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In reply to the discussion: Muslim staff can discriminate based on their religious beliefs. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Per the article, they're being asked to go to another line. This means that the customers have to size up the cashier before getting in the line, determining if the person is a religious Muslim by looking for visual cues, and hoping that the cashier they pray will ring up their bacon and beer doesn't go on break and be replaced by a devout observer before they load their purchases on the belt.
As I will iterate once more, these people with "objections" to haram products have no similar objections to taking their paychecks, which are generated based on sales of haram products. It's extreme hypocrisy. They can avoid touching haram products with a glove on their hand. Problem solved.
I've travelled and lived in nations where Islam is the predominant faith, and have been sold and served haram products by people who were Muslims. This is just "special snowflake" territory at MandS, IMO. The Qu'ran addresses issues of assimilation, too, in fact, and this kind of conduct contravenes those teachings.
Of course, Islam has no "Pope," so the arbiter of what is "acceptable" depends on the POV of the person, or the person's religious overseer (imam, spouse, parent, what-have-you).