Elaine Ellinger is an author and researcher on Islamic studies. She is a former Canadian director and senior researcher for a European think tank focused on Islamic doctrine, and founded Perspectives on Islam Society in order to educate people on the primary teachings of Islam in the context of current events. Elaine has spent many years researching, writing, and speaking from the perspective of the non-Muslim about the growing influence of Sharia in non-Islamic countries.
00:12:13.740In 2009, the New York Times reported that Muslims accounted for 2% of America's workforce, but they filed 25% of religious discrimination claims.
00:12:25.540In fact, this isn't correct because at that time, they were only about 1% of the workforce.
00:13:01.500And they teach people how to complain.
00:13:05.040Basically, there's bullying in schools, know your rights as a student, while traveling, as an employee, while protesting, with law enforcement.
00:13:13.460And you can download your rights guide.
00:13:17.840And this came about because they did do some education.
00:13:24.640They put out tons of material every year to schools and other organizations, telling them,
00:13:30.540Well, you'll see some of that as we go through.
00:13:33.700But in 1999, in their annual report, they said,
00:13:37.840Clearly, the effectiveness of education in dealing with religious accommodation is showing serious limitation.
00:13:44.680Other venues, such as litigation, legislation, and political mobilization could add more teeth to the struggle for Muslim minority rights in the United States.
00:13:54.240And as we've already seen, that means Sharia.
00:13:57.440So Muslim employees can now use a smartphone to notify CARE if they feel that they're being discriminated against in regards to, say, praying on the job or getting a prayer room or anything else.
00:14:11.980This app was created by CARE in seven years ago.
00:14:17.640Now, their first case, they began in 1994.
00:14:20.200Like I said, the first case they took to court was in 1995.
00:14:25.320And you can report an incident easily.
00:14:27.720So basically, they've mobilized the entire Islamic workforce to report a violation of their rights, bias in the news media, bias in the publication, and you can report from anywhere.
00:14:41.620Now, I got a lot of this information from Europe.
00:14:44.240And they call themselves victims of hate crimes because there's a problem at work.
00:14:50.500And they're told to inform the offending party, report it in writing, to start saving memos, journaling, any witnesses, to contact CARE attorneys at the first sight of a problem.
00:15:51.880Now, CARE was actually named a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.
00:15:57.640And they're currently before the court because a former employee has made a complaint about them and says they're receiving foreign funding.
00:16:06.860And now the courts are wanting to see that.
00:16:09.400They've asked that they must reveal some of their donors.
00:16:12.700And they have approximately 33 chapters.
00:16:15.860They're the largest civil rights group in the United States.
00:16:18.560So, here from California, you see the annual report shows 130 directors and staff, including several attorneys, $17 million in revenue.
00:16:29.540And in Washington, D.C., $26 million in revenue per year.
00:16:55.160And, of course, the taxpayer is going to be covering that.
00:16:58.700The establishment of a new policy that mandates individuals in custody, including during the booking process, are allowed to retain their head coverings.
00:18:16.280The seventh category is for those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army rostered.
00:18:26.700So, if you look at the list of designated terrorist groups in most, well, I don't, I haven't checked them all, but certainly several of them, the 80-90% will be Islamic terrorist groups.
00:18:42.920And, of course, there's funding available.
00:18:45.000So, what is Zakat, and what is this Islamic taxation for?
00:19:01.520So, if you compared that to your tax statement today, you would have for the poor social services and needy emergency relief, for those employed to collect Zakat public service, for bringing hearts together, ministry of public information or propaganda, freeing captives, for those in debt, and the cause of Allah.
00:19:28.720This is how the money is spent, and there is a lot of it.
00:19:33.880So, the National Canadian Council of Muslims was formally called Care Canada.
00:19:39.040They changed their name in 2013, but they were associated with the group in the United States.
00:19:47.140And they are authorized under the Canadian Council of Imams to collect Zakat in the category of fee sabalila, which you have just seen is the cause of Allah, jihad.
00:20:02.380And it says, National Canadian Council of Muslims is also very successful in presenting the Muslim viewpoint in media, either by writing to the editor or by paid articles.
00:20:12.320They do letter writing campaigns to politicians, and they provide legal services.
00:20:18.580And there's over 1,000 different Islamic organizations in Canada, and this just shows the growth of Islamic organizations in Germany.
00:20:28.320So, the National Council of Canadian Muslims offers legal assistance, including the workplace.
00:20:37.780And they frequently collaborate with partners such as the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
00:20:43.320Their lawyers have appeared in multiple courts, including human rights tribunals in the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:20:48.220And here's some of the booklets that they provide, including telling journalists on how they should report about Islam and Muslims.
00:21:26.040So, what they found is that employers feel they should not have to provide a prayer room, special leave, or adopt schedules to Islamic prayer time.
00:21:34.900That employees should not be able to refuse a task forbidden by Sharia, such as refusing contact with coworkers and business partners.
00:21:43.700Employers believe that Sharia is a potential security risk, and that employees should leave their religion at home when they come to work.
00:21:52.600They found over 50% of Western corporates had to handle Islam-related workplace issues on an occasional or regular basis, including external influence from religious representatives.
00:22:03.620And the areas of contention, and we'll go through them one by one, were prayer, Ramadan, dress and appearance, halal, gender segregation, pork and alcohol, body rituals, physical contact, proselytizing, and jihad.
00:22:35.38029% of managers faced prayer-related demands, such as a prayer room and ablution washing facilities.
00:22:42.52070% of managers reported praying on the job.
00:22:45.48032% of employers reported demands for scheduling accommodation and absences, and 26% faced demands for dedicated prayer rooms.
