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Subject Line: Muslim workers get last laugh at Swift

You may recall the news reports about Muslim workers walking off the job at meat processing plants because the companies refused to allow them five prayer breaks a day. In at least one instance non-Muslim workers protested to the company that allowing five breaks daily to Muslims would unduly inconvenience non-Muslim workers.

The story below, obtained from "Dhimmi Watch," describes how this has played out. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed lawsuits against the companies in Minnesota and the companies agreed to settle. Over the past several years the EEOC has filed hundreds of lawsuits and complaints on behalf of Muslim workers alleging discrimination.

The last sentence says it all:

"So the proposition that Muslims have special privileges in American society, to which others are not privy, is now enshrined in precedent."

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Muslims get last laugh at Swift: Plant must pay $365,000 to Muslims fired for walking off job

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023476.php

An update on this story ( http://jihadwatch.org/archives/022659.php ), which played out essentially as predicted although that earlier post referred to the controversy at a different plant. The principles in play are the same. "Minnesota Plant That Fired Muslims for Taking Prayer Breaks Will Pay $365,000," from AP, November 11 (thanks to Islam In Action):

MINNEAPOLIS -- Under a settlement to a federal lawsuit, up to 100 Somali Muslims who are current or former workers at Gold'n Plump Inc. will receive a total of $365,000.

The settlement was filed in Minneapolis on Friday. It sprang from allegations of religious discrimination at the company's chicken processing plants in Cold Spring and Arcadia, Wis.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits against St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump and the Work Connection Inc., an employment agency in St. Paul, which handled some hiring for the plant.

Under the settlement, Gold'n Plump agreed to pay $215,000 to workers who were terminated for taking prayer breaks.

The Work Connection will pay $150,000 to workers who were asked to sign a form acknowledging that they might be required to handle pork, which many Muslims consider unclean....

So the proposition that Muslims have special privileges in American society, to which others are not privy, is now enshrined in precedent.