A UK retailer reportedly lets Muslim cashiers refuse customers buying pork or alcohol. The speaker warns this breaks service neutrality and could spiral into refusals based on religion across all transactions, pointing to Algeria as a cautionary example of how such norms erode shared public life.
Hello, everyone. So even though I'm in the United States, I'm still following what's going on in the US So I just read the news in England and I was extremely shocked by the news. The Mark and Spencer supermarkets, which are, if you like, one of the most iconic chains in the country, have just made an absolutely astonishing decision. They've just authorized their Muslim cashiers to refuse customers who have pork or alcohol in their purchases. That is to say, if a customer arrives at the checkout and places their items on the conveyor belt and there is alcohol or pork in them, the cashier has the right to refuse them the cash and then send them to another checkout. This is an absolutely astounding decision that will have huge repercussions in the sense that if you compare Third World countries to Western countries, there is something very important. It is what is called service neutrality. That is to say, you can go to a bookstore, buy a book. The cashier or the owner of the bookstore may totally disagree with the content of this book, but he can sell it to you. You can call a pizza delivery man. He can come to your house, bring you a pizza that he would not eat. He would come to your house in a context where he may not agree with your lifestyle or your choices or whatever, but he is neutral with regard to these things. He will still serve you. And what is happening today is that we are going to open Pandora's box, because we must know that Islamism advances by having millions of little hoods. So one thing you need to know is that in the west, when people think of dictatorship, they think of someone. So when they think of totalitarianism, they might think of Franco, they might think of Hitler, they might think of icons like that. In Arab Muslim society, totalitarianism doesn't come from above and descend. It comes from below and ascends. So everyone is the other's watchdog. Everyone has the right to oversee and intervene in the choices of others. Their sexuality, their political opinions, their religious opinions. And ultimately, we see a lot in Arab Muslim societies quite simply in their right to life. So what you also need to know is that this submission comes in response to demands that have been there for a very long time. That means we've heard a lot about taxi drivers in airports who refused to transport customers who had either been drinking or who had bought alcohol or other things at the free shop, they refused to transport them. So today we're going to have a society where some people will have the right to refuse to serve other people based on their Religious choices. So what's going to happen is that things are going to get worse, because it's not over yet. It's just the beginning of the can of worms. I'll give you some news from this week in Algeria, just to give you a little parallel of how far we can go in this area. Someone posted a poster on Facebook that he took a photo of in a restaurant in Algeria where the restaurateur says he refuses to serve couples who are not married. That means that in order to serve you, you have to prove to him that you are heterosexual. Well, homosexual. There is no problem. As I have already said, it is simply discrimination against heterosexuality, against male female relationships. Male female relationships must be absolutely banned in these societies. But that is another subject. I will not challenge it. So the restaurateur has the right to serve you food. He has the right to oversee your choices. So if you are not married, for example, to the woman you are with, well, he reserves the right to refuse to serve you. And I see that in England we are heading in the same direction. So I thought that Algeria, thanks to the choices of the Algerian people, would transform into Afghanistan. In 20 years, we will be exactly like the regions of Patchouli in Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. It will be exactly the same thing. Now it shocks me more to see this kind of thing happening in England. Ah, also, knowing the demands, the Islamist demands, it means that these are demands. It's a bit like a washing machine program. You see the demand. You can easily imagine what will follow. There will always be another one after that, and it's extremely predictable. So today we open Pandora's box by authorizing checkouts to refuse people on the basis that there is pork or there is alcohol. Tomorrow, for example, a cashier. Tomorrow. I mean, tomorrow, it's in six months. In a year, a cashier can refuse someone, for example, on the basis that your sweets contain gelatin or your meat. It's not pork. Indeed. But it's not halal. I sell it. I don't sell it. Or we can go further. Uh, I don't serve you. I don't serve you because you're wearing a miniskirt that's already been seen. Or I don't serve you because you're not wearing a veil. Or I don't serve you because you're a woman. We can. We can. So we can decline. We can decline that ad infinitum. There's no limit. But be careful, it doesn't work the other way around. For example, if a Christian or a Thai guy doesn't have the right to refuse to sell meat. Religious meat, okay? That's not possible, because that's racism, okay? So that's also going to create this impression of injustice, and that's going to increase tensions between the various communities that should never have existed in the first place. Besides, we should have just had one national community at the base, right? It's a bit like, well, if I'm a vegetarian, do I have the right not to sell meat? I don't know if I'm in Alcoholics Anonymous. Do I have the right to refuse to sell beer? It's completely. It's completely astonishing. It means that it disappoints me enormously, because I'll tell you why. And there's another reason. It means that this kind of thing, when it happens in the west, reinforces what's happening in our countries because we're struggling. Recently, I was fighting. For example, I have an account where I speak in Arabic. There was a hysteria that was launched by television channels in Algeria to prevent women from studying at university. It was a campaign that had been launched in this direction. We also have campaigns like, as I told you this, my aunt lived in a building in Switzerland where there was a guy upstairs who had set up a workshop, something that worked day and night. I don't know what it was. I was there and sometimes I could hear the sound of tools falling on the floor and everything. It was making strange noises. And in fact, it bothered her. It bothered everyone. On the other hand, when she complained to the management, she was alone. They told her, but you're the only one who hears this. You're the only one who complains. No one complained, okay? When she spoke to the neighbors. Yes, it bothers me. It's true that we can't sleep at night. Do you want to write the agency there? He lowers his head. Do you understand? That's it. It's when you live in the midst of cowards, when you live in a society of cowards, no matter how much you are against it, you are swept away by the tide. You are swept away by the tide of the waves. So that's more or less how I feel today.
