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The reference may be to the fact that Amazon (for example) provided only space for Muslims to have prayer rooms, but no one else.
by RobertRoberts 7y ago
The reference may be to the fact that Amazon (for example) provided only space for Muslims to have prayer rooms, but no one else.
- thrower123 7y agoI wonder if there is any of the kind of phenomenon I used to observe in my blue-collar days - smokers could take 10-15 minutes off every hour to go to the smoking area and light up, so non-smokers got irritated and started going along too for their "second-hand smoke" breaks...
- javagram 7y agoI’d be shocked if amazon in fact had a policy that only Muslims could use the prayer rooms. Christians and Jews should be able to use them if they choose. I googled around and could only find statements that Muslim employees of a security contractor for amazon were not allowed to use the rooms for a while, but after protests and NLRB intervention now are.
- RobertRoberts 7y agoMaybe because in the US we have religious freedom so we don't feel the need to protest to demand others accommodate us? It's like a millionaire eating at a restaurant, and instead of tipping the waitress he expects to be tipped by the waitress. The extra demands only leave a bad taste in everyone else's mouths.
- javagram 7y agoI don’t really understand the relation of your comment to mine. I’ve worked at a (US) company with a prayer room that was used by some Muslim employees. As a Christian myself, I don’t think it would have been considered a problem if I used it when it was vacant to say a prayer, although my religious tradition doesn’t have the 5x/day prayer requirement like Islam does so I never did.
- RobertRoberts 7y agoI don't think only Muslims could use the rooms in any stories I have read about this topic. That wasn't my point. Consider going to a Muslim majority country where the religion controls the laws (like Indonesia) and /demand/ your Christian religious needs be accommodated. From my studying, you would either be summarily dismissed or even possibly punished.
- Pfhreak 7y agoAnd that's the way it should be? You are arguing that we should adopt that model? If not, this is just whataboutism. Just because other countries do something badly doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do better.
- RobertRoberts 7y agoNo, I am arguing the opposite. That they are /importing/ that tyranny, and most people seem to be unaware of it. Imagine if Buddists at Amazon had protested and demanded their own space for shrines? Or any other religion that has observational requirements? The US is being blind to oppression of religious freedom under a false ideal of what that freedom really is.
- javagram 7y agoDidn’t you say that you accept that non-Muslims can use the prayer room though? So a Buddhist would be perfectly welcome to go into the room and use it. I’m a little confused what your point is. How is a room available to everyone tyranny?
- RobertRoberts 7y agoWe are giving up freedom of religion to appease one single religion. It's the start of really bad problems down the road. The demands and acquiescence is the issue, not the room. You can't demand anything in the US right now from an employer on the basis of religion unless you are of one religion. All the others are ignored, or wouldn't even dare to make demands. And this is done under the threat of violence from that religion.