Bear in mind that Costco was completely reasonable. The Muslim cashier refused to check out people with alcohol and pork, and so they transferred him to another position. That should have been sufficient. But he is suing. Apparently he wants Costco to have to check-out lines, one for Muslims and one for kaffirs.
These demands for special accommodation are everywhere. Back in 2011, I reported that Hertz had was forced to suspend 35 Muslim workers because they were abusing their extra special “prayer break times” and refusing to clock out when praying. There was no way of knowing when their Muslim workers returned from their lengthy prayer breaks — five times a day. Muslim workers officially filed a lawsuit against Hertz.
This is exactly the pattern that I meticulously document in my must-read primer, Stop the Islamization of America.
“Muslim Costco employee refuses to touch pork; sues after getting transferred to different department,” by Carmine Sabia, BizPac Review, March 2, 2015:
A Muslim former employee has filed a lawsuit against Costco accusing the the wholesale giant of discriminating against him because he refused to handle pork or alcohol products.
The man, Jean Camara, told ABC 7 New York that he was moved from cashier’s assistant to gathering carts outside when he informed his employers that he couldn’t work with pork or alcohol due to his religious beliefs.
“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” Camara said.
“We all share different beliefs so we all should be treated equally no matter what belief we have,” he added.
According to Camara, his superiors at the Brooklyn Costco never told him why he was reassigned — although it’s strange that he couldn’t figure that out on his own after complaining he couldn’t handle certain products.
He said he asked his bosses if he could work in the electronics department but his request was denied.
Camara filed a human rights complaint against the company and was fired 16 days later for “insubordinate conduct,” according to ABC 7.
“I think that as the case progresses in the trial we are in now, I think the facts are going to come out and they’re going to speak for themselves,” his attorney, Chauncey Henry, said.
“It’s not OK to discriminate against someone for their religion. It isn’t OK. It isn’t OK to treat them differently from others because of what they believe in,” Henry added.
“I think that everyone is entitled to the same treatment. I think that’s what this case is about.”
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Every business in the U.S. should be modifying their applications and interview procedures.
“We work from xAM to xPM with a single lunch break and two other short breaks. Can you meet those requirements?”
“Do you have allergies or other issues that would preclude you from handling any of the products here?”
YES, I did work that way all through high school and college. And the two short breaks weren’t law until I hit college.
Nice try.
That’s just too dang restrictive for our muzlim workers…….
Employers need to stop giving jobs to any foreign workers.. No wonder our economy is in the state it’s in when local businesses are hiring paki’s.
Craig, they aren’t all foreign workers. There are millions of Muslims in America.
The problem is giving these jackasses jobs you expect they can do. Simple jobs. And then having them turn it into a giant legal battle because they can’t do the job they were hired for, and they don’t want to do the job you placed them to do.
It’s like the gay people who ended up torpedoing the cake bakers, which the government awarded $150,000. They aren’t suing because it’s morally wrong. They aren’t suing because they can’t find another place to invest their efforts. They’re suing because they want to have power over someone else.
And our government lets them do it.
By ‘these jackasses’, I mean all victims of modern American society who don’t want to be productive and don’t want to be part of American culture. Not just Muslims. But basically all liberals.
Anyone who feels they can use the government to bully people who are trying to get work done, I guess.
Look at that guy,
he looks retarded. Should never have been hired. Businesses are just asking for a law suit by hiring these animals.
Would be nice, but I don’t support that. Where does it end – don’t hire anyone who is a Christian, or don’t hire someone who is Jewish? If you want them to respect your rights, you need to respect theirs (up to a point where it is un-American).
I like the idea where they know up front they will be doing something they might not like, and sign a statement to that effect. If they can’t do what is required of the job, they don’t get hired.
Don’t think they should wear Burqa, though. I’d walk out of a store if someone waited on me wearing one.
it happened to me in a grocery store, the muslim clerk wouldn’t touch bacon so I called the manager over, he said someone else would ring it up and I told him he could restock everything and I would take my business else where. I almost picked it up and handed it to her but I was in moonbat central and I knew I would be charged with a hate crime.
