UPDATE: 4/2/12, Wegmans is applauded for removing Sharia-compliant checkout line, via Atlas Shrugs
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The reporter includes quotes from people who are fine with Islamic Sharia in a Wegmans Rochester store, and say Christians have the same hang-ups as Muslims because they know Christians who 'have a problem' serving alcohol. After accepting this false analogy wasn't the reporter curious to know if his subjects felt Christians valued female genital mutilation and honor killings just as Muslims do? How about the Buffalo, NY Muslim tv network owner who beheaded his wife?
3/30/12, "Sign at Wegmans draws attention," WHEC.com, Rochester, Ray Levato
"It’s a first for Wegmans in this area. They’ve put up a sign asking customers buying pork or alcohol not to use a particular checkout line when a Muslim teenager is on duty as the cashier.
The sign went up a week ago at their Lyell Avenue store.
Wegmans says they haven’t gotten any in store complaints and Wegmans was very upfront about the cashier. They just wouldn’t allow us in the store to talk with her or customers.
Spokeswoman Jo Natale says the cashier is a teenaged girl who wears a head covering. She told her supervisor she was uncomfortable handling those items because of religious reasons. So the store manager who had experience with this type of situation outside of Rochester decided to put up a small sign whenever the girl was at the checkout counter.
It says, “If your order contains pork or alcohol product, we respectfully ask that you choose another lane.”
Wegmans also says the girl has been coached what to say if customers ask why. People News10NBC spoke with outside the Lyell Avenue Wegmans store said they were okay with it and one even knows Christians who don’t like the idea of serving alcohol.
Bernard Thomas said, “I feel like if they’re going to hire her and she’s got to have the job, why shouldn’t we respect her. Just go to another cashier.”
Darlene Hucko said, “I would respect her beliefs and go to the next line if I had alcohol.
Levato said, “You think that’s okay.”
Hucko said, “I think it is okay.”
Alex Gritsvuta said, “I'm from a Christian background and waiters...the Christian girls that I know have a problem serving alcohol to people in a bar.
- Not in the bar necessarily, maybe in the restaurant.”
The girl attends school and works part-time. Wegmans characterizes her as happy, someone who likes what she does and a good worker.
Because of her age, Wegmans says state law limits the types of jobs teenagers can do inside a supermarket."
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6/14/10, "Female Genital Cutting: Affecting Young Girls in America," abcnews.go.com
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10/24/11, "North American Honor Killings Go Beyond Mere Homicide," AHA Foundation
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2/17/2009, "U.S. TV network founder charged with beheading wife," Reuters
"The founder of a U.S. Muslim television network has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife by beheading her, the network's Web site and local media reported.
Muzzammil Hassan, founder and CEO of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Bridges TV which launched in 2004 with a mission to show Muslims in a more positive light, was charged after reporting the death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, on Thursday night."...
reuters photo
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A Muslim customer of a Wegmans in Pennsylvania writes to complain about discrimination in the store shortly after 911
1/17/2002, "Racial Profiling by Personnel at your Food Store since the WTC Bombing!"
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Honor killings usually involve the cooperation of several family members.
11/30/2009, "'Honor killings' in USA raise concerns," USA Today, Oren Dorell
"Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six "honor killings" in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes....
Honor killings are generally defined as murders of women by relatives who claim the victim brought shame to the family. Thousands of such killings have occurred in Muslim countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Palestinian territories, according to the World Health Organization.
Some clerics and even lawmakers in these countries have said families have the right to commit honor killings as a way of maintaining values, according to an analysis by Yotam Feldner in the journal Middle East Quarterly.
In the USA, police allege the latest "honor killing" was that of Noor Almaleki, 20, who died Nov. 2 after she and her boyfriend's mother were run over in a Peoria, Ariz., parking lot. Prosecutors charged Almaleki's father, Faleh Almaleki, with murder, saying the Iraqi immigrant was upset that his daughter rejected a husband she married in Iraq and moved in with an American.
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act, and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," says Maricopa County prosecutor Stephanie Low, according to The Arizona Republic....
"You're always going to get problems with chauvinism and suppressing vulnerable populations and gender discrimination," says Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council....
Phyllis Chesler, who wrote about honor killings in her book Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, says police need to focus on the crimes' co-conspirators if they wish to reverse the trend. Before 2008, there were six honor killings in the USA in the previous 18 years, according to her research.
