Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan.
These demands for special accommodation of Islamic religious practice are causing upheaval at Amazon in terms of productivity and morale, as Ramadan coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year: Amazon Prime Day. This is a time of extreme pressure:
Amazon warehouse employees have reportedly resorted to urinating in bottles to avoid punishment for taking a restroom break.
The Muslim employees “chanted in Somali” and slapped management with a list of special Ramadan demands. Their behavior has, not surprisingly, created “tension” with other employees.
Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.
Amazon has unwisely chosen to concede to these demands out of fear of being branded “Islamophobic” by supremacist thugs. The company’s management needs to pay attention to the unraveling in Europe as a result of kowtowing to supremacist Muslims before company morale and productivity decline further.
“Amazon Gives In to Muslim Employee Ramadan Demands,” Charlie Nash, Breitbart, June 7, 2018:
Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan, which also coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year.
According to Bloomberg, the fact that Ramadan was at the same time as Amazon Prime Day this year was “creating tension” among employees in “Minnesota’s Twin Cities region, where activists say Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.”
Employees and other activists protested at the Eagan, Minnesota, delivery center, where they chanted in Somali and handed Amazon management a list of demands for Ramadan, which reportedly included a “call to curb their heavy workloads while they’re fasting and to let them take time off without penalty for Eid, the festival that ends Ramadan.”
Amazon announced that they would provide prayer rooms for employees at work and “would ease up on employees’ quotas for the duration of the fast.”…..
Bev says
Fine, you want special treatment for Ramadan, no problem. But come Thanksgiving and Christmas you will not be afforded any time off and will have to work the holidays at regular pay.
I can see a lawsuit coming with this. You can not grant one group of workers special accommodations while you screw the rest of the employees.
bodega says
I, of course, am being scorched by this as I fume about the stupidity, ignorance and bias. What Amazon does not understand is there are other places to buy comparable items and that nobody should be given special religious favors just because they belong to a special religion. It is totally illegal.
I am furious and unless they recind this “favor”, I will be paying off my Amazon debt and not renewing Amazon Prime.
Tom says
I am pissed. I buy the vast majority of my goods, such as razors, vitamins, etc., from Amazon. I use Amazon first before eBay or making a trip to Walmart. I am seriously considering my buyer options, as this is not sitting well with me.
Sinnie Kemp says
We used to order stuff through Amazon too but now we ordered 90+% through Walmart that providing very good services. Walmart even took the order for us for the product that not available at its store to satisfy its customer. So try it first at Walmart you might get lucky.
Dennis Pedigo says
Christians won’t complain.
terry says
Really. Here is something for your statement on this. As A Christian, when the FOX News channel allowed the treatment of then Candidate Trump, and kept pushing more Bushes upon me, I ceased to watch that network- and have not watched it since. When the NFL decided that sham for con could be kneeling instead of standing, and allowed their rules to be broken, I ceased watching the NFL; and will not watch it again. When Walmart brought double standards to an art form, pitting SJW employees as being above all the rest; I parted ways and will not shop at any of their stores again. And now, with Amazon playing such double standards- I will not buy through them again. So you see, as A christian such things are complained of- even if it cause one to be terminated, do without. Further, having served my country in one of the times when wearing a uniform brought the least financial and social rewards- no GI bill for further education and being spit on in Texas for wearing my uniform- I will stand with the Republic no matter what! AND FOR JESUS i am prepared to give my life if need be! JESUS is my Lord and NOTHING else…..
J D S says
Lots of stupidity going around in today’s topics and Amazon is falling right in…….FEAR…..
Nannette says
Allow the Jews to leave early on Friday and take time off for ALL Jewish holidays, even the minor ones!
Do the same for the orthodox Christian religions, and the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc…
Savvy Kafir says
Don’t be silly! Only Muslims are a protected class in the world of the politically correct. Exactly the group that is least deserving of any special considerations.
Debi Brand says
“Only Muslims are a protected class in the world ….”
Indeed.
“The earth,” provides Qur’an, “belongs to Allah.” (Al-Araf: 128.) And “{supremacy belongs to Allaah, his messenger, and the believers} [Al Munaafiqoon/8].” (Qayyim, P.6, as verse is rendered thereat.)
