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| Bringing home the bacon-controversy explanation, Saint Paul writter takes his paper to task |
| 2007-03-19 |
| Those of you who live in Minnesota have probably listened at one time or another to Joe Soucheray's "Garage Logic" AM 1500 drive time radio show. While not very well read on WOT he does at time hit the mark. My very own newspaper is asking for feedback regarding the refusal by certain Muslim cashiers to handle pork. This latest development, coupled with the problem of certain Muslim cabdrivers at the airport refusing to take passengers who have alcohol, was apparently too much for the newspaper to understand. As an institution, we must have gotten into a room and scratched our heads. In asking for help, the newspaper printed an anonymous e-mail from a reader, a cruel and thoughtless e-mail that featured the word "savages," which suggested to me that the newspaper not only doesn't understand the depth of the controversy but presumes it to be just another "talk radio" conversation held by the Greek chorus of the great unwashed. That's the impression I got. The newspaper — I don't know who feedback@pioneer press.com is — seems to take a not very thinly veiled position that here again is a poor minority immigrant community victimized by an unfeeling majority and why don't you all tell us about it and maybe we can help enlighten you. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #8 something else is going on, and it isn't religious sensitivity These contrived incidents all have a single motive: They are all aimed at cloaking Islam with an exaggerated, yet entirely unmerited, appearance of rectitude and moral authority. This is "holier than thou" taken to the very limit. Such hysterical bewailings over the least perceived or even unintentional slight to their endless Muslim sensitivities are not just about "victimhood" but also a method of making the general public gunshy about critcizing anything to do with Islam. This allows their slow jihad to go unchecked and unmonitored. CAIR's continued existence is a prime example of this. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-19 21:20 |
| #7 Thanks for the update Depot. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-19 18:20 |
| #6 "Very simply, something else is going on, and it isn't religious sensitivity." Look, it’s no coincidence that the Twin Cities has had “The flying Imams”, “The no alcohol Cabbies”, and now “The no pork cahiers” controversies. Simply said, these are all manufactured issues in a region that is easily exploited by its reputation for “liberal cultural sensitivities”. It’s also no coincidence that you see the same players behind these stunts. Just a couple of years back Abdirahman Omar Ahmed, the imam at the Abuubakar Islamic Center in South Minneapolis issued a fatwa, of sorts, that if Somali Muslims have any “impure thoughts” or so much as “break wind” while on the job they must do the complete body cleanse before their next prayers. As a result, the break rooms at a large Corporation had all the Muslim employees washing their feet and genitals in the sinks five time a day. Not surprisingly, some of the non-Muslim employees were offended by this practice and complained to management. And even before the corporation had a chance to offer a resolution the same people that were involved with these latest stunts visited them with threats of lawsuits. (Surprise, surprise…almost like they had an idea what was going to happen in advance.) They are Hassan Mohamud vice president of the Muslim American Society and the Somali Justice Advocacy League, Omar Jamal of the Somali Peace and Justice Center in St. Paul and, Saeed Fahia, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community of Minnesota. The lawsuits were dropped (including the ones against the complaining non-muslims employees) in exchange for prayer rooms with separate break rooms outfitted with Muslim style “Bedays”. This story comes from a first hand account. There are many other “non-reported” stories of this extortion in the T-Cities, however most companies, as this one, have chosen to settle out of the limelight. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-03-19 16:04 |
| #5 There have been NO problems here in French-Canadian Somaliland (Lewiston, Maine). But then locals here have told the National Pressure Groups (CAIR, WCC etc) to get lost. Even after the bone-headed rolling the pig head into the Mosque incident. The usual chip-on-the-shoulder attitude is just completely missing here. |
| Posted by: Oscar Phirong8231 2007-03-19 14:29 |
| #4 Al, Grom is right. I've heard to many other tales such as Muslim women refusing to even shake a humans hand, Somali husbands leaving their entire family off at a hospital forcing the staff to deal with them (wife was in treatment). I could go on. The "something else" is Sharia law which counts us humans as inferior to Islamics. Joe doesn't understand this but his point was well taken. The local media especially the TV stations here bend over backwards to blame the white Christians while portraying the Sharia Muslims as victims. The next State Fair we should all go to their nightly open air night news shows and start throwing bacon wrapped Qurans at them. Over the weekend the TV stations covered the anti-war protests, local and some national. NOT ONE OF THEM mentioned the largest protest group, the Gathering of Eagles. Bias, hell yes. The Twin City media hates us Americans but loves Islamics and the left. So much for the Mystery. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-19 13:43 |
| #3 something else is going on, and it isn't religious sensitivity Sure it is. Islam is allergic to situations wherein infidels are not officially recognized as inferior. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-19 13:12 |
| #2 "something else is going on, and it isn't religious sensitivity." Its them taking advantage of "Victimization" that allows those that can claim to be victims of just about anything, a superior social/moral status in society. Its a way of dividing people off from one another, absolving them from individual responsibility and allowing collective politics to be practiced. The Democrats (and trial lawyers who practice this daily) have managed to embed this horrible philosophy in so many areas that it is reachign absurdity quickly. The problem is the MSM aids and abets instead of questioning and clarifying. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-03-19 11:39 |
| #1 I go to a supermarket in the twin cities where a Somali girl works. She wears plastic gloves when she handles the food. She never gives us any grief when we ask for pork products. As for the alcohol and dog issues, a fatwa was issued allowing the cab drivers to take customers with either in their car as long as the did not touch the items themselves. The "Complaining Drivers" are ignoring their own fatwa. Very simply, something else is going on, and it isn't religious sensitivity. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-03-19 10:44 |