The belated yet obligatory “Tyson Foods replaces Labor Day holiday with Eid” post
posted at 7:51 pm on August 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The flow of e-mails tells me people want to talk about this but I’m not sure what there is to say.
Workers at a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Tennessee have opted to trade a paid Labor Day holiday for the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr.
A 5-year contract approved by members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at the Shelbyville, Tenn., plant last November includes the change to accommodate Muslim workers.
“The negotiating committee made the holiday a top priority in contract talks,” the union’s Alabama and Mid-South Council Representative Randy Hadley said in a statement issued in June. “And we were able to get management to commit to it.”…
“Given the nature of our work, many, many, many times we have to work holidays anyway, and Labor Day is usually one of those holidays that our workers have to work,” [Tyson spokesman Libby] Lawson said. “And, of course, they are paid holiday pay when they have to work any holiday that is recognized at our facility.”
Tyson officials said that approximately 250 of the plant’s 1,200 employees are Somalis who entered the United States as political refugees. Most, if not all, are believed to be Muslim — among them, Abdillahi Jama.
700 employees are Muslim. According to Tyson, fully 80 percent of the union’s 1,000 members agreed to the new holiday arrangement. If a workforce with a huge Muslim contingent wants to make a deal with management to have their biggest religious holiday off, who cares? And why are there rumblings about boycotting Tyson when it’s the union that’s driving this? Per the Fox News story, the policy isn’t company-wide; it applies to just that one plant to accommodate the laborers who bargained for it. Exit question: What am I missing? Is there an anti-Eid exception to freedom of contract?
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Allah says:
Why not? Why do you assume one is exclusive of the other?
What follows is a way in which Tyson suggests giving thanks around the dinner table…
The above prayer is posted on Tyson’s website.
Allah, they’re calling you….
Skidd on August 6, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Skidd(mark)
Why didn’t you link? Was it because everyone would see that you took your little quote completely out of context, that being different ways to give thanks? Like these?:
Disingenuous schmuck.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM
*shrug*
Dobson, bad. Muslim culture, good.
I got it. Moving on.
Well, for a while, at least.
spmat on August 6, 2008 at 12:42 AM
hillbillyjim, you’re in top form tonight, my friend.
Entelechy on August 6, 2008 at 12:52 AM
It’s location, location, location. No one is surprised by Jews receiving Jewish holidays off in New York, but this isn’t New York it’s Tennessee. When this happens in the heart of the bible belt that truly indicates a sea-change, and it’s one that some people are uncomfortable with.
I was raised, and lived my whole live in the N.C., Tennessee, S.W. Virginia, W. Virginia area, and I can say that it’s disturbing to see a change like this in my home. I know that everything changes, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Call me racist if you like, but if I went spreading my religion, and way of life in some foreign countries I would end up dead. I don’t mean that as an excuse. I know we as Americans strive to be above that, but it still stirs something in me, that seeks to resist this change in what I perceive as my home turf.
DFCtomm on August 6, 2008 at 12:53 AM
lol! I’m completely sure thats what workers at Tyson are doing, but it just happens not to be reporters.
DFCtomm on August 6, 2008 at 12:59 AM
Don’t know how to link, hillbillyjam. I don’t post often, sir. But that doesn’t change my point. Are you saying that giving grace dozens of different ways is admirable?
How about this then; Running the economy one way is myopic and wrong. Run it as a socialist, capitalist, free-trader,isolationist, free marketer, blah, blah, yea. Do it and stop complaining about how wrong the other side is.
Doing that makes you a bigot on economy.
Reach out, hillbilly.
Skidd on August 6, 2008 at 1:01 AM
What puzzles me is why the majority, non-muslim members would vote for it. What am I missing?
surrounded on August 6, 2008 at 1:07 AM
You do all know that “Aleph” is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Double agent I’d say.