(OpposingIslam
dlbrand June 7, 2018: Series: Khalid Masoodmere Muslim, no Muslim, or one among “those who believe”?,
By Debi Brand; Chapter Three: The Islam of “the Inhabitants of Al-Medeenah”; (The practice of the Medinians [‘amal ahl al-Madinah] [1Kalami, P. 103.])
http://www.debibrand.org/chapter-three-the-islam-of-the-inhabitants-of-al-medeenah/
WPM says
I work at Toys are Us when in college (1978-1979} stocking shelves in the weeks before Christmas from 3 in the afternoon to 3 am at night 3 days a week and going to college full time .That was the job I work, and the day after Christmas cleaning up the mess to after New Years. I knew that is what they hired me to do as a Christian I did not expect special rights. If you want to fast you should not expect everyone to fast around you ,if you think your suffering is for God you should do it modestly to make it have any meaning to God in my opinion. I do not think businesses should have to shut down on Saturday for the Jews, and Sundays for Christians ,if the owner wants to do it is his choice he should not be pressured by religions law over how he runs his business.
abad says
That will never happen.
Even the Jewish Liberal Elite(TM pending) in the United States of America is decidedly anti-Jewish.
Peace says
What about atheist pot smokers that need a room for a toke,
Pot smokers will be tired after their day off working at the harvest,
Pot smokers will have to kneel down after worshipping this years heads ….
During the month of worship, Pot Smokers to have the munchies from dawn to dusk,
At the end of the “month of worship” Pot smokers will celebrate EID, except no-one can remember what EID means,
Pot smokers will call “hallelujah”, when the good buds strike
Pot ….. the religion of peace
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I think I’ve got Jeff Bezos figured out. He bought the New York Times to confuse the masses, and is working on the rockets hoping to get the hell out before the Mozzies take over. Smart.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Whoops sorry he bought the WaPo. The Obamaphone guy Carlos Sleeeem bought the Gray Lady.
Kilauea says
Amazon is fulfilling Nikita Kruschev’s prediction: ” A capitalist will sell us the rope we hang him with.”
World@70 says
US companies are not allowed to discriminate due to religion. Does this move discriminate against employees of all other religions in favor of Islam? Just wondering.
Eur says
Muslims always demand that companies be sympathetic to them during Ramadan (a whole month). That means that what Muslim workers do not produce must be produced by non-Muslim workers. That’s for industrial companies, but imagine what a danger it is to have a bus driver that meets Ramadan. If the company has some Muslims then there will be problems but if your company has many Muslims then it will not be viable. It is very simple, Islam is totally incompatible with modern economics. For pastoral societies and subsistence economies it has no impact but in a modern and capitalist society … it is a time bomb.
Savvy Kafir says
Sure it does. But since this is Islam, it doesn’t count. Muslims do what they want and get what they want in the land of the politically correct.
Carl says
Well, because Christian’s, Jews, Buddhists, Sihks, Hindus, etc. don’t cut off people’s heads, burn them alive, drag them through streets, run them over with trucks, shoot, stab and blow them up if they don’t get their way.
Its like dealing with a 10 foot tall psychopath with the mental capacity of a three year old. Instead of controlling or eliminating the threat, western companies and countries just give in to their demands.
Debi Brand says
I am quite certain, concerning our U.S. based believers in Muhammad, working to bring to fruition their allegedly “Allah and His messenger” assured promise of supremacy, we have little, if any concerns thereto.
If there were cause therein for concern, canary in the coal mine, if you will, cautionary signs would include, another mosque built here, and therefore, in one more new neighborhood, the call to prayer broadcasted and heard.
We would likewise see, as the above advancing of Islam continued, here, there, yet another Muslim running for office, winning, swearing in…
Likewise, we would also see and/or hear tell of, yet another business adjusting their rules to accommodate those who live guided by the teachings of Islam.
(Opposing Islam
Exposing its tenets :
http://www.debibrand.org/)
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Jihad Watch quotes Breitbart, which quotes Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/prime-day-ramadan-conflict-spurs-rare-amazon-worker-agitation
Quotes and comments…
On Monday, organizers said 15 Amazon employees and a few dozen other activists converged on the retailer’s Eagan, Minnesota, delivery center, where they rallied outside and then filled the entryway, chanting “Yes we can” in Somali and English. [In *Somali*? Why? Why not in Arabic, the language of Ramadan?]
[Amazon] was creating on-site prayer rooms and would ease up on employees’ quotas for the duration of the fast. [Surely this applies to kafirs as well as Muslims; anything else would be illegal religious discrimination.]
Amazon Prime Day, the e-commerce giant’s big July sales promotion, overlaps with Ramadan, 30 sacred days during which many observant Muslims fast and seek time off.S [But wait. Ramadan this year ends during June, and Amazon Prime Day is in July. There is no overlap. Something is fishy.]
