Whom to root against? CAIR sues Abercrombie & Fitch
Okay, this is ridiculous on many levels.
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) announced today that it has filed an EEOC complaint on behalf of a Muslim woman who was allegedly denied employment at an Abercrombie Kids store in that state because of the applicant’s religiously-mandated headscarf, or hijab.
The woman told CAIR-OK that a district manager claimed he could not hire her because her Islamic headscarf “does not fit the Abercrombie image.”
What, wasn’t the OKC Hooters hiring? This plaintiff is fighting to preserve her modesty while going to work for a company that’s injected more soft porn into our cultural bloodstream than Cinemax?
Next up: the Bada Bing Strip Club gets sued for refusing to let their dancers shimmy inside a burqa.
Of course the plaintiff was going to work for Abercrombie Kids, which is a pretty creepy bit of branding synergy right there. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. But I can see the niche it fills–parents worried that modern society is too sheltering. Some dad’s out there going, “my kids are going to preserve their innocence too long…is there a store where I can get them a head start on that lucrative streetwalker career?”
I remember when Abercrombie and Fitch was basically like Cabela’s or Bass Pro Shops for the Weatherby and Orvis set. I still have a faded T-Shirt of theirs, with the rhino logo, from the late 1980s. It’s a great loss.
On the other hand, as with Jamal Miftah, this is radical Islam asserting itself yet again in the heartland. This isn’t Manchester or Khartoum or Basra. Based on the A&F store locator, this is apparently either Penn Square Mall, or Quail Springs, or Woodland Hills malls in Oklahoma.
Which shouldn’t be surprising–after all, terrorism expert Steven Emerson first encountered radical Islam at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds on Christmas day, 1992.
So whom do I root against? The worst reactionary impulses of the seventh century, or the engines of postmodern degradation? A pox on both their houses.
UPDATE: It’s Tulsa, again. Thanks to reader MikeOK.
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{Post by See-Dubya. H/T to Cuffy at Perfunction–but a CONTENT WARNING on his post. He’s included some catalog samples of what “the Abercrombie image” is all about, which aren’t safe for work.}
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As a general rule, it is not nice to curse anyone. But in this case, I agree. May they both be infested with flees of 10,000 camels.
Lock CAIR and Ambercrombie and fitch executives together in the same room – come back in 3 days remove the survivors and put them in prison for life and take the remains of those that didn’t survive and bury them…..problem solved
This is rich… They want to work at TARGET, but not handle pork… They want to drive a cab, but no liquor or dogs… Now, the greatest drain on adolescent morality in the retail sector??? Where does their seeking to control the AMERICAN business end… Not until they control it all, and we stop for PRAYER five times a day, and all say ALLAH AKBAR…
A few months ago I was bemused by something I witnessed at our local mall. A Muslim family — dad, mom (wearing the hijab), and two little (younger than 10 years) daughters entered an Abercrombie store. It wasn’t the Abercrombie for Kids, either.
I wondered what their reaction was to the near-naked Barbie and Ken life-sized posters.
It’s amazing that the A&F manager was so stupid and commented on this ladies’ costume.
How dumb can you get. All he had to do was to deny her a job after the interview and to keep his mouth shut.
Next, we’ll have a bunch of muslims show up in burquas and demand employment at Victoria’s Secrets.
The manager could have called her bluff and had her work full-time replacing stock or working at the cash register.
Recently a hairdresser got in trouble for not hiring another Muslim, who refused to remove her scarf. The hairdresser believed that showing your hair should be part of the requirement for working as a hairdresser. Personally, I would never go to a hairdresser with a headscarf.
Muslims could start their own businesses and sell to their own market, but they want to force changes in ours.
We need to get smarter and not allow them to discriminate against us.
Well many muslims are not afraid to say that they hate our culture yet they want us to deal with theirs. The message I get is there’s some lyin goin on. Nope they want to change us by force of law if necessary. I make a point of never shopping where I see these people, it’s a free country after all. They can go off anytime (sjs) and being a responsible parent if I were to do that I should be arrested, it’s a hate crime. Just say no, to islamist threats and intimidation that is.
