Did you read that story about Sainsbury’s allowing Muslim checkout staff to leave their desks and let a non-Muslim take over when somebody is purchasing alcohol? I wonder if they apply the same rule when a customer is trying to sneak a leg of pork through the checkout?
How barmy can you get? Do they also let Hindu workers refuse to sell beef, Catholics refuse to sell condoms or Jewish workers refuse to sell anything that isn’t kosher? Taking this nonsense a stage further, couldn’t an assistant who is allergic to nuts or cheese decline to sell these items to customers?
You have to ask yourselves why Sainsbury’s are adopting this absurd policy, especially when two prominent Muslim leaders went on record as saying it was over the top.
It’s also worth pondering on why a devout Muslim would apply for a job, anyway, where they knew they might have to deal with alcohol passing through their hands. Surely, if you accept a paid job you accept the responsibilities and duties to both the customer and employer that go with it. If all store assistants were allowed to pick and choose what they will and will not sell, shopping would become a nightmare game of chance.
All readers of this blog know that I am an atheist, but if I were working in a bookshop I wouldn’t refuse to sell a copy of the Bible or the Koran because it was against my principles!
The truth is that Sainsbury’s, like just about everybody else today, are running scared and terrified of being accused of racism, so they pander to hyper-sensitive religious minorities who want to impose their will on the rest of us.