ENOUGH TO DRIVE YOU FROM DRINK!
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 08:47PM Well now, with all this drama on the global economic seas, maybe you should sit down, pour yourself a long cool drink, and relax. Unless that is, you are a Muslim. Get this;
"A Muslim worker is suing Tesco for
discrimination after being asked to transport beer on his forklift truck. Mohammed Ahmed claims he was in effect forced from his job because managers refused to accept that handling alcohol
offended his beliefs. The 32-year-old, raised in Saudi Arabia, told a tribunal he had never
visited a Tesco store and had no idea it sold alcohol when he took on
the role."
His devotion to his faith is indeed awesome as he had to endure 8 months of this relentless torture care of the infidels at Tesco. He did admit shopping at other retail chains such as Sainsbury's, Lidl and Asda and seeing alcohol on sale there but he was not to know that Tesco - the biggest retailer in the country - would have such unclean products on sale. Or so he claims.
In my view, and of course without referring directly to this specific case, those bozos who bring trivial cases to waste court time, should be fined heavilly.
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I say instead of being given money he is given a job working at Irish Distillers Limited
I second that emotion - cheers!!
If these Muslim serial whingers are killing or threatening to kill us, they are suing or complaining over the most trivial things. No wonder they are the butt of everyone's jokes and people are (rightly) wary of them.
We had the same thing here with Somali muslim taxi drivers. They would refuse fares at the airport if someone was bringing alcohol. The airport folks were initially inclined to cave to the drivers; they proposed a different colored emblem for those who wouldn't carry booze.
Some other muslim drivers said it wasn't the booze; the Somali drivers just wanted to turn down shorter rides (which is not allowed; if you have an airport license, you have to take anyone, no matter how far).
But the public outcry was enormous, and the airports commission finally said, "Okay, you can refuse fares. And when you do so, you go to the back of the line (it's a looong line).
I'm no theologian, but I'm willing to bet that Islamic law prohibits the consumption of alcohol, not the moving of it on fork lift trucks.
Exactly, this is all nonsense. It is the same as the 'offence' that activist Muslims feel about seeing pictures of Pigs or anything to do with pig meat. They are required not to eat the meat from a pig, nor drink alcohol, that's all. Anything else is political provocation and all authorities and retail businesses whould have the confidence to reject any such demands.
Well, I am a theologian in the Church of What's Happenin Now, and I can state that Ross's statement has impeccable validity.
Who gets the reference?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKkuJVy2YA
The Last sentence is prophetically wrong!
Sorry guys my post above should have been on the article below.
No doubt there will be drinks all round at the local hostelry for the QC’s and firm of solicitors when they win this case in our screwed up PC court system!
Why do I have an uneasy feeling that he might win? These Tribunals have often come to unexplicable conclusions.
"Who gets the reference?"
Not me.
Hey Gordon
Any comment on this?
Not the political angle, but this is your neck of the woods I think
Confucius say:
The tail wags the dog only if the dog allows it!
I read that in a fortune cookie.
Phantom,
The mind reels with the possibilities:
"I went to the RNC to protest and all I got was this lousy neck brace."
"I'm sorry, you've come to the wrong place. This is Green & White. You need to go to the office of Suburban Taxis. It's in, uh, Suburb."
"That's what you deserve for taking a gas-powered taxi instead of a Gaia-sustaining means of transportation."
"The real tragedy is that two distinguished indie journalists were denied the opportunity to be at the barricades!"
"If only we had national health care, I could have been flex-cuffed and pepper-sprayed like the other cool kids."
"I got my revenge, though. I stuck a Famous Dave's bumper sticker on all their cabs. Now they can't find any drivers who will drive them."