While I’d much rather focus on the positive this holiday season, there’s just so much injustice going around, it’s hard to ignore them.
This is actually an old article from last month. Actually, I missed it the first time around.
It seems like Glenn Mack Jr was an up-and-coming employee at Whole Foods… until his supervisor found out he was Muslim. Then his manager gave him a hard time for an already approved vacation to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. Then everything went downhill from there, including being terminated from Whole Foods.
At one point, his supervisor allegedly told him “You can choose. It’s either your job or your religion.”
Whatever happened to freedom of religion? Freedom of persecution because of your religious choices?
Change.org has a petition going for Glenn Mack Jr:
http://www.change.org/petitions/dont-fire-employees-for-being-muslim
And by the way, the point is that even though it was an individual (his supervisor) who is in the wrong initially, Whole Foods as a company has not come forward to do the right thing yet for Glenn Mack Jr.
Speaking of muslim, people may have heard recently about the “uproar” over the TV show “All-American Muslim” and how Lowe’s decided to drop advertising from the show because of the “controversy”. The complaints about the show were first raised by an organization called “Florida Family Association”.
When they were asked WHY they found the show offensive, it was because the show did NOT show muslims as extremists and felt it was dangerous to show muslims as normal people!
Seriously! You can see the Daily Show view of the story where they have included a videoclip of an interview from the executive director of FFA.
Click the above image for the video.
And since we are talking about the ridiculous and how the right keeps pushing their agenda, the latest attack by the right are labeling Muppets as Communist propaganda because their nemesis in the latest movie is a greedy oil company executive.
Click on the above image for the video.
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