This web site says that it was Woodland Hills mall in Tulsa.
Also, it sounds like Steve Emerson’s encounter with radical Muslims occurred in downtown OKC, probably at the Myriad (now Cox) Convention Center. Still, it’s pretty scary stuff.
Tulsa also has a few decent strip clubs so if the Abercrombie lawsuit doesn’t work out, there are still plenty of opportunities. Oh, and there’s always Hooters.
I don’t think you can go wrong rooting against anything CAIR! Like Mark Steyn writes in his excellent book America Alone, Islamofication starts out subtly and grows with each and every victory or (especially) legal win. See France and The Netherlands for example. Or even Britain!
No, I don’t think there is anything such as bad anti-Islamofication!
This would be ridiculous if it wasn’t serious. Michael Savage discussed this lawsuit on his program yesterday – he’d know a thing or three about lawsuits against CAIR. And this would be an issue on which I agree with Dr Savage – this wasnt a random resume drop, this is a calculated effort on the part of CAIR to inject more, as you say, radical Islam in the American heartland.
I have a friend who used to work as a manager at an A&F outlet, and he talked every so often about how he couldnt employ certain people because they didnt fit the A&F “image.” In most cases, it was, well, fat people. It wasn’t managerial decision-making that he was particularly proud of, but we’re not talking about morbidly obese people wanting to fold shirts, this was “pleasantly plump” people who clashed with the hard pectorals an washboard abs that adorn the walls of the shop.
A&F lawyers will probably claim that physical fitness and dress are bonafide qualifications for occupation to work in their retail outlets, but I suspect they will just choose to settle out of court and the CAIR spook – because I dont believe for a moment this was a random attempt at retail employment – will move on to her next victim.
And then what? Just one more court precedent, like others mentioned above by pueblo1032 (#3), of Islam trying to force business to function according to its tenants.
Do you think that being dismissed from a job because a Christian refused to work on Sundays to attend church would merit a lawsuit? I know I dont.
Oops, forgot the link for Mark Steyn’s book: http://www.steynonline.com/index
There is an Oklahoma City Hooters?????
Address?
Oops, again. Make that: http://www.steynonline.com/
as long as we’re commenting on this – has anyone else read the story where one of the Tyson Foods plants, in Shelbyville, TN, will no longer recognize Labor Day as a paid holiday. Instead, they will recognize the Muslim holiday, Eid-al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan each year to accomodate the 700 muslim workers, out of the 1,200 employees. Let me repeat, Eid-al-Fitr will be recognized as a paid holiday, while Labor Day will not be. I wonder how the other 500 employees at the plant feel about this change? I hope they, en masse, are absent on Labor Day, which is recognized in America as a FEDERAL HOLIDAY, as well as this wonderful new paid day off, which is recognized in the muslim world as a holiday.
Oh please. No gym would hire someone who weighed 400 pounds as a personal trainer. Doesn’t fit the image. A&F have the right to have their employees look a certain way. I have no problem with that.
Yes and some companies here are helping them. Did anyone catch Debbie Schlussel’s piece on the islamization of Tyson foods? They are dropping Labor day for some islamist holiday instead. As she says buh bye Tyson. Hope they are well trained in halal and they don’t mind some employees being beheaded here and there for insulting islamist sensibilities[.?.].
Sorry birdlady79 ya beat me to it.
I had to think about 1/10 of a second… I’m rooting against CAIR. The sooner people start standing up against CAIR and letting them know they don’t control us, the better. We can deal with A&F later and as necessary.
Yes, I read that article, too. Why don’t they let the muslims off for their holiday and make them work on the American holiday.
That way the plant could remain open more days and you’d expect productivity to rise…
Birdlady79:
Yes, I heard about that too. Time to boycott Tyson.
Major creeping Sharia.
This is kind of nit-picking, but posts here seem to frequently get this wrong: It’s the seventh century. Muhammad allegedly started receiving his visions around 622, and the Muslim conquest of the Near East and North Africa happens almost entirely in the hundred years following.
Probably she was bait to elicit a lawsuit against deep pockets.