Murphy9 on August 6, 2008 at 1:20 AM
I am saying your post was misleading in that it insinuates that Tyson is somehow endorsing Islam exclusively,when that is not the case.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:24 AM
What’s the Eid policy at Tyson Food’s pork processing plants (IBP) for example?
viking01 on August 6, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Did you all notice that “Aleph” rhymes with “Caliph”????Hmmmmm???
lol
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:27 AM
Thanks…… I think.
:-)
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:32 AM
That’s my stompin’ grounds too.
Born in TN; raised in SW VA, then moved to Hickory, NC for 20+ years (due to lack of jobs here), then back home to coal country here in VA.
Yeah, I was flabbergasted when I read Shelbyville, TN in the article. That hits you where you live, literally.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Who cares? After all, Labor Day is just a Communist Holiday.
Tim Burton on August 6, 2008 at 1:56 AM
hillbillyjim,
Hmmmm born in TN and raised in SW VA, so was it the tri-cities area? I would ask you’re current location, but the internet being the internet I won’t. It’s nice to meet you.
DFCtomm on August 6, 2008 at 1:58 AM
I don’t know where you’re from but if I bet if I put two camaros up on cinder blocks in you’re front yard, and set out 50 roosters in you’re backyard you might have a problem with my values.
DFCtomm on August 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM
Yep. Born in Kingsport and go to Bristol races when I can find tickets. Both about an hour from here.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 2:03 AM
Growing up I knew a lot of people born in Kingsport. I grew up about two hours from there. Have a good night hillybilly.
DFCtomm on August 6, 2008 at 2:11 AM
Good meetin’ you.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 2:13 AM
I dunno, but I don’t think you would get many eggs that way.
MB4 on August 6, 2008 at 2:23 AM
Nashville has a very large and fast-growing Muslim population, so the location is ideal.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/13927/sec_id/13927
ballz2wallz on August 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM
I can’t believe you all are missing the absolute master stroke that Tyson forced on the union Unions are VERY invested in Labor Day. By forcing the union to choose between Labor Day and Eid, Tyson said, basically, “You can either be responsive to your members, or you can represent the ‘Labor Movement.’”
Farmer_Joe on August 6, 2008 at 8:23 AM
Born in Johnson City and raised in Alexandria, here. And, yeah, the point of the story is SHELBYVILLE. Freaking SHELBYVILLE.
Think Mayberry, folks.
S. Weasel on August 6, 2008 at 8:52 AM
I know many of you may not think this is a big deal. But apparently alot of people do hence all of the emails to Allah about this. Second of all apparently there are also prayer rooms at this plant as well for Muslims. See video HERE
markedmanner on August 6, 2008 at 9:12 AM
hey Jim,
My last comment was for rightofleft not you. sorry.
jerrytbg on August 6, 2008 at 9:17 AM
We may as well get used to this sort of thing in America. I don’t resent giving a group of Muslims a choice of days off and haveing one turn out to be a Muslim holiday. What I grieve for is the slow erosion of what I believed to be American Culture, Labor Day, Memorial Day…. what’s next Easter. I realize that this is only one isolated incident but I see it as symptomatic of larger changes looming over the Horizon.
This is to be. We could not remain an island amidst a world filling with poverty and strife. Free trade is an averaging out of the worlds opportunities and and rewards. Unfortunately America was once at the high end of the spectrum and there is nowhere now to average but downward. As we resist, others fill our gaps who are willing to work for lower “world” wages that make our products competitive in the “world economy”. These people come from cultures foreign to us with holidays we’ve never heard of. But come they will. It seems that our leaders are no longer willing to resist so what hope is there? Bye bye American pie…. hello brave new world…… and Mexican drug lords, bring your armies across our borders any time you wish. Welcome to the New America.
