DAR AL HARB - U.S.A. - MINNESOTA: MOSLEMS DO WHATEVER THEY PLEASE, INFIDEL DHIMMIS HAVE TO TAKE IT & SAY THANK YOU

Minnesota Muslims and culture clash
As some Minnesota Muslims try to reconcile the tenets of their faith with the demands of their jobs, others worry those conflicts send the wrong message.
By Curt Brown, Star Tribune

Munira Omar applied for a cashier job at Target last week but balked when they called her back for an interview. Sure, she needs the money to help pay for college next year. But the Minneapolis teenager braced for a question about scanning pork products.

"I'm going to say 'no' and stick to my religion and not change who I am for $7 an hour," Omar said.

As Minnesota's growing Muslim population struggles to balance faith and work, similar dilemmas are flaring up at taxi stands and checkout lines. The debate has ignited a backlash that's clogging websites and talk radio with people asking why Muslims would take jobs that conflict with their faith in the first place.

It's also worrying and dividing many metro-area Muslims, nearly half of whom are Somali immigrants. Some say they fear the incidents will jeopardize the modest gains they've made here and tarnish their image. Others in the state's diverse community of roughly 120,000 Muslims are expressing widely different views of the controversies.

Several Somali leaders say that only a small faction of area Muslims use extremely narrow interpretations of the Qur'an, such as refusing to handle pork products or transport alcohol-toting taxi riders. Others insist that no ringleaders are stirring the debate, which they say started simply as a series of individual decisions made without consulting scholars or considering the consequences.

Community leaders are hoping the budding tension can be quelled with more tolerance from all sides -- Muslim workers, shoppers and employers. But events in the new few weeks could spark even more debate.

[Actually what the moslem leadership is hoping for is that infidels shut the hell up and begin to understand their new dhimmi status...MOSLEMS GET TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL THEY DAMNED WELL PLEASE, THEY ARE AFTER ALL BETTER THAN EVERYONE ! ! ! ed. A.I.]

On April 12, a community meeting at the Brian Coyle Community Center in south Minneapolis will bring together Islamic scholars and U.S. legal experts to air religion-workplace issues. Four days later, the Metropolitan Airports Commission is likely to rule on a proposed crackdown that would suspend licenses if cabbies turn down fares for religious reasons.

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