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Sweden: Court rules that employers must pay Muslims for praying on the job

Sep 21, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer 41 Comments

This is more about Islamic supremacism than about the need to pray. It is not an absolute requirement that Islamic prayers must be prayed at the prescribed time. Even at a 2017 conference whining about alleged “Islamophobia” and smearing those who call attention to jihad terror, one Muslim spokesman acknowledged that missed prayers can be made up: “One man asked how an employer is to deal with Muslim employees, given their need for prayer, (Dr. Tabasum Hussein, a panelist who joined the Q and A, answered that ‘We don’t stop fire fighting or surgery to pray. We can make it up later.’)” What is being asserted here is the priority of Islamic requirements over all other considerations. And of course the Swedish court, heedless of the larger implications, grants this point. All of this does not bode well for the ultimate assimilation of Muslims in Swedish society.

“Court decision: Employees have the right to pray to Allah during paid working hours,” translated from “Domstolsbeslut: Anställda har rätt att be till Allah på betald arbetstid,” Samhällsnytt, September 11, 2020 (thanks to 360 View):

Swedish employers must not prevent employees from rolling out a prayer mat in the workplace during working hours and kneeling in prayer to Allah. This is confirmed by the administrative court in Malmö and thus annuls a democratically made decision in the Bromölla City Council on a ban on prayer during working hours. According to the court, that decision is contrary to the religious freedom guaranteed in the Swedish constitution and the European Convention.

It was last year that the Municipal Board in Bromölla decided that “prayer time during paid working hours is not allowed” in the municipality. The issue had been pushed by the Sweden Democrats but also by more religion-friendly Christian Democrats.

The decision, which was religiously neutral in form but primarily prompted by demands for special rights from Muslim workers, was appealed and reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman (DO). The Administrative Court has now concluded that the decision is illegal according to the way in which the court interprets the freedom of religion in the Swedish form of government and the European Convention.

The court therefore annulled the democratically made decision. No employer may deny his employees the right to pray to Allah during paid working hours instead of performing their duties. It is unclear how many interruptions in work an employer must accept, and how long they must be.

It is unclear whether SD and KD will appeal the administrative court’s decision to a higher court. Samhällsnytt has no information on how far in the process the DO has come with the notification of the decision that was submitted there in January this year.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Sweden Tagged With: Bromölla, Bromölla City Council, Christian Democrats, Discrimination Ombudsman, Malmo, Sweden Democrats


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  1. owensgate says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Well, it’s only fair, since Christians are paid for prayer at work. And I’m not even going to research to see if that’s not really “SARC”.

    Reply
    • Al says

      Sep 21, 2020 at 12:16 pm

      Christians smashing their thumbs with a hammer, and saying GD ! is being paid for praying at work ?

      Reply
      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Sep 21, 2020 at 12:28 pm

        Only if they also roll out a mat and bang their head against the floor.

        Reply
        • Keys says

          Sep 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm

          We rolled out mats in Kindergarten during the school day.

          I think that’s what some of them are doing, especially the ones with zebibahs.

        • Westman says

          Sep 22, 2020 at 2:23 pm

          Ah, but they must prepare, wash, and make ready which might double the cost to employers. Islam will ultimately bring the economy of Sweden to the level of Islamic nations. That’s when native Swedes will finslly discover the limits of Other People’s Money.

        • spiro says

          Sep 22, 2020 at 9:24 pm

          😂

    • peter hampson says

      Sep 24, 2020 at 2:17 pm

      Christians NEVER go away fom work just to pray. They can pray at anytime without having to interupt the working day. This is another example how muslims bit by bit eat away at rights until people realise that they are gaining more and more control. Poor Sweden you were warned and sadly you will pay the price for not heeding thst warning.

      Reply
      • Durodola says

        Sep 24, 2020 at 5:58 pm

        There is a proverb in my land, that the dog that must be lost will never hear the hunter’s whistle. Literally in English, none so deaf than he who would not hear. Ummmmh, my heart bleeds for Sweden. I weep for Sweden.

        Reply
        • Ariste Arvanitides says

          Sep 26, 2020 at 3:02 am

          They chip away at the nations, and expand. It will be a problem of every nation and all peoples. It is happening in Greece too. The people were against it, the politicians did whatever they wanted, and now they are burning the islands and Turkey is demanding to take the islands from Greece because of their ISLAMIC MINORITIES which are no longer minorities. They steal what is not theirs with the appearance of immigrants — they are inva
          dors.

