Muslim caught plagiarizing, legal jihad against Univ of Nebraska Law ensues

Rules for Muslims, and rules for everyone else. via University of Nebraska College of Law Sued by Former Student – JD Journal | JD Journal. h/t halalporkshop

The University of Nebraska’s law school has been sued by a man from Omaha who was kicked out of the school months prior to graduation. The man, Layth Mohammad Al-Turk, claims that he was discriminated against due to his Arabic heritage and Muslim beliefs, according to The Independent.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the federal court of Nebraska. It names the University of Nebraska College of Law, multiple school officials, the University of Nebraska, and the school’s Board of Regents as the defendants.

According to the lawsuit, Al-Turk’s problems began in his third year. He ran into computer problems that prevented him from turning in a rough draft of a paper due October 22 for a comparative law class. He met with professor Brian Lepard, who told him to turn the paper in when he was able to do so. He turned in the draft days after the deadline after he used notes and source materials to re-create it.

Lepard determined that Al-Turk plagiarized the paper and reported to the school that he violated the honor code. John Lenich was assigned to the case. Al-Turk worked to come to a settlement, but the honor committee removed him from school in February. He was due to graduate in August.

Lepard and Al-Turk met on November 2 to discuss the notion that Al-Turk did not attribute portions of his rough draft. According to Lepard and other officials, Al-Turk admitted to fabricating the story about his computer and that he did plagiarize his work. Al-Turk denies this in the lawsuit. He claims he tried to settle the issue with Lenich in order to stay in school. He said he would submit a written reprimand and to sanctions, which the lawsuit says are “commensurate with what the (college) had imposed previously for code violations involving plagiarism.”

The attorney for Al-Turk, Robert Mooney, said that he is asking for immediate injunctive relief so Al-Turk can return to the law school and complete the course work required for graduation. A hearing is scheduled for next week.

Muslim doc whose Nebraska clinic infected patients, killing some, blames Islamophobia, seeks N.Y. license

via Doc whose Fremont clinic infected patients with hepatitis seeks N.Y. license to practice – LivewellNebraska.com. h/t Jihad Watch

Dr. Tahir Ali Javed, whose Fremont cancer clinic infected dozens of patients with hepatitis a little more than a decade ago, has applied for reinstatement of his medical license in New York.

Javed, 47, fled to his native Pakistan 10 years ago, when the severity of the hepatitis outbreak became known. His medical license in Nebraska was revoked. He surrendered his New York license.

In Pakistan, Javed became a public health official and reportedly blamed the situation in Nebraska on anti-Muslim sentiment.

Unsanitary practices in the Fremont clinic led to hepatitis C infections in at least 99 patients, several of whom died.

Dr. Tahir Ali Javed

A Fremont-based group called the HONOReform Foundation grew out of the tragedy. It promotes sanitary practices in health care settings. The “One and Only” campaign that it advocates seeks to educate nurses, doctors and others of the importance of using syringes and needles only once.

Javed could not be reached for comment. His Omaha attorney, Michael D. Jones, said he hadn’t had contact with Javed in years.

Antonia Valentine of the New York State Education Department, which rules on restoration of medical licenses, confirmed that Javed has applied for reinstatement.

Valentine said in an email that the application will be investigated and referred to two committees before the New York Board of Regents rules on it. It’s unclear when the ruling will be issued. Valentine declined to provide further information.

Steve Langan, executive director of HONOReform, said, “Sick people were injured, some of them died, and no justice has been done.”

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office pursued the revocation of Javed’s medical license in 2003. It accused him of unprofessional conduct and gross negligence for allowing staffers to reuse syringes, which contaminated large bags of saline with hepatitis. The saline was used to clean out implanted devices that administer chemotherapy and other medications to cancer patients, infecting patients with hepatitis in the process.

The allegations said Javed had been warned multiple times that his office used unsanitary practices in administering the drugs and continued to allow it.

The Attorney General’s Office also accused him of exploiting a patient to conduct a sexual relationship with her. The attorney general alleged that Javed, a cancer specialist, gave the woman a false diagnosis and told her not to seek treatment elsewhere because other providers would inform her insurance company and she wouldn’t be able to get insurance again.