Ernest on August 6, 2008 at 9:24 AM
Religious accomodation based on sensitivity and inclusion for one party is exclusion and discrimination for another.
awake on August 6, 2008 at 9:26 AM
TYSON labor contract allows birthdays paid vacation. If these Muslims revere their holy day so much, they should as a group forfeit their birthdays off in exchange for their holy day off. Otherwise, as legal experts stated, unions do not have precedence to “switch” holidays, only to add additional holidays. To switch non-Muslim MAJORITY OF AMERICAN WORKERS holiday from the national day off to celebrate with all other Americans simultaneously to an Islamic holy day is audacious, outrageous, and absolutely out of line and uncalled for response.
The irony of only NON-UNION WORKERS being able to celebrate our NATIONAL HOLIDAY COMMEMORATING THE UNION EFFORTS TO ENABLE WORKERS RIGHTS only proves that unions have exceeded their own right to exist. They no longer represent workers; the unions represent the unions, and the unions are not the workers but the heirarchy, legal mobsters. That these legal mobsters pander to Islam against commemorating the sacrifice of Americans as a tradition is now obvious. Forget what Unions are SUPPOSED TO BE, because they have officially become legally organized criminal Marxist enterprises.
maverick muse on August 6, 2008 at 9:42 AM
If not observing Eid is discriminatory then why is not observing Labor Day not equally discriminatory?
The right thing to do might be to observe both Holidays, if the company feels a need to respect their employees, thereby avoiding discrimination against either.
But I forgot about Cinco de Mayo. I suppose the company doesn’t want to be forced to observing all its emplyees Holidays because then they would rarely be able to fully staff their operations with someone always being gone for some Holiday. And then if you have to let all employees observe all Holidays, the shops wouldn’t be open enough days of the year to get anything done.
Lawrence on August 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM
All we need is a fatwah declaring chickens as filthy unholy animals and used to lure women into flirting and the problem is solved at Tysons.
Bruce Hendrix on August 6, 2008 at 10:00 AM
hillbillyjim, S. Weasel, DFCtomm: I knew there was a reason I felt at home here. Born and raised in the heart of the State of Franklin. I’m a JC man, too, S. Weasel.
Barntender on August 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Gee, If I hadn’t already been boycotting Tyson’s since they were a key part of getting B.J. Clinton into the White House, I’d start boycotting them now.
LegendHasIt on August 6, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Tyson Chicken: It’s Delicious, Nutritious, and halal.
RushBaby on August 6, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Here, let me help you out … the difference is that none of the other world religions want to kill us, behead us and make us convert to Islam. And the difference is that so-called moderate Muslims hardly exist and when they are polled, Muslims admit to being at least silent and tacit supporters of the extreme wing of their religion.
That’s the difference. Now, the solution is to give these mutts nothing. Not an inch. Not one day as a holiday. Not the option to peddle their blatantly bigoted beliefs anywhere in the American marketplace of ideas. The solution is to say “no” to female mutilation, “no” to the hijab and the burqa, “no” to their annoying attempts to vend themselves as victims.
Does that explain it for you?
pabarge on August 6, 2008 at 10:43 AM
“If a workforce with a huge Muslim contingent wants to make a deal with management to have their biggest religious holiday off, who cares?”
Allah, come on do you actually read your commenters anymore?
LevStrauss on August 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Only 1% now, eh? Sounds like the idiotic shortsighteness which sinks every civilization slowly subsumed into the Dar-al-Islam. Any plans to keep the percentage low? Of course not. That would be Islamophobia. So in order to protect our freedoms we have to allow ourselves to be slowly turned into Iran, Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia.
Beagle on August 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM
AP,
What are you missing? I would say – the obvious.
The camel has gone from having its nose under the tent to now being inside the tent. It is now occurring all over Europe and Canada, and soon will be is a town, city, and state near you.
As we have seen in Europe and Canada, Tyson is just the beginning.
It’s called ‘creeping incrementalism’, and the Muslims have had a millennium to perfect the process.
pocomoco on August 6, 2008 at 10:53 AM
O Christ God, Bless the food and drink of your servant, for thou art holy, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Amen.
