Daniel Pipes takes on a proposal to have Muslim cab drivers put a special light on their taxis, so that passengers carrying alcohol know to look elsewhere. Maybe the cabbies should look elsewhere for work. Taxis are a highly-regulated industry, artificially limited in supply in order to subsidize fares. As long as they're operating as a public utility, they need to operate by the same rules as everyone else.
In any case, if a Muslim cabbie has a problem with carrying my bottle of wine, that's his problem, and he should bear the burden of it. I don't expect my employer to have kosher food at functions, and I don't expect MLB to take Saturdays off so I can pursue my dream of being a big-league radio announcer. The fact that some of them are trying to leverage their 75% position as drivers into forcing Sharia on the rest of us should be highly worrying.
Now, maybe they shouldn't have to operate as a public utility. Then we could have as many cabs as the demand required, and if Metro Taxi decided to not carry alcohol, someone else who would, could be free to enter the market. Fares would fall, cabbies who were offended by carrying a bottle of scotch would have to lower their rates further, perhaps past the point where they could make money. I'm sure that some would cry, "Racism!" when Sharia Cabs tanked, but hey, the marketplace is pitiless.
Hat Tip: (Powerlilne).