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At New Minnesota Facility, Amazon Takes Small Steps to Welcome Muslim Workers
Religion News Service ^ | 10/13/22 | Kathryn Post

Posted on 10/26/2022 6:56:31 PM PDT by marshmallow

(RNS) — A new Amazon sorting facility in Woodbury, Minnesota, is taking its employees’ religious needs seriously, adding new “ablution stations” for ritual hand and foot washing and three rooms that people of any faith may use for prayer or meditation.

The 550,000-square-foot facility, which opened this month, employs about 300 Somalis and Somali Americans, many of them refugees from the generation-long civil war in the east African nation. Minnesota is home to as many as 80,000 Somali immigrants, more than half of those living in the United States. More than 99% of Somalians are Muslim.

A stop for packages moving between Amazon warehouses and their shipping destinations, the Woodbury center includes signs in Somali as well as translation services. Other accommodations for all employees include lactation rooms for nursing mothers and soundproof booths for phone calls.

Jaylani Hussein, executive director for CAIR-MN, the local chapter for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told Religion News Service that while CAIR-MN celebrates the move, in many ways, it’s the bare minimum.

(Excerpt) Read more at religionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost

1 posted on 10/26/2022 6:56:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
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I wouldn’t bother, they probably won’t work there all that long.


2 posted on 10/26/2022 7:00:19 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: marshmallow

Remind me to stop using Amazon.


3 posted on 10/26/2022 7:01:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: marshmallow

Do they also take small steps to welcome Jewish and Christian workers?

Or have they banned Christmas and Chanukah?


4 posted on 10/26/2022 7:06:49 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: marshmallow

Government, EEOC, says religion must be accommodated.

Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, Jews, Christians don’t seem to need accommodation.


5 posted on 10/26/2022 7:21:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: marshmallow

Open it in the Iraq or Saudi Arabia and relocate all of these workers.


6 posted on 10/26/2022 7:22:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: marshmallow

A jihad station too?


7 posted on 10/26/2022 8:04:06 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: marshmallow

Minnesota is a wonderful state and the person who brought Somalis to MN is doomed to permanent unhappiness.


8 posted on 10/26/2022 8:18:22 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: marshmallow
"Ablution stations" are all fine and dandy, but I'm waiting for them to finally install the "goat-sacrifice stations" so that we Muslims can work there without suffering religious discrimination.

And any coworkers complaining about the screaming when the goats get their throats slit - Praise be to Allah! - should be summarily fired!

Regards,

9 posted on 10/26/2022 10:43:40 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: marshmallow

Why is Amazon willing to accept people who will murder you?


10 posted on 10/26/2022 11:23:32 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: marshmallow

The great replacement goes on unabated.


11 posted on 10/27/2022 1:09:53 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: marshmallow

Will they refuse to handle pork rinds, cans of pork and beans, etc? allah wills it!


12 posted on 10/27/2022 3:14:54 AM PDT by Travelin’ Right (Liberals ruin Everything)
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To: chopperk

Leftist are suicidal/genocidal.
What motivates them the most..abortion..pretending men can be women..giving sex changes to the kiddies..gay “marriage”


13 posted on 10/27/2022 3:26:59 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: chopperk

Oh,and euthanizing the elderly.


14 posted on 10/27/2022 3:29:27 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Falconspeed

wasn’t it the Lutherans who cleaned up Somalia and brought the trash to the USA- and then some meat packing company gave them all jobs?
I may be confused though.


15 posted on 10/27/2022 3:49:16 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Just GET A JOB already. )
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To: marshmallow; Mr. K; ifinnegan; Reno89519; inchworm; Falconspeed; alexander_busek; chopperk; ...
Bezos should ask Michael Dell how his Willy Wonka/Oompa Loompa plan worked out.

Somalis were brought in to his Lebanon, TN factory while I was there in 2005. They were homogeneous in feigning (?) ignorance, refusal to learn English, lack of self-motivation and expecting American society to conform to their barbaric cult's demands.

Dell's business structure was based on time-critical operation and efficiency to maintain profitability. The Somalians blew that to hell with their demands for Prayer Times, daycare/pregnancy exemptions and total disregard for the companies need over their own. We citizens also learned to roll up our vehicle windows to where very thin arms couldn't reach in.

They closed the plant the next year.

16 posted on 10/27/2022 12:04:42 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (It's time to Build Gallows Back Better.)
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