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March 14, 2007

Muslim Store Clerks Making Customers Check Out Own Bacon

Topics: Understanding Islam

Call me politically incorrect, but if these people didn't want to assimilate into and join in our American culture, what in the hell are they doing here? Muslim cashiers at Target stores are refusing to handle pork.

Beryl Dsouza was late and in no mood for delays when she stopped at a Target store after work two weeks ago for milk, bread and bacon.

So Dsouza was taken aback when the cashier - who had on the traditional headscarf, or hijab, worn by many Muslim women - refused to swipe the bacon through the checkout scanner.

"She made me scan the bacon. Then she opened the bag and made me put it in the bag," said Dsouza, 53, of Minneapolis. "It made me wonder why this person took a job as a cashier."

In the latest example of religious beliefs creating tension in the workplace, some Muslims in the Twin Cities are adhering to a strict interpretation of the Quran that prohibits the handling of pork products.

Instead of swiping the items themselves, they are asking non-Muslim employees or shoppers to do it for them.

As LGF astutely alludes to, this is more about making non-Muslims give Muslims special treatment, and the Islamist's agenda. How would Target and their hijab-wearing cashiers like it if Target customers refused to buy from cashiers wearing hijabs!

Posted by Abdul at March 14, 2007 11:51 AM

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