FIW Works Both Ways
A Muslim police officer in Britain, inspired by the principle of “Freedom—I Won't,” is refusing to guard the Israeli embassy (seen via James Lileks):
PC Alexander Omar Basha - a member of the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group - refused to be posted there because he objected to Israeli bombings in Lebanon and the resulting civilian casualties of fellow Muslims.I think he has every to right to be excused. Scotland Yard, in turn, has every right to be excused from paying his salary. For example, consider the following incident:
Here in Minneapolis there’s a controversy about Muslim cab drivers who refuse fares who are carrying alcohol. The airport, as I understand the story, is studying whether to implement special lights on the cabs that alert passengers to hooch-friendly or hooch-hostile cabs.Somehow, I doubt if the cabbies refusing to carry drunks are still insisting on their fares.
"PC Alexander Omar Basha - a member of the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group - refused to be posted there because he objected to Israeli bombings in Lebanon and the resulting civilian casualties of fellow Muslims."
ReplyDeleteActually this is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. But then fact checking goes out of the window when you want to demonise Muslims, eh?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1888941,00.html
ReplyDeletehas got the facts, if you are remotely interested. Which I doubt, because you seem to publish any old shit if it is anti-Muslim. You are as bad as the anti-Semites.
I've been known to criticize my fellow Red-Sea pedestrians on occasion.
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