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Each day millions of Americans head out to work, many of whom who wear uniforms in their profession and yet six Muslim Somali women working in a tortilla factory in Minnesota are not only refusing to wear their uniforms but have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming “religious discrimination”.

CAIR, or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil liberties group, is demanding the company give the women back their jobs and let them wear the Muslim prescribed loose fitting skirts and scarves, which would be dangerous to the women in a workplace where there’s mechanical equipment.

“For these women, wearing tight-fitting pants is like being naked,” said Valerie Shirley, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota chapter of CAIR. “It’s simply not an option.”

We wondered, how many Americans sympathize with these women’s “plight”?

While most Americans may grouse about working, there are certain things that each of us know, certain things that seem to be missing from the Somali women and CAIR’s mindset which set them apart.

We may grouse about having to wear a uniform for work but we know that at some point we’re grateful to have that job, to be able to pay our bills, feed our children, or use it as a stepping stone to another job, a better life.

What we don’t do is, once we get a job is harbor a sense of entitlement, that we are now the ones who can set the rules on what we can and cannot wear. We know that if an employer mandates we must wear a uniform, either we wear the uniform and do our job, or we find work elsewhere. What we don’t do, is run to the EEOC claiming religious discrimination and then have our religious guard dogs, CAIR, come in and get heavy handed, calling our employers religious bigots, blackmailing them into getting our job back. This is not how Americans behave.

CAIR has an agenda, their tax-exempt organization is fueled by “incidents” of discrimination reported by Muslims in the United States. They claim discrimination yet they behave in ways that discriminate against Americans themselves. CAIR does not believe in having its members assimilate into American society, in fact, they cannot afford this to happen. If Muslims were to fully assimilate, CAIR would be put out of business.

Employers should be applauded for offering the Somali women jobs. Instead of being doing what almost every single other American would do, put on the uniform and do the job they were hired to do, these women chose to turn around and call the employer a bigot and demand the employer give them back their tortilla jobs and let them dress as they chose.

These types of antics do not foster sympathy for Muslims, in fact, the opposite occurs. The vast majority of religious Americans do not ask nor demand for special status at their work place, in fact, they manage to put their religion and their work place into perspective. When you get a job you’re expected to conform to the job, not the other way around, where the employer is expected to bend to your rules. This has been CAIR’s mantra, they need these types of incidents to continue fostering the misconception that America is hostile to Muslims. America is not hostile to Muslims nor was this particular employer, in fact, they were treating these Muslim women just like they would treat the rest of us, as Americans.

These women came here to be treated equally, instead they’ve pole vaulted right over the “treated equally” to the special status category with CAIR handing them the pole. Where they eventually “land” we have no idea. CAIR would better serve its Muslim constituents if they taught them how to assimilate but that’s not in CAIR’s agenda. Fostering the false image that Muslims are being perpetually discriminated against is their creedo. Claiming these six Somali women are being mistreated by a “bigoted” employer is yet another example of CAIR schtick when the truth lies elsewhere, that the women’s long skirts and scarves were not appropriate attire in a factory and could lead to workplace accidents where they could face injury or worse.

So in the end, what’s more important, at least to CAIR? Is it the women’s safety or is it the illusion that “once again” some Muslim somewhere is being “discriminated” against?

So while CAIR continues to pedal yet another case of “discrimination” against Muslims, the rest of us will do what we’ve always done, put on our uniforms on one leg at a time and head off to work.

By LBG
Source - Star Tribune - Muslim Women: Dress Code Violates Faith
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