      • Ariste Arvanitides says

        Sep 26, 2020 at 2:59 am

        It is political islam that they are execising , not prayer. Then, they increase in numbers within the population, then they want Shariah law, then they destroy everything that was part of the culture of the people and country they originally entered. They want to Conquer, NOT assimilate. Beware. Last time this happened in Europe it lasted for 1400 years and killed 270 million Europeans, and that is not counting the innumerable kidnappings that ended people up as sex and slaves of labour in their Islamic world… disappeared forever.

        Reply
  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    If the body were considered to be a temple God could be worshiped every hour and every minute of the day regardless of time or place, unseen by others … but Muslims must make a show of performing their prayers for all to see. That is vanity and, as such, is self-idolatry – which is a sin.

    Reply
    • FYI says

      Sep 21, 2020 at 1:57 pm

      I wonder about muslims ‘praying’, their heads towards the butt of those in front.

      Just look at the pictures above,packed like sardines,head to butt:what if the muslim in front has a wind problem or a personal animus towards the muslim behind him?
      what is to stop him ‘accidently’ farting in the face of the muslim behind him?
      Surely it would be extremely insulting.
      Maybe that skullcap protects the head from an incoming air biscuit .
      What if the muslim in front is surreptitiously mooning the muslims behind him?
      Could a fight break out in a mosque?
      It is a peculiar way of ‘praying’…these questions have to be asked by the enquiring infidel.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 21, 2020 at 2:28 pm

        FYI, breaking wind invalidates the culprits own prayers.

        https://islamqa.info/en/answers/212088/ruling-on-one-who-is-not-sure-whether-he-passed-wind-during-the-prayer

        You can’t make this ridiculous sh*t up…

        Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 21, 2020 at 2:22 pm

      Muslim “prayer” is usually aggressive and very public.

      Reply
  3. ZIRKSTY (@ZIRKSTY) says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    Swedeicide continues!

    Reply
  4. FYI says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    And when a muslim ‘prays’ he prays,butt in the air, with his head directed towards…. the butt of the muslim in front..

    muslims don’t actually know who they ‘pray’ to:allah is “the BEST of deceivers”{koran 3:54} and his greatest enemy is a MAN called the ‘king of kings'{Sahih Muslim vol 5 hadith #5611}

    Nope:they cannot figure that one out.
    That means their ‘prayers’ are worthless.

    And all that OCD like WUDU and still those islamic sins never go away:perhaps an expedition to kiss the black stone on the hajj because a STONE has the power to take away sin doesn’t it?

    allah rightly guides his muslims in the palms of his TWO RIGHT HANDS.

    Reply
  5. somehistory says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 1:22 pm

    Sweden…never been there. In the past, it was a place to think about visiting…seemed like such a nice, clean, restful, place.

    Recalling a few years ago that this all began with moslims raping Sweden’s young girls…in cabs, on the street, in train stations. Before long, the girls were told how to avoid seducing and entrapping these males from other countries who “didn’t understand the culture.” The public came to know that these moslim males just could not stop themselves from helping themselves to these young women , so the girls have had to stay home and cover up from head to toe if they don’t want the “attention.”

    moslims have been encouraged to go there and behave as they do everywhere on the planet and face no punishment for doing crimes of all kinds.

    Now, they must get paid for fouling the air and saying what amounts to preying on Jews and Christians to the point of death.
    What other group…anywhere…gets paid for speaking evil and not doing the job for which they were hired?
    I’m guessing each creepy moslim “preying” on their filthy rug to their false ‘god,’ gets to decide how long they stay on the floor…not working.

    Reply
    • Wellington says

      Sep 21, 2020 at 1:47 pm

      Also years ago thought about visiting Sweden, somehistory. Won’t ever now.

      Reply
      • somehistory says

        Sep 21, 2020 at 2:09 pm

        Wellington,
        Not even if I could make the trip fee of any monetary considerations. So many places have been spoiled.

        Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 21, 2020 at 2:29 pm

        I would love to visit Sweden–but not under the current circumstances.

        Reply
    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Sep 21, 2020 at 2:14 pm

      According to the Koran human beings were created for the sole purpose of worshiping Allah (see Quran 51:56). According to the Bible human beings were created to work and tend the garden God had created and to rule over all the other creatures in it. The god of the Koran says people were created for praying; the god of the Bible says people were created for working. Again, I must say I believe the god of the Muslims is not the same god of Christians and Jews – or else I must believe that God is a liar. I tend to believe working is our natural purpose on this Earth and our happiness while we are here depends upon our work and not on our prayers.

      Reply
      • somehistory says

        Sep 21, 2020 at 3:57 pm

        So much of the Bible agrees with wht you wrote. “Work with your hands what is good,” while one is ab abl to. “If one does not wish to work, neither let him eat.” I can’t think of any verses that disagree.

