Have a happy Eid al-Fitr

Bart

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All our holidays will eventually be diversified.


http://www.wsmv.com/news/17063986/detail.html
<H1 =line itxtvisited="1">Plant Drops Labor Day For Muslim Holiday</H1>
<H2 =Sub itxtvisited="1"><I itxtvisited="1">More Than Half Of Tyson Plant's Workforce Muslim[/I]</H2>
Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr. Union leaders said implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new five-year contract at the plant included the change to accommodate Muslim workers at the plant


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Union leaders said implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.
 

White Shogun

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Oh, the irony: We deported all the Mexicans and granted asylum to all the Somali Negroes instead.
 

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Many of these Somalis are also infected with tuberculosis. That's why I never buy anything from Tyson.
 
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