The Metropolitan Police are denying that they were bowing to political correctness when they excused a Muslim police officer from guarding the Israeli embassy during the recent Lebanon war. This means that they've been caught in a flat-out kowtow and have no idea how to spin it otherwise.
This case is interesting, not only because it shows the dhimmitude at New Scotland Yard, but it also brings to mind the recent case of a group of firemen in Scotland who were disciplined for refusing to hand out pamphlets at a gay pride parade. In that case, the firemen were being asked to take part in a political rally and quite reasonably refused to do so. On the other hand, had they been asked to put out a fire at the parade and refused, then they should have been sacked in a heartbeat. The same thing goes for the Muslim police officer in this case. He was not asked to involve himself in anything the Israelis were doing, he was asked to protect the embassy. Whether he was a Muslim or not should have had no bearing on the case; just as it is certain there were Christian policemen assigned to protect the Muslim crowd that screamed hate at Catholics as they left services at Westminster Cathedral recently. If police are allowed to pick and choose assignments based on their personal beliefs, we soon won't have much a police force left.
Update: It appears that the officer in question has terror links.
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This dhimmitude has been standard operating procedure way before this. When I served in Desert Shield/Storm (AKA Operation Halfway) they asked Muslim troops if they wanted to be deployed to fight in Iraq. The rest of us were just shipped like cattle.
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