The U.S. Justice Department, the one that says a kindergarten student can't pass out candy canes at school at Christmas time, is filing suit against an Illinois school district for violating the rights of teacher Safoorah Khan by not providing her time off to go to Mecca for her Hajj. She wanted three weeks off, and the District said no. What I wonder is why she needed three weeks. The actual Hajj is five days. Give her four days for travel, and it could be accomplished in less than two weeks.
The Justice Department says that Muslims should not have to choose between their religious practice and their livelihood. Yet I bet the same people who make that argument see nothing wrong with pharmacists being forced to sell the morning after pill, even if they believe that abortion is wrong. And suppose a Christian wants to force the school district to give him three weeks off to visit the Holy Land on a spiritual retreat. What do you think the Justice Department would say to that?
How long before our school children must start each day with a passage from the Koran?
"Faith needs no special rights." The Dallas Morning News; December 27, 2010; p. 19A.
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