Dept. of Jihad update on this story reader’s will recall from December, DOJ sues school district for rejecting Muslim teacher’s hajj request – back in the news again.
Mona Charen at NPR, Off to Mecca She Goes…With Eric Holder’s blessing
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Here are the facts: Safoorah Khan, 29, was hired to teach middle-school math in November 2007. According to her lawyer, she was happy in her job, which included preparing sixth, seventh, and eighth graders for state tests, and running the “math lab.” After nine months on the job, Khan requested a three-week leave of absence in order to perform the hajj — the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are obliged to undertake at least once in their lives if they can afford it.
Employers are required by law to honor requests for religious accommodations provided that they do not impose “undue hardship” on the employer or other employees. Berkeley officials maintained that a three-week absence in December — which would have denied the school its only math-lab instructor right before exams — was unreasonable and not covered by the teachers’-union contract. They denied her request. Khan decided to make the trip anyway and submitted her resignation.
She also submitted a letter of complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charging that the school board’s refusal to grant the 19-day leave amounted to religious discrimination. “They put her in a position where she had to choose,” her lawyer, Kamran A. Memon, told the Post, and this revealed “anti-Muslim hostility.”
The town’s former mayor disagreed. “The school district just wanted a teacher in the room for those three weeks,” said Michael A. Esposito. “They didn’t care if she was a Martian, a Muslim, or a Catholic.”
Now the Justice Department has taken up her case. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez explains that he took the case in part to combat “a real headwind of intolerance against Muslim communities” and that Khan’s lawsuit seeks to ratify the “religious liberty that our forefathers came to this country for.” Perez has spoken before of his belief, shared by Attorney General Eric Holder, that “our Muslim-American brothers and sisters” have been the “victims of a post-9/11 backlash.”
Now we see how Perez and Holder can assert that Muslim Americans are suffering a “backlash.” If they can see religious discrimination in Khan’s case, it’s no wonder they see it under every mattress.
Reality check: Many first-year employees get no vacation days or time off. Teachers, depending upon their union-negotiated contracts, may get some. But to suggest that refusing a three-week leave at a crucial time of the school year is “discrimination” is just perverse. It’s reaching to find a base motive for an obviously sensible decision.
Ms. Khan’s departure to fulfill a religious obligation that she has a lifetime to satisfy left her students bereft at a critical time. Doesn’t Islam also forbid breaking a contract or leaving children in the lurch? Besides, Khan is 29. The next scheduled hajj that will fall during a school vacation will be in eight years. Ms. Khan will, God willing, be fully capable of making the trip then. But why accommodate your students and your employer when you can sue?
The selfishness of Khan’s behavior was so blatant that even the Washington Post was moved to look for other motives in the Justice Department’s decision. “The Obama administration has gone to great lengths to maintain good relations with Muslims — while endorsing tough anti-terrorism tactics.”
This is the same month in which the Obama administration admitted that it won’t be closing Guantanamo after all. And President Obama has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles pretty aggressively over Afghanistan and Pakistan. Is this a way to placate Muslim Americans who may be unhappy about the War on Terror?
It may be. Or it may just be another example of the reflex to genuflect before all claims of discrimination — no matter how baseless. The U.S. government is asking for back pay, reinstatement, and money damages for Safoorah Khan. When you elect a liberal Democrat to the White House, this is what you get.
More, U.S. sues on behalf of Muslim teacher:
“It sounds like a very dubious judgment and a real legal reach,” said Michael Mukasey, who served as attorney general in the cabinet of former President George W. Bush. “The upper reaches of the Justice Department should be calling people to account for this.”
Related Dept. of Dawah suits:
- Georgia: Holder’s DOJ intervenes on behalf of another mosque
- DOJ submits NJ county to sharia and dawah
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Anybody know what our national debt is up to today? And we’re wasting tax payer money on this!
Nobody get that kind of time off. Think of all the Christian and Jewish high holy days. Those teachers don’t expect to get out of work.
This stinks and the smell starts at the White House (or whomever the puppet master is . Soros?) and ends in Mecca.
” Victims of the 9/11 backlash ” seems to be the cry every time some folks do not get what they want. The truth of the matter is that non-muslims are the target of intolerance much more than ‘ our Muslim brothers and sisters “. This is just another example of how out of touch the DOJ really is under this administration. This is a waste of taxpayers money.
