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Get the sneaking suspicion the guy pushing it is just using the Muslims and Asians as an excuse to further his own religious agenda and either doesn't realize or doesn't care about the precedence he's helping to set.
We have the same problem in the U.S. with being forced to kowtow to illegal immigrants. I live near the border, and while I was in college I would have trouble finding a part-time job because businesses here all hire undocumented workers. Half the signs in town are in Spanish because most of them don't bother to learn English, and even though illegals don't pay income tax, they still are eligible for ACCESS (reduced cost or free medical care for low income families.) It's four kinds of out of control.
A few years ago around a dozen illegal immigrants were heading for Phoenix and got lost. They somehow wound up in Death Valley, California and died of thirst. Their families in Mexico sued the U.S. Government for there not being water stations (yeah, my tax dollars pay for big, costly water tanks kept in the desert with a spigot on the side) in Death Valley like there are in the major migration routes, and it actually made it to court. Those people were A) not citizens of the United States and B) had crossed into the country illegally, yet people were trying to hold the US accountable for their deaths. Death Valley is marked. You know damn good and well not to enter a place with 'death' in the name.
Also, because they're nominally Catholic (nominally as if you watch Mexican television you see a lot of contradictions in their value set) businesses and public institutions are always worried about offending their sensibilities. imagine if Muslims were crossing illegally into Australia by the millions and people were pushing legislature to protect their delicate sensibilities!
*gets off of soapbox*
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