Informative essay. Even in a democracy people don't have an absolute right to practise their religion,there are always the constraints of civilised behavior.The constant accommodation to multiculturalism will fragment our society into competing tribes and weaken the state, we will suffer the same fate as the Romans.

Hypocrisy 101: demanding that you not be discriminated against because of your religion, yet demanding the right to discriminate against others because of your religion.

"God bears witness that the hypocrites are liars! They take their faith for a cloak, and then they turn folks from God’s way: evil is that which they have done!" - Koran 63:1

"The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire" - Koran 4:145

i assume the commenters here are just as outraged at certain christian chemists refusing contraception, and certain christian doctors refusing to direct women to where they can get advice on abortion.

You betcha, bushbasher.

And Christian politicians refusing to allow gay marriage, I'm outraged at those creeps, too.

Mind you, if a troop of pirates were to knock at my door, spreading the good word about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I'd invite them in for a jug o' rum.

"The wearing of Islamic headdress is but one challenge [to] western societies."

Honestly this is just silly. Go back to university and do ETHNOCENTRISM 101.

RAmen brother clownfish.. and may you all be touched by His noodly appendage.