I would open it & throw it to the ground. Then they’d have to smell it too
Yes, the Super Haters would pull out the pack of Victim Cards. You’d end up with a criminal record. Doesn’t matter if they offend you though.
They’re quicker with the victim card than al sharpton is with the race card.
Bacon is always packaged by the time it gets to the cash register so how was this Muslim going to touch it anyway?
No news article ever mentions that point!
They won’t touch the bottles/cans that have alcoholic beverages in them either…………smh
There was a big brouhaha about Somali taxi drivers not allowing people with guide dogs, or those with alcoholic beverages, even in their luggage, in their taxis at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airports, a few years ago. The Metro Airports Commission put the kibosh on that real quick…..don’t be picky, or you don’t drive taxis at the airport.
No problem I wouldn’t get in a cab with a somali anyway.
Me neither..how do you know they aren’t going to kidnap you for ransom or that they’re all hopped up on ghat?
That’s exactly right, they’re just stirring the pot.
Find out what car they drive and spill the bacon juice on the door handles.
Should have done it anyway! If you are afraid to do something that simple? And not worry about what they do? What are you going to do when they won’t allow you to buy anything but their crap! Might want to get you a copy of the Quran now ! And learn to be a good little muslim !
Good for you! The customer has to waste their time and wait for a mgr because the muslim won’t touch a product! No way!
If more people did what you did, we’d see a change in hiring practices.
Islamic chutzpah strikes again!
He doesn’t have to work at Costco. Unless the judge is also an idiot, he’ll be told to go get a job tending goats!
They can’t be trusted unless the goat wears a chastity belt
I agree with you completely but I bet he wins and Costco have to pay out.
Sick, sad truth.
Even if he loses, Costco will have a fortune invested in legal fees. It’s costing their business massive amounts to be labelled ‘racist’ by idiots, and be dragged through our corrupt ‘justice’ system.
Even if they win the case, he wins, because we set our government up for this crap.
Costco did a good thing. It’s getting tiring having to give into these idiots. If someone can’t handle the job they were hired for, then they need to be fired! Give the job to someone else that needs it and they can go live in a muslim country.
Buy nothing at COSTCO or TARGET or anyone who employs haters.
are you retarded? costco fired them. did you even read the damn article?? no wonder you use a fake pic and a fake name posting stuff like that. id be worried all my friends and family think im braindead too, if i posted like you did.
really he should be sacked for taking the job under false pretenses !
This is muslims trying to impose sharia on the rest of us, to force us to bow before their god and prophet. If you want to see how this story ends, just go look at the pics of the tortured, raped, and murdered, simply because they were of different faith. I’m sure you know like I do, that these muslim tactics in the workplace, schools, and politics, are all same-flowing currents in the river of death that Islam is, the same river that destroys, murders, and rapes, the innocent. If we don’t stop them now, the immigration, their influence, the river will become a flood, the flood an ocean, and we will be lost forever.
Don’t bow to their blood-thirsty god! Stand tall for freedom!
Maybe title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ’64 needs to be adjusted for those religions that declare us their enemy, are subversive against our nation, murder our citizens (9/11) and other innocents for religious reasons. Gosh, I don’t think that’s bending the spirit of the law tooooo much, do you? Cripes.
Never Give Up. Take Back What Has Been Lost To “Political Correctness”.
You are exactly right. Just take a look at what they have already done in the UK and Hungary. Their method is to over populate and take over. Indonesia is a perfect example.
This is all about Muslim power. They’re allowed to handle and even SELL pork and alcohol. Muslim cashiers in Arabic states do it all the time! They own liquor stores! They sell alcohol to tourists! This is just a way of FORCING their beliefs on us.
Funny, some of those carts he was gathering must have had pork products in them before he picked them up. Maybe COSTCO and other businesses in islamomaniac cross hairs should start filing counter suits.
So the idiot didn’t stop to think he might be handling port before he applied? What a sham. These muslims are going to be a really big thorn in our side from now on.
He knew that he would be handling pork. All of this was done on purpose to slowly impose sharia on us. He’s no fool.
He probably meant to make waves right from the start.
He’s a ringer!
They have ALWAYS been a thorn in someone’s side. Just spare a thought for those suffering people from the Balkans who have been living with them for centuries. Then they get bombed for defending themselves. The truth has finally arrived. A bit late but it’s here now. No excuse for not backing the Christians there now if another war erupts.
Clinton was a fool for bombing the serbs who were just trying to protect themselves from the muslims. Milosevic was right.
Of course the muslim isn’t actually touching pork, he’s touching plastic wrapping & styrofoam. But that still isn’t good enough to prevent a meltdown.
Let us start a movement here and now to spray every US currency bill and coin, every ATM and every knob on every door with pork grease.
I already do and bury pork everywhere and pour pig blood everywhere I go
That’s truly the best way to get rid of them permanently. It really is.
It won’t be effective unless they know after the fact that they touched it.
You guys are just watching the beginning of Islamization. With Hussein at the helm these radicals are going to make the most of their Islamization of USA.
These are all major liberal companies. Don’t feel a bit sorry for them. This is what they get for bending over backwards for the muslims.
Liberal or not, it will cost us.If your business handles food, alcohol, transports infidels (they are sure to be carrying something sometime), just DON’T HIRE MOSLEMS! But then, that will cost us too. You can’t win with Moslems. (Apparently, m-o-s-l-e-m is an offensive way to spell, but then what isn’t offensive to them?
So Muslims want segregation. One line for Muslims, and one for Kaffirs (another form of the N word but used for non Muslims) Sounds like racism to me.
Logic Alert!!!!!! If you don’t understand this, please put your head in the oven and turn on the electricity.
You are going to have to be more specific, to get the desired effect. If they don’t have logic, or common sense, all you will get are a bunch of people with their heads in an oven, trying to flick the light switch.
I have a gas oven.
It’s ok if They Say It.
N word — iNfidels
so what about all the muslim shops that sell alcohol,no problem there then,
Islam allows Muslims to make any exceptions they see fit. It’s only in subjugating the lesser peoples of the world that the laws suddenly become rigid.
im not quite sure you have any clue about what youre talking about. in fact, im positive.
It is!
He should stated this in the interview so he would have been hired. Now they will ask everyone interviewing and be sued for discrimination.
The fact is islam is Sharia law and Sharia law is Islam. They are inseparable. Islam is not a religion. It is the law of the land in Muslim countries. We need to define Islam for what it is and ban it Because it is subversive and incompatible with Western culture. Http:// http://www.teapartyorganizers.ning.com
Absolutely.
Crawl back in your hole please before I have to get thw roach spray out on you.
To say costco is prejudice against him is also to say he isn’t fitting his apparent job description for a cashier. A cashier job is to scan items ( no matter what they are) , bag items, take money from customers and give change when appropriate.
I don’t think it says in that description that you have to be the police on what people are allowed to buy, in effect projecting your beliefs onto customer in order to sllow them to make purchases.
I think the makers of products he will not handle should sue him directly for prejudicing their product. In fact I think all the customers he has denied them or attempted to deny them of their choice in purchase should also sue him for obvious prejudice against their choice in purchases and then should also sue costco foremploying such an idiot or at the very least boycott the store.
He is in effect slandering pork and alcohol products and should have to face legal actions for costing those companies money.
If costco crumbles and settles they to should be sued by the companies of products obviously deemed bad by thw muslims direct prejudice of product.
They can say that at least one person was effected by the muslim belief. Therefore slandering the product.
Play the same game they are playing. Who is his attorney? He to should be stonewalled.
Why aren’t companies asking these basic questions on job applications? If you can’t touch or be near certain items, than you can’t work here, plain and simple
That’s against their Right To Be Assholes.
That’s like taking a job as a fireman, then saying you can’t be around smoke!
“It’s
not OK to discriminate against someone for their religion. It isn’t OK.
It isn’t OK to treat them differently from others because of what they
believe in,” Henry added.
“I think that everyone is entitled to the same treatment. I think that’s what this case is about.”
++++++ UNLESS you are a muslim discriminating against those who drink alchohol and eat pork.
Go over there and do a tour. Your dumb ass will have a different tune to play I’ll bet hard cash on it.
Done my time fuckwit now re read my comment and understand what i wrote
What can you do Tom…he’s named after a defunct chicken restaurant. Speaks volumes.
You are stupid as you look.
I’m glad this conversation is progressing and getting more thoughtful as it continues on.
You are stupid as you look. What’s the cup for your pencils and nickels? You would love to have some of my chicken now wouldn’t you?
Wasn’t calling you dumb ass was agreeing with you calling the person you quoted a dumb ass sorry for the misunderstanding
My apologies to you as well Kenny’ Its so easy to take comments in the wrong context.
You must have been in the Army retard and you went a “Leave no kid behind” Libtard high school. SMFH
The Army is for pussies. Try again draft dodger.
There was no draft when I voluntarily joined the United States Marine Corps. We won the 4 wars I participated in shit for brains. Btw as for the pirate garb…as a disabled/retired Veteran I donate my time to children’s charities and they think I look great and I don’t give a shit house rats ass what you think.
You snap judged me on a misunderstood post simply because of my name. Call me names and judge me and don’t even know me from Adam. Simpler Fi Marine I success but will not apologize until you do. Oorah.
Succeed
Aye…I make redress for me previous slander. I declare parlay and beg you pardon my good Sir. I may ‘ave had too much rum and be shootin off me pie hole. Mind ye it be for medicinal purposes. I reproach meself and offer my penitence. Semper Fi. May your seas be calm, your draft be low and full of booty and a stiff wind guide the bosoms of ye masthead to ye most glorious aspirations. I will be seein ya in hell or Davies locker me brother.
The Army is for PUSSIES. Try again draft dodger.
Maybe the loss of their bacon will finally wake up more kool-aid drinking liberal Obamaroids to the vipers that they are embracing against their breasts…after all Charlie Hebdo, ISIS atrocities, Fort Hood massacre, Boston marathon bombing, the Lindt Massacre, and even 9/11 didn’t get any message through their thick skulls.
All part of trying to change America. Fundamentally of course.
Honestly! If you feel you can’t touch pork or alcohol or associate with nonMuslim and require other special accommodations for your religion then maybe you should seek work elsewhere. You’re unqualified for the job! Get over yourself!
Seek work in another country.
I think he’s an A- hole trying to make points with other’s like him.
Even looks like one.
Totally Out Of Line.
They’re as militant as the homosexuals. Perhaps they should join forces.
What part of the contract will he be using to sue? Was his contract sharia-compliant when he signed it? Was the location of the job supposed to be in Saudi Arabia? Lesson for civil employers: NEVER HIRE MUSLIMS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BOYCOTT THEM IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. Let them find a job in their sharia-compliant countries, where the options are: young girls’ raper, be-header, suicide bomber, pedophile abusive imam, genital cutter, kidnapper, murderer, torturer, church/synagogue arsonist, and more career opportunities for all muslims!
“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” Camara said.
Like the cashier that refuses to check me out because I have pork or alcohol? Yeah, guess this is a one way street.
He’s not being fired for “being different”. He’s being fired for being an asshole.
GOOOO BACKKKK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY!!!! and try to get a good paying job there. oh yeah, isis is hiring-i think you might be qualified!
He can be an ISIS beheading test dummy.
Wait a minute, I shop at Costco. All pork products are wrapped in plastic packaging and alcohol comes in bottles or boxes, so it is physically impossible for the check out clerk to touch it. In fact it would be illegal for the moron to sell it after he put his dirty hands on it.
What someone should have done was open the package and beat the moron with a pork chop so he would know the difference between plastic and pork.
The lesson to be learned here is that you should not hire a Muslim in the first place, otherwise you are going to get this sort of stuff. This may seem harsh and unfair, but until Muslims start acting like decent human beings and respecting others, it may be the only course a business owner can take.
The best way to avoid hiring “problem people” is to have your dogs present at the job interview. If the interviewee fails to pet and dote on your canine friends, do not hire them.
Not just dogs, have a pet pig in there and offer a glass a beer or some other alcoholic beverage. That should solve any problems.
An ESPECIALLY EXCELLENT SUGGESTION!
OH! AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION!
I wouldn’t even hire these idiots,..It is by now well known that all they cause is trouble
His attorney says “it’s not okay to treat them differently” well, Aren’t they the ones asking to be treated differently?
This of course is the muslim scam you hear about it every day,a few years back in the UK,a a very modern young lady wearing revealing clothes,short skirt makeup applied for a hairdressing job,she was offered the job ,Monday cam in walk a full burqa clad lady ,yes you get it it was her,cut a long story short ,she was told to leave and change she refused and then sued the owner,an employment tribunal,found in her favour,and awarded her £14,000 for hurt feelings,like I said a well rehearsed muslim scam,
religion should have no place at work —
That’s right, not beyond the hearts and minds of the believer.
Excellent reason for not employing Muslims. The old “Thank you for applying but at this time you were not successful” letter is good enough. A more suitable or qualified applicant has won that position is all that is needed for rejecting an application.
But they did accommodate him.. They placed him where he didn’t have to handle pork or liquor. No where does the law state they have to give him his job position request.
Actually I see it in reverse….. as discrimination from the muslims towards the big companies. When you demand your religious practices over the mainstream, are you not discriminating against everyone else?
Then I guess all the other employees get 5 extra breaks a day too.You get a job you do it.The pork is wrapped and the alcohol is in a bottle.Loser is just trying to cash in.
Nobody was asking him to be a meat cutter and you never “touch” pork, It is wrapped up in plastic. You touch a glass bottle, not the actual alcohol. Just do your job.
He wasn’t working in the meat cutting department. Camara was working the registers.
I know that. But he wasn’t “touching” pork when it is in a plastic wrapper.
That’s funny. He seems to think that everyone should be treated the same even if they have different beliefs, but he doesn’t think that rule extends to his treatment of Costco’s customers.
Open an all-Muslim branch in Baghdad, transfer all Muslim employees there, give them the pink slip after one week. Place them in the no-fly list. Close branch in Baghdad. Problem solved.
Years ago, when Catholics were not supposed to eat meat on ANY Friday, I had a waitressing job. Another job I had was cooking burgers. It NEVER occurred to me that I should not cook or serve meat to others on Friday just because I would not be eating it myself that day. It NEVER occurred to my parents, either. My mom and dad would have been angry with me if I had used that as an excuse not to work on Friday!
This guy is just bogus. And, he is “too good” to collect shopping carts? Boo-hoo.
Yeah! And they probably would have been allowed to fire you if you came up with that nonsense!
right everyone should be treated equal.which means NO where in the handbook does it say hey all you Muslims get 6 breaks to pray and let all us Americans pick up their slack…..I don’t think so, they don’t like it they can go back to the hole they crawled out of
“Just because you have a different belief, that doesn’t give anybody the right to treat you different,” 100% correct and if you cant do the job you where hired for you should be fired, he was lucky he got moved to a different department.
What if someone’s “religion” insists on “prayer breaks” 30 minutes long, every hour?
Should employees grant them their wish to “practice their religion” while still being paid for 8 hours of work?
And besides, this guy knew ahead of time that part of his job would be to “touch pork products and alcohol” yet he took the job anyway?
He should have not taken the job the minute he found out he would be handling pork and booze.
Treating everyone the “same” means firing any one you want, when you want.
The ultimate aim of this jihadist is to have a checkout line where he could remove the heads of infidels.
NEVER. HIRE. MUSLIMS. If you do, this is what you will get from them.
Guess the employer must counter sue because the mussie is trying to negate its secular beliefs and natural law believes, I pay you so you do what I tell you… After all its not ok to discriminate against someones religion..and that includes secular atheism…
Get thee to a Halal butcher shop, bacon-phobe!
they wield their faith like a axe its crazy work and religion should be separate could you see what would happen if all religious people had to pray 5 times a day give us a break
Many workers who handle money wear disposable gloves at work to avoid touching dirty money. The easy solution would have been for him to buy gloves or request that he have gloves available (which most cashiers would likely desire as well) so that he doesn’t directly touch the port or alcohol. Even in a liberal area like NYC, I don’t see this lawsuit going anywhere…especially when there is a solution that costs less than $10.
Sounds to me that he thinks he SHOULD be treated differently from others.