Documents indicate that Javed admitted to little. The exploitation accusations were dismissed. Javed chose not to contest the case against him and agreed to a settlement in which his Nebraska medical license was revoked in September 2003.

New York records show that Javed surrendered his medical license in that state in 2004, after he chose not to contest the Nebraska allegations.

Travis Bennington, a Fremont attorney who co-wrote a book on the case with one of the victims, Evelyn McKnight, said Javed fled to his native Pakistan before any criminal charges could be filed. McKnight is a co-founder of HONOReform.

Jean Schafersman of Hooper, Neb., whose son was fighting cancer when he was infected with hepatitis from treatment in Javed’s clinic, expressed astonishment over Javed’s New York application.

“How does that work?” she asked.

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A Pakistani-Muslim who blamed anti-Muslim sentiment? Non-Muslims beware.

Nebraska man to run for Congress on anti-sharia platform

Hamas-linked CAIR and their Islamophilic shills in the media to go ballistic in 3, 2, 1…

COLUMBUS, Neb. — A Columbus Republican will again challenge U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith in Nebraska’s primary election — and this time, he’s targeting Islamic religious law known as Sharia.

Dennis Parker, a music director at his Lutheran church, filed with the Secretary of State’s office earlier this month. He’s seeking the 2012 Republican nomination for Nebraska’s vast 3rd Congressional District seat, currently held by Smith. Parker also challenged Smith in 2010, but garnered only 12 percent of the vote.

Parker says he announced his candidacy a year before the filing deadline to give him time to warn Nebraskans of Sharia “spreading like an undetected disease.”

The Islamic law has drawn the contempt of conservatives. At least 13 states introduced measures this year seeking to prevent state courts from enforcing foreign law, including Sharia.

via Columbus man announces 2nd challenge to western Nebraska Congressman Adrian Smith :: The Republic.

Nebraska: Judge dismisses Muslim’s pork lawsuit against jail

An update on this Muslim cocaine dealer‘s lawsuit…a temporary reprieve. Don’t be surprised if this case is refiled…the jihad is relentless.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claims the Lancaster County jail in Lincoln served pork to a Muslim inmate while he was awaiting trial on a drug charge.

Dario Scott filed a lawsuit last October, claiming the staff served him a sausage and cheese scrambler with pork in it, despite assurances the jail’s kitchen didn’t serve pork, which Muslims often refrain from eating.

Scott sought $250,000.

The jail asked District Judge John Colborn to dismiss the case because Scott didn’t file a tort claim first with the county clerk as required by state law.

The Lincoln Journal Star on Monday says Colburn dismissed the case without prejudice, which means Scott could refile.

Scott pleaded guilty to a cocaine charge and is now serving 3 to 5 years in prison.

via Judge dismisses lawsuit against NE jail over pork.

Muslim cocaine dealer sues jail for $250K over pork

via Nebraska inmate sues over religious violation | News 5: Coverage You Can Count On | Local News.

A Nebraska prison inmate is suing Lancaster county for a quarter of a million dollars. The devout Muslim alleges he was served pork while in custody – violating the rules of his religion.

Court records said that 48–year–old Dario Scott follows dietary restrictions that bar Muslims from eating pork and that in March while awaiting trial, he was assured that pork was not served in the Lancaster County jail.

But he was later told that pork was an ingredient in some of the jail food.

Scott says in his lawsuit that he was sickened by the pork and that his rights to practice his religion were violated.

Scott is serving three–to–five years in prison for cocaine distribution.

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Dario Scott (Courtesy Lancaster County Corrections)

 

Nebraska meat plant sued for Muslim prayer time

Islam means submission, JBS is finding that out the hard way, via The Associated Press: Swift sued over treatment of Muslims at Neb. plant.

OMAHA, Neb. — Somali Muslim workers at a meatpacking plant in Grand Island were denied prayer time and faced harassment and even termination for asking to pray, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The lawsuit filed on behalf on more than 80 Somali Muslims says JBS Swift & Co. has failed to make reasonable religious accommodations, violating the workers’ civil rights, since at least December 2007.

