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Sweden: Court rules that employers must pay Muslims for praying on the job
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
This is more about Islamic supremacism than about the need to pray. It is not an absolute requirement that Islamic prayers must be prayed at the prescribed time. Even at a 2017 conference whining about alleged “Islamophobia” and smearing those who call attention to jihad terror, one Muslim spokesman acknowledged that missed prayers can be made up: “One man asked how an employer is to deal with Muslim employees, given their need for prayer, (Dr. Tabasum Hussein, a panelist who joined the Q and A, answered that ‘We don’t stop fire fighting or surgery to pray. We can make it up later.’)” What is being asserted here is the priority of Islamic requirements over all other considerations. And of course the Swedish court, heedless of the larger implications, grants this point. All of this does not bode well for the ultimate assimilation of Muslims in Swedish society.
“Court decision: Employees have the right to pray to Allah during paid working hours,” translated from “Domstolsbeslut: Anställda har rätt att be till Allah på betald arbetstid,” Samhällsnytt, September 11, 2020 (thanks to 360 View):
Swedish employers must not prevent employees from rolling out a prayer mat in the workplace during working hours and kneeling in prayer to Allah. This is confirmed by the administrative court in Malmö and thus annuls a democratically made decision in the Bromölla City Council on a ban on prayer during working hours. According to the court, that decision is contrary to the religious freedom guaranteed in the Swedish constitution and the European Convention.
It was last year that the Municipal Board in Bromölla decided that “prayer time during paid working hours is not allowed” in the municipality. The issue had been pushed by the Sweden Democrats but also by more religion-friendly Christian Democrats.
The decision, which was religiously neutral in form but primarily prompted by demands for special rights from Muslim workers, was appealed and reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman (DO). The Administrative Court has now concluded that the decision is illegal according to the way in which the court interprets the freedom of religion in the Swedish form of government and the European Convention.
The court therefore annulled the democratically made decision. No employer may deny his employees the right to pray to Allah during paid working hours instead of performing their duties. It is unclear how many interruptions in work an employer must accept, and how long they must be.
It is unclear whether SD and KD will appeal the administrative court’s decision to a higher court. Samhällsnytt has no information on how far in the process the DO has come with the notification of the decision that was submitted there in January this year. |
