Here we go - more Muslim madness

You might remember the recent controversy over some Muslim cabdrivers at the Minneapolis airport refusing to transport passengers with alcohol packed in their luggage, and how the airport commission is going to start suspending them for those refusals. There have been reports that those same cabbies wouldn't take the service dogs of blind people as well, as Islam apparently regards them as "unclean".

Well, here's more of the same.

Star Tribune reporter Chris Serres received an angry phone call from a man claiming that a Muslim employee at a downtown Target refused to ring up his bacon, citing a prohibition against Muslims handling pork. Serres went to the Target on E. Lake Street and picked up a pepperoni pizza, and sure enough, the hijab-wearing salesgirl went and grabbed another employee to ring it up. He asked her if it was because she was a Muslim, and she replied, "I can't even touch it".

I don't know about you, but this really "burns my bacon", so to speak. I'm getting a little tired of people from totalitarian theocracies moving here to enjoy our freedoms and liberties, and immediately trying to force their religion on everything and everybody in their daily lives, regardless of how it impacts the rest of our society. If that's what you want, why did you leave your home country in the first place?

Does an Orthodox Jew refuse to handle any products that are not kosher if they work in a restaurant?

Does a Southern Baptist refuse to sell mouthwash or beer if they work in a drugstore?

Does a Catholic refuse to sell meat on Friday if they are a butcher?

No, because they knew what the job was when they signed up for it. If they cared that much about how their religion would look upon their work, they would have found alternative employment that wouldn't put them in that situation in the first place. The same should apply to these fools. If you want to be a cashier in a grocery store, you should be required to ring up everything that store sells. Period. I was a supermarket cashier for 7 years in high school and college, and in my wildest dreams could never imagine myself or another employee telling a customer to go to another line, because my faith didn't permit me to sell them a particular item.

Oh, and don't bring up the pharmacists refusing to fill birth control. I'm don't think they're right, either. If you own the pharmacy and choose not to stock it, that's one thing, but if you're employed at a Walgreen's or Snyder's that does carry it, you'd better darn well fill it and quick, or go work somewhere else.

I am a longtime shopper at Target, and hold a credit card from them. The corporate office is going to get a call from me tomorrow, and if this isn't fixed quickly, they are going to lose me as a customer.

Thanks to the Anti-Strib for the heads-up.