It seems this chap does not work in a supermarket, but in a distribution center. No employer could be reasonably expected to divide pallets into "halal and haram" for the benefit of a single Muslim fork-lift truck-driver, I very much doubt that he was ever given an undertaking that he would only be expected to move gin-free consignments. It is not as if he were stacking the bottles on the shelves, selling them at the checkout, or pouring out the infidel indulgence into a glass - though many of his co-religionists are more than happy to do both in their restaurants and corner shops. In fact, a fork lift truck driver can scarcely be said to "handle" the goods on his pallets at all. So if a person of your undoubted perceptiveness cannot see that what we have here is a vexatious complainant, I am most surprised. :roll: Yes ... I ridicule his scruples most certainly. I don't think they are real. If they are, then he is in the wrong job, as I said before. Our Good Dog describes him as "a silly sod". Now there is ridicule, for you! :wink: He is at least that, and at worst a troublemaker who thinks he is doing a spot of jihad, which is far more likely, in my opinion .... As you have spotted, I make no secret of my opposition to Islam as a dangerous political ideology. I am also opposed to it as a loathsome and pernicious false religion, inclined to persecute all others where it can, that keeps millions of its own in poverty in regressive societies. Yes, I agree entirely with the Byzantine Emperor Paleologus. The good things in Islam were borrowed from Judaism and Christianity; the only new thing Mohammed gave the world is an ideology of conflict and oppression. The only tolerance it espouses is an insistence on receiving toleration from others. That is my take on it. You are entitled to your own. :roll: