Category Archives: Unreasonable accommodation
Let them fight or bring them home! Charles Adler on the US PC army
Retired Admiral of the US pacific fleet.
Pat Condell: Time to end Western racism
At last. Someone has the courage to call it what it is. The racism of lower expectations.
Ottawa researcher’s firing derails Viking project
Ottawa Citizen:
Dr. Pat Sutherland working at an archeological site on Baffin Island known as Nanook. She believes the excavation was a building established by the Norse (aka Vikings) around 1300 or possibly earlier so they could trade for furs, narwhal tusks and walrus ivory prized by nobility in Europe. The story of Sutherland’s research will be told on the CBC show The Nature of Things on Thursday, Nov. 22.
Photograph by: Handout photo , 90th Parallel Productions
OTTAWA — This should be the best of times for Pat Sutherland. November’s issue of National Geographic magazine and a documentary airing Thursday night on CBC’s The Nature of Things both highlight research the Ottawa archeologist has been doing in the Canadian Arctic for the past dozen years that could fundamentally alter our understanding of our early history.
If Sutherland is right, Norse seafarers — popularly known as Vikings — built an outpost on Baffin Island, now called Nanook, centuries before Columbus blundered on to North America. Moreover, there’s evidence they traded with the Dorset, the Arctic’s ancient, now-vanished inhabitants, for as many as 400 years.
”That’s incredible,” says Andrew Gregg, who wrote, directed and produced The Norse: An Arctic Mystery, the CBC documentary that recounts Sutherland’s findings. “That rewrites all the history books.”
But Sutherland’s pleasure at the recognition her discoveries are receiving has been sharply tempered by a harsh reality. Last April, even as the documentary about her work was being filmed, the 63-year-old, then curator of Arctic archeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, was abruptly dismissed from her job.
Michigan church bans Islamic prayer from service
This one is jolly good laugh. ‘Islamophobia watch’ is lamenting that a Christian church has banned a muslim prayer and claiming it is an actual diagnosis of mental illness that they fail to allow islamic values to be included, or perhaps replace Christian ones.
Somehow I doubt this organization would bother if a mosque refused to allow a Christian to include the notion of Christ’s divinity or even crucifixion to be included in a session of arse lifting.
Islamophobia Watch:
The word seemingly came out of the blue:
Choral director Jeffrey Cobb told his singers and orchestra – roughly 180 local adults and teens drawn from college, a high school, and churches – that a pastor barred an Islamic prayer from the piece they planned to sing.
Their concert was to be performed the next day, on Veterans Day, at First Congregational Church in Traverse City for the annual Mel Larimer Concert Series.
Pastor David Walls and other church officials wanted nothing to do with the Islamic Call to Prayers portion of the performance. They did not want to offend their congregation and military veterans they planned to honor that day, church leaders said.
A shock wave rippled through the choir during their tune-up at the church, and no one took the jolt harder than Alya Nadji, 16, a Muslim and member of the Traverse City West High School Chorale.
CAIR-CAN PROPOSES ABOLISHING SECULAR STATE, SAYS SECULARISM JUST A COMPETING ‘BELIEF’
I have been live blogging the OSCE event taking place in Warsaw Poland, and the rep from CAIR affiliate in Canada just hurled a major bombshell at the meeting, From Europe News’s Facebook page:
5:28: CAIR Canada openly requests the abolishment of secularism as a principle of society, for the reason that ‘Secularism’ constitutes only another belief, that should not be granted special status.
Further, she emphasizes that we should obey and respect all law set up by the State (that would include blasphemy laws), and respect to refrain from what the State considers illegal, in order that we can have harmonic co-existence in the future.
She refers to the past history of various etnic minorities, how prejudices against those have historically existed, and suggests that the percieved problems with Muslims are nothing unusual, and should not be considered a problem in itself.
Open letter to the Government of France.
My dearest France.
Now that Charlie Hebdo, political satire magazine has decided to step up to the plate and defend the single most important freedom that any human being has ever had, the right, no actually the obligation to criticize irrational religious authority, you, the government of France has decided to close embassies and French institutions throughout the barbarian world.
I merely wanted to advise you of the following.
As it takes approximately four to six months for Muslims to organize a spontaneous demonstration of outrage so I suggest you do not spend the extra revenue for short term booking on aircraft but book well in advance. In fact, you could focus on mid December getting the remnants of your Western cultured staff (if there are any) home for Christmas.