Plant supervisors and non-Somali employees also harassed the Muslim workers, “interrupted their prayers, refused to let them pray, threw meat at them, called them names,” among other things, the lawsuit says.

A message left Monday at JBS Swift’s U.S. headquarters in Greeley, Colo., wasn’t immediately returned.

The tensions over prayer time at the Grand Island plant have been building since 2007. That was when East Africans began filling the gaps left after a 2006 immigration raid cleared illegal Hispanic workers from the plant.

The situation came to a head in September 2008, during Ramadan, when hundreds of Muslim workers walked off the job and picketed in protest, saying they wanted time to pray at sunset and break a daylong fast. Plant management responded the next day by adjusting the work schedule to accommodate them.

Non-Muslims — including Latinos, Sudanese and whites — counterprotested such accommodations, calling it special treatment that would burden the rest of the work force. Management then ended the accommodations, which sent Muslim workers back to the picket lines.

The company fired 86 Muslim workers for walking off the job. It eventually hired back about a dozen.

JBS Swift has disputed the firings were over religion.

Dozens of Somali Muslim workers filed complaints with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the dispute.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Omaha seeks an order requiring JBS Swift to provide prayer time and to refrain from retaliating against workers who ask to pray. It also seeks payment for the fired workers.

A message left Monday with the union representing the plant’s workers wasn’t immediately returned.

Nebraska meat plant cedes prayer time to Muslims

Somalis take over another US plant, protests, riots over Ramadan

Muslims protest for right to prayer – this time Nebraska

Muslim employees fired after Islamic prayer breaks abused, police oversee

Colorado meat plant adds footbaths & ass-washes for Somali Muslims

CO. plant adds segregated prayer rooms for Muslims, readies for Ramadan

We told you about the sharia-accommodating additions of footbaths and bidets for Muslims here.

Now, Somali Muslims in Colorado have taken it to an entirely new level in their ‘business jihad’ with SEGREGATED male and female Islamic prayer rooms – unlikely to be found in Somali workplaces, if in any workplace in any country. Didn’t segregation cause some commotion in the U.S. a while back?

JBS, Muslims vow harmony

Just a day before the beginning of Ramadan, the holy month of fast and prayer for Muslims, talks between meatplant workers, union representatives and company officials continued in earnest.

The objective: Avoid a repeat of the showdown at sundown that flared at JBS USA meatpacking plants in Greeley and Grand Island, Neb., last September.

During Ramadan, Muslims don’t eat or drink during daylight hours. They break their daily fast after sunset prayers.

Miscommunication about how to handle the religious practices resulted in more than 100 Muslim workers — mostly Somalis, but also other East African refugees who’ve moved to Greeley in recent years — being fired last September for walking off production lines.

Graen Isse, a Somali who helps operate the East Africa Community Center in Greeley, said he thinks conflicts will be avoided this year.

“We have good communication with the company,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen. Before, there was no communication at all. The key is communication.”

Unlike last year at this time, JBS has created two prayer rooms for Muslim workers inside the plant — one for men and one for women. Also, the company has installed stations in restrooms that allow workers to thoroughly wash, which is custom before prayers.

Still, some Muslims on the B shift, which runs from late afternoon to late evening and runs into prayers at sundown, have requested a monthlong switch to the daytime A shift to avoid conflicts, Isse said.

“I don’t think they’re going to move 400 workers to A shift,” Isse said of JBS. “It’s hard for them to do.”

Similar measures with respect to prayer rooms and wash facilities have been set up In Grand Island, where the company fired 86 workers who walked off the job last September. The tensions in Nebraska played out like they did in Greeley: Scores of Muslim workers initially protested the lack of a prayer break at sunset. The company responded by changing their work schedule to allow an earlier-than-normal break. Non-Muslim workers then counter-protested, saying the Muslims were being given preferential treatment. When management changed the schedule back, Muslim workers again protested and walked out.