00:22:55.140Now, in every case, I will show you what the doctrine actually says, because the employer doesn't know.
00:23:00.660He only knows what he's told, and that isn't always accurate.
00:23:04.180So, the doctrine actually says, the Quran, to guard the prayers, especially the middle prayer, that they should be at evening, when you rise in the morning, late afternoon, when the day begins to decline, at the two ends of day, approach of night, decline of the sun, darkness of night, rising of the sun before it's setting, before the rising of sun, and before it's setting, and during periods of the night and ends of the day.
00:23:27.600So, yes, they're supposed to pray, but it doesn't have to be done at a specific moment.
00:23:34.900What did they do 1,400 years ago when there were no clocks?
00:23:39.200So, it was done before sunrise, shortly after noon, in the late afternoon, just before the sun goes down, before retiring for the night.
00:23:46.460In ancient times, one merely looked at the sun, but now we have printed daily prayer schedules and apps, more apps.
00:23:54.560So, is missing a prayer that big a deal?
00:23:58.160Well, they're not supposed to miss prayers, but they can.
00:24:01.180But they're supposed to make them up as soon as they can.
00:24:05.620And it says that, and this is from Reliance of the Traveler, that a Muslim who misses a prayer out of unconcern cannot, by that fact alone, be considered an unbeliever.
00:24:16.600And the view that a prayer purposely missed cannot be made up is incorrect.
00:24:21.440Now, what we were looking at before was the Quran.
00:24:23.620What does the Hadith, the example of Muhammad, say?
00:24:26.940Well, Muhammad said he was asked about a man who slept through a messed prayer, and he said, well, he can pray when he remembers it.
00:24:33.920So, they were sitting with Muhammad, and he said, if you can avoid missing a prayer through sleep or business, you must do so.
00:24:42.380And Muhammad himself missed prayer sometimes, and his wife here says that if he missed the night prayer, he would make it up the next day.
00:25:12.620Necessity overcomes obligation and makes the forbidden permissible.
00:25:16.380So, if there's no halal food, Islamic schools, or finance, mortgages, etc., then Darura applies, and a Muslim is free to choose a non-Sharia alternative, and cannot be pressured to accept only Islamic alternatives.
00:25:29.540And I want to point out that many people come here to get away from Sharia, not to mention those asylum seekers who have come here from Islamic lands because they were so oppressed.
00:25:39.120So, they've wanted to get away from Sharia.
00:25:41.800So, when our authorities are pressured or lobbied by people saying, well, this is a religious obligation, we have to have it, and without outside knowledge, our authorities go ahead and approve that accommodation.
00:25:55.280Now, the Islamic community will pressure those Muslims who do not want to take the Islamic alternative to take it, because it's available now.
00:26:12.120Now, everyone is going to be pressured to use it.
00:26:15.760So, in this way, we actually limit people's opportunities to escape Sharia or choose alternatives.
00:26:21.880So, what does the classic manual of law say?
00:26:27.680It says that that's all right to deceive people.
00:26:30.620So, if you're asked about, you know, halal food, and you're told you absolutely have to have it, and they don't happen to mention the principle of Darura, then that's a bit deceptive, isn't it?
00:26:40.840So, you're not getting all the information.
00:26:43.820Well, what Islam does is it provides for this.
00:26:46.140It says, there's no harm in giving a misleading impression if it is required by an interest, countenance, by secret law.
00:26:54.300An outright lie is permissible in three cases, war, settling disagreements, and a man talking with his wife.
00:27:00.300And I'll tell you that there's something called tafsir.
00:28:18.600Now, at the Geneva Airport, a group of 30 Muslims decided to pray loudly in the entrance hall.
00:28:24.260And airport staff did not dare to intervene for fear of provoking a violent incident or being accused of Islamophobia.
00:28:32.840And that's about 30 people right there.
00:28:34.920Now, you can see how intimidating this is.
00:28:37.140Now, what's happened in Dearborn, Michigan, and this is in the U.S., is that this community has become pretty much Islamic.
00:28:48.200And they are now having the adhan, that's the call to prayer, on loudspeakers.
00:28:53.920So, what they have found in the last 20 years, the community has transformed the cultural landscape, not only with signs in Arabic everywhere,
00:29:00.780but just the amount of restaurants, grocery stores, and butcher shops, and bakeries.
00:29:06.000Now, in Israel, they also had the adhan on loudspeakers in some communities, but they have stopped that now.
00:29:13.540Now, this is happening all over the U.K., the prayer on loudspeakers.
00:29:18.240And it was coming to Newham, and in this case, in 2021, a fellow says,
00:29:24.280I talked to a fellow friend, an ex-Muslim, who had escaped persecution in Pakistan.
00:29:30.120Here, he elucidated further the meaning of the adhan.
00:29:32.960Back in Pakistan, he explained it had been used to intimidate non-believers,
00:29:37.780while simultaneously pressuring Muslims to drop all they were doing to go and pray.
00:29:41.820And, for example, the East London Mosque in the U.K. has been broadcasting on loudspeakers the adhan since the 1980s.
00:29:50.340So, the second one, Ramadan, findings of the survey.
00:29:53.680In 1997, 42% of employers said they were willing to implement flex time.
00:29:59.220And the doctrine says, yes, the month of Ramadan is supposed to be for fasting,
00:30:03.280and whoever observes the fast, his past sins will be forgiven.
00:30:06.480So, the thing is, this does have an effect on the workplace.
00:30:11.820It's been described as a hangover, because they fast all day,
00:30:15.480and if they're in physically demanding roles, operating equipment or vehicles,