There is a very good chance that the riots over this crop of cartoons won’t form till after that and possibly not even till early spring.
Alternatively you could of course, defend the right that gave rise to one of the most significant civilizations in history and its now defunct secular laws, ‘La laicite‘, or, you could pack up and head for home. In either case, do take your time. No point in rushing and dropping any dish-ware or furniture.
Just a thought. I hope it helps.
Eeyore for Vladtepesblog.com
FRENCH POLICE GUARDING SATIRIST CHARLIE HEBDO BUILDING IN WAKE OF MOHAMED CARTOON RELEASE
Folks, there is no easy way out of this.
As long as it’s necessary for police to safeguard a building from being firebombed do to irate Muslims, then the mocking of their religious figures, as distasteful as it is, is paramount and needs to continue and be defended. No one group can be allowed to intimidate others through violence from expressing an opinion. You let it slip here, then free speech is doomed for good.
UPDATE: Charlie Hebdo’s website hacked, via Blazing Cat Fur:
Offices of French magazine that published cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammed guarded by riot police as it plans to release new satirical image
- Charlie Hedbo’s Paris HQ was firebombed last year after it published an issue it claimed had been guest-edited by Mohammed
By PETER ALLEN
PUBLISHED: 00:23 GMT, 19 September 2012 | UPDATED: 12:00 GMT, 19 September 2012
Riot police were guarding the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris last night as it prepared to publish cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
Charlie Hedbo’s HQ in the French capital was firebombed last year after it published an issue it claimed had been guest-edited by Mohammed.
Despite the attack, it has now decided to print further drawings, including one of the Prophet in a wheelchair being pushed by a Jewish Rabbi.
Judge orders accused Fort Hood shooter to have his beard shaved
A voice of reason from within the wilderness. I wonder if it will be allowed to last
H/T Ted L
CNN:
By Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon Producer
September 6, 2012 — Updated 2200 GMT (0600 HKT)
Maj. Nidal Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas in November 2009.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- An appeals court previously said it would not rule until after the order was given
- Hasan had said, “I believe that my religion requires me to wear a beard”
- He is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 at Fort Hood
(CNN) — A judge has ordered that the beard of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of fatally shooting 13 people at Fort Hood, be forcibly shaved ahead of his upcoming military trial, base spokesman Tyler Broadway said Thursday.
Col. Gregory Gross issued the order, which will likely trigger an appeal that would further delay a case that has dragged on since the 2009 mass shooting.
Hasan’s attorney had filed an appeal when Gross threatened to order the shaving, but the appeals court said it wouldn’t issue a decision until the shaving was actually ordered. Thursday’s order by Gross opens the door for that appeal.
The last time he was in court, Hasan told the judge, “Your honor, in the name of almighty Allah, I am a Muslim. I believe that my religion requires me to wear a beard.”
His defense team argued Hasan should be able to keep his beard under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, contending that shaving it would leave him in a “perilous religious state,” according to a news release from Fort Hood.
Grotesque bias and selective enforcement. Muslim? Its ok to want to murder gay people. If you own a chicken stand, you aren’t even allowed to support traditional marriage
This actually really pisses me off.
Somali workers walk out of Minnesota bakery in protest of new dress code
FOX:
H/T Hermes:
Published June 07, 2012
Somali employees walked out of a bakery plant after refusing new dress code implemented after accident. (MyFoxTwinCities.com)
More than 30 Somali employees at a bakery walked out in protest Monday after the owner ordered female workers to wear mid-calf skirts after a woman’s long dress recently got caught in a boot washer, MyFoxTwinCities.com reported.
Mike Knowles, the owner of Dianne’s Fine Desserts, told the Faribault Daily News that the new guidelines were installed for safety concerns. Somali workers, however, call the new rules an attack on their Muslim religion.
The women reportedly showed up to work in their full-length attire and were given the option to adjust their skirts or leave. About a dozen women left and they were joined by 20 men who say the dress code goes against teachings in the Koran.
The boot washer is a sanitation device that cleans footwear before workers enter the plant. The Somali women said they’d be willing to pull up their skirts during the brief process. Knowles says the safety issue was addressed and the company made a reasonable accommodation.