Bending Rules For Muslims Or Else...

By Semperpapa

Safoorah Khan was a teacher for a middle school in a suburb of Chicago. She resigned her position when the School District refused her request for a three weeks leave of absence in order to participate in the Muslim yearly pilgrimage of hajj in Mecca.

The reasoning behind the refusal was that the teacher’s request was not covered by the contractual agreement between the union and the District.

Ms. Khan had demanded that she would be allowed to be absent from her job because she could not justify, based on her religious beliefs, to delay her pilgrimage any longer.

Considering that all she would have to do is wait few more years for the hajj to fall during a period of school vacation and considering that she was not in imminence of death, except for the inherent danger of being a Muslim woman, the demand was lacking of justifiable basis.

Or maybe not, because the Department of Justice has filed a law suit on Ms. Khan’s behalf against the School District, for violating Kahn’s rights and reasonably accommodate her religious needs.

The law suit is demanding that the District would reinstate Kahn’s job, pay her retroactive salary and add compensatory damages.

It is unquestionable that the current regime in Washington is hell bent on granting Muslims much greater latitude in their demands for special treatment in the face of rules and regulations.

Preferential treatment appears to be only way that Obama’s DoJ applies the law of the land these days. Eric Holder, the spineless puppet on the strings of Obama, is more interested in doing the bidding of an Islamic love bonanza as long as we can keep the religion of peace happy.

Ms. Kahn could have gone on her pilgrimage prior to be hired by the school district. Instead she waited a year before expressing her “need” to go on her hajj.

And, as Robert Spencer explains in his article on Jihad Watch, with the Islamic year being only 355 days long, she could have waited until a vacation period, which today’s schools, is already very often.

Now we have the weight of the federal government coming down on the School District to insure that the alleged rights of an Islamic woman are safeguarded even as they are outside of the rules she undersigned to when she took the job.

Something tells me that if she had been, for example, a Catholic wanting to go see the Pope, Holder and his goons would not be involved in this...

Just my thoughts!