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Somali Muslims Demand Special Privileges at Amazon

May 8, 2019 12:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield

Amazon is about to pay the price for its politics.

Working conditions for Amazon warehouse workers are notoriously miserable with employees urinating in cups and passing out from heatstroke. But while American employees can be abused this way, Somali Muslim migrants have special privileges.

Amazon recruited in Little Mogadishu. It’s going to pay the price.

Three Somali women working for Amazon near Minneapolis have accused the company of creating a hostile environment for Muslim workers and of retaliating against them for protesting their work conditions, according to a filing submitted this week to federal regulators.

In a letter with the filing, Muslim Advocates, a nonprofit legal organization representing the women, asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate what they argue are “systemic violations” of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law prohibits employment discrimination based on religion, among other things.

The issue at stake, as usual, is prayer space and prayer times.

Amazon warehouse workers urinate in cups because they don’t have enough time to use the bathroom and make their quota.

So it’s clearly not discrimination. But the facts don’t matter. They never do.

In 2016, when Amazon opened a major fulfillment center in Shakopee, a suburb of Minneapolis, it recruited heavily from the region’s large immigrant population amid low unemployment. At one point it ran buses to the warehouse from a Minneapolis neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu.

For more than a year, the Awood Center, a nonprofit focused on helping East African workers, has organized the employees around their concerns about the pace of work, accommodations for prayers and what they see as little opportunity for advancement to management. Awood has received funding from grants as well as the Service Employees International Union.

The federal complaint is the latest escalation in an almost yearlong dispute between Amazon and East African workers in the area, which has one of the most organized groups of Amazon warehouse employees in the country.

It’s ironic that Amazon, whose boss owns the pro-Brotherhood Washington Post (this story notably appeared in the New York Times, not the Post) has been caught up in this.

As so many useful infidels have found out, the crocodile may not eat you last.

Amazon gives the workers paid breaks to pray up to 20 minutes, as required by state law, but the employees are still responsible for maintaining the same “rate,” or how many items they must pack in an hour. Ms. Alfred said workers could take longer prayer breaks without pay, for which productivity expectations would be adjusted.

Missing the rate can lead to write-ups and firing. The women said they and other Muslim workers feared taking time to pray, making it a “hostile environment” to be Muslim.

The dead Amazon warehouse workers, none of whom were Somali Muslims, could not be reached for comment about their infidel privilege.

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  1. DP111 says

    May 8, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    Amazon can apparently deliver any package to anywhere within 7 days, presumably Somalia too.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 8, 2019 at 1:48 pm

      Amazon should open a warehouse in Somalia and offer the Muslims in the U.S. the opportunity to transfer there.

      • Indiana Tom says

        May 8, 2019 at 5:54 pm

        Amazon could just relocate to Somalia. Good thinking there.

        • bob kelly says

          May 8, 2019 at 6:52 pm

          Tom thats a great thought Amazon now treats their employees like they live in a 3rd world country anyway.

      • bob kelly says

        May 8, 2019 at 6:45 pm

        Cogito that s the best idea Ive heard in years, you should stick with tha t though and pass it around

      • Karen Thomas says

        May 9, 2019 at 12:30 pm

        Yep, open up an Amazon warehouse in Somalia and ship these employees there. Sounds like a winner. However, Amazon should have known what they would get when they employed these muslims, to put in simple terms, “I want; I want; I want; and I want, and you better give it to me.”

    • Mike says

      May 9, 2019 at 7:11 am

      Does Amazon deliver urine packages down to Somalia too ?

  2. Jay says

    May 8, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    I guess we can thank Ex Pres Clinton who brought in Somalians in the 90s enmasse to Minnesota
    and ex Pres Obama for his unlawful immigration of Muslims for 8 years, across the Midwest! There is NEVER acclimation only invasion , crime and demands! And today we have traitors Omar and Tlaib representing their demands! This is the definition of insanity!
    I guess Besos is reaping his liberal karma!!
    It’s why Pres Trump was elected. To protect America’s citizens, and our sovereignty and our identity!
    Trump,2020. Our only hope!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  3. Keys says

    May 8, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    It is impossible for a muslim to pray while working apparently.

    • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

      May 8, 2019 at 4:59 pm

      Muslims use their “religion” to garner special favors. And when it doesn’t work they often resort to intimidation or worse. And that’s islam in a nutshell.

      They use their religion to control and manipulate everyone else. They are exploiting our democracy’s good will for religious freedom to gain advantage over the rights and freedoms of us “infidels.” Their goals and aims are political as well as religious, supremacist intentions undergird everything they do. The communities they form operate as independent entities with their own separate ambitions that run contrary to our laws and culture. The only difference between these so called “moderate” muslims and an armed invading army is that they use religion to achieve what the latter does with bombs and guns, but really, they both have the same devastating effect on our freedoms and security. And I’m amazed that so many out there fail to realize this.

