The Religion of Malignantly Narcissistic Entitlement

Latest London lunacy from Stephen Pollard:

Later this month it’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, so I’d be obliged, please, if you'd all stay at home, turn off the TV and refrain from your usual activities. Ten days after that it’s Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews fast and spend the day in synagogue. So I've also asked my Times colleagues not to work then. And I will be mightily offended if I learn afterwards that any of them have been eating.

You might not think I am being serious. But if I was Head of Democratic Services at Tower Hamlets Council in East London, I would be. Last week John Williams e-mailed each of the borough's 51 councillors with a similar instruction.

For the duration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, they are, he told them - every one of them, Muslim, Catholic, Jew or atheist - to behave during council meetings as strict Muslims. They are not to eat or drink; they are to break for Muslim prayers; they are to do as they are ordered by the Muslim religion...

But here’s the kicker:

It should come as no surprise that it is not the borough's Muslim councillors who are demanding that their non-Muslim colleagues obey Islam. As almost always, it is a caricature liberal-left non-Muslim idiot who thinks he is being racially aware who does the real harm to race relations.

Why do I think that the “Head of Democratic Services” wouldn’t be anywhere near as quick to accommodate Pollard’s request.

Via: Dr. Sanity, whose post is worth a read (and from whom I filched the title).
(Corrected version posted at 00:53, shortly after I discovered that the final paragraph of the quote– which makes a significant difference– had vanished during the editing process. And howz’at for a MSM-style explanation?)

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