Numerous controversies fester over the demands of many Muslims that the societies to which they emigrate accommodate their religious practices with special consideration. Just yesterday, AT covered the debate in Quebec over special accommodation for Muslims, and the plan in Indianapolis to have special purpose foot baths for cab drivers, which involves spending public money for special purpose facilities designed to allow religious observation for one particular group. Airport cabbies and their foot baths are also at issue in Chicago, where Muslim taxi drivers want to be exempt from parking tickets while they bathe their feet and obstruct an airport road.The debate always seems to be couched in demands that host societies do the accommodating, and that customary (not scriptural) practices like the burka be fully and freely practiced, even if it means that drivers licenses or other photo ID become useless.But it turns out that Islamic authorities can be rather flexible when it...(Read Full Post)