SaintOlaf on August 6, 2008 at 11:01 AM
pocomoco,
Without giving away too much personal information, I live in a future no-go zone. Just got back from DC, where it’s easy to see why our leaders are fooled by Potemkin eateries and whatnot. Yes, the guy who serves you pita and hummus is a nice man. But that’s not Islam, sharia, or what happens when Islam begins to feel its power.
It’s the Meccan-Medinan peaceful-when-weak / violent-when-strong dichotomy of Islam which really confounds people. Think about CAIR at 1%. CAIR at 10% will be leading ‘youths’ - as in France or Germany. Jews better claim Antarctica quickly.
Beagle on August 6, 2008 at 11:16 AM
I’ve been boycotting Tyson since the time of the stories that they employ illegal aliens. This only adds to my reason never to buy any of their products again.
madmonkphotog on August 6, 2008 at 11:16 AM
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You can personally view this anyway you want. There are over 400 other non-Muslim employees who have enjoyed over a century of family events during the Labor Day holiday. Now it’s gone because of Socialist Labor Union demands for power over production. This is America not Somalia, the multiculturalism is a political weapon of revenge for those who can’t or refuse to assimilate into American system. The ambiguity being shown from both sides towards this issue from all sides is telling and disturbing in and of it’self and amoral. Judging that one culture does not have more merit than the other. Labor day was chosen because it was in opposition of the Socialist European version called Labour Day and was to be celebrated as a victory of the Socialist Movement. It’s ironic that a Labor Union would strike it down in favor of a foreign holiday. It’s a victory for Socialism for sure. Welcome to the new America which included standing up for everything not American.
Everyone knows when you cave to a Union the demands don’t stop.
Egfrow on August 6, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Living in Franklin now!
As far as the prayer room is concerned, I have no problem with it, as long as they’re willing to create prayer rooms for others who desire it as well.
ballz2wallz on August 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM
I a SW VA girl myself, born and raised in the small town of Appalachia, VA just a stones throw from the Tri-Cities area. Spent a lot of time growing up in the malls of Kingsport and at concerts at Freedom Hall!
Brat on August 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM
What am I missing?
They do have freedom of contract. We have freedom to patronize their competitors.
I R A Darth Aggie on August 6, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Umm first off I am female. Dudette works for me.
Second, I am a recovering Catholic. I left the Catholic Church due to my own reasoning. I beileve in God, but why do I have to be in a building for God to love me? I pray whenever and wherever I want, I ask God for help and Thank Him when He does or doesn’t.
Saying Spiritual isn’t wrong and you need to realize that not everyone has to HAVE a building to worship in. God created the Earth… that is good enough for me.
upinak on August 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Big A, I think you are right. A labor union bargains for something - as long as it is lawful, it’s fine by me.
That is reactionary (I am not using that in a perjorative sense either)- you are open and honest about feeling uncomfortable with a change you perceive as bad. But I would have to ask, what if it were Mormons coming in? Or Hindus? Anybody who is different put you off?
It is human nature to be suspicious of folks who are different. But claiming, as some here have, that letting a union local swap a holiday around, and next year we’ll all be wearing beards n’ hijabs and eating halal at gunpoint (yes, I exaggerate for effect) is overwrought. Sounds like some of the crep that was heard in the SOuth in the late 1950s…
major john on August 6, 2008 at 12:26 PM
I know Appalachia well. Better yet, I know how to pronounce it. There’s no hard, long “A” in it.
Sounds like we have enough folks for a HotAir southeast full gospel revival. I’ve seen more concerts at Freedom Hall than I can count. Discretion being the better part of valor, I’ll just say that I am rock throwing distance from any one of the Tri-Cities. You get over to the Carter Fold any?
Barntender on August 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Very small interwebs tube.
Barntender on August 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
This is small town America, Major John. Shelbyville. It’s where they have the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration every year. Any change that happens there, I want it to happen slowly and with the consent of the traditional Shelbyvillians.
