WHOLE FOODS goes halal, celebrates Ramadan, gets sued by CAIR for anti-Muslim bigotry anyway.
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CAIR The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on Anti American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia) and the law firm of Swartz Swidler, LLC (Swartz Swidler) have filed a law suit against Whole Foods Market alleging religious discrimination, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
GLENN MACK
A former Muslim employee is suing Whole Foods, alleging that he was harassed and ultimately terminated because of his Islamic faith. Supervisors turned on him when they learned he was making the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, and the situation got so bad that 24-year-old Glenn Mack had to resort to praying by the dumpsters outside the store:
He said he requested time for the vacation months in advance of the November 2010 trip, and received approval. But shortly before leaving, he said, his supervisors gave him a choice of keeping his job or going on the trip.
He went on the trip. When he returned, he didn’t lose his job immediately, but he said, attitudes toward him had changed. Supervisors would follow him on his breaks to a back corner of the supply room where he typically went to pray. For privacy, Mack said he resorted to praying outside next to the Dumpster.
CAIR-Philadelphia attorney Amara Chaudhry represented Mack at his fact-finding hearing before the EEOC before recruiting Richard Swartz from Swartz Swidler to take over as co-counsel in this matter.
“In 2010, Whole Foods became the first national supermarket chain to have a ‘Ramadan Promotion’ targeting Muslim customers. A company that works so hard to attract Muslim customers should be similarly welcoming of Muslim employees, and we are willing to hold them accountable for the representations they made to our community,” said CAIR-Philadelphia Civil Rights Director and Staff Attorney Amara Chaudhry.
The law suit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County last week on behalf of former employee, Glenn Mack, Jr. Attorney Richard Swartz of Swartz Swidler is serving as lead counsel with attorney Amara S. Chaudhry of CAIR-Philadelphia serving as co-counsel.
The complaint states: “Defendants discriminated against Plaintiff and terminated Plaintiff’s employment because Plaintiff practiced the Islamic faith. As a direct consequence of Defendants’ unlawful actions as described above, Plaintiff has and continues to suffer emotional distress, pain and suffering, humiliation and substantial lost income.
Mack is seeking compensation for all pay benefits he would have received had he not been terminated, and damages for emotional distress and pain and suffering.
”Employers need to be tolerant of the religious beliefs of their employees. In this lawsuit, Mr. Mack alleges that Whole Foods was not, and that Whole Foods retaliated against him when he complained about the intolerance,” says Richard Swartz Attorney at Swartz Swidler law firm.
MORE REASONS: NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM
They get what they deserve for bowing down to the Muslims!
And they lost my patronage, too! Nothing good comes of aiding and abetting Muslims.
If only moslems shopped there, would they survive?
hired or be friend of a muslim is like sleep with the ” mamba “, any moment it will bite and kill you…..
Moslems cannot be pleased even if they take over 100%.
When Moslems rule, they start to murder those of other sects…Shias, Sunnis, etc.
Islam is based on religious discrimination.
Yep, just like those Muslims worshiping in the same mosque. A few of them decide to break their fast on Ramadan a few minutes before it was officially over. Well the other muslims got pissed and it ended up with both sides pulling out knives and cutting each other up. I wish this happened more often. Better they kill each other off then some poor Christians.
Wake up, U.S.A.
BNI, I have been following your blog for quite a while now and I have tried my best to keep my comments on point.
But you know what, I have had just about enough of these cretins coming here and flaunting and shoving our kindness and civil rights up our asses.
Fuck’em all men women and their future suicide bombers.
Just fed up with the constant assault against our Constitution and our Christianity. Don’t these multicultural advocates know they will be the first targets should Sharia Law taken any real foothold.
No more latte liberals, no more bikinis, no more beer, no more free press and to the idiot women in California they are coming for your BMW’s your plastic boobs and everything else you hold dear in your pea brains.
Wake the fuck up sheeple.
Sorry BNI about the language.
TV, most of us feel the same way.
I say they got what they deserved. They stupidly went halal and got sued. They really should have known better, or did greed finally get the better of them? You hire a muslim, you pay for it.
Their first mistake was having Halal food, and second was to hire a Muslim. Isn’t just amazing that he has a picture of him praying at the dumpster where his religon belongs.
