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August 04, 2004
Pork eating not allowed
An Orlando Catholic woman was fired from her job at a Muslim business for eating a BLT; Lina Morales was hired as an administrative assistant at Rising Star -- a Central Florida telecommunications company with strong Muslim ties, Local 6 News reported. Now, the libertarian in me has trouble with government forcing people to hire or rent to (i.e. associate) people they have trouble with. But I think this case does not fall under that principle. To boot, this business is taking a Qur'ranic verse that forbids Muslims from eating pig and requiring all their employees to follow it. So they are basing a company policy on a flawed interpretation of their faith. To me, this boils down to a creepy imposition of one persons religion onto another. Anyone more knowledgable about Islam want to correct/comment on this.
Posted by scottm at
11:07 PM
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