The good news is that at some point the Islamification of America will collide with the promotion of homosexuality. You won't know whom to root against!
In all seriousness, I primarily see this as a wake up call for the church. My greatest fear is not apathy - though that is a risk - but that we will respond with "weapons of flesh" rather than walking deeper in the Spirit. E Sent from my iPhone On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:36, [email protected] wrote: > Atlas Shrugs / July 15, 2010 > > The Islamification of America, step by step > 1. Greeley CO and Grand Island, Nebraska: JB Swift meat packing plants. > Muslims get special break times. Non-Muslims protested because of the > inconvenience caused to them. > > 2. DELL Computers: Nashville. In February 2005, thirty-one Muslims working at > the Nashville, Tennessee plant of the computer firm Dell walked off the job > after they were denied permission to leave their workstations and pray. Dell > fired the Muslim workers, but CAIR took up their cause and began to pressure > Dell to change its practices in order to accommodate Islamic prayer during > the workday. Dell quickly caved. Within a month the corporation had agreed to > reinstate the employees who had walked out, give them back pay, and allow > them time on the job for Islamic prayer. Dell also agreed to give its > managers training in accommodating Muslim demands in the workplace. > > 3. TARGET: in March 2007 Muslim cashiers at some Target store outlets in > Minneapolis began to refuse to ring up pork products, causing delays as they > had other cashiers handle the untouchable items or even told customers to > ring them up themselves. Target Corporation finally opted for the path of > least resistance, offering to allow the Muslim cashiers to wear gloves while > operating the cash register, so as to avoid touching any of the offending > pork, or to shift the recalcitrant, pork-hating cashiers to other jobs within > the store. > > 4. FIRED for EATING BACON: Lina Morales, who for ten months held a job at > Rising Star, a telecoms company in Florida. One fateful day in 2004 she was > eating a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich at work, and was summarily fired > for violating a company rule against eating pork products on company > premises. However, Morales said that she had never agreed to comply by any > such rule, and indeed, When I got hired there, they said we don't care what > religion you are. > > Special accommodation for Muslims: > > 5. In September 2007, the Indianapolis Airport announced that, as part of a > $1.07 billion terminal renovation scheduled to be completed by November 2008, > footbaths would be installed in a restroom used by cab drivers -- so that the > drivers, almost all Muslims, could easily perform the rituals required before > Islamic prayers. The floor-level sinks, which cost $400-600 each, would be > financed through airport revenue. An airport spokesman, David Dawson, > insisted,... These facilities are for everybody's use. > > In schools: > > 6. In 2007 a public school, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, > announced plans to construct full preparation facilities for Islamic prayer > despite having prohibited a coffee cart from playing Christmas carols on > campus the previous year. New York University followed suit in October 2007, > as have many other public colleges and universities. Seventeen universities > have announced plans to install footbaths, including Boston University, > George Washington University and Temple University. And all of this is going > on at the instigation of the MSA -- a Muslim Brotherhood organization. > > 7. Ridgeland School District 122 “ comprising five schools in Oak Lawn, > Illinois “ blazed a trail when it banned pork from school cafeterias, so as > to avoid offending Muslim students. (The possibility that non-Muslim students > might be offended by having to conform their eating habits to Islamic dietary > regulations was apparently not considered.) The pork ban even included > Jell-O, since gelatin is made from pork products. > > 8. In San Diego's Carver Elementary School, when over one hundred Somali > Muslim students enrolled after a charter school closed in 2006, school > officials scheduled breaks so that Muslim students could pray during school > time, and even introduced sex-segregated classes to conform to Islamic > sensibilities. Pork, of course, vanished from the school cafeteria, and > Arabic classes were added to the curriculum. Investor's Business Daily > editorialized,... In effect, Carver administrators have carved out a school > within a school expressly for Muslims, elevating them above Christian and > Jewish students. They've had 15 minutes of instruction time taken away from > them, so Muslims can roll out their prayer mats. It amounts to a special > privilege afforded a specific religion, which plainly does not have our best > interests at heart. > > Sharia finance > > Barclays, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dow Jones, Goldman Sachs, > HSBC Bank, Lloyd's, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Standard &Poors have > created “Sharia Advisory Boards, staffed with Islamic clerics and > scholars, in order to help them bring their financial practices into line > with Islamic norms “ so as to attract Muslim investors and help Muslims in > the West find ways to avoid breaking Islamic law in their financial > transactions. > > A journalist who has exhaustively documented Sharia finance initiatives, > Alyssa A. Lappen, reported that among the perils of shariâ finance, > according to a January [2008] analysis by Moody's Investors Service are: A > central role in investment decisions for sharia scholars who are actually > Islamic clerics; investors being forced to accept weak positions; short track > records of major investors; multiple complex asset types; risky interest > rates and new ventures; plus a lack of transparency combined with corporate > management and risk control in the hosting Third World countries. > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
