Paladin wrote:

I wonder if " born here " Canadians can come up  with some  " clauses" of their own?

 

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UK: Muslim checkout staff get an alcohol opt-out clause

 
2007 09 30
 
Daniel Foggo and Christopher Thompson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2558198.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084

 

 

MUSLIM supermarket checkout staff who refuse to sell alcohol are being allowed to opt out of handling customers’ bottles and cans of drink.

Islamic workers at Sainsbury’s who object to alcohol on religious grounds are told to raise their hands when encountering any drink at their till so that a colleague can temporarily take their place or scan items for them.

Other staff have refused to work stacking shelves with wine, beer and spirits and have been found alternative roles in the company.

Sainsbury’s said this weekend it was keen to accommodate the religious beliefs of all staff but some Islamic scholars condemned the practice, saying Muslims who refused to sell alcohol were reneging on their agreements with the store.

Islam states that Muslims should not consume alcohol, but opinion is divided on whether it is permissible to be involved in the sale of it.

Mustapha, a Muslim checkout worker at the company’s store in Swiss Cottage, northwest London, interrupts his work to ensure that he does not have to sell or handle alcohol.

Each time a bottle or can of alcohol comes along the conveyor belt in front of him, Mustapha either swaps places discreetly with a neighbouring attendant or raises his hand so that another member of staff can come over and pass the offending items in front of the scanner before he resumes work.

Some of the staff delegated to handle the drink for Mustapha are themselves obviously Muslim, including women in hijab head coverings. However, a staff member at the store told a reporter that two other employees had asked to be given alternative duties after objecting to stacking drinks shelves.

Mustapha told one customer: “I can’t sell the alcohol because of my religion. It is Ramadan at the moment.”

His customers did not appear to have any objection to his polite refusal to work with alcohol. One said: “I have no issues with it at all, it really doesn’t bother me.”

However, some senior Muslims were less approving.

Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, director of the Muslim Institute and leader of the Muslim parliament, said: “This is some kind of overenthusiasm. One expects professional behaviour from people working in a professional capacity and this shows a lack of maturity.

“Sainsbury’s is being very good, they are trying to accommodate the wishes of their employees and we commend that. The fault lies with the employee who is exploiting and misusing their goodwill. It makes no difference if it is only happening over Ramadan.”

Ibrahim Mogra, chairman of the inter-faith committee of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), said: “Muslim employees should look at the allowances within Muslim law to enable them to be better operating employees and not be seen as rather difficult to cater for.”

A spokeswoman for Sainsbury’s, confirming Mustapha’s stance, said: “At the application stage we ask the relevant questions regarding any issues about handling different products and where we can we will try and accommodate any requirements people have, but it depends on the needs of the particular store.”

 

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If you can't do the work don't apply for the job. Let a more qualified person apply. Why do some people fail to understand this basic logic?

sg71272 wrote:

canada started with the indians and all the rest of us came from somewhere else so that makes us all decendants of immigrants

Actually, even the " Indians " were immigrants, coming over accross the frozen Berring Straight, and some possibly by boat.

 

99.9 percent of the countries of the world were seattled by immigrants.

That was then, this is now.

In a Democracy, those that created a Country's wealth, have a right to say who and how they will share it with.  

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yes our ancestor came from immigrants and they built our country with the sweat of their hard labor made our own customs etc,  so why let someone from outside destroy what our ancestor left us to live in a country with peace and harmony  (but with alot of taxes)   with our new made for canadian customs   which we are loosing very fast because unlike our ancestors we do not give a dam of what happnes to our customs and our country

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wow create and share the wealth well just for fun where is my share

notme wrote:

yes our ancestor came from immigrants and they built our country with the sweat of their hard labor made our own customs etc,  so why let someone from outside destroy what our ancestor left us to live in a country with peace and harmony  (but with alot of taxes)   with our new made for canadian customs   which we are loosing very fast because unlike our ancestors we do not give a dam of what happnes to our customs and our country

 

Good point...

 

Maybe its because we here now are too much  " I " and " me ", oriented and the new immigrants come over with a " we " and " us " attitude.

Actually I' was  working on just such a " thread " for here..

oh well..

Have we as Canadians, grown too lazy in our outlook on life here and are we being pushed aside by people with a better work ethic than we now have?

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paladin you may have hit the nail on the head

sg71272 wrote:

paladin you may have hit the nail on the head

dang,,,I  was hoping some one would say I was wrong and show me the proof..   

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Also banned, it says, are: watching sports or soap operas, walking dogs, family photos, wedding bands, Western hats, mingling and shaking hands with the opposite sex.

I go to my friends house, I respect his hospitality, and I respect his rules.

So what the #(*&$%) makes these #*%^$ muslim *#$^%-head, "immigrants," think they can come here and ....

... oh yeah, I forgot, it says, in the book of Islam, that they should move about the world and make babies and by this way, bring all of the world to Islam.

Now there's a proactive religion...surround the bastards with their own babies, and make sure they grow up with no free will, so that they will have babies (with no free will) that will eventually infiltrate all fascets of the world and eventually choke the life (free will) out of the planet.

Now, go have some BBQ'd goat meat, take a taxi, and sit back and watch Rogers channel 40 Sunday mornings....

Nausea, ad nausea.

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Liars and Cheats are not..

One down and more to go...

 

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Deported imam Said Jaziri outraged by his plane ride home

Muslim cleric describes treatment as torture

2007 10 23

CBC NEWS

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/10/23/qc-jaziri1023.html

 

A Tunisian-born imam deported from Montreal for falsifying his refugee application described his treatment by Canadian authorities during his 13-hour trip home as torture.
 
Said Jaziri arrived in Tunisia Monday night after what he describes as an arduous plane journey from Montreal, during which he was handcuffed for more than half a day under supervision of the Canadian border authority.

In an interview with CBC's French-language service Tuesday morning, Jaziri said he was deprived of any outside contact in the hours leading to his departure, including with his pregnant wife, and said the handcuffs he was forced to wear hurt him.
 
 
 

Outspoken imam Said Jaziri arrives for his Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Montreal last Wednesday. Jaziri was deported Monday under conditions he describes as torture.
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

 
The Muslim cleric said the way he was treated qualified as psychological and physical torture, a nightmare that would take a lifetime to get over.
But despite fears about his personal safety in his native land, Jaziri was able to travel to his family's home without incident and was left alone by Tunisian authorities.
 
Canadian immigration authorities deported Jaziri following his botched refugee application, in which he failed to reveal a prior criminal record in France, where he served jail time following a 1995 assault. His recent application for permanent residency was also turned down.
Jaziri's Quebec-born wife is eight months pregnant with their first child. Nancy-Ann Adams has been hospitalized because of complications in the last week and was unable to see her husband off at the airport. She made several emotional pleas last week on her husband's behalf, asking the federal government to stay his deportation.
Jaziri was the cleric at the Al-Qods mosque on Bélanger Street in Montreal's Rosemont district. He earned a reputation for outspokenness by publicly supporting Sharia law, denouncing homosexuality as a sin and criticizing the controversial publication of the Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.
 
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