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Oh really?

http://www.labornotes.org/2008/10/muslim-workers-demand-time-prayer-meatpacking-plants

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Clash_of_cultures:_Somali_and_Latino_workers_at_U.S._meat_packing_plants
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"Plant worker Fidencio Sandoval, a naturalized United States citizen who was born in Mexico, had polite reservations. "I kind of admire all the effort they make to follow that religion, but sometimes you have to adapt to the workplace." An immigrant from El Salvador was less sympathetic. "They used to go to the bathroom," said José Amaya, "but actually they're praying and the rest of us have to do their work." Raul A. García, a 73-year-old Mexican meat packer, told The New York Times, “The Latino is very humble, but they [the Somalis] are arrogant... They act like the United States owes them.”"

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-violence-women-honourkillings-idUSKBN0OY2UK20150618[/quote]

Are you citing these stories as evidence of something?  U.S. law requires reasonable accommodation of religion.  Leave it to the courts to decide what is reasonable, just like we do for everything else.  These workers can walk out and lose their jobs if they don't want to work with the employer.  Again, what is your point?[/quote]

I am responding to the person who said we are successfully integrating refugees. Honor killing your daughters is not successful integration. Living in clusters working menial dead end jobs (chicken factories) is not integration, and tensions with fellow workers from other backgrounds is not integration. Just saying it's not all so rosy here-it just hasn't impacted you.  I think as you open the doors to Syrian refugees it is wise to have some kind of integration program and supports, but at the same time I think it would never fly here because liberals would squeak about oppression if we had enculturation classes as they've had in Europe.[/quote]

So a story about meatpackers from 2008 (2008!) and a murder last year (by a man who was sexually abusing his daughters, something that is abhored in any religion) are evidence of a larger trend to you in a country with 300+ million people and more than 3 million Muslims?

Sorry, try again.
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