Better to face the lawsuit up front. If she was hired that would have opened a floodgate of such suits for everything A&F stand for. Right down to the (sacrilegious) stuffed dog on display.
jroberts:
Fixed. Thanks.
Personally, I don’t think she wanted a job, she just wanted to cause trouble and claim Islamophobia.
#11 Rob
There’s one on Northwest Expressway just east of May Ave. and one in Brick Town. I’m sure there are others.
I’ve been down on A&F ever since they started marketing thongs decorated with cherries to 10-year-old girls. Still, I’m afraid I’d have to side with them over CAIR. As bad as A&F is, they seem the lesser of evils in this case.
lol
Oldest trick in the book, this is just a distraction for what CAIR is really up to. no good.
I root against CAIR also and by the way on the Tyson story….they just lost a customer! Thank God for the freedom to decide not to buy the dhimmi’s products!!!!
When A&F starts flying planes into buildings, I’ll gladly do a moral equivalence number with C.W. Until then, get a grip man.
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Poor management.
The dope should have kept the mouth shut. No reason to say anything. But if one must then its: “…found a better (or more qualified) candidate”.
I’m rooting for A&F…they use free speech as cover. CAIR wants me dead if I don’t convert.
I have absolutely no use for any product hawked by Abercrombie & Finch, but I have to side with them when it comes to fighting this continuous Sharia creep from CAIR and its allies. Despite the 1st Amendment rights these savages gain by coming over here, their form of totalitarian government disguised as a religion can not and will not every be able to coexist with any Democracy or our representative Republic (that I doubt exists after yesterday afternoon display by the Democrat leadership). The camels head is under the tent and unless we act soon we will be as doomed as Europe appears to be. Push back is coming and when it does it ain’t going to be pretty.
Is the hijab really that radical? It isn’t like she’s arguing for the right to wear a burqa at work. I’ve known hijab-wearers that wore otherwise Western clothes.
I think there are two slippery slope arguments here. The first, as already mentioned, is that if the courts rule that you can’t discriminate on the basis of hijab-wearing, then what’s to stop them from ruling that you can’t discriminate on the basis of burqa-wearing.
On the other hand, there is another slippery slope. We could end up like France. If you can discriminate on the basis of one religious item of clothing, why not on the basis of any religious item of clothing — e.g., cross necklaces or yarmulkes (not exactly a fair comparison, as the necklace isn’t mandatory in any denomination like the yarmulke or hijab). If A & F can not hire someone for wearing a hijab, why couldn’t they also not hire someone for being a Christian? Or are we only comfortable with religion when it’s invisible?
That is easy: the Muslims.
Does anyone think this Muslim chick is not a pawn of CAIR and other terrorists? Does she REALLY want to work at A & F?
They are a private organization, and if they feel a Muslim barbarian does not fit into their image, they have the right not to hire this witch.
The ONLY reason she is suing is to help further the jihad against America.
Note to barbarian Muslims: If you feel the need to wear the hijab and the burka, why are you even in our country? You would be much more at home back in the place from which you came.
Foul!
She can’t claim to be religious AND want to work outside the home… its one or the other.
Hmmm. Do I want to see my country slowly taken over by jihadis or slowly taken over by Mexicans? Why do I feel like the Ghostbusters when Gozer asked them to choose the form of the destructor?
Let’s see how much good those all important civil liberties are to the liberals when sharia replaces the Constitution.
Hey! Here’s an idea. Give her exactly what she wanted: a job.
They should instantly apologize and offer her a job. Then have her sit in the stockroom sorting socks all day. When she gets them all sorted, the mangager can come in and jumble them all up again. Minimum wage combined with a boring, monotonous, pointless job. I just wish they had the stones to do it.
Remember the old A&F in Chicago’s Loop, terrific store. Hope I have some of the stuff around. Do not think the current business has any connection to the old one. Strange how a reliable firm lasted for a hundred years and then got swept away just when the popular market moved in the direction they had been holding all along. In this dispute the answer is clear, back A&F over CAIR.
To me, the Muslim threat is far worse. All Muslims are barbarians to the core. They will never fit in or assimilate until they have sharia law.
