Privileges for Islam?

Daniel Pipes has published a good article on new and assertive demands for special privileges. His article has some troubling examples of how people are caving into some of these demands.

o Setting up a government advisory board uniquely for Muslims in America.

o Permitting Muslim-only living quarters or events in America and Great Britain.

o Setting aside bathing at a municipal swimming pool for women-only, as in France.

o Banning Hindus and Jews from a jury hearing a case about an Islamist in Great Britain.

o Changing noise laws to broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, in Hamtramck, Mich.

o Allowing a prisoner the unheard-of right to avoid strip-searches in New York State.

o Exploiting taxpayer-funded schools and airwaves to convert non-Muslims in America.

o Allowing students in taxpayer-funded schools to use empty classrooms for prayers in New Jersey.

o Deeming the "religious vilification" of Islam to be illegal in Australia.

o Punishing anti-Islamic views with court-mandated indoctrination by an Islamist in Canada.

o Prohibiting families from sending pork or pork by-products to American soldiers serving in Iraq.

o Requiring that female American soldiers in Saudi Arabia wear American government-issued abayas, or head-to-foot robes.

o Applying the "Rushdie rules" – or letting Muslims shut down criticism of Islam and Muslims.

Pipes provides links for all of these examples, so please check out the original article.