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People call for respect towards their beliefs and meanwhile sometimes for separate for prayer areas at their work places and schools. In order to avoid conflict and an image of possible cultural intolerance, as those claims can be met with Muslims more often than other religions, and someone decided somewhere that this group needs to be given everything they demand for without conditions, the lords of these institutions give them to them.
Strange thing it only is... When somebody worships a different belief called "cigarette", then they get treated like lazy slackers who search for a possibility to get a short unofficial break from work.
When your employer is a militant non-smoker too, then even rooms and places to smoke vanish from all over the property your workplace is located on.
Anti-smoker regulations even make it possible to do a manhunt on these people.
Smoking is regarded as a personal weakness.
So - what is this double standard?
When in capitalism, since when you get granted extra breaks apart from the legally ensured ones to eat or to do anything you like?
Does a smoker have to call the sucking on his glimmering stick "an act of personal worship to God" in order to get granted the same rights back like somebody who claims to follow his religious belief?
What makes religious belief so exceptionally worth to be protected and privileged these days, no matter which one it is, compared to other more pragmatic things?
Or is it already a religious conviction of some social justice warriors that shape the zeitgeist to prey upon everything that has nothing to do with religion?

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Date: 30 September 2017 11:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] angelofthenorth
Interesting. Because smokers take far more breaks and longer than my Muslim colleagues ever did - the Muslims would go to the prayer-room at their designated breaks (15 minutes morning/afternoon, half hour for lunch) which we all got.

Also, speaking as a Christian who used to go to the hospital chaplaincy, I was far more productive after a 15 minute silent prayer than my colleagues who smoked would be after a fag. Fags were accompanied by coffee breaks once back in the dept and a gossip session from the group outside smoking. They could easily lose half an hour this way.

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Date: 30 September 2017 11:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] angelofthenorth
But if we worship the mighty dollar, then encouraging an activity that makes people more productive, and discouraging an activity that makes people less productive makes sense. They may appear to be being benevolent, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if they thought that restricting religious behaviour and improving things for smokers would improve the bottom line, then they would do it.

And if you think Muslims don't get treated with suspicion when they go to Mosque for Friday prayers, you have another think coming :).

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Date: 1 October 2017 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com
I think it is a deliberate act of trying to make them look annoying to everyone. Thus people will start hating them for their little strange cultural habits and get diverted from freaking capitalists who f** everything up around.

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Date: 1 October 2017 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com
Yeah, it makes sense.

And it is always easier to control people and treat them like slaves when they are uneducated and backward. Religion helps a lot with that.

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