I'm not happy with reading about this dispute over prayer at work:
A Somali-American leader says 150 Muslims have lost their jobs at a Grand Island, Neb., meatpacking plant that has been embroiled in a prayer dispute.Mohamed Rage (RAYZH) with the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization says 80 workers were thrown out after an altercation late Thursday. He says when they tried to return for their shift Friday, they were fired, along with 70 others.
Union president Dan Hoppes describes what happened differently. He says 60 to 80 people quit Thursday, although he didn't know what happened Friday.
Officials with JBS Swift and Co. didn't return repeated phone messages Friday from The Associated Press.
The Muslim workers have been asking to be allowed to pray at sunset.
The company hired these folks as cheap labor, but they're shocked that they have some special needs?
Let 'em pray. Build a sense of community. Let' em know they're valued not only as laborers but as people.
But most of all, don't give some bullshit "community advocate" from CAIR or some other tax-free anti-American mouthpiece of the Saudis an excuse to blow this totally out of proportion as some kind of genocidal campaign by America against Muslims that's the fault of the Bush Administration (engineered by Jews, of course) when it's just some manager being an insensitive dick.