د. طارق السويدان

"هناك مباديء في الاسلام لا تحتاج إلى فتوى ، منها وجوب رفع الظلم والتضحية لأجل الحق وإقامة العدل على الجميع "

~ د. طارق السويدان ~
الداعية والمفكر الإسلامي

Suzanne Barakat talking to Anderson Cooper about Chapel Hill Shooting

عقيدة الشرفاء

"و الفضلاء من جميع الأديان هم علي دين واحد . لأن المتدين الفاضل لا يتصور الله خالقاً له وحده و هادياً له وحده
أو لفئة وحدها . . و إنما هو نور السموات و الأرض . . المتاح لكل من يجتهد باحثا عنه ."

(( د/ مصطفى_محمود ))
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تلك العبارة ظلت تسكن  وتعبق في ذهني طوال سنوات..  لم  تفارقني البتة مذ قرأتها في صيف2008  من كتاب: "رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان"  للمفكر الكبير الدكتور مصطفى_محمود  رحمه الله

اي وربي فعقيدة الشرفاء والفضلاء واحدة لا تتغير بتغير الأزمان والأحوال ..فعقيدة الشرفاء والفضلاء  ثابتة لا تتغير مع تغير الظروف ولا تتبدل مع تبدل  النفوس 
فمهما اختلفت اديان هؤلاء الفضلاء وعقائدهم او اختلفت لغاتهم او ثقافاتهم لاتزل القيم لديهم والمبادئ وأسس الأخلاق هي نفسها عند الجميع اينما كانو   "واحدة" وثابتة  نعم فالفضيلة تظل فضيلة والرذيلة تظل رذيلة والصح يظل الصح والخطأ هو خطأ

وهل تتجزأ النزاهة  أم هل تتجزأ الإستقامة 
نعم إن القيم والمبادئ التي ننشأ عليها ونتربى ونعلم على ان نتمسك بها والتمثل بها والعيش وفقها لا تتغير ولا تتجزأ مهما علت وتيرة الإبتلاءات في الحياة ومهما دارت الأيام بين الناس وهنا فقط يتبين الحق من الباطل هنا فقط تتبين معادن الأشخاص ومدى قوتهم وثباتهم .. ففي الأبتلاءات  تظهر حقيقة تربيتنا من زيفها او الإغراءات وتظهر صدق أخلاقنا من كذبها ... نعم
في إختبارات الحياة إما نكرم او نهان  وفي خضم الفتن يظهر مدى ثباتنا على الحق.. وقد قال رب العزة جل وعلا في سورة العنكبوت :  *{ الم (1) أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ (2) وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَاذِبِينَ (3) }*
 

 

        

   

Good Bosses

 

I will always remember that In some point, there were Good and Fair Bosses in Cargill Dodge City Plant last year
Mr. Jon Surman , and  Mr. Duane Clark who stood by my side  on June 2014 and stopped  the Conspiracy of Arturo Ceron, Juan Murales and Carelessness of HR staff -Kim Nichols, Katie and Scott Reid-... Unfortunately, they both left Dodge City. They left Cargill 

 

The Phone-Call that made me Speechless

 

It was another surprise for me today afternoon around 4:40 p.m, when I received that call. That soft provocative phone call from some one named  "Steve ..." who belongs to Cargill Head Quarter Building in Minneapolis, MN. A Gentleman who introduced himself to me as the senior director of something. That gentleman actually told me his full name and his exact possession in Cargill Head Quarter, but seems I forgot to memorize because I was so happy when I picked up the phone and answered
I was so happy when I answered the call, because I recognized the number. It belongs to the HQ office, so I was expecting the call will be about to tell me that Justice will take  place, I was expecting that whoever is this person who's calling from Minnesota, He definitely has a great news for me which  means I'm going back to work. Yes, I was very happy when I answered that phone call, thought the call is about supporting me, bringing me back to my job and starting the investigation in Cargill Dodge City in order to find the truth, but I took my surprise for the second time, He talked with me, asked me about my letters that I sent to  Mr. MacLennan

He asked me to tell him about the matter, and I believed him. Told him shortly all the important points that matter. I was so happy 'till that moment. I was expecting from that Boss, that Senior Director of .... at Cargill_Head Quarter to be fair, to do the right thing, to investigate, to find out the truth and then punish those whom are responsible.  but seems my expectations didn't  fit with Mr. Steve's proposal through his phone call. I realized that they chose to believe each other. I realized through his call that they didn't hand my letter with all the documents inside to Mr. MacLennan as I privately sent to him. I realized  that those group of bosses simply chose to protect each other, to be together against me, because I reported about my bosses who targeted me, They simply are trying to save my facility Bosses who do the wrong and unacceptable things