Never ever hire a Muslim. Doesn’t Whole Foods know there is a litigation racket with Muslims where they work for a company, then make religious demands that cannot be appeased, and then they SUE! LOL. Hey Whole Foods, get a clue. Muslims are here to bankrupt you!
I think the Vatican should sue all employers who do not allow Catholics to go to confession, and/or light candles and pray at church during work time. Especially Muslim employers. Considering there are more catholics in the US than Muslims, Catholics should be given time to go to Lourdes and generally make the same demands as Muslims do, they (at least used to) fast on Fridays and not eat meat, also during Lent and Muslim minority should be forced to accept and respect this.
All Christians (and Jews?) should rise up and refuse to eat halal as it is totally against their religion as it is “food sacrificed to idols” which Jesus and James said is totally forbidden. And also everyone should rise up against this barbaric practice.
What would happen if we witnessed this en masse?
How would BO & cronies get out of it ???
I just sent an email to whole crap foods ,the greedy capilist BBBBBBBBbaaaaaaaaaaaaastards lol said I would not donate to any company thar caters to the barbaric slaughter of animals or chistians or buddists or hindus or chinese etc etc
If you look at the website for Saffron Road, and go to store locator they distribute the product to all major grocery stores including Kroger and Publix which in turn own other grocery stores.
Bonni please get us an email to the corp. office so we can protest I will never patronize the store or anything associated with it.
BW, do not waste your time. Whole Foods is made up of the lowest form of leftie scum. They couldn’t care less what you think. I hope this happens to them more.
awww the itty bitty muslim’s feewlings got hurt. boo hoo hoo. Employer need to be tolerant of employees religious beliefs. oh ok well how about muslims being tolerant of other religions?
NOT i guess that’ll only happen when it snows in HELL
I will never EVER EVER support anyone or any group or anything that promotes animal cruelty or islam. Whole Foods deserves what they are getting back in trouble. This is the beginning of Whole Foods’ problems. Others will follow suit.
They will crawl on the ground to satisfy their muslim customers and nobody, with any decency or sense of morals, should encourage this company.
I hope Whole foods has to pay a bundle to this Muzzie. They deserve this for ever hiring him and for selling halal food. Im betting Whole foods will settle out of court like most of these cases and pay out a hefty fee to CAIR and the Muzzie. I’d be willing to bet that in a short time the Muzzie will be doing all his praying by a dumpster. His chances of getting hired anywhere else just went to zero.
I’ve seen Saffron Road halal food at Smiths Grocery Stores also.
Sam, where are they?
In Albuquerque there are quite a few, but they operate a total of 132 stores in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. In my local Smiths store they are in a sperate ‘healthy’ food isle which includes a small section of frozen food which in turn includes the Saffron Road halal. I can’t speak for all stores though, cause I only shop in that one Smiths.
If you look at the Saffron Road website under the store locator, they have a list of all grocery stores that provide the Saffron Road food brand.
I’ve contacted Whole Foods regarding their contradiction of animal standards and halal foods and included a random youtube video I found of a cow being slaughtered halal style. I think a lot of the shoppers are ignorant of what halal actually is. How can these liberals NOT be concerned about the animals? They always put animal “rights” ahead of human rights.
This former employee is a devout Muslim. Barbaric mass murderer and huge slave trader, founder of Islam, Mohammad, who married a six year old child when he was in his fifties, declared: WAR IS DECEPTION. Mohammad is considered the perfect man and role model by Muslims who follow Islam. The possibilities are HUGE that his story is made up to get major dollars from hated infidels.
And Whole Foods, this is how you are paid back for kissing up to totalitarian, colonizing Islam.
We, the employer, need to be tolerant of religious beliefs? Really? We can’t in schools. Why should we in our jobs? I’ve never been able to leave work to go to church on Christmas or Easter. I don’t think any Muslim would want me to leave while having surgery. The whole surgery crew will stop, go to church, then come back and finish. Better yet, the next time you need surgery on a Christian holiday, I have to go to church first before I can start your surgery. That would really go over!! Again, we give all or suck up and get screwed, thanks to the CIC,
Islam is not a religion!!!