They only pretend to be Americans. I saved the following article to my favorites because this African Catholic priest is so dead-on correct about this religion of barbarians:
http://www.christendom.edu/news/archives/archives06/nnorom.shtml
He has it exactly correct: This witch who wants a job at A & F is only a “pretend citizen.” She is a Muslim “citizen” first and foremost. She wants this job only to set a legal precedent and further the jihad.
Anyone combatting barbaric Islam deserves our support.
#5 – Helene, I remember that story. The salon in question was a punk salon in London – spiky pink hair and the like. The owner refused to hire the Muslim woman who applied because her hijab would not encourage the sort of customers the shop caters to.
Last I heard, an Administrative Court had found in the Muslim woman’s favor and awarded her several thousand dollars for her emotional pain.
Absolutely ridiculous!!
Whether or not you like the clothes A&F sells (and A&F’s largest size is probably 10 sizes too small for me) is irrelevant. Whether or not you like the image A&F portrays (I do not) is irrelevant. This is a calculated effort by CAIR to attempt to establish a legal precedent. Does anybody mulling over who to support really believe that A&F jives with Islam? Does anybody mulling over who to support – A&F or CAIR – really believe that this was not a calculated decision to target CAIR? Does anybody mulling over who to support really believe that CAIR didn’t target A&F precisely because they knew the girl would be turned down for employment? Does anybody mulling over who to support really believe that the first place a teenage girl would run to to cry about job discrimination would be the Council on American-Islamic Relations?
Wake up.
Come on jroberts, after all this time and all the world events since 9/11, or even back to the Clinton years, you still haven’t checked it out for yourself.
According to the Koran, in the world there is only Islam and those with whom Islam is at war.
To paraphrase a line from the movie, The Sting:
All ya got to do is reeead!
Good grief!!
To paraphrase MM, it is: The religion of perpetual outrage.
I consider Muslims our enemies. The religion of Islam appears inconsistent with our livestyles and our culture as we know it in the USA. They don’t belong here.
I was always a very easy going man, accepting people based on their manner, character and values. Not until I was forced to deal with non-assimilating, rights demanding illegals, culturally abusive middle-easterners and now the in-your-face openly hostile behavior of Muslims, has the worst in me developed. I resent the arrogant, superior attitudes of these people and now I am ready for a confrontation with them on a daily basis here in the Los Angeles area.
Not a day goes by that I don’t experience an adversarial encounter which involves rude and aggressive driving, disregard for rules of courtesy,
obnoxious use of cell phones, and constant infringements on our way of life.
They have no right to expect this country to accommodate their culture-clashing, disruptive anti American mores behavior and garb. They are a scheming, deceitful bunch with an agenda to overthrow and control this and all societies whose values are inconsistent with the Islam’s guidelines.
We need to find a constitutional way to eliminate them from our lands.
Sorry people but I have to ask; Was it necessary to link Obama with this story through the photograph? If not out of objectivity then how about just giving those of us who are of a different religion a break from seeing him everywhere. No wonder they think he is the second coming of Jesus, he seems to be omnipresent.
Does such a strict religion even allow someone to work at A&F?
Does the 2nd Amendment count?
SpeakEasy…
The 2nd amendment was partially written for this situation. It does count.
Great Stubby. As my grandmother used to say, “Praise God and pass the ammunition!”
SpeakEasy
Grandmother knows best. We have to respect our elders.
Speakeasy,
Do you mean here or at Perfunction? If you mean Obama’s picture at Perfunction, it was simply the next thread down–no tie to this issue of AF at all.
If we don’t say anything other than we don’t want to hire you, maybe they will go back to some other land. I think it is time to deport all muslims along with the illegals. They are trying to take over and run everything their way and it is not the Christian way I want. If I own a store, I hire and fire whom I want. I think I am smart enough not to offend by saying I don’t like your headdress.
Not just any hairdresser – but an alternative hairdresser. I saw a picture of the shop owner in question, and she had pink hair.
The owner also said the Muslim woman in question walked into the interview like she owned the place. In the end, the shop owner paid 4,000 pounds for “hurt feelings,” even though the tribunal hearing the case did not find the Muslim in question a victim of discrimination.
