The counter to Muslim cabbies

Leonard Pitts, in an article published by The Houston Chronicle, has the non-CAIR response to the Muslim cabbie problem in Minneapolis / St. Paul:

...it is a group of men who refuse to do their jobs because of a perceived conflict with their religious beliefs. You're entitled to your religious beliefs. You're not entitled to require your employer or customers to go to extraordinary lengths to accommodate those beliefs.

This was a particularly dubious fight for the cabbies to pick. In the first place: If this were as critical a religious issue as they would have us believe, why aren't Muslim cabbies all over the country refusing to haul liquor-bearing passengers? In the second place: In the atmosphere of "fear and misunderstanding" Elmasry cites, it is foolish to needlessly invite negative attention. Why write Rush Limbaugh's script for him?