That voice inside me was telling me quietly, people like Steve, Mark Busyn, Patty, Shawn Mott are trying to save my facility staff , so they terminated me,  just Because I'm a girl with honor, a girl with dignity, a girl with integrity, a girl who can't accept humiliation or harassment. A girl who mentioned Discrimination,Mediocrity and Corruption. That's why they all -Dodge City Facility staff + Wichita (Shawn Mott)+ Minneapolis HQ (Patty, Mark, Steve)- united against me just because I'm asking for equal treatment in my work environment, I'm asking for respect and for justice

They turned against me because I'm asking for Investigation about the corruption and discrimination inside the Plant I work at. So, they simply don't want the truth comes up. They simply are trying to cover the problem instead of solving it. They simply are trying to stop me reaching  Cargill Chief  Eecutive Officer Mr. David MacLennan. Yes, exactly

That gentleman started his call to introduce himself to me, then asked me about my letters -to make sure I'm the exact and correct person whom he wants to call- then when I told him specifically the whole story in short way. He -Steve- started to tell me stop sending letters to the CEO's Office. Stop calling Mr. MacLennan's office because Mr. David MacLennan is a very busy man, I myself cant reach him. No one can, and Mr. MacLennan is running a business in more than 70 countries and his employees are more than thousands. He is working on international deals ...,.....,...etc. So, obviously he has no time to look at every employee's problem. We are the ones who do that job, and we actually talked to Wichita HR-Manager "Shawn Mott", we also talked to your facility Human Resource office staff. They told us everything. They told us about the decision they made and we absolutely agree with them. So, you should just accept it as it's and move on. You know, there's a lot of employments out there

 I was standing at my living room holding my cellphone, listening to this strange gentleman's lecture on the phone who's focusing only on how to convince me to give up on my case (Rejecting the Injustice and Demanding My Rights) and move on while I was keep telling him: So You just want believe them instead of investigation, So you don't care about the all documents that I sent. You don't care that I'm terminated unfairly

 I was totally and completely speechless, taking my surprise for the second time, because the first surprise I've got was when they told me on the phone "Sam, we terminated your employment" on Jan. 20th after they told me "You'll come back to work and take your work ID on Monday, Jan. 12th" and I was truly speechless. While I was listening to his lecture, I was wondering how this gentleman could go so far with his rudeness?.  How could he dare to suggest me to forget about all the injustice that happened to me and move on instead of standing by my side

 I was wondering how could he be so rude to talk to me like that??? How could he be so careless about my case, trying to stop me, trying to dismiss me, to make me give up, to treat me like I don't matter

Sure, that "Steve" should be careless and talk to me like that way, because he's not in my shoes. He never faced  what I'm facing. He never faced a hard and injustice situation like I did. He never faced discrimination, He never faced Molestation. He never faced daily verbal abusing, He never faced daily threatening. Of course he should be careless because no body threw him out of his Office, out of his job just like that. No body took his work-ID from him, suspended him unfairly and terminated him just for retaliation

 What I was expecting before I got that phone call, whoever will call me from the HQ suppose to do the right thing, which is seeking the truth, sending someone to Dodge City KS, who investigates about the whole issue. Someone who collects the evidences, and searches deeply. That was exactly what I expected, because I believe that Cargill employees are matter. I believe that people like me are the foundation of the Corporation's reputation

 For a moment, I felt like, this is a Hollywood movie scene, not a reality of mine. I was wondering why they don't want give my messages to the CEO?. Why they took the documents that I sent privately to Mr. David MacLennan? Why Mr. CEO's Assistant "Patty" took my letters away?. Why she didn't give him as she should to?. Why they took my two envelopes that hold a lot of proofs, my two letters that I wrote and sent to "David MacLennan". Why they took what was not sent for them, opened it carelessly, then Dared to call me to say: "Don't call the Chief Executive Office, Stop sending latters to Mr. MacLennan. Whyyyyy?. Where's their ethics?, where's their principles, their values?. Where's their honesty?. Well, all what I can say is that I can not accept and I wont accept a group of  people to decide to terminate me from the company I love and the company I belong to, and work for. Just for retaliation. When I leave Cargill, I will leave it by my own choice, and 'til that time comes, I belong to this Corporation Cargill