Shari’a law won’t win by force, but politically correct liberal types will help it win by litigation.
SpeakEasy:
Bring back Alien and Sedition laws and enforce them against those Muslims who are preaching destruction to America and the murder of Americans in mosques and Wahhabi funded schools.
As for jroberts question about the hijab, yes there is a slippery slope. When women are forced to wear such symbols of oppression, I oppose it. In France, they threw out the baby with the bath water, but there is a difference between voluntarily wearing a cross, and being forced to wear a hijab. Already in Sweden, non-Muslim women wear hijabs to avoid harassment by Muslim men on the streets. That is unacceptable.
Ocracoke,
The thread on MM.com links a picture of Obama to the A&F kerfluffle (IMO wrongly) through the wearing of an A&F T-shirt by someone in the crowd. We conservatives have to practice what we preach (objectivity). Lord knows there are plenty of issues to oppose Obama on that we do not need to invent them.
Speak and Stub: Amen!
Businesses need to hire Human Resource personnel who know how to turn down an applicant within the bounds of the law. For example, “I’m sorry Miss, but we hired an applicant who was MORE QUALIFIED for the position.”
How could they disprove that?
Every single Muslim in America? What if they’re here legally?
But it isn’t the case that Islam has always acted like that. Regardless of what the Koran says (similarly, if you wanted insight into the past and future of Christianity, the Bible would only tell you so much), at some times Islam has gotten along pretty well with other religions, and at other times it didn’t. E.g., for about 1300 years the most important Jewish community was in Muslim Baghdad, which produced really important Jewish philosophers and Talmud scholars like Saadya Gaon. Moorish Spain until 1148 was pretty tolerant of Christians and Jews, and then after 1148 the Almohad dynasty took over for 100 years and exiled the Jews and Christians; many of the Jews (most notably Maimonides) left for equally Muslim, but more tolerant, Cairo. Muslim mercenaries were frequently hired in the early Middle Ages for wars between Christian kings. Catholic Pilgrims were allowed into the Muslim occupied Holy Land. Historically the relationship between Islam and other religions has wavered between getting along fairly well and violent suppression and forced conversion; this can be said, in the long view, about any other religion.
I should mention that I have slight personal bias. I’m a grad student in medieval theology. The notion of
is, as far as I care, remarkably short sighted. 15 1/2 years is not something that I would ever describe as “all this time” and “even back to.” That’s barely 1% of the history of Islam.
That’s only sort of true. By 1453 when Constantinople finally fell, the Byzantines definitely took Islam seriously. In the 7th century when Islam took a huge chunk of the Byzantine empire, Byzantium didn’t take them seriously because the Muslims came out of nowhere. So, between the Muslim conquest of the Holy Land and the fall of the Byzantine empire, there were about 800 years of taking Islam seriously.
This just seems to be a CAIR ploy to cry discrimination. This woman would stand a snowball’s chance in …. of getting a job in an strict islamic country. If our country is soooo unkind to them, they are free to leave. The rest of this counrty does not need to bend to the will strict islamic rules. There are many jobs which would not allow her to wear a scarf because it would be a safety issue. CAIR needs to get over itself.
Hi Mookie…
Legally here or not, they all need to go in my opinion. It is my impression, from their notable silence as a group opposing terrorism, that they all are deep down on the same side of the fence. The jihad thrives on plants in our society and they remain obscure for years. I am suspect of them all and since the risks are so obvious and so devastating, I am not comfortable with any of them.
Why take any chances when our country is at stake and their intent is so clear.
Dear CAIR-OK: If your excuse for existance is primarily “American-Islamic Relations”, perhaps you should stop filing SILLY lawsuits against American businesses. I really don’t think that this process promotes good relations between you and anybody else on the planet. If that is not possible, change your name to more properly reflect your hidden agenda. Perhaps something like “Council To Get In The Face Of America And Piss Off Infidels” or perhaps “Organization Of Perpetual Assholes Who Whine About Everything That Does Not Please Them”. Oh, excuse me, that last one has already been taken by the Democratic Party.