Wild animals like savage muslims will always bite the hand that feeds them. This is true for all liberal lefties who want all muslims allowed to illegally immigrate, who when the savages have a majority will destroy the liberal’s rights first. This is true for all women who want to open up their country for muslims who, when they have a majority will deny women equal rights. Do not hire a muslim. Do not allow halal foods to be retailed in your stores because of the inhumane way that the poor food animals are slaughtered. Whole foods are whole fools and will end up paying for their stupidity regarding the pandering to and the hiring of muslims. PS. The other day, while picking up a friend from the airport, the whole line of cars, waiting to get to the arrival gates was being held up because the muslim taxi drivers had left their parked taxis and went to the grassy area to pray. They were all on the grassy area with their asses up in the air. I complained to the security and they went out and told the ass lifters to get their taxis out of the arrival lanes. They at first, refused and the security got on his phone and called for a tow truck. The ass lifters grumbled but moved their cars before the tow trucks arrived. The message is we have to complain and step out and demand that the muslims are not allowed to let their cult rituals dominate our rights. Call the cops and stop letting them break the laws. It was good fun seeing the regular people smiling, giving the ‘thumbs up’ and of course, I thanked the snarling muslims and offered a smiling blessing from the true, Christian God.
Good for you, cat. People need to do that whenever they see it.
That’s why I shop at Hiller’s grocery store!
That’s the end of my patronage of Whole Foods, what little there was.
“Mr. Mack” is soooo right that he should not have to “pray” next to the dumpster! The muslime SOB should be IN the dumpster with the rest of the trash!!
Here’s the response I received from Whole Foods:
Thank you for your concerns. Our standards require animals to be unconscious prior to or simultaneous with slaughter.
Some schools within Islam have rules that are the same as kosher and prohibit stunning altogether, which is the assumption that results in the inhumane slaughter charge you mention. But there are other schools within Islam that do permit stunning. Those are the halal certifications found in our stores.
If you have any further questions please use our on-line response form.
Best regards,
Rachael
Rachael Gruver | Global Customer Information Specialist | Whole Foods Market | 550 Bowie Street | Austin, Texas 78703
WA, they are lying. Stunning is allowed with Kosher, though not all of them use it. It is NEVER allowed with Halal.
But stunning isn’t the only thing that makes Kosher and Halal much different:
Kosher vs. Halal:
Kosher – requires the animal be slaughtered quickly and humanely, strictly forbidding cruel slow methods like strangulation.
Halal – requires the animal be bled out in agony while sick people who get off watching that kind of thing have a “festival.”
Kosher – requires the blood be drained cleanly from the *carcass* of the humanely killed animal, removing toxins released from cells into the bloodstream at the moment of death from the meat.
Halal – leaves the meat *filled* with toxins released at the moment of death because the blood is removed while the animal is dying and therefore is not present in sufficient quantities to remove those last toxins.
Kosher – contains little to no cortisol or norepenepherine (two stress chemicals that are similar enough from mammal to mammal to cross species) because the animal to be killed is treated well before it is put down and is generally not frightened as it is put down (because in a truly kosher slaughter situation, animals cannot be slaughtered in a sequential fashion, as the waste of one could contaminate the next, so they are not exposed to the “scent of death” the way non-kosher culls are)
Halal – animals watch other animals die during the blood letting festival, smelling their fear and raising their own stress. These stress chemicals “marinate” the meat in hormones known to raise levels of aggression and violence in nearly all mammal species (including human).
Kosher – requires cooking the cleanly drained meat completely, cooking any remaining stress chemicals into oblivion.
Halal – allows for a surprising range of cooking methods, including even some “tar tar” dishes (raw or nearly raw), allowing for the spread of disease and chemicals and hormones that were not removed by the idiotic slow bloodletting practice and half-measure cooking.
Kosher: the spinal cord is sectioned thus cutting off pain to the brain. Therefore, no suffering or terror.
Hallal: spinal cord left intact.
A friend went to Whole Foods, picked up a package of ‘organic vegetables’, & when she looked closely it was marked ‘Grown in China’. That’s very reassuring.
Sl, so much for their BS ad campaign about using local farmers.
The muslim poplulation is not that large in America that they rate a market stratagy by the grocery stores with hallal. So I don’t get all the muslim kiss butt going on. 5 years ago you didn’t even hear that word, hallal. What we need is a good old fashion protest outside all stores who carry “halall” anything. A reverse of a ChickFilA show of support.