The thing I find most fascinating about this story – where the majority of the 1,200 workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee voted to swap Labor Day with Eid ul-Fitr as a paid holiday – is that Shelbyville is the least likely place I’d expect to find a Muslim majority among 1,200 employees.
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aziz 4:12 pm on August 1, 2008 Permalink |
well, Shelbyville has always been wierd. Frankly I think that Springfield is by far the superior. Instead of all this Eid al Fitr or Labor Day business, they have Jebediah Springfield’s birthday off, as God intended.
koonj 5:30 pm on August 2, 2008 Permalink |
Said one worker: “I mean, I think, we’re in America, you’re in America, I think that they should go with our holidays.”
A pregnant phrase: OUR holidays. The construction of the racial, religious and cultural “us,” with non-Eid holidays.