EPSILON MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER ISSUE 2005. P 5

COMMENTARY

The ACLU and CAIR…Strange Bedfellows

And it doesn’t stop there. The Muslim employees at Tyson Fresh Meats plants have agreed not to strike pending negotiations of “alleged religious discrimination by management.” Now, in a display that should sicken all Americans, the Tyson people are planning to prostrate themselves in order to accommodate the demands of TEN Muslim employees. A company spokesperson, Mr. Mickelson, stated that the plant provided a prayer room for Muslims and pointed out that “plant officials are consistently trying to work with the religious leaders to accommodate prayer time”. Wow! Wouldn’t it be nice if they also set aside milk and cookie time? He continued, “However, because we’re a manufacturing operation, we’re not able to let everyone leave the production line at the same time without shutting down entire sections of our operations.” Mickelson said, “Since we have more than 200 Muslims working our second shift, this has sometimes been a point of contention and misunderstanding.”

Excuse me? No offence to meat workers, but… these people gut hogs! This is not National Security, its heartland America. Since when did sausage makers, halal or not, have the right to alter a nations behavior? I urge you all to read the “Statement of Intent” on Tyson’s homepage. Here is a group of people who are so totally committed to “doing the right thing” that they have been targeted by CAIR, an organization who are intent on forcing us to “do the right thing”... by Islam. But this is, actually, nothing new, just more of the same old same old. I remember, over twenty years ago, when the Israeli pavilion in the Epcot Centre was removed, because Arabs complained they didn’t want it there! My fears back then were all about on the gradual take-over being perpetrated by this culture - now, I see it everywhere.

It’s happening in the boardrooms of companies like Dell, and on shop floors of companies like Tyson; the same way our prisons have been turned into hotbeds of Islamic Fundamentalism. I felt then, as I do today, that the work place is supposed to be a place of work and not a refuge for Muslims to wage ideological warfare, no matter how nice they are! CAIR has been given no reason to doubt that - if we can do it once, why not again? It works, and they work it; they are getting better at the game and, with each precedent ruling, their tentacles are more widespread. Their rights under our system grow, despite my sense that no other religion has taken such steps before. Gawd, do you see what is happening here, in so many corners of our country? CAIR is using our system with all of its technicalities and generosity, to make determined inroads to topple it. The ACLU has been doing that for years and has made tremendous strides toward the erosion of our values. Just what we need, huh? An Islamic arm of the worst oppressors of American freedom. I think the ACLU is doing just fine, destroying much that is good about America. Do they really need Arabist assistance?

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