      • Sandra Lee Smith says

        May 9, 2019 at 12:26 pm

        Their goals are political period; Islam is a political system wearing a veil of religiosity; it isn’t a religion in the same sense as others are, and conquest is their sole purpose in everything they do or say.

    • Bikinis not Burkas says

      May 9, 2019 at 3:12 pm

      Their hijab gets caught in the conveyor belt

  4. PRCS says

    May 8, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    “East African workers”

    Presbyterians?
    Jews?
    Animists?
    Jehovah’s Witnesses?
    Mormons?
    Satanists?
    Atheists?

    • Indiana Tom says

      May 8, 2019 at 5:55 pm

      Amish.

    • FYI says

      May 8, 2019 at 6:01 pm

      If muslim employees{religious} insist on special privileges ,special prayer spaces and times then surely it is only fair that ..

      …Atheists,Humanists and Agnostics{non-religious}be granted special privileges too.

      It is only fair and it would be discrimination against non-religious employees.

      So let’s see if amazon sets up prayer spaces for muslims,amazon will also set up spaces for Atheists,Humanists and Agnostics.

    • gravenimage says

      May 8, 2019 at 8:41 pm

      Good question, PRCS.

  5. Northern Virginiastan says

    May 8, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    And that witch Ilhan Omar agitated for the privileges of these Somali workers

  6. Eric Jones says

    May 8, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    I have never been able to take a break to pray or read my Bible at work. I have never been allowed to go in the hallway and do Tai Chi at work.

    Eric

  7. A_M_Swallow says

    May 8, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Fashions are changing. I suspect pig skin leather products are coming back into fashion. Amazon needs to stock up on them.
    https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_CAds=&_ex_kw=&_fpos=&_fspt=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_nkw=pig+skin+leather&_sacat=&_sadis=&_sop=12&_udhi=&_udlo=&_fosrp=1

    It also needs to check that new employees can work with pig skin.

    • The Remorseless Headsman says

      May 9, 2019 at 12:40 am

      Excellent idea! I’ve been searching all over for a pigskin cover for my Koran. Can we pre-order?

  8. TruthHonestReality says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:20 am

    Correct and it also turns out that far leftists and radical homosexuals have aligned with radical Islam and they now all have the same goal – our destruction at any and all costs.

    They all have a special place in hell for being Satan’s minions.

    • Victoria says

      May 9, 2019 at 11:53 am

      Radical Islamist stone radical homosexuals to death so why would radical homosexuals align themselves with radical Islamist’s. Something is not Kosher here?

      • Jim says

        May 11, 2019 at 2:59 am

        Many liberals do also. One minute they will claim to be supporters of free speech, feminism, social “justice”, ect, and the next they will be calling others “islamophobes” and deny that the horrors of islam even exist. Here is an article written by a muslim explaining how liberals simply refuse to acknowledge anything but the “religion of peace” nonsense.
        https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10091/muslims-liberals-leftists

  9. Paddy OConnor says

    May 9, 2019 at 3:11 am

    Only 80% of Somaliens are on public welfare in Switzerland. Likewise across Europe and Canada. My guess is they are just looking for an excuse to join their relaxing compatriots on welfare.

  10. Mike says

    May 9, 2019 at 7:12 am

    @ Keys Don’t ask too much to prophet followers, working is already quite much for them .

  11. alex reid says

    May 9, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Hire Muslims you hire trouble. A couple of years ago Peugeot set up a factory to hire predominately Muslims. With their calls for prayer breaks, special privileges etc., it totally knackered up Production Runs, etc. The factory was closed down.
    On youtube.com an Imam/Mullah guy in his Mosque criticised the Muslim Work Ethic, or lack of it. The government called in these Time & Motion guys to monitor things & they found that the Civil Servants worked only 17minutes a day! Spent the rest of the time reading newspapers & drinking coffee.
    Want to hire a Work Force like that?
    Recently on UK TV, (mid/late April, 2019), there was a documentary about Foreign Contractors working for the Saudi Arabian Air Force. If the contractors packed up & left, the Air Force would literally fall apart & all the planes drop out of the sky in a fortnight.

    • abad says

      May 9, 2019 at 2:05 pm

      Why on earth would a car factory hire Moslems over Americans? That does not make any sense at all.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        May 9, 2019 at 3:01 pm

        I believe the Peugeot car factory was in France. They wanted cheap labour so they imported some blacks.