"It's usually the father, brother or first male cousin who is charged with the actual shooting or stabbing, (but not) the mother who lures the girl home," Chesler says. "The religion has failed to address this as a problem and failed to seriously work to abolish it as un-Islamic.""...
Almaleki, Arizona father who admitted he ran over and "honor killed" his daughter in a parking lot, AP
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Dec. 2011 'Santa' killing in Texas was honor killing:
12/27/11, "Islamic honor killing in Texas: "Santa" who murdered family on Christmas morning was Muslim who didn't like his daughter dating a non-Muslim," Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch.com
""She couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion.”... "Neighbors said the family was Muslim." Local police say 'motive not important.' (The DMNews story describes an 'honor killing' without using the term. ed.)
Star-Telegram article mentions at the very end that the family was Muslim and that parents were from Iran: "Baum said the family was Muslim but celebrated Christmas as a cultural holiday. The parents were originally from Iran."
via Atlas Shrugs, 12/27/11, "The mainstream media has reported this as the "Santa killer." No mention that it was an Islamic honor killing until this Dallas Morning News story."
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The honor killing court case will cost Canada taxpayers millions of dollars. Media doesn't use the word Islam or Muslim. Like the deceased, they're afraid.
1/29/12, "Shafia family guilty of murder; judge condemns 'sick notion of honour'," Globe & Mail
"The murder trial of three Afghan-Canadians accused of drowning four relatives in a so-called “honour killing” came to a cathartic end Sunday afternoon as the defendants were convicted on all charges. ...
The fourth person in the vehicle was Mr. Shafia’s first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 53, who had entered Canada illegally, posing as his cousin, but who in fact was part of a polygamous marriage."...
One of the now dead daughters feared for her life and asked police to place her in a foster home but they wouldn't. The article won't even say the word Islam. 4 people are dead, the police ignored the girl's plea because everyone is afraid of Islam.
1/29/12, "Shafia’s daughter asked to be placed in foster care prior to murders," Globe & Mail
"The Shafia girls turned to neighbours, school authorities and police to report troubles at home."...
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2/24/12, "The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript," National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy
"Sharia Justice in Pennsylvania Court"
uploaded Feb, 29, 2012, CNN
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1/18/12, "Group blasts Gingrich for limiting hires to Muslims who renounce Shariah law," Fox News, Joy Lin
"The largest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States on Wednesday condemned Newt Gingrich for saying he would only hire Muslims to his administration if they renounced the use of Islam's Shariah law as a tool for U.S. government.
Calling Gingrich "one of the nation's worst promoters of anti-Muslim bigotry," the Council of American Islamic Relations suggested the Republican presidential candidate
- is a segregationist."
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The Tampa Tribune doesn't use the word 'sharia,' instead uses the word 'islamic.'
10/25/11, "Use of Islamic law OK in civil case, judge rules," Tampa Tribune, by Jose Patino Girona
3/20/11, "'This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law'," American Thinker, Thomas Lifson
3/20/11, "Sharia law has come to Florida," RedState.com by Tom in Florida
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4/3/2005, "Working At Supermarket Check Out," Online Islamic Academy
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To contact Wegmens
"c/o Jo Natale, Public Relations
1500 Brooks Avenue
PO Box 30844
Rochester, NY 14603-0844
Customer Affairs: 1-800-WEGMANS (934-6267)
Email: jo.natale@wegmans.com,' via Atlas Shrugs
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More examples of "mosqueing the workplace" at this link at Atlas Shrugs
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Ed. note: You're a mental case to take a job you can't do then ask for special rules for yourself. Christianity doesn't prohibit 'being around' alcohol or food anyway, nor does it suggest adherents look suspiciously upon persons who consume alcohol in bars or restaurants, nor that anyone take a job where alcohol is served or take any kind of job they can't perform wholeheartedly. I believe the Mormon religion eschews alcohol but that isn't even the point. I'm Christian, served plenty of drinks during summer waitress jobs, and have never heard the subject of serving any food or drink connected to Christianity. If someone is 'uncomfortable' around alcohol or pork, fine, don't be around it, do a different job. photo from Wegman's checkout via Atlas Shrugs
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