        God “worked” six days and didn’t “rest” until the 7th day. Jesus worked while He was on earth and so did His apostles. God gave 6 days of work to the Jews and one day to rest and give back to Him in prayer and reading of the Law.

        It really feels good to work and then look at the results of the labor. Planting seeds, hoeing, plowing, harvesting…all hard work for which most farmers are pleased to spend their lives.
        Just washing clothes and putting away the clean laundry can be satisfying work, just as King Solomon called “work.”…satisfying to
        the one working..
        The “lazy one should go to the ant,” says the Proverb. To learn a lesson in how and why to work.
        I personally find it very difficult to spend an entire day doing nothing that can be called work. And I pray during whatever I am doing, while doing it. God helps me do it well, much better than if I worked alone.

        Reply
        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Sep 21, 2020 at 10:21 pm

          Indeed. You say it well.

  6. rubiconcrest says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 1:53 pm

    I suggest all Swedes play the devils advocate and start praying 5 times a day at work. We will then see how long this insanity reigns.

    Reply
  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Sweden: Court rules that employers must pay Muslims for praying on the job
    ………………

    This is utter madness–other religions are not demanding this.

    That Muslims pray to defeat and murder Infidels makes this all the worse.

    Reply
    • Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 1:42 am

      Nmaaz is not prayer. It is a army routine, Muslimes are soldiers in the Army of Allah, fighting their perpetual eternal religious war, Jihad, in the service of Allah, ever ready to die fighting for Islam, while disrupting the Other. DEAL with this reality.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2020 at 9:55 pm

        It is both.

        Reply
  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    The Muslim infiltration and insidious growing power of Islam in the Westerns countries may be seen that a court of Sweden rules that employers must pay Muslim employees while they are taking time off the job to engage in the Islamic prayers. This is anti – free enterprise, with government interference and also bad business economics because they are totally unproductive during their Muslim prayers, but worst of all this is part of what is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism.
    In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad.

    This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.

    This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever.

    Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”

    Reply
  9. DavidR says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Is this the place where I can have my common sense surgically removed? Yes, welcome to Sweden!

    Reply
  10. Phillip McAllister says

    Sep 21, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    Viking suicide . . .

    Reply
    • Westman says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 2:33 pm

      Stopped rowing, the dragon-head long boat is now sinking. Will the EU wade out to save them?

      Reply
  11. JOSEPH N ELLUL says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 6:49 am

    I worked in place where the manager smoked and so he allowed smokers to have smoke breaks but would not allow me and other non smokers to have coffee breaks. So, all the non smokers got a cigarette each and we went out with the smokers……with the coffee and an unlit cigarette. The owner soon caught up with the manager and gave him a walloping.

    Reply
  12. hindu says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Them Muzlims must ask the wages from allha, for the time which they spent for allas prayer.

    Reply
  13. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 9:37 am

    Presumably the robots used in the assembly line are not muslims. If a muslim decides to take a timeout and throw down a rug for prayer, it is possible he will soon find himself tack-welded to some part of a Saab or Volvo. The robots will be sent off to prison for having committed ”Islamophobia.”

    Reply
  14. James Lincoln says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 9:40 am

    So if the muslims are praying during work hours, then the zebibah, etc., should be covered under Worker’s Compensation…

    Reply
  15. jewdog says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 10:10 am

    Now, look for businesses to limit the hiring of Muslims.

    Reply
    • Ade Fegan says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 2:12 pm

      I wouldn’t hire one .. I have legitimate safety concerns

      Reply
  16. Ade Fegan says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 2:11 pm

    Didn’t Allah originally want muslims to pray 50 times a day ?
    Muhammad plea bargained it down to 5
    Well what’s stopping them now ? .. They have that to hit us over the head with to
    and it would be islamophobic to decline !

    Reply
  17. Kristi says

    Sep 23, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    I agree with Walter that Islamic Gradualism is the worst part of their plan to convert the entire earth to Islam and Sharia Law.the affects are small it seems, but in the bigger view they are very dramatic in number of changes accomplished in any given country.
    Sweden is setting precedence for any Muslim employee to be granted this same privelige and it will carry weight.

    Reply
  18. Durodola says

    Sep 24, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Sweden, like some others, is standing in the precipice. Only the God she rejected can truly save her.

    Reply
  19. Donald Trump President says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:10 am

    The Extreme Consequences of Naivety of Idiots who continue thinking that Islam is a religion of peace…Instead of deporting all those savages now employers must pay Muslims for praying on the job. Wake up Sweden!

    Reply

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