There’s more, read it all at the link above. Refugee Resettlement Watch, who has over 70 posts “on the controversy on-going with Swift and Co. and its Somali workers”, has more information on the Graen Isse mentioned above – and it ain’t good news:

Now I want to turn your attention to Graen Isse.  I’ve followed his ‘career’ in Greeley since it began shortly before Ramadan last year.  Well-educated and bilingual, Isse arrived in Greeley in advance of Ramadan and lo and behold got a job at the plant one week(!) before he was fired along with other workers.   Coincidence?

I don’t think so, I think Isse is a ‘community organizer’ sent to Greeley to agitate.  I guess the big question remains, who sent him?

Just a reminder that it was also Isse who inflamed the conflict between Somalis and Hispanics by going to the Arab press and blaming the trouble on the longtime Hispanic workers, here.   Remember Alinsky says you need to create chaos to bring about change.

This is what we learned about Isse last fall here.

Muslim employees fired after Islamic prayer breaks abused, police oversee

Wonder what didn’t work out? Oh wait…we have an update…

GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska — Managers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant have told Muslim employees, most of them Somali, that shift changes made to meet their prayer demands werent working and would be ended.

Union president Dan Hoppes said Thursday that the workers reacted well to the news, but he didnt know whether they would walk out later in protest as they did Monday.

He and managers at the JBS Swift & Co. plant are still talking about meeting employee needs and maintaining plant production.

Workers were sitting down with managers for discussions before the second shift started Thursday afternoon.

Counterprotests by non-Muslim workers began Wednesday. They said the shift changes penalized them while favoring the Muslim workers. Source

Update: Muslim Meatpackers Fired In Prayer Dispute

Officials with a Grand Island meatpacking plant said 86 people have been fired after walking off the job amid a prayer dispute.

A representative with JBS Swift and Company said the workers were fired Friday after repeatedly leaving work without authorization. The company said the workers had been warned they might lose their jobs.

Somali-American advocate Mohamed Rage said 150 people were fired. He said 80 of them had been thrown out of the plant after a disruption late Thursday.

The plant has seen tension building in recent weeks. It culminated this week with multiple protests and hundreds of people walking off the job. Muslims said they want time to pray at sunset and others said they shouldn’t get special treatment.

Update 2: Company says 86 fired, AP/Muslim “leaders” say 150 fired, Cubans will replace

Update 3: Police maintain presence at Swift Friday – video

Nebraska meat plant cedes prayer time to Muslims

Or as it should read – Muslims force company to allow prayer time as dictated by sharia law and the Qur’an…or else. As was expected…remember, the Muslim spokeperson said “this was serious”. Serious it is, sharia law is spreading across the West like wildfire. And no one seems to care except the jubilant Muslims who claim another victory!

OMAHA, Neb. -

A union official says a dispute over Muslim prayer time at a Nebraska meatpacking plant has been settled.

The president of the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union said Wednesday that managers at the JBS Swift & Co. plant in Grand Island will accommodate workers who want to pray at sunset during Ramadan.

Workers previously took a 30-minute break in shifts. Union local president Dan Hoppes says the entire line will now break at once.

Three hundred Muslim workers walked off the job two days ago and marched to City Hall.

The company did not return a phone message Wednesday. Officials had said Tuesday that they hoped to balance workers requests with the plants needs.

Nebraska meat plant cedes prayer time to Muslims – Forbes.com.

Muslims protest for right to prayer – this time Nebraska

“Enough is enough,” he said. “We came to City Hall today to let the leaders know this is serious.” Too bad those who oppose sharia and Islamic jihad in America don’t do the same.

How long before this (NE, USA)	becomes this? (UK)
and this (NE, USA)	become this? (UK)

FYI, all those protests in the UK worked and the UK just legalized sharia law!

GRAND ISLAND —

A group of 500 Muslim workers from Grand Island’s JBS Swift & Co. plant staged a protest Monday afternoon.

Members of the B shift (3 to 11:30 p.m.) and some members of the morning A shift walked off the job after being denied time to pray during what they said is the holiest of times for them — Ramadan.

The workers said they pray about four to five times a day — two times of which fall during the A shift schedule and two of which fall during the B shift.