  12. Terra Nova says

    May 9, 2019 at 7:18 am

    It must be so nice to use your so called “religion” for everything that does not please you. I have been in some muslim countries, and most arabic people do not hold certain times for prayers, only on Friday night. You see shopkeepers in their shop at a moment when there are no customers, sitting in their shop with their “praying beads” may be murmuring some prayers in a silent moment, then a customer walks in, and the man gets up immediately and helps his customer. So what is this holier than thou attitude? In everything !
    And I don’t mind that. If you want to pray in the daytime, you should not have come to a western country, you should have stayed home, where you can do that ( and I don’t believe that from your countries, that you can do that there either), so stop that nonsens.
    But muslims go further and further and western governments have done nothing and will do nothing to protect their own citizens, but sorry say, I blame all the citizens too, who did not even dare to open their mouths and pretend they were still “sleeping”. Luckily there have been a lot of people who at least dare to let a sound of criticism out. We should have protested en masse, but you did nothing and by now, the consciousness of man has fallen so lowly, that is almost impossible to raise it.
    You did not have to do anything, just look at what your country has become and will be worse, you did not have to kill, decapitate, flog,, stone, rape anybody, you only had to speak out for your rights in your own country,
    the first amendment, no Sharia, etc. The only thing is, you may pay for it all, and all your children and grandchildren will be left with this violent cult, that is the world you leave behind, with no respect for the Kafirs and a world without love and empathy or any human.
    And not all muslims are that way, it is difficult for them too to be so oppressed, but we had a chance to at least speak out, and you hardly did. JW, Robert, Mortimer, Graven Image and more people and quite some people outside JW spoke out and had some very good articles, always in respected ways and I am very grateful for that and thank you all.
    Robert, I hope you are feeling better with some rest, take care and best wishes and Jamy and the people from the Gatestone Institute, thank you for taking over from Robert Spencer of JW.
    We will have to stay very alert, otherwise the 2nd World War will repeat itself in different worst forms.
    Hitler and the Germans started this way. The Germans all together did not speak up and neither did the other Europeans then, not for the Jews, citizens, gypsies, gay people, psychologic people, not well. They killed them too in horrible ways, only Islam kills, crucifies, paralises people, etc. more horrifying than the Germans did, I never thought even about that there were more horrifying ways to kill people and of course with bombing too, then what happened already, but there are and how.
    We can not go back thousand of years in our evolution, we have to go forward in our ‘HUMAN’ evolution,
    otherwise we destroy ourselves, a UNIVERSAL LAW, otherwise we will never get what we came on earth for. More civilisations have perished before us. We are a young planet, but a special one, the people got a soul, which is a peace of the Creator within them, and the whole goal is to go back to the Creator and melt with Him, and when you have reached that point, everything is “ONE”, but it is a lot of times a difficult road to learn, YOU WILL MEET YOURSELF AND SEE WHO YOU ARE, in every little detail, and you will be sometimes unpleasantly surprised, because you never thought certain things that you would do and why, but after the long road (may be not in this life) the end of the first peace is so beautiful, because you will BE THE LOVE for everything, humans, animals nature, etc, because than, the good, the bad and the beautiful will blend into each other and you are not able to scheme war or anything bad, then you are enlightened
    and that is only the beginning, and even that is a difficult goal to reach, but worth it !!!!
    And that is not only for Christians, it is for people of all religions and non religions. There are many roads that lead to Jerusalem, none are the same, but they are all lead to the same ending point and you still will be you, only different, but better, but with your own characteristics, in another form. We are Energy, and we have enough energy to open our mouth’s and speak out, if we don’t agree with our children become muslim, with thousands of new Mosks build, and honour killings putting dictatorships on us in our own countries. We are free and freedom does not mean, you can do what you want.
    And don’t be mistaken, you might not notice that there is a God, but He is there and knows everything, even thought, every small detail, every lie. And at a certain moment the Universe answers all of a sudden,
    Like the Godess of the earth Gaia, she moves along with mankind on earth until it is enough. The weather is not to blame or Gaya, mankind is to blame and now we are getting the consequences of having treated the earth so bad. Nothing is what it seems, nothing !!! Inform yourselves.

  13. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 9, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    At one point it ran buses to the warehouse from a Minneapolis neighborhood known as Little Mogadishu.

    One wonders how Jeff Bezos could be so stupid, after all he *is* the world’s richest man. But then again, he’s a crony capitalist, and stands to get some good press after he grants his Moslem workers privileges not given his Infidel workers. There will be laudatory reports from the NYT, his WaPo and the likes of Rachel Maddow. Let the show go on.

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