Company says Muslims can pray on scheduled breaks only or find another job

Biz Pack Review ^ | 01/19/16 | Michael Dorstewitz

[Enlightened1]

When a Wisconsin manufacturer changed its previously liberal policy on Muslim prayer times, dozens of Somali Muslims claimed they were forced to walk out of their jobs.

Before Thursday of last week, Muslims employed at Ariens Manufacturing were permitted to leave the production line two times per shift to pray two of their daily prayers to Mecca, according to local ABC affiliate WBAY Channel 2 News.

A spokesman for the company said they were forced to change that policy, however. His statement said:

We are asking employees to pray during scheduled breaks in designated prayer rooms. Our manufacturing environment does not allow for unscheduled breaks in production.

We are open to any of the employees returning to work under the new policy or will look for openings in shifts that do not coincide with prayer time. We respect their faith, and we respect their decision regardless of their choice to return to work or not.

The policy change affects the 53 Somali Muslims employed at the facility who say that praying only during scheduled meal times goes against tenets of their faith.

"If someone tells you, 'You pray on your break,' and the break time is not the prayer time?" Green Bay Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi told the station, "It will be impossible to pray."

The Muslim employees claim they had no option but to leave.

"We pray by the time," former Ariens equipment painter Ibrahim Mehemmed told the station while displaying his unemployment packet. "So they say, 'If you don't pray at the break time,' they give us this [unemployment] paper to just leave."

[quietly desperate]

That’s a pretty big room with a special carpet, with arrows pointing East, a P.A. system, a special booth for a prayer leader. All space that has to be heated and lighted, not used for a productive purpose.

[jacknhoo]

Hey Islamists, shut up and get to work or leave you bunch of infant/child/women/animal rapists.

[bramps]

Ariens is a great company.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“...not the same as your old country you FLED”

Those Muzzies didn’t flee their Muzzy country. They came to America (and other western countries) to SPREAD Islam because the goal is to create a worldwide caliphate.

Islamic migration is called ‘hegira’ or ‘hijrah.’

Expert Warns Against Muslim Immigration: ‘It’s a Religious Obligation to Spread Islam’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/11/expert-warns-against-muslim-immigration-its-a-religious-obligation-to-spread-islam/

The Hijra
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/08/the_hijra.html

[Duckdog]

Now... is this a setup? Is the company an obama supporter? Are they starting this so obama can issue an order forcing them (and EVERYONE ELSE) to comply?

In other words, are they willing to do this, but only setting themselves up so that the whole country can be knocked down with them?

You think the way I do.

[nascarnation]

No company is safe on FR these days, it appears.
I used to keep a list of all the retail stores recommended for boycott on FR, but it eventually included just about every one in the country.

[goldstategop]

Muslims demand special treatment!

Hey, if they don’t like the rules every one else has to abide by, they can look for other work.

As long as we don’t have Sharia in America, they need to conform to our rules and live by our values.

[Mich Patriot]

And if that doesn't work some jihadi will decapitate their CEO.

My first thought was that they should hire some armed guards immediately. This place is a target for sure.

[fingers_crossed]

That is very true, but some truly did so to escape the dismal conditions in their countries. Remember people of some countries because Muslim at the end of the sword.

Recall when the Iranian people wanted us to come and liberate them after we toppled Saddam Hussein.

Their are quite a few books on Amazon written by people who fled Islam...

One of them is... Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America...by Brigitte Gabriel The author fled Lebanon after the Muslims came and conquered Christian Lebanon


She also started the organization ActForAmerica to educate people about Islam and has quite a few good videos on youtube.

[Made In The USA]

“We pray by the time,” former Ariens equipment painter Ibrahim Mehemmed told the station while displaying his unemployment packet. “So they say, ‘If you don’t pray at the break time,’ they give us this [unemployment] paper to just leave.”

YES Ibrahim, that IS the way it works. This is NOT a country that follows shariah law, or your religion. Get over it. Kindly suggest that you pack your crap and move to somewhere that fits your lifestyle.

Suck on it CAIR.

I’m so tired of this BS and thankful that Ariens is acting rationally.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Prayer times just for Brillon, WI (home of Ariens) this week:

Jan 17 Sun 5:41 7:24 12:02 2:22 4:42 6:24
Jan 18 Mon 5:41 7:23 12:03 2:23 4:43 6:25
Jan 19 Tue 5:40 7:22 12:03 2:24 4:44 6:26
Jan 20 Wed 5:40 7:22 12:03 2:25 4:45 6:27
Jan 21 Thu 5:39 7:21 12:04 2:26 4:47 6:28
Jan 22 Fri 5:39 7:20 12:04 2:28 4:48 6:29
Jan 23 Sat 5:38 7:19 12:04 2:29 4:49 6:31

Prayer times differ with location and change daily with the date. The times cannot be scheduled at the same time every day. That company needs to know what they are getting into with these people. The chaos never ends with them. Just get rid of them all now unless Ariens want more problems.

[Travis McGee]

Speaking of moon worshippers.......

If you have a moment, please share "The Alienork Way" link below with your PC friends and family. It's a brand new (free) short story that I just wrote. "The Alienork Way" is a cautionary tale about the mortal peril that Islam poses to civilization, and especially to PC civilizations that are too blind to understand the terrible danger of allowing Alienorks to move in. But it doesn't name Islam, so there is a chance that even your liberal bliss-ninny friends will read it. Then, they will understand the danger. The Alienork Way is also a great teaching tool for kids 12 and up, to counter all of the PC "Islam means peace" brainwashing they get at school.

Here is the link to "The Alienork Way"

http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/01/the-alienork-way/

[bramps]

I owned an Aliens snow blower for more than 20 years. When I had to call the company with a problem they could not have any more helpful. I really could have believed I was talking to the CEO given how professional and customer oriented he was. A note like this is the least I can do.

[tbw2]

Muslims expect to be accommodated in a shift based workplace where people not fitting into the machine schedule creates chaos. Their demands impact the facility and other workers ...
But Christians aren’t allowed to refuse to make a wedding cake or provide flowers that they consider blasphemy. And their refusal to provide service doesn’t affect someone beyond making them check with another provider ...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“If someone tells you, ‘You pray on your break,’ and the break time is not the prayer time?”... “It will be impossible to pray.”

A poor god indeed who cannot hear but five certain times a day, and ONLY if you face a certain direction, and beat your head on the ground while wailing like someone passing a kidney stone!

1 Kings 18: NLB
27 About noontime, Elijah began mocking them.

“You’ll have to shout louder than that,” he scoffed, “to catch the attention of your god! Perhaps he is talking to someone, or is out sitting on the toilet, or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

1 Kings 18: NLB
27 About noontime, Elijah began mocking them.

You’ll have to shout louder than that, “he scoffed,” to catch the attention of your god! Perhaps he is talking to someone, or is out sitting on the toilet, or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”