Oklahoma Cop Sues Department Over Mosque Assignment

[Incorruptible]

A Christian police officer is suing his department after being punished for refusing to go to a mosque for a mandatory cultural event. Paul Campbell Fields, a 17-year veteran, was docked two weeks' pay, transferred, reduced to the graveyard shift and made ineligible for promotions for at least a year, after he told his chief his faith made it impossible for him to attend a "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" at the Islamic Cultural Society of Tulsa

Fields' attorney, Robert Muise of The American Freedom Law Center, elaborated, "He was going to be in a place where people were going to refer to Jesus Christ as merely a prophet and not his Lord and Savior,
"And he wouldn't be able to respond to them in any way," Muise added. "That was very troubling to him."


The police department shouldn't be sending officers to ANY cultural event, the police officer shouldn't have had to go and definitely shouldn't be punished.

Should the department send officers to these kind of events and was the officer right to complain about the issue


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/1...ent-tried-to-make-him-go-to-mosque-for-event/

 

[dawp]

he has to serve all citizens, not just christians. it's part of the job. if he doesn't like it he can get another job.

 

[dmcowen674]

Oklahoma Cop Sues Department Over Mosque Assignment

A Christian police officer is suing his department after being punished for refusing to go to a mosque for a mandatory cultural event. Paul Campbell Fields, a 17-year veteran, was docked two weeks' pay, transferred, reduced to the graveyard shift and made ineligible for promotions for at least a year, after he told his chief his faith made it impossible for him to attend a "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" at the Islamic Cultural Society of Tulsa

Fields' attorney, Robert Muise of The American Freedom Law Center, elaborated, "He was going to be in a place where people were going to refer to Jesus Christ as merely a prophet and not his Lord and Savior,
"And he wouldn't be able to respond to them in any way," Muise added. "That was very troubling to him."


The police department shouldn't be sending officers to ANY cultural event, the police officer shouldn't have had to go and definitely shouldn't be punished.

Should the department send officers to these kind of events and was the officer right to complain about the issue


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/1...ent-tried-to-make-him-go-to-mosque-for-event/

Awesome, should do what Reagan did with Air Traffic Controllers and fire all Christian Cops and hire only Islamic cops.

That will fix the problem immediately.

 

[SNC]

Awesome, should do what Reagan did with Air Traffic Controllers and fire all Christian Cops and hire only Islamic cops.

That will fix the problem immediately.

Can you be any more of a troll?

 

[diesbudt]

he has to serve all citizens, not just christians. it's part of the job. if he doesn't like it he can get another job.

This is very true. You serve the people of America. Not the people of Christianity.

Sure he can voice his opinion that he would rather not go, and the department should find a way to help the situation, but the guy sounds like a baby. It isn't a sin to hear other people talk negativly / against ones religion. God would probably be proud of someone sitting there protecting people of a different mindset and not raising his/her anger in protest against it.

 

[soulcougher73]

Typical Christian bigot.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Muslims: "We really appreciate you."
Christian Cop: "My fairy tale book is better than yours, so fuck you."


So stupid.

 

[-Slacker-]

OP, how do you manage to live without choking on your own spit or without hanging yourself while trying to tie your shoe laces?

 

[her209]

Wonder if the cop has issues taking appreciation donuts from a non-Christian bakery.

 

[shadow9d9]

Thanks for pointing out yet another bigoted christian.

 

[Pens1566]

Employer makes employee do something they don't want to do. Film at 11.

Don't like it, quit. You can't selectively "protect and serve". Asshat.

 

[waggy]

he has to serve all citizens, not just christians. it's part of the job. if he doesn't like it he can get another job.

/this

 

[Matt1970]

You all would be crying sepration of church and state if that were an athiest being forced to go to a catholic church.

 

[nehalem256]

What if say the local KKK held a law enforcement appreciation day? Don't you think a black officer might not want to attend that?

The officer was in no way shirking his duties to enforce the law and protect citizens.

 

[thraashman]

What if say the local KKK held a law enforcement appreciation day? Don't you think a black officer might not want to attend that?

The officer was in no way shirking his duties to enforce the law and protect citizens.

Um, muslims don't by their nature think Christians lesser and want them to die or have fewer rights. They don't hate Christians simply for being Christians. That's the difference between the comparison.

I'm sure we're missing part of the story because the punishment listed is pretty heavy in comparison to the reported actions. The story we're hearing is clearly from the side of the punished officer, and it's not exactly unheard of that someone would lie to make their actions seem more appropriate.

