If I worked in a Muslim country, would they let me take a couple weeks off for Christmas or Easter? I have a feeling they would tell me to fuck off.
High Gravity, are you suggesting we should reshape the US constitution to resemble the law of Iran more? If not, the legal systems of other nations is mainly irrelevant.
There's a tension between the right to work and the right to worship for Americans. We are accomodating of the christians, less so of adherents of any other faith. Don't you suppose there are more'n a few devote Jews who've resented being asked to work on a Saturday before now?
All that's new about this story is, the religion and its practices are not familiar to us and the requests for accommodation seem extreme. But we'll survive.
I'm not saying we should be like Iran, I'm just saying if you lived and worked in a Muslim country and asked for a month off of work for Christmas or another Christian holiday, they would laugh in your face. You would be lucky to even get the Christmas day itself off. Why are Christians made to disregard their beliefs in Muslim lands but when Muslims come here we have to bend over backwards to accomodate them? how come I don't hear about any Buddhist or Hindu teachers asking for months off during the school year? how come its always Muslims making the news with this stuff?