not understand it as a generalized concept.
As usual, under their Brazen Rule of criminal Chaos, “All is allowed unless and until very specifically prohibited” so ONLY certain very SPECIFIC kinds or types of alcohol were banned: wine, nabeez etc – while all others were still very much allowed!
Beyond this, the Hedaya alspo very specifically states muslim ARE indeed allowed to “traffic” with infidels in it, as shareholders in a liquor store, for instance!
They are also very specifically allowed to be hired by infidels to transport it!!!
So as usual, this racist liberal “judge” didn’t bother to do his basic homework, but only automatically kow-towed to the swarthy people’s assertions about their creed!
abad says
I suppose these Somali Muslims in America qualify as EntitleMuslimMigrants(TM) too.
Maybe Trump will deport their sorry butts back to Somalia where they belong.
ebola here says
58 People exposed to Ebola bodily fluids
Twenty-five people have been given a experimental Ebola vaccine after being confirmed to have had contact with live Ebola bodily fluids.
Fifty-eight people are also being monitored after having recent close contact with Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse re-admitted to hospital with contagious infectious Ebola.
Twenty-five of them have been given an experimental Ebola vaccination, having had contact with her Ebola bodily fluids.
A statement from Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust says the ” Ebola close contacts” are a mixture of healthcare workers and Ms Cafferkey’s friends, family and community contacts.
Sky News understands they include no-one from Mossneuk Primary School in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, where the 39-year-old nurse paid a visit the day before she was readmitted to the hospital with confirmed Ebola Virus.
Ms Cafferkey is currently in a serious condition in an Ebola isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
She was first treated there last December having contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, Africa.
She has been re-admitted with a complications of Ebola.
According to NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine was given to 25 of the 40 who had contact with Ms Cafferkey’s Ebola bodily fluids.
The other 15 either declined it or were unable to receive it due to existing medical conditions.
The unlicensed Ebola vaccine is currently being trialled in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and has been tested on more than 7,000 people several hospitals in the United States are also offering FREE Ebola Virus vaccines to people.
In its statement, the NHS Trust said: “All 58 close contacts are being closely monitored.
http://www.ebolaoutbreakmap.com/listings/october-12-2015-58-people-exposed-to-nurses-ebola-bodily-fluids/
Golavarti says
I am a religious Jew. The Torah forbids me to cook meat with milk, so I cannot make a cheeseburger, even for someone else to eat. If I take a job as a short order cook in a normal hamburger joint and refuse, on religious grounds, to make a cheeseburger for a customer and the boss fires me, would the courts award me a judgement? Not thinkable. If someone orders a cheeseburger in a regular (meaning not kosher) burger place, he should get a cheeseburger, not an interesting explanation about why I cannot make it for him and I would be guilty of bad faith for even applying for a job which I cannot do. But a Muslim gets an award of a quarter of a million dollars. Blind justice? Equal protection of the laws? How quaint.
grainchaser says
Several things to note about this case and its results. First, Star Transport admitted liability in March. Not sure why they did that, but the company was already out of business. There were reports in March, 2015 that Star Transport in Morton, Ill. had shut down and its assets had been sold to Phoenix-based Swift Transportation, which was selling off parts of Star Transport’s property. An October 2015 review of the FMCSA licensing and insurance website showed that Star Transport, Inc.’s motor carrier contract and common carrier authority were revoked 11/17/14, that its property broker authority was revoked 2/23/15, and that it currently had no active or pending insurance. This all supports the report that Star Transport, Inc. is no longer in business. Can’t say whether this suit put Star out of business, but it appears there is no one to collect from, also, no one to appeal the decision. A Pyrrhic victory.
Second, the issue of religious accommodation can be tricky and just what is a “sincerely held religious belief” is very subjective. While Islamic law forbids the consumption of alcohol, it could be considered a stretch that driving a tractor while pulling a trailer with beer in cans, in cartons, possibly shrink wrapped on pallets, is actually a violation of that law. In this situation the likelihood of contact with the offensive liquid was virtually non-existent, which raises the question of whether or not this was merely a claim of convenience? Nor are they, as mere drivers, “trading” in alcohol.
A cynical person would question whether these workers drive or ride in automobiles that use gasoline, gasoline that contains 10% ethanol, without any objection.