 

[1prophet]

He should go and bring Jamal Miftah along who was kicked out of the mosque for writing this piece which was published in Tusla.

Because of lack of knowledge of Islam, Muslim youth are misguided into believing by the so-called champions of the cause of Islam that the current spate of killings and barbarism, which has no equal in the recent civilized history, is jihad in the name of Islam. They are incited, in the name of Islam, to commit heinous crimes not pardonable by any religion and strictly forbidden in Islam....

Even mosques and Islamic institutions in the U.S. and around the world have become tools in [Al-Qaeda's] hands and are used for collecting funds for their criminal acts. Half of the funds collected go into the pockets of their local agents and the rest are sent to these thugs.


They are the reason for branding the peaceful religion of Islam as terrorism. The result, therefore, is in the form of Danish cartoons and remarks/reference by the Pope.


I appeal to the Muslim youth in particular and Muslims of the world in general to rise up and start jihad against the killers of humanity and help the civilized world to bring these culprits to justice and prove that Islam is not a religion of hatred and aggression.


I appeal to the Muslim clerics around the world that, rather than issuing empty fatwas condemning suicide bombing, they should issue a fatwa for the death of such scoundrels and barbarians who have taken more than 4,267 lives of innocent people in the name of Islam and have carried out more than 24 terrorist attacks on civilian installations throughout the world. This does not include the chilling number of deaths because of such activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is well over 250,000.


I appeal to al-Zawahri and his band of thugs to hand themselves over to justice and stop spreading evil and killing innocent humans around the world in the name of Islam. Their time is limited and Muslims of the world will soon rise against them to apprehend them and bring them to justice

Jamal Miftah wrote those words in an October 29, 2006, Readers' Forum op-ed in the Tulsa Whirled. In "thanks" for his bold writing against Islamic terrorism, he has been expelled from the Islamic Center of Tulsa, the mosque which owns the old Stevenson Elementary School building north of 51st between Yale and Sheridan. He also says that he has been he subject of threats of violence. He has been told that he cannot come back to the mosque unless he takes back what he wrote. Oklahoma City's KWTV News 9 has the story.


In his op-ed, Miftah mentioned that he, his wife, and their four children came to the U. S. in 2003 from Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border. He lost a dear friend who chose to follow al-Qaeda and fight against the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. Please keep the Miftah family in your prayers for safety. The Muslim engineers that I've known and worked with in Tulsa are much more like Jamal Miftah than those who ejected him from the mosque. These Muslims love America, they love the American way of life, and they are apologetic for the terrorism done in Islam's name. To them, jihad is the inward struggle to subdue the passions, not conquering the land of the infidel.



What he says about American mosques collecting aid for terrorism may well be true. For years, Irish social clubs in America collected money which, whether the donors knew it or not, went to fund the operations of Irish nationalist terrorist groups. Certainly the opposite is true: many American mosques have received capital and operating funds from Arabic Muslim groups who hold to strict Wahhabi Islam.

 

[Pens1566]

You all would be crying sepration of church and state if that were an athiest being forced to go to a catholic church.

Fail strawman.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Matt1970

"You all would be crying sepration of church and state if that were an athiest being forced to go to a catholic church"

Well, I'm an atheist. Churches are just buildings to me. Wouldn't bother me a bit.

Christians are the haters. A rare trait in atheists.

So much for your rant.

 

[umbrella39]

Muslims: "We really appreciate you."
Christian Cop: "My fairy tale book is better than yours, so fuck you."


So stupid.

Pretty much this. As a health care worker we have to do cultural sensitivity training all the time and don't get to pick and chose who we treat. Get the fuck over it cop...

 

[jackschmittusa]

By the way, the cop doesn't belong on the force. If he can't serve all of the citizens, he should serve none.

 

[sunzt]

AHHH those mooslems are trying to covert our Christian enforcers of the law!

 

[mrCide]

I'm an athiest working at a Catholic organization. Should I sue for everything I have to deal with? No? No, because that would make me a retarded idiot bigot etc? Makes sense.

 

[umbrella39]

Fail strawman.

No shit... this cop has a couple of new fans here, they will express their admiration in different, illogical ways...

 

[Incorruptible]

You all would be crying sepration of church and state if that were an athiest being forced to go to a catholic church.

This right, the political correctness here is insane.

If this happened to an atheist forced to go to a Church, there would be outrage over the story and all the idiots would be crying about it

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Not sure why anyone is even responding to this bigot troll. Incorruptible, despite feverish competition from a number of other members, is pretty clearly the most overtly bigoted member of this forum at the moment and deserves nobody's attention.