People just have to understand that certain jobs are going to have certain standards of dress and decorum that you have to adhere to if you want the job. After all, YOU are the one asking for the job. If Home Depot says you have to wear orange shirts every day, you do it. If IBM says suit and tie, you do it. Free expression is great, but in a private company, they make the rules. If you don’t like it, go elsewhere, or start your own business and compete. Don’t come in demanding that they change for you.
Sadly, that is what our litigious country has come to.
Yeah, A&F used to be a great store, just like Banana Republic. They used to have really great stuff, then some B-school genius ruined both of them. Both are just crappy Gap copies now. I went into the local A&F recently (for as long as I could stand the annoyingly loud music, and say crappy, worn, holey jeans for $80!! I swear I saw a pair I threw away years ago. What a ripoff. And the porny posters fit for a pedophile are just pathetic ploys to get stupid teens to buy their overpriced crap.
ERRONEOUS!!! I always cheer for the free market! If she wants a store where everyone prances about in their hijabs, then guess what? SHE CAN OPEN ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is AMERICA, I don’t care for A&F, so I don’t shop there…let freedom ring!!!!!
Sorry MM… have to disagree with ya on this one…
Do you REALLY want to wake America up to the threat of Islamic Sharia law???
Explain that they threaten Dogs, Alcohol, and PORN!
After that, stand by for the Fireworks.
What school? I don’t trust the garbage taught in many colleges these days.
And as for your statement that Muslims got along with Christians and Jews at specific times is more to do with the tolerance of the rulers at those times, rather than of Islam’s “tolerance” itself. If any good came out of Islamic lands, it was in spite of Islam, not because of it.
Even a stopped clock is right twice in a day.
When I was in the Navy it was a tradition for us to feud with the Marines, and for them to feud with us. Squids trash talking Jarheads, Jarhead questioning the manhood of the squids… it was a constant thing.
But if a fight broke out in a bar overseas there was no question, at all, whose side we were on.
You may not like A&F, your reasons not to like them may be valid, but at the end of the day they’re Americans, and we have more in common with them than we have differences.
I hope they crush CAIR.
That depends on your definiton of “getting along pretty well”. When the adherents of other religions submitted and accepted Dhimmi status sure, they were peacefully co-existed with.
One can also say, honestly, that blacks in the pre-Civil War South had a low incidence of homelessness and near-zero percent unemployment. That doesn’t mean they were “peacefully coexisted with” or had a good life.
Islam has never peacefully co-existed with other religions, seeing them as equals and regarding them with a “live and let live” attitude.
There’s on big, huge, important difference. Christians stopped forcible conversions something like 400 years ago. Islam is doing it today.
This has NO-Thing to do w/the garb of Islam…
it is the “camel’s nose”..
CAIR and ACLU are VERY clever–”don’t fight with guns …fight in the courts-win-a little at a time..”
Remember the book _Alms for Jihad_ -Saudi billionaire – UK – threatened to sue Cambridge Press -CP folded like a cheap suit…pulled (BURNED ) the book-
Same Saudi billionaire -_Funding Evil_
book still on selves-author-US citizen book published here in US-
US citizens WAKE UP !!!WILL YOU??????
And bacon.
If those four things aren’t worth going to war over I don’t know what is.
Didn’t SS Nancy P wear a dhimmi scarf when she visited our “friends ” in the countries of ISLAM!????!!!!!
piglets anyone??
Christian Soldier, pssst- squeeze, don’t jerk.
If A+F wouldn’t allow someone to wear a rosary or a crucifix or a cross necklace, you’d be singing a different tune. Got to support CAIR here.
“The woman told CAIR-OK that a district manager claimed he could not hire her because her Islamic headscarf “does not fit the Abercrombie image.””
THAT was a huge mistake. You NEVER tell a prospective employee (or anyone else not directly involved in the hiring process) why you are not hiring them – NEVER. If they ask, at most you apologize and say for legal reasons you cannot provide any further details, on or off record. Anything else opens you up for exactly this kind of litigation. That district manager will most likely get a DCM notice in the near future. (DCM = Don’t Come Monday)
Rusty, a rosary is worn UNDERNEATH clothing and therefore not visible – that is no comparison to wearing a friggin sheet with a hole in it over your head, you idiot. Stop trying to compare chalk with cheese, you’re full of it.
