With unemployment mired above nine percent and new jobless claims hovering at 400,000 a week, the Obama administration needed a victory, and at last it has one. The Justice Department has forced a Middle American school district to pay a Muslim teacher $75,000 and implement a sensitivity training course throughout the district, after administrators refused to allow the new hire to take three weeks off for a trip to Mecca in 2008.
Safoorah Khan had held her job as a math lab instructor at McArthur Middle School in Berkeley, Illinois, less than a year when she asked unpaid leave to make hajj, the once-in-a-lifetime religious requirement that is one of the five pillars of Islam. The school district noted that she asked for the leave immediately before exams, was the only instructor in her department, and that the teachers’ union-brokered contract offered her infidel counterparts no comparable leave. Last December, the Justice Department filed suit against the district after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported her complaint. The DoJ argued administrators had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, discriminating against Khan because of her religion.
On Thursday, all Eric Holder’s men announced the school district had entered into a consent agreement to pay the Muslim mathematician $75,000 in compensation and damages.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez — who may have committed perjury in the Black Panthers voter intimidation scandal — added the school district “agreed to implement a training program” to sensitize education administrators to religious (read: Muslim) needs. “Employees should not have to choose between practicing their religion and their jobs,” he opined.
Ironically, Perez also helped draw up the Obama administration’s legal brief in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case currently pending before the Supreme Court. If the administration prevails, the High Court would repeal the “ministerial exception,” allowing the government to determine who can be considered a minister in many (or perhaps all) cases and force Christian schools to violate church doctrine in their personnel decisions.
On the one hand, the Justice Department sues a secular public school district to allow a Muslim teacher to practice her faith. On the other, the same EEOC figures, citing the same civil rights laws, sue a Missouri-Synod Lutheran school to reward a teacher who violated Lutheran doctrine.
The two stances are plainly irreconcilable. What do they have in common? Only that both harm the nation’s Christian majority and promote the redistribution of respect from this nation’s majority population to tiny, often hostile and always aggressive religious minorities.
Please share this post with your friends and comment below. If you haven’t already, take a moment to sign up for our free newsletter above and friend us on Twitter and Facebook to get real time updates.
Follow @WestJournalism
Loading ...
Maybe Jay Leno and his wife would like to "chip in" and pay this Muslims way to Mecca then instead of the taxpayers.
Jay Leno's wife on the Qur'an:
"The Qur'an is more liberal with women than the bible"! Really? Seems there have been some discussions with Islam within the Leno family because Jay does not dispute her statements. Stoning a woman is liberal? Wearing a burqa is more liberal than the bible? Do you watch Jay Leno? We don't!
http://weaselzippers.us2011/10/27/jay-lenos-wife-…
Add David Letterman, just because he supports this administration and these things they come up with.
Pump her full of pig crap and give her a one way ticket and lots of exlax
We have lost our minds! HOW could we have gotten ourselves into this position! This is so unbelieavable I am having a hard time grasping it!
The school district should go on strike they're union right? Tell holder to go to Mecca and eat pork! If I was the district superintendant I would fire her and tell Holder to bring in the National Guard before I would let that woman back into my school!
It is now Jan. 1st, 2013, and since hindsight is 20/20, we can look back in time a little bit to see where we’re at and why. The why is because of the Barack Obama/Eric Holder administration/DoJ. Those of us on the Right; Conservatives, true Christians, and the like, can see that these people are Communists and, at the very least, Muslim apologists. They have brought division and disunity in America and American family life, as well as in every aspect of public life-public/private schools, health care, churches, and other American institutions. They have, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, promoted abortion, gay special rights, Muslim special rights, and harshly restrictive gun control measures, to ensure the future compliance of a defenseless Citizenry. They have massively expanded government, welfare spending, the national debt, and unemployment, while further eroding the manufacturing base through their reckless, dangerous environmental policies and further outsourcing/off-shoring via choking us with high taxation. Meanwhile, the currency is being debased, further adding to the woes of the nation with (possibly this year) impending hyperinflation Weimar Republic style.
I think it’s time the American people all joined together to put a stop this madman and his madness. Obama is a Communist h*llbent on destroying the liberty and freedom of Americans across the board. He is encouraging racial strife and a Communist Revolution, something he strongly advocated for in college. He must be stopped. It will not take him another four years to achieve his hearts desires. If he is not stopped soon, America will likely be lost forever.
One more thing. Those of us who are politically aware need to join with like minded people. Join the TEA Party, state defense force, and other grassroots organizations which uphold the Constitution and our way of life. If they don’t support these things, they’re unAmerican and you should stay away from them. Prepare for the coming economic hard times and economic collapse by storing food, guns & ammo, and silver. Silver will be worth much more than gold for every day purchases. Buy seeds and plant a garden. Again-Prepare!
This is the very reason Im against the Union…. You simply cannot fire a worker. If that had of been a Baptist, Methodist, or some Christian religion… they wouldnt have been allowed to go… certainly not paying their way. We have over 20 million Muslims in this country today.. Who invited them here… who signed the papers giving them status… Who brought Obama’s Granny and Uncle over here… Who is paying for their welfare…. the US taxpayers of course….. Who gave them the money to make the trip… They sure as heck didn’t swim over here.