PursueJustice says
What I can’t figure out is why so many Americans hate Christians and want separation of church and state. They do everything they can to silence them. But when it comes to Muslims, who don’t assimilate and hate Americans, the American people can’t bend over fast enough to kiss their posteriors. They go out of their way to single them out with all kinds of “perks” and seemed to have forgotten all about the separation of church and state nonsense. I can guarantee you that Christians are not going to blow up the country or try to introduce sharia when they have the majority, which they have had in the past. These very people that everyone is falling all over themselves to please, are the ones who will in the end turn on them. It must be a liberal thing because it makes no sense.
Indiana Tom says
Liberalism is a progressive disease. The brain can no longer function logically.
abad says
+1
gravenimage says
Separation of church and state is not hatred of Christians. Most Christians believe in this, as well. It is only Islam that demands a theocracy.
Savvy Kafir says
PC liberals see Muslims as “brown people”, and therefore victims. So they get that special Brown People Dispensation, and can do no wrong. It’s a really twisted sort of racism — even though better-informed people realize that Islam is an ideology, not a race.
Jayell says
That’s right. They keep on talking about ‘racism’ when one says anything against islam, and carry on the mantra even after one has.patiently explained to them time and time again that islam isn’t a ‘race’. They’re like chickens with their heads cut off.
Eur says
The rights of workers must be claimed in a common way. All the union advances we have had in the West have been thanks to the union of all the workers … the Muslims now come and do not care about those common rights, they only care about the fucking religion of Islam that conditions everything. That’s why their countries are a fucking pit.
underbed cat says
The wonders of cultural diversity….and the quick training to demand accommodations in the name of human rights after being hired is working just as planned and employers are caught between a rock and a hard place and the laws won’t defend. just hope they are also aware of the need for safety in the work place for the non believers so no harm in the name of piety becomes another human rights problem, safety from being a target kufar or infidel as a result of someone adhering to sharia law. In my opinion.
mortimer says
Let amazon give them special Ramada privileges by sending them to Pakistan and Soddy Barbarabia where they can have full Sharia restrictions placed on them.
mortimer says
The Islamic doctrine of DARURA (necessity) allows Muslims to ignore Sharia law if it is necessary to maintain their jobs.
Concessions are not needed.
HugoHackenbush says
Same with Kosher laws (for example exceptions for medical care delivery and receipt). The Amazon workers want to have their economic cake (Amazon job) and eat it too (observe Ramadan).
gravenimage says
They want to Islamicize the West.
Savvy Kafir says
Yes, they do. And they will never stop trying.
CogitoErgoSum says
If they can’t do the job in the same manner as expected of all other employees, Amazon should FIRE THEM. In the United States no one is forced to be a member of any particular religion and it is illegal to grant special favors to any one particular religion. If they don’t like the way we do things in the U.S. they can either find themselves another religion or go find a different country in which to live ….. preferably one with a big hot desert where they can sleep all day and then come out at night to feed.
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, it wouldn’t hurt several of those Muslims in that picture at the top to do a little more fasting – the 24 hours a day kind.
Logic&Reason says
Talk about biting the hand that FREED you!
Islam’s strict religious demands are not only designed to control those infected with its mind-virus ideology….but they’re also used to continuously poke at any society it enters, so it can cry RACISTS when facing normal push-back. Time to call their bluff!
It won’t be happy until its toxic Sharia vine has strangulated Western society.
penelope says
are these peole legally here? if so, how did that happen, who paid their way; and WHY; we do not need any more of these cretins in our country. THEY WILL NEVER ASSIMILATE, that is plain as the nose on your ugly face.
this does not fly for me and amazon will lose business from me and millions others i hope for allowing these few idiots to change things their way. Are any other belief systems requesting time off and special favors?? Not likely, they are there to work, not worship.
read The Traveller, shariah rule book; and it only gets WORSE.
wake up folks; hope they don’t try that crap anywhere close to me.
chad says
They are probably refugees who get food stamps and Medicaid, cash, etc day one.
Then all the homeless shelters, churches, etc give them more free stuff. Stuff that could have went to poor American citizens.
I think we should demand all refugee programs be closed. 99% of refugees are now muslims who never integrate, they just spread islam.
HugoHackenbush says
Talk about life imitating art! In the Seinfeld episode “The Strike” Kramer is hired during peak holiday season and then demands his “right” to be off 12/23 to celebrate “Festivus”.
If you don’t want to work during a certain season then use your vacation time or get another job. “Accommodation” is really capitulation and will result in further and more irrational demands.
Amazon: Take a hint from the hardcovers you sell and get a spine.
Indiana Tom says
Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan.
Karma is a bitch. Jeff’s type of people.
David says
Screw Islam!