So, I would like to say "Thank You" to that gentleman "Mr. Steve" who is the Head Quarter Director of something. I thank him so much from my heart and tell him: "Thank you Sir, for your call today afternoon. It was just the exact motivation that I needed, to make my voice heard across the STATES, or maybe across the world.. Thank you, because you gave me a big push to stand up for myself more than before, to believe in myself more than before and to tell my story. A story of a Muslim Girl who works at Cargill Dodge City Facility. A story of a Muslim girl who was targeted by her Mexican supervisor since the beginning since July 2012, just because she told him "Don't Touch me". and all the staff of her facility targeted her because she noticed the discrimination, and the corruption inside the Plant. A Muslim girl who witnessed the Mexican thief  who got fired by the company security staff returning to the plant by the Human Resource Office staff and becoming a supervisor in her department while good and hard work Somali employees get fired because of Prayer or Restroom. A Muslim girl who couldn't practice her religion, couldn't pray her prayers, who couldn't go to the restroom without harassment, without threatening, without write ups and warnings. A Muslim girl who Dared to speak out. A Muslim girl who faced  all those Sharks in Cargill Meat Solution by herself. And when she complained to the Company Head-Quarter Office. She got termination paper

 

 

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January 30th

Today Is January 30th

Supposed to be my third anniversary of my employment .. Yes three years left of being working at Cargill and still feel proud

It was Monday, January 30th 2012 when I was entered to that Gate and became part of the corporation. yes, when I became one of those new  group who were ready to join with Cargill and take the Orientation ... GOD, what can I say

Every year we face obstacles and we overcome by our strength and faith. And my obstacle this year on my 3rd anniversary of being working at Cargill is that the facility staff set me up, make a story to suspend me and then terminate me
They made up a lie as always, said that I walked of the line to go for my prayer "Sunset Prayer" as a Muslim what we call -Salatul Maghreb-, which is definitely not true because I don't leave my work area without Permission because I'm respectful and responsible person. I went for my prayer that night but I had that Supervisor's approval. So, the question is: Why they make up a lie like that, why they are doing that to me

Because I contacted with the Corporation Head Quarter, demanded for justice, because  I talked about the corruption inside the fab and I  asked for intervention. I talked about that matter: Corruption, Mediocrity, Discrimination against Somalis, I talked about Making favors and exceptions for Mexicans  and asked for investigation about the whole thing, So obviously the head bosses in my facility didn't like that move.. they felt panic because if their scandal comes out they will all go home forever

So they decided to throw me out before all that happen. They planed to make me out of the company I work for three years with totally honor and loyalty

But It seems they don't know me for real ... they don't know how stubborn I'm ... maybe I don't know either 'till they provoke me. Yes, some times you don't know the power and the skills you have until they put in a real test. All what I can say is:  It's not fair that I got fired because they want me out of their way while I am a rule model, and I consider myself THE EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR

It was another surprise today afternoon, that some one from the Head Quarter Office.. I mean Cargill's HQ offices at Minneapolis, MN, who named "Steve" I don't remember Steve who.. Someone who claimed that he's "the director of something" I forgot what exactly he said "the director of public relations" maybe.. That Gentlemen .. "Steve" called me today afternoon around 04:40pm. just  to tell me to stop calling the CEO "David MacLennan's Office" To try to stop me, telling me "Stop writing letters to the Company's Chief Executive Officer  David MacLennan because he is a VIP man and he is running a huge business in over 70 countries around the world... He has no time to take a look of every employee's problem... We took a look of what you sent , and we talked to Shawn Mott , and also with Dodge City Facility, and we they told us about the situation and why they made that decision  and I see you move on ... there are a lot of employments out there you find

Wow.. what can I say
Frankly, I'm totally surprised for the second time. Actually the exact word is that I'm speechless

 

Cesar Chavez...The UFCW Icon

 

 

 

 

I wonder if we still have someone like him in the United States???? Still wonder if we can have like him again... like this great and simple man, who's the Icon of honesty, hard work, dignity, integrity, dedication, leadership and honor.. CESAR CHAVEZ

 

Cesar Chavez

The Real and The True UFW Representative.. I wish he can hear me so I would tell him how proud I'm because I knew about him and I read about him, I wish I could tell him how some of his people, specially his race whom I work with are very down and very low.. very insecure and use their professional authorization in personal way with employees. I wish I could tell him how people like Arturo Ceron, Jorge Ceron, Jemi Estephan, Miguel and a lot more Mexicans in Cargill  make the work environment just  A Revenge and Racism Field... I wish I could tell him that people like: Arturo Ceron, Jorge Ceron, Jime Stephan and Miguel are a big shame of Hispanic nation and how they almost made me hate the name of  Mexican.

I wish I could tell him how much I pray to have some loyal Union representative like him, some honest and dedicated Union Representative just like him, who fight for workers rights, stand for them, believe in them and defend on them just like he did.

I wish that my UFCW representatives District2 "Claudio Diaz and Ernesto Mendoza" are with the right side, not with the employer side.. I wish they stand up for all workers regardless of their races, their colors, their religions ... just like Cesar Chavez

 

God, what could I say more through here exept: "I love you Cesar, Rest in Peace". Here are my prayers to be with you, and I will accomplish the mission that you started with totally  honest and loyalty. I will be always with those whom are in need, with those who seek for the justice, equality and well treatment