Allen West claims “Sharia law is coming to Walmart” -- and is proven wrong by his own editor

To West, Walmart checkout clerks not being named "Steve" is a sign of America's Islamification

Published May 12, 2015 1:30PM (EDT)

Allen West         (Reuters/Mary Calvert)
Allen West (Reuters/Mary Calvert)

Fox News contributor Allen West wrote a column Monday in which he described how Sharia law is creeping its way into the very core of American life -- the checkout line at Walmart -- even though, as his editor later admitted, nothing of the sort is actually happening, unless it is. Confused? So is West.

According to West, he took his daughter shopping at a Walmart in Dallas and was going to pay when he found an appalling sign on the checkout line that read "No alcohol products in this lane." Baffled, West read the name of the person manning the aisle and, "[l]et me just say it was NOT 'Steve.'"

Apparently his name also wasn't Matthew, Mark, Luke or John -- or, God forbid, Christopher -- because after West pointed out the sign to his daughter, she replied, "how is it that a Muslim employee could refuse service to customers based on his religious beliefs, but Christians are being forced to participate in specific events contrary to their religious beliefs?"

West, ever the proud father, praised his daughter for the astuteness of her remark before complaining about what he perceives to be the double standard that pertains to Christians in America. "Imagine that, this employee at Walmart refused to just scan a bottle or container of an alcoholic beverage -- and that is acceptable," he wrote. Whereas if "[a] Christian business owner declines to participate or provide service to a specific event -- a gay wedding -- which contradicts their faith...the State crushes them."

The only problem with West's argument and his daughter's "astute" observation is -- as West's editor discovered before changing the title of the post from "Sharia law comes to Walmart?" to "More ominous signs of Christian persecution" -- is that the reason alcoholic beverages couldn't be checked out on that aisle is because "apparently employees under 21 years old are prohibited from selling cigarettes and alcohol."

But because even proving to have been grossly mistaken isn't a reason to think you're wrong, the editor added that "that isn't to say Walmart isn't selectively caving to Muslim demands, such as this case regarding Halal meat in Ohio." Because catering to your customers, and profiting mightily from doing so, isn't a sign of the Invisible Hand of the market at work -- it's creeping Sharia.


By Scott Eric Kaufman

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