CAIR calls critics of initial Tyson’s Labor Day dumping “Islamophobes!”
Posted by acorcoran on August 10, 2008
Update: Thanks to reader Jim here is more today on CAIR—Michael Savage vows to take them all the way to the Supreme Court.
Yes, indeed! It was only a matter of time before the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) got in on the Tyson’s Labor Day debacle and said hate websites stirred things up and that you, who called and wrote to Tysons and posted many comments all over the world wide web, are Islamophobes! Remember what I said the other day:
Next thing you know he will say we are all “Islamophobes”…
Wear the label proudly.
This is from Business Week, where CAIR whacks Tyson’s Food for changing its mind and responding to the majority of workers wishes to reinstate the Labor Day holiday:
Muslim civil rights advocates criticized Tyson Foods, and a union official said the company’s response was disingenuous.
“This wasn’t something imposed. It seems that this backtracking would be the result of the backlash from anti-Muslim hate (Web) sites and Islamophobes on the Internet,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for Washington D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the union headquartered in New York, said he was surprised by the reaction to the holiday change.
“I would have thought that people would have been more sensitive and sympathetic to the concern to the members of our community, who want to celebrate their religious faith,” he said. “It’s a little disingenuous to say that they (Tyson) were responding to employee concerns. The proposal came from workers themselves.”
Calling names is how groups like CAIR operate and they find it works for them in Washington among the politically correct uber-educated, but it won’t work out among real Americans! What CAIR doesn’t get yet is that Americans see this for what it is and are willing to speak up nonetheless! Afterall, we aren’t Europe!
Endnote: I wonder if CAIR is looking into that Shelbyville Somali rampage as a hate crime—after leaving mosque Muslim attacks a woman in a Baptist Church—gotta be some hate there.
CAIR LASHES TYSON: CALL AMERICANS ISLAMOPHOBES | Atlas Shrugs said
[...] jihad. There are myriad other Muslim organizations they should be talking to,, ie Zuhdi Jasser. CAIR calls critics of initial Tyson’s Labor Day dumping “Islamophobes!” Refugee Resettlement [...]
Lynn said
I am proud to be an “islamophobe” and a “bigot”.
acorcoran said
I wonder if anyone makes T-shirts that say “proud Islamophobe” or maybe a bumper sticker that says “Bigot on board!”….
Always On Watch said
Does CAIR ever tell what Eid al-Fitr actually celebrates? Nope. Because the day commemorates militant and political Islam — information I got from an Islamic site. Details here.
dymphna said
Maybe something more subtle, like “I Labor Day”…
only those who knew the story would get it.
CAIR LASHES TYSON: CALLS AMERICANS ISLAMOPHOBES | Atlas Shrugs said
[...] a healthy fear of Islamic jihad. CAIR calls critics of initial Tyson’s Labor Day dumping “Islamophobes!” Refugee Resettlement [...]
dymphna said
That should have been I {HEART} Labor Day.
Personally, LD has always been a favorite of mine. It’s like a kind of New Year’s but more fun. The weather is moderating, children are returning to school and adults remember fondly the smells of chalk and crayons and new school clothes.
I’m very glad Labor Day wasn’t obliterated after all.
Labor Day Reinstated as Paid Holiday at Tyson Foods plant « Creeping Sharia said
[...] Update: CAIR calls Americans Islamophobes! [...]
acorcoran said
Dymphna, I agree about Labor Day especially in the old days when school didn’t start in August! When my kids were little and we homeschooled it was a very exciting time for me (I’m not sure the kids see it the same way).
Whether families have picnics or one more weekend at the beach, or simply a free long weekend that is the cultural heritage that is so important to Americans and why I think people reacted so explosively to the idea of someone (Tysons) swapping it for a religious holiday for a tiny minority.
blulitespecial said
CAIR – Pack up.Leave.Take Grover Norquist with you.Give him a job in Dubai hotel.
Seems the Somali employees have left the Emporia,KS Tyson plant.The prayer rooms have been taken out,I hear-nobody there to use them.
– Proud to be a Union “Islamophobe”
Tyson’s Food drops Labor Day holiday in favor of Muslim holiday in TN « Refugee Resettlement Watch said
[...] CAIR calls critics of initial Tyson’s Labor Day dumping “Islamophobes!” [...]
Associated Press writes about the Greeley Somali problem but it’s all about CAIR « Refugee Resettlement Watch said
[...] meatpacking plant, but in typical MSM skew-the-news fashion there are at least 5 quotes from CAIR’s Hooper and none (zip, zero, nada) from any of the American workers (whites or Hispanics) who protested [...]
Update from Greeley: Talks broke down yesterday « Refugee Resettlement Watch said
[...] here for Swift because as you read this, you can tell a lawsuit is not far off, especially since CAIR must now be involved (note the last section of this article) and in light of the Minnesota decision [...]
Reza Santorini said
Labor Day is a holiday for Americans of all religions, as is the 4th of July. Yom Kippur is a Holiday that Jews celebrate and American Jews celebrate both. They do not trade their days nor do they teach their children that they are not Americans first and foremost.