I don’t want to hear that a sizable number of people from a foreign land are pouring in. I SURE don’t want to hear that they’re the kind of people who expect local customs to bow to their native customs. That they’re Muslim, not my favorite religion at the moment, is just the mustard on my poop sandwich.
S. Weasel on August 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Skidd(mark)
The link is set up so the muslim prayer is highlighted without scrolling. This is what you see when the page displays
‘Round the table peace and joy prevail. May all who share this meal’s delight enjoy countless more.
Thank you for the food we eat; Thank you for the friends we meet; Thank you for our work and play; Thank you, God, for a happy day.
God has been gracious to us, thanks and praise be to God He has drowned us in His blessings… There is no God but God Let us eat of His blessings… And remember His presence… And hope for His mercy… There is no God but God Muhammad set His foot (in the world)… And became the Intercessor, The Beloved Friend of Truth There is no God but
First there is a secular celebration of peace and joy.
Second a typical cutesy Christian kiddie grace
Third, the full islamic prayer for the muslim holiday, but strangely, with “Allah” as in “There is no God but Allah” replaced with “God” as in “There is no God but God”
1. non religious
2. childish Christian
3. Serious muslim - revised to imply that the Judeo Christian god, which Christians here call ‘God’ is the same as ‘Allah’
IMHO Skidd downplayed the context which is downright insulting to me. It is beyond secular, overtly manipulating to equalize my faith with one I reject
My God is not the Allah of islam. I go by the book and their Book does not match my Book
I appreciate Squidd checking the link which I am going to pass on to others.
Tyson sucks and so does their chicken. Pass it on
entagor on August 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM
You are correct, it is pronounced like “apple at cha.” I cringe when I hear AppaLAYshia, even to describe the region.
I don’t get up there much anymore since my parents have passed away and my siblings are spread around the East Coast. My husband’s mom moved from Big Stone Gap to Bristol so we go there once or twice a year. I’ve been in the ATL,GA area for almost 20 years. I think the first concert I saw at Freedom Hall was Heart in the mid ’70s and the last was RUSH in the mid ’80s.
Brat on August 6, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Of all the things that bother me about Tyson, this just isn’t one of them. I think their vacation day decision was wrong-headed and I also think that accommodation does lead to the incremental “creep” referenced here.
But I don’t think that the list of suggested prayers should give rise to the level of outrage that I’m seeing here. It is an idiotic attempt at multi-culti self-congratulation and trying to illustrate their acceptance of different religious beliefs or non-belief. It is transparent and lame, but I don’t see the boogey-man lurking behind this.
Tyson is a bad actor in many ways, but I don’t believe that they are trying to promote Islam. This is just more multi-culti PC bullsh!t run amok.
Tyson is all about the bottom line, and this is just another way for them to keep cheap labor on the job without having to actually pay them a decent wage.
Yes, Tyson sucks. But I am more concerned with their influence-buying practices and other issues more than whatever lame PC drivel they put on their website.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 1:55 PM
I’m not that flexed at Tyson. I just want to know why there are so many Somalis in Shelbyville, ‘k?
S. Weasel on August 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Interesting website that addresses this here.
hillbillyjim on August 6, 2008 at 2:20 PM
That is interesting, Jim.
Church groups! What did I say up the thread? (Wait…did I say that here? Shoot. I spend too much time running my mouth off on the internet).
S. Weasel on August 6, 2008 at 2:56 PM
That Rush concert was my first one at Freedom Hall. Power Windows tour, right? Y&T opened up for them. Also got my first contact buzz at that show.
Barntender on August 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
It was actually the Grace Under Pressure tour in ‘84. I was a student at Va Tech, and a bunch of roommates/friends from Northern VA/DC area went down there with me. Gosh that was a wild trip. And they got their first look at the real AppaLAYsha!
Brat on August 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Wow. This thread sure brought out the crazies.
Nonfactor on August 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Red meat will do that to ya.
