Friday, October 20, 2006

Agree, disagree, why?

I read Dennis Prager's column yesterday on the subject of Muslim taxi drivers’ refusal to pick up airport passengers who are carrying bags of duty-free liquor (for religious reasons) (also touched on in Mark Steyn's book), or blind passengers accompanied by seeing-eye dogs (again because of religious purity issues). This, some commentators say, is an outrageous imposition of one’s religious practices on others.

At first I was outraged (it’s always easy to get angry at Muslims, isn’t it?). But then I thought about those Christian pharmacists who have been fired for refusing, for reasons of conscience, to fill prescriptions for the morning after pill, Christian hospital nurses who get into trouble for refusing to help abortionists kill babies, and Christian medical students who are told they won’t graduate unless they learn how to perform abortions. I reluctantly concluded that the religious rights of Muslim taxi drivers ought to be respected.


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