Somalis protest against Swift today, newspapers cover-up violence
Posted by acorcoran on September 8, 2008
Update September 11th: Over 100 workers fired!
Update September 10th: Talks break down.
Update September 9th: You must see this!
Blulitespecial just sent a couple of updates from Greeley today. According to the Tribune, about 100 Somalis met at the park and planned to march to the Swift plant and protest “peacefully”, unlike Friday when there were reports that they rampaged in the plant when told they could not have their break when they wanted it. For background see my posts yesterday here and here.
More than 100 Muslim workers planned to march a couple miles to a Greeley meatpacking plant Monday afternoon in protest of what they called JBS Swift & Co.’s sudden reversal of accommodation for their religious fasting.
The workers, mostly Somalis but also from several other East African nations, said they were told by Swift management on Friday not to report to work Monday until the matter of changed break times to accommodate their fasts was settled.
It is really outrageous, here is what the Tribune is saying happened on Friday night when others say there was destruction of property and injuries.
On Friday, about 350 Muslim workers left work mid-shift — about 9:30 p.m. — when they were told they were not to break at 7:30 p.m. when their roughly 12 hours of daily fasting for Ramadan ended.
A reader at Jihad Watch who lives nearby and had a firsthand report of the incident says there was violence. AND, a commenter at the Tribune reported the same thing late yesterday, but that comment seems now to have been removed. Should have grabbed that comment when I first saw it.
So, if it was no big deal and they just walked off the line, then why were so many fired? Who is the paper covering for? Or, have they gone completely insane with political correctness in Greeley? See Vanishing American on fear here.
Mohammed Osman, a Swift worker and one of the Somalis gathering in a downtown Greeley park Monday morning, said the company fired 10 to 15 Muslim employees on Friday. He said three female Muslim workers were also let go after they went into an employee locker room at about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Wow! now walking into a locker room, that is a firing offense! Something else happened here for that many to be fired.
See also that the Rocky Mountain News reported on the “peaceful” march today but not a word there either about violence on Friday. Check out the photo.
So when will CAIR be on the scene?
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colaad dayin said
way swift fired muslims
frank said
i think thew govt. should come and pick up all these somalis & send them back & give these jobs back to the citizens who have rights to these jobs.
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blulitespecial said
The Tribune is having website problems.Below is a cut-and-paste from the home page at 526 PM.The link “Negotiations continue in Mus…” reads that they are in negotiations with Swift,but the article is missing.Not there.
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ciccio said
I worked in Dar es Salaam in 64-6, the coastal areas are all muslim, of course I had an office boy to wash my car, make my coffee 6 times a day, had he ever said a word about ramadan, he would have been fired on the spot. I usually took lunch from 12-3, not sloth, but to avoid the heat, again had my muslim cook not had my lunch ready I would have had a new cook by dinnertime. My point is not what may appear arrogant to you, it is that this sort of behavior was just not acceptable in muslim countries 40 years ago. It started with the ’73 oil crisis, the sixfold increase in revenue for Faisal, who was a devout wahabi and direct ancestor went very largely to the propagation of wahabism.
I did not see a burka in in Aden or Kharthoum in 1970. All this muslim outrage is carefully made to order, internationally co-ordinated, you and I pay for it every time we fill out tanks.
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