Back to this side of the Atlantic:

(1) Are Mormons* in Nevada given special permission not to have to handle liquor if they work in casinos?

(2) How about Mormons in Utah itself?
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Here's the answers for you
1) No "permission" from any religious authority or leader is needed. Mormon doctrine is that alcohol consumption is prohibited by God for active believers. But merely touching/selling/serving it is not forbidden behavior. (This is true world-wide.)

2) Active, believing members of the LDS church do not drink alcohol, but they may work in, say, liquor stores or bars or the like (although it's a matter of cognitive dissonance for them to do so, of course).

So, your point about the double standard in fawning favor of radical Islamists is accurate.

(*more correctly, LDS, which is the common abbreviation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, often referred to as the "Mormons.")

Not only that, but Marriot, of Marriot hotels, was (is?) a devout member of the Church. At one point, he consulted with the leadership about the appropriateness of his hotels selling alcohol and cigarettes to customