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Clueless capo: Hershell Ezrin, the Canadian Jewstablishment’s capo di tutti capos has some thoughts on, er, “diversity” (my bolds):

AP today reported about the firing of 150 Somali factory workers at a meat-packing plant in Colorado over the timing of their prayer breaks for Ramadan.

The Swift Company had reportedly changed hours on the production line to try to accommodate the prayer needs dictated by the lunar calendar, but these changes were deemed insufficient by the workers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is currently trying to bring the differing sides together, with the prospect of legal action in the background if they cannot resolve the matter.

This is of course not the first such issue in either Canada or the United States. Recently, some Somali cabdrivers in the US Midwest, who were licensed to service airports, refused to carry passengers carrying alcohol; and some Muslim cashiers have refused to handle pork products at supermarket sales counters. AP reported other such incidents:

At a Swift plant in Grand Island, Neb., dozens of workers from Somalia quit their jobs last year because they said they weren’t allowed to pray at sunset. They eventually returned to work. This month, officials at the Tyson Foods Plant in Shelbyville, Tenn., reached a compromise with union workers to observe Eid al-Fitr as a paid holiday. The day, which falls on Oct. 1 this year, marks the end of Ramadan. The firings in Colorado came on the same day as St. Cloud, Minn.-based Gold’n Plump Poultry Inc. agreed to let Muslim workers take short prayer breaks under a settlement mediated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Some will argue that Muslim and other religions’ laws state that the law of the land does take precedence. In these instances, the reasonable accommodation debate seems centred on a much broader interpretation of that which might offend or contravene one’s religious beliefs.

But the clear tension – between respecting diversity while at the same time asking newcomers to play by established rules – looms larger. If the latest AOL poll on the matter says anything, the vast majority of individuals in the ‘melting pot USA’ do not take the side of diversity. CAIR hopes that "with any new ethnic or religious groups, there is an adjustment period as the group becomes part of the American social fabric."

No, Hershell. Some will argue that this has very little to do with “diversity” and much more to do with the steady creep, creep, creep of sharia. Oh, and CAIR—it’s part of the problem, since it’s labouring to cut down on adjustment period and speed up the assimilation of sharia into America’s social fabric.

If you had even half a clue, you’d know that.

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