Rusty, she can wear anything she want’s around her neck… but head scarfs, like percings & ink scare off customers.
But you don’t really
caircare do you?nyc123me, “employment at will” would make this point mute in a severance…
so may be the right course is to hire & fire on the same day. LOL.
jroberts,
It is correct to assume that our American (and the world) leaders have not taken Islam’s reassertion at this time seriously. They also seem to be ignoring the fact that it is not just a religion but also a political system.
Anecdotal evidence across the ages only proves:
One: There have been points across the ages when Moslems have been persuaded by some charismatic believers, such as now, to live closer to the teachings of Koran. That teaching is, convert the infidels or kill them.
Two: There hasn’t been a force strong enough to hold back the invading hordes. Though America is trying. However, I fear it won’t succeed if it continues to ignore the fact that Islam is a political system.
The world is not just being invaded by a religion. There is an attempt to take over America by a political system in the guise of a religion. What better place to work to this end than a nation that espouses “…freedom of religion”.
Could someone rise to the district manager position and be THAT stupid?
HA! Would to God we could be rid of all evil atrocities: CAIR and Abercrombie!!
On August 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm, simcoe said:
jroberts, It is correct to assume that our American (and the world) leaders have not taken Islam’s reassertion at this time seriously.
simcoe, with all due respect (sir/madame) invading & occupying 2 countries (a good thing) suggests that they do take it seriously… ignoring the threat at home, well not so much.
Good question Rob, but it’s quite possible unfortunately – seen a few people in positions they were in no way capable of purely because it gave the company a good diversity record. It is that sort of thing that creates prejudice, ironically.
.. not that I am saying that was the situation in this particular case.
nyc123me, can’t wait till the cases go public, then I can tell you about my last boss, an openly lesbian middle aged woman, who has an agenda of replacing experienced male employees with recent female grads… she prefers girls of Italian decent though, no head scarfs.
Anyone who doing this:
” Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.” Koran Sura 09.029
I would buy something from Abercrombie & Fitch in solidarity but anyone past the age of 17 who wonders in to that store instantly feels about as out of place as… well… someone in a burqua would be.
Another example of the CAIR “camel’s nose under the tent”:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/muslim-woman-sues-oregon-city-for.html#comments
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like thisssssssssssss
While I have zero respect for Abercrombie (didn’t know their ads had gotten THAT bad), I have just as little respect for more modest people who whine because they can’t get hired there. WHY WOULD YOU WANT, AS A MODEST PERSON, TO WORK FOR A SLIME SHOP LIKE ABERCROMBIE? Think, people, think! The lawsuit should be dropped.
The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend.
It’s funny, because there was a protest here in Raleigh against A&F.
Of course you have to support CAIR. They are an enemy to America. And you always side with America’s enemies.
Christian Soldier, Much better!
now, see if you can pick out the officer(s)
Muslims can’t live in America and practice their religion, they prove it again and again one or the other will have to go. Muslim sues Oregon city to gain discriminatory swim rights, pretty spread out there for a supposed tightly knit community, wonder why.They seem to be, well, everywhere.
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I’m working on it
tgusa, re: Muslims can’t live in America and practice their religion,…
Of course they can! Their religion is conquest. And we let them practice it just fine… we can probably hold them off through our lifetimes, but if you have kids… Oh my.
brooklyn red,
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Doh!
tgusa, but of course you are right. “…one or the other will have to go.”
me? well I’m kinda set in my ways…
Just another examples of the Muzzies not being able/flexible enough to function in a modern society. I think the courts will someday tell the Muzzies to leave their religion in the mosque and leave the mosque behind a sight barrier.
brooklyn red and tgusa- you are so right!
They-also- protest when there in NO – THING to protest!!!!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/stop-war-with-iran-protesters-march-on.html#comments
I hope to have grandchildren-I’m not turning this country over to a 14th century mind-set…
talk about set in our ways….:-)