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Title: OUTCRY AS MUSLIM M&S WORKER REFUSES TO SELL ‘UNCLEAN’ BIBLE BOOK
Source: Daily Express [UK]
URL Source: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view ... ses-to-sell-unclean-Bible-book
Published: Jan 14, 2008
Author: Martyn Brown
Post Date: 2008-01-14 22:30:02 by mirage
Keywords: Dumb, Muslim, Morons
Views: 220
Comments: 5

A MUSLIM store worker refused to serve a customer buying a children’s book on Christianity because she said it was “unclean”.

Shopper Sally Friday felt publicly humiliated at a branch of Marks & Spencer when she tried to pay for First Bible Stories as a gift for her young grandson.

When she put the book on the check-out counter, the young assistant refused to touch it, declared it was unclean and summoned another member of staff to serve instead.

Mrs Friday said she was so upset that she has now complained to the store’s management.

Last night politicians and religious leaders supported her in condemning the high street giant and reigniting the debate over religious beliefs in the workplace.

Conservative MP Philip Davies said the refusal to serve Mrs Friday, 69, was “unacceptable” and “damaging” to community relations.

Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, described the assistant’s comments as “offensive” and called for Marks & Spencer to carry out a thorough investigation.

Mrs Friday said her trip to the sales in Reading, Berks, with her daughter had been ruined.

“I went to the till and heard the girl say it was unclean and then she got someone else to serve me,” said Mrs Friday.

“At first I wasn’t sure what was going on and then I realised she was wearing a headdress and I clicked that the title of the book had Bible in it. I felt very humiliated and immediately left the store.”

Mrs Friday, from Old Basing, Hants, added: “I have given it careful thought and still feel humiliated that, because I am purchasing a children’s Bible story book, a cashier is able to object and refuse to put it through the till.

“Had this been a copy of the Koran I am confident any Christian person would be happy to do her job, and for this to happen in a Marks & Spencer of all places beggars belief.

“I am not racist but I have vowed never to let a person wearing a headdress serve me again. It will be a long, long time before I shop again at M&S.” Mr Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, west Yorkshire, said: “I find it unbelievable. We are a Christian country. I’m afraid it is no good for people to work in Marks & Spencer and not serve their products.

“For M&S to put one of their customers in that position is totally unacceptable. If a Christian lady had refused to serve a Muslim on religious grounds there would have been hell to pay.

“In fact, I am sure someone would be sacked if it had been the other way round. But that won’t happen this time, will it? These kind of things do not do anything for community cohesion. In fact, they damage it.”

Mr Bunglawala said: “This appears to be a very regrettable incident and the ‘unclean’ remark was clearly very offensive and unacceptable.

Many Biblical stories complement the teachings of the Koran. We hope that M&S will investigate this incident.” A spokesman for Marks & Spencer said an investigation was underway. “We would like to apologise to Mrs Friday for any offence this incident has caused,” he said.

“Reading is a very multicultural store and we are surprised and disappointed by this reported incident.

“It does not reflect Marks & Spencer policy and simply should not have happened.

“We will remind all staff at the Reading site of our policy and will contact Mrs Friday to apologise for her distress.”

A source close to the shop assistant claimed there had been a misunderstanding.

“I think there was some confusion over what the customer heard,” she said.

But Mrs Friday’s treatment is just the latest example of Muslim staff refusing to serve customers on religious grounds.

In October 2006, Lloyds chemist was forced to apologise to mother Jo-Ann Thomas after a Muslim pharmacist refused her a morning-after contraceptive pill on religious grounds in Rotherham.

A smoker was refused cigarettes at a Cambridge store in January last year because the Muslim shop assistant said it was against her religion to sell tobacco.

Islamic checkout staff at Sainsbury’s who refuse to sell alcohol are allowed to opt out of handling bottles and cans of drink by calling other staff to take their place.

Other staff have refused to work stacking shelves with wine, beer and spirits and have been found alternative roles in the company.

Sainsbury’s said it was keen to accommodate the religious beliefs of all its staff.


Poster Comment:

I'd love to be able to declare things at work "unclean" and refuse to deal with them. Where do I sign up for such a sweetheart deal so I can be able to tell customers to zark off?

So, which one of the "all Muslims want to do is just get along" folks wants to address this?

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#1. To: mirage (#0)

As a business owner I find that I am the one who cleans the toilets. Cause I want em that way.

That's pretty unclean.

To call a book unclean is wrong. To disagree with what it presents is fine, but unclean smears ideas.

A lot of Muslims don't have the mind set of the west, not breaking news I know.

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tom007  posted on  2008-01-14   22:45:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: tom007 (#1)

A lot of Muslims don't have the mind set of the west, not breaking news I know.

As I mentioned to a very liberal friend of mine today:

"Multiculturalism requires that all parties abide by the Golden Rule."

If one decides to opt-out, it fails as a doctrine.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2008-01-14   23:58:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: mirage, tom007 (#2)

"Multiculturalism requires that all parties abide by the Golden Rule."

But the cashier did not violate it.

Popper's (hilariously white) improvement to the rule ("doing unto others, wherever possible, as they want to be done by") doesn't really resolve anything, and just adds one more step to the logic. Arguably, invasion by rapacious turd worlders and western suicide is completely consistent with it from both sides!

Empirically, diversity per se is problematic. From a naturalistic point of view the possibilities are symbiosis, competition, or mutual irrelevance. Altruism and trust, if not absolutely requiring genetic similarity, are greatly helped by it.

But there's no free lunch. The America that felt no need to lock the doors to its homes not coincidentally unlocked the gates to the nation.

Bob's Prechter's right; America topped, in real dollars, about 1961. Bob Petrie, bless him, alas had only one child.

"Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began" -- Ron Paul Political Report

Tauzero  posted on  2008-01-15   1:08:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Tauzero (#3)

But the cashier did not violate it.

Actually, the cashier did; you're just not seeing it.

There is a corollary to the Golden Rule which is this:
The Golden Rule also works faithfully in reverse.

Or, in short: As you do to others, so shall be done unto you.

The cashier just got Britain's Muslims labeled "unclean and unfit for a modern multicultural society" - just as the cashier labeled Britain's Christians as being "unfit for her presence."

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2008-01-15   3:16:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mirage (#4)

Or, in short: As you do to others, so shall be done unto you.

Except for christians.

Better I think is the caution given by a good teacher of self-defense: Avoid fights. You have to be lucky every time. The trash just has to get lucky once.

"Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began" -- Ron Paul Political Report

Tauzero  posted on  2008-01-16   15:43:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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