source:
http://webpages.charter.net/maxflack/A295.htm
Call it a surprise. It was all of that. The Somalis were left at the
altar—jilted—and after all those promises! Of course, they had asked
for the store—the Union Hall, the Global Human Resource office. They
had almost succeeded in changing the second shift 9 pm lunch break
into a 7:30 pm prayer call. It would have made Ramadan o-so-joyous an
occasion and would have tweaked the dhimmi’s nose at the same time.
But the Prophet was not a signatory to the contract between JBS Swift
& Co and the United Food Commercial Workers Union.
Somali Muslims are accustomed to asking (or demanding) and receiving.
They ask for footbaths and they get footbaths; they ask for prayer
rooms and they get prayer rooms; they ask for exceptions to this and
that work rule and they get the exceptions. But they didn’t get the
prayer break. It was within their grasp but at the last minute JBS
Swift changed its mind. Was it some kind of engrained dhimmi hostility
to Muslims or a normal corporate response to the demands of a minority
group? No collection of workers had ever asked for anything quite like
what the Somalis had wanted. It was a first. It is difficult to find a
parallel universe.