JawsV says
Agree. + One Million.
Wellington says
Seconded.
David says
Here’s a accommodation to Islam screw them.
JawsV says
Agree again! Right on!
Stacy Girl says
When Muslims are employed anywhere you have trouble. Special clothing, head coverings, fasting. Where does it end? At the initial interview they should be asked if they need special accommodations. If yes, do not hire. If no but they pull this later, Fire. Who gets this treatment?
gravenimage says
Stacy Girl, it doesn’t end until they have turned us into another Islamic crap hole.
Savvy Kafir says
— Or until we send them all back to the desert.
gravenimage says
Amazon caves to Muslim employee protest demanding special Ramadan perks
………………..
Clueless dhimmitude…
The crusader says
People are afraid that they’re companies will be attacked. That’s why They’re caving into these people. More cowards.
karl anglin says
JEFF BEZOS GET GUTS AND GET CONTROL OF YOUR COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
somehistory says
the Equal Employment people have stepped in too many times on behalf of moslims and their conflict with WORK. They don’t want to work, they want to get money. They get a job…companies don’t know how to get around the issue of hiring them and not being sued and fined for not hiring. They hire and then when the number of moslims are high enough in one company, they strike or protest and always demand special consideration.
The school teacher who wanted to go to mecca…went and sued to get her job back. The moslim who wanted to wear her scarf at Disney and refused to be “in the background” while wearing it. The two moslims who worked for company that carried beer….and they didn’t want to…helped by the EEOC people to get a bunch of money. The group of moslim that worked for the meat company, and the group that worked for the ketchup company, several hospitals that hired moslims who ended up suing, claiming discrimination….all demanding special treatment.
This group is no different. They demand special treatment, even if it means the company loses money. They feel certain if they don’t get what they demand, the EEOC will step in and force the issue.
A company that has more than 50 employees cannot discriminate in hiring. (Fewer than 50, yes they can).
Amazon…a company I avoid for my own reasons…is trying…IMO… to keep the EEOC from getting involved. They probably feel pretty sure no other religious group will demand similar special requests.
Cretius says
Islam makes no accommodations so Islam deserves none. Terms of employment are just that. Work elsewhere if non-believers do not cave to your demands.
abad says
“Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 1,000 East African Muslim immigrants at four warehouses.”
Amazon should be cited for this infraction by Trump and start employing AMERICANS instead.
Wellington says
Islam takes and takes and takes. It never gives unless it’s hudna crap because, temporarily, Muslims can’t be dominant.
Disgusting belief system is Islam. None worse. A few as bad but none worse.
More Ham Ed says
Amazon managers: “you better not say the word CHRISTmas!”
Joy says
Actually, I hope it causes Bezos MAJOR headaches that only get worse and increase in number!! Serves the leftist social engineer right!! Let all his non-muzzie employees riot and make demands in return! Frankly, if he lost beaucoup dinero, i wouldn’t shed a single tear!
terry says
The others will have to take on their workload.
This will not end well.
Linda Rivera says
The note Amazon must include in their orders to all of their customers:
Dear valued customer, You may know that Amazon hired 1,000 East African immigrants. Amazon customers ALWAYS come first, but Muslims are a special case. Muslims are a special people whose desires and demands must be met at all times by non-Muslims.
Amazon is delighted to meet the many demands of our Muslim employees. We’re pleased to announce that the demands of Amazon’s Muslim employees for Ramadan are being met. You’re most likely aware that Muslims get very violent when their demands are not met or they get very angry over something!
Ramadan is the holiest time of year for Muslims. Ramadan is also the time when Muslims carry out the greatest number of terror attacks, showing the whole world that savagely slaughtering non-Muslim innocents is especially holy during Ramadan.
Thank you for your understanding as to why your order may be late: CUSTOMERS COME FIRST, but MUSLIM EMPLOYEES must take precedence over non-Muslims!
Serving and pleasing our Muslim employees is Amazon’s top priority!
Sincerely yours,
Amazon
Ren says
Appeasing the muslims is a very bad idea. They won’t stop asking for more until they impose their disgusting charia.
A_M_Swallow says
You handle Muslims during Ramadan by putting them on the night shift. They can eat during the night.
Mike says
From an islamic point of view, it is a great idea that muslims infiltrate AMAZON.. The day the imam gives the OK .it will be easy for them to poison infidels using the parcels to do so .
Meanwhile , having all the adresses, phone numbers , credit card numbers of all these infidels in islamic hands is a real chance for islam . It will be so uuseful when time comes. Yes , Allah is great topermit infidels to be so gullible with islam .Allah is indeed the best deceiver .