The Islamic faith requires its followers to make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in their lifetime. This lady decides she must do so after one lousy year of teaching in that school district. Check her out. She's young and has lots of years to take her hajj to Mecca.
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There is obviously no way of knowing what was going on in her head, but it sure sounds to me like she was just trying to bully her way into getting special privileges for Muslims. You think a Catholic teacher would get an approval for a 3-week trip to the Vatican or that an Evangelical teacher or a Jewish teacher would be granted that amount of time off to visit the Holy Land? No possible way.
And most interesting of all, guess who sticks his nose into this matter?
Read from Joshua Pundit:
Obama Justice Dept. Sues School District That Denied Teacher 3 Weeks Leave For Haj
"The Obama Justice Department filed suit today against the Berkeley School District in Illinois because it denied a teacher three weeks unpaid leave during the school term in order to attend the Haj in Mecca.
The case was brought on behalf of Safoorah Khan, and the Justice Department is claiming that the district is guilty of a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
What happened is that a year after starting her job as a teacher, Khan asked for unpaid leave of three weeks to visit Saudi Arabia to perform the Haj in Mecca.
The Haj to the city of Mecca is a religious duty all Muslims are supposed to perform once in their lifetime if they are able. While there, they prostrate themselves before the Ka'aba and a meteorite known as the Sacred Black Stone and perform rites virtually unchanged since it was a pagan idol dedicated to Lah, the Arabian Moon God.
The district twice denied her request, after which Khan wrote to the board that 'based on her religious beliefs, she could not justify delaying performing Hajj'.
She resigned afterwards, and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)in November 2008, which just by coincidence happenes to be when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. The EEOC found reasonable cause that discrimination had occurred and forwarded the matter to the U.S. Justice Department, who's now suing and asking for the court to order the school district to adopt new Muslim -friendly policies, to reinstate Khan with back pay and to pay her damages.
Why she couldn't have waited until she retired or had enough vacation time, personal days and unused sick time accrued after a couple of years to schedule the trip to Saudi Arabia in advance is something known only by herself and her lawyers at the Justice Department.
And then there's this. The Haj lasts all of five days. If you figure in travel time and recovering from jet lag, the most she would have needed is seven days to do this. So why would she insist on needing three weeks?
This smells of someone using a politically sympathetic Justice Department to try to win a victory for special treatment that applies to Muslims only..and milking a situation to make a financial killing.
Just another case of the Obama Administration observing what seems to be it's first commandment - thou shalt appease Islam."
5 comments:
This administration is supporting a muslim teachers right to get 3 weeks on the taxpayers dime for a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Would this administration also be vigorously supporting a Catholic teacher for a pilgrimage to the Vatican?
Where's the ACLU?
How does an unpaid leave wind up on the taxpayers' dime, AnonyMoron?
Or did you just not bother to read the post, yet again?
Or did you read every 5th word?
A trip to the Vatican isn't exactly the equivalent of a hajj, Crap For Brains.
I will agree, though, that it does sound a little suspicious that she did it in her first year of teaching, and it doesn't show much thought on her part. But I also have trouble accepting at face value anything coming from this Joshua Pundit clown. He's been wrong far more than he's been right. Or accurate.
DiogenASS: who give a shit if it's paid or not, she had all summer to make the pilgrimage.
hajj season takes place in the summer, does it not?
"hajj season takes place in the summer, does it not?"
The dates are fixed dates, and the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, so the dates change somewhat every year.
In 2008, the hajj took place from December 6 through 11. In most people's books, that's not "summer"... but who knows with you, AnonyMoron.
As for who gives a shit who pays for it, I thought YOU did, AnonyMoron; YOU started your bitching because it was on "the taxpayer's dime".
God, you're stupid, AnonyMoron.
FACTS got your tongue, AnonyMoron?
I just love it when you get smacked in the face by facts... when your nonsense is so easily exposed to the entire world, that your only viable option is to shut up.
Maybe you should just "cut to the chase" and shut up before you start?
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