[BITList] Muslim staff escape NHS hygiene rule - Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

This kind of shit only adds credence to the propaganda  the likes of the BNP offer to the neanderthals as evidence of why people should vote for them.  I don't give a monkey's $%£& what justification anyone has for wishing to be excepted from following such rules, they are there to be followed.  And why is religion (very close to becoming only one of a narrow range of such) the only reason ever accepted?  It is a choice made by an individual, and it should be treated on that basis.  Having a religion is also a personal choice.  The problem is exacerbated by the habit of some to require to be defined by a religion, regardless of nationality, like a stick of rock with Blackpool all the way through.  I offer, Jew, Sikh, Muslim - and there are more.  I attend a Christian church, but the minister would never class me as a Christian/christian - he knows damned well I share none of his rather fundamentalist views.  And I don't feel a kinship with others who profess to be Christian/christian simply because that is what they profess.

Hugh. 
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