Brat on August 6, 2008 at 4:31 PM
You know, nonfactor, saying something like that without pointing out which opinions you regard as crazy is pretty chickenshit.
S. Weasel on August 6, 2008 at 6:06 PM
You’re right. My T-shirt got stolen from my high school gym locker. It was a muscle shirt…definitely 80’s chic.
Barntender on August 6, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Mormons? Hindus? Nope. Not at all. No problemo.
Equating the American South to Islam. That’s what Clueless Condi did.
Condi is a dangerous incompetent
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 4:29 AM
Islam, the more you know.
In 2008, the superiors of the soldier in question, right on up the chain of command to commander-in-chief George W. Bush, only express their respect for, and, in a very frightening way, submission to the Koran despite its totalitarian message — and even at the expense of the soldier’s Constitutional rights.
The fact is, assuming this Koran belonged to the soldier, there is nothing illegal about shooting it or throwing it away. Impolitic, perhaps; but snipers — trained rather specifically in this conflict to kill jihadists, who are, above all, inspired by the violent exhortations contained within the Koran — are not diplomats.
But neither are generals. Missing a teachable moment — “Turn the other cheek?” “Nuts!” “The soldier fired on an inanimate object that urges jihad; he didn’t self-detonate in a teeming marketplace to advance jihad” — Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond chose to abase himself before the local Sunni tribe. “In a most humble manner, I look into your eyes today and I say ‘Please forgive me and my soldiers,’” he said. Then he called his sniper’s actions “nothing more than criminal behavior.”
The general was dead wrong — unless, that is, he was talking about criminal behavior under Sharia, or Islamic law, which isn’t, or certainly shouldn’t be, the guiding light of the U.S. military. But, alas, this is what increasingly appears to be the case. For example, in presenting a new Koran to this gathering of local Sunnis who were very likely insurgents not so long ago, another American officer kissed the Islamic book. Last time I looked, kissing Korans wasn’t a Yankee custom — unless dhimmitude now counts as one.
Let’s play around some more with the story. Imagine if, during the Allied occupation of post-Nazi Germany, a GI had been discovered using “Mein Kampf” for target practice. Would Gen. George S. Patton have kissed a new copy of the Nazi bible as he presented it to a cadre of former Nazis? In the words of Ol’ Blood and Guts — oh, wait; this is a family newspaper. Let’s just put it this way: Not likely.
- Diana West
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 4:52 AM
In brief, it feels like “déjà vu all over again.” As columnist Diana West puts it, “Nearly six years after September 11 — nearly six years after first visiting the Islamic Center and proclaiming ‘Islam is peace’ — Mr. Bush has learned nothing.” But we now harbor fewer hopes than in 2001 that he still can learn, absorb, and reflect an understanding of the enemy’s Islamist nature.
- Daniel Pipes
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 4:53 AM
Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.
- Winston Churchill (speaking of Adolf Hiler’s “Mein Kampf” in his book the “The Gathering Storm”)
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 5:09 AM
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
- Winston Churchill
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 5:23 AM
Oh when, oh when, will another Winston Churchill arise out of Europe or America to face this vile evil called Islam.
MB4 on August 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM
For some reason, which may or may not be interesting, my trackback is not showing up here, but in any case, I have written here about why this case matters, and should not be shrugged off.
Robert Spencer on August 7, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Okay, then, for all those who don’t think this matters: let’s divvy up religious holidays truly equally. Every worker will have three holy day holidays per year to use as he or she chooses. But those who choose other than (oppressive, un-PC) Christian holidays will have to work on holy days that pertain to other religions–Christmas, for instance.
Otherwise, one might think the protestors are not serious about their faith and the “offense” other faiths cause them and are just agitating for other reasons.
PattyJ on August 7, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Ah Robert…when will they learn….
I hope not before it’s too late.
jerrytbg on August 7, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Because if you give them an inch, they will take all of North America.
RightWired on August 7, 2008 at 11:01 PM
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