There is no case for DISCRIMINATION HERE as this MUSLIM BITCH resigned her job then went to MECCA. HOLDER, the closet MUSLIM, has no grounds for this action and therefore shoul be removed by CONGRESS for MISS USE OF HIS OFFICE. In other WORDS SCREW HOLDER and the HORSE HE RODE IN ON. LOCK and LOAD.
Personally, I think one key phrase in all this is “sometime in their lifetime”, She was under NO religious commitment to go at this particular time. There is NO case here. Abuse of power at its highest level.
First: Islam is NOT a Religion! It is a political system.
They got what they deserve using Politically Correct thinking to hire someone.
It was a reasonable request. After all they knew Genghis Khan was a muslim when they hired.
So Politically Correct takes a beating! They obviously excluded completely qualified both black and white male and female teacher candidates with PHDs to hire a minority.
They SHOULD put in foot baths, separate swimming places, and every other accommodation DEMANDED by Islam, and take the money from the teachers pay fund, after all ordinary teachers are disposable when compared to the master race of Islam, or expect the Anti Muslim Gestapo at the attorney generals office to pay a visit.
To see both eric holder and Obama involved clearly indicates the risks involved by hiring any Islamic, and the danger they represent to America.
What would it take for these two to help you on a personal interest level? What Mosque do you go to for this kind of help? Is it clear? Crystal Clear!
Anyone think Obama is not a Muslim now?
Interesting connection between NAZI and Islam
Radical Islamics Hitler and the Mufti
I’m so glad you posted this. The connection between Nazis and Islam is undeniable. Muslims fought on the side of Germany in WWII. So many simply don’t see it.
I believe George Soros is the puppet master. Read his bio on crashing economies and fraud convictions. It’s also widely known that he heped the Nazis during WWII outing Jewish families although he himself was a Jew. It’s widely believed he used the proceeds from Nazi confiscated Jewish property for his start up cash. This is a VERY dangerous man. And he’s smart. Obama is NOT very intelligent. I don’t care what the media says, I’ve seen nothing that would make me think he’s anything but a good politician and the Muslim Manchurian Candidate with Soros pulling the strings.
I have just started a new religion. I took my camel and went out on the desert with someone else’s spouse and came back and announced a new religion. My most important religious tenet–I take a job and then I never show up. My religion forbids that I work. And when I don’t get paid, or get fired, I complain to the Dept of Jihad and they will sue on my behalf. I mean, that’s no way to treat a prophet, is it?
And for whoever asked, No. There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Hussein Obama is a foreign born Muslim. He was born a Muslim, he went to Muslim schools, he grew up adopted by a Muslim stepfather in Indonesia, and he was born in Kenya. He is a usurper and is striving to Islamize this country as a good barbarian would, and he has a good start.
Agree wholeheartedly!
You left few things out. You should get a free car, free health care, free house, free money from the government plus free mega welfare payments, free insurance, free food, free education and all paid for by white-Christian middle class who should support you. The trees are silver, roads are gold and oil used in great abundance to make life more comfortable for you. In other words you are two kinds of people: Rich or a minority.
This Muslim woman is typical of Muslims these days. My teenage daughter went through a harrowing experience being called a racist by a Muslim co-worker because the Muslim woman was simply lazy. My daughter’s co-workers all had problems with the Muslim woman and the Muslim was let go, but she later sued. political correctness won the day as usual.
Those islamics got big houses(without much effort), got most of the best office jobs or easy jobs, endless preferential treatment for their islamic community, etc, and then they get on the streets and get all the undeserved respect!!!
Perhaps they wanted all the political power just to have endless preferential treatment for their own islamic community.
I call BS on that. There is not any such headwind of intolerance.
We have NO Muslim “brothers and sisters” and there has been NO Muslim “backlash” in this country…….YET!
When there is a backlash, No DOJ attorneys will be able to stop it.
I menat to sya that the DOJ WILL NOT be able to stop it.
Any idea of what is happening in this case as of today?
And by the way……….DOJ stands for Department of Jihad, not Department of Justice :)
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Sharia law is creeping it U.S one state at a time.Eliminate the muslims one at a time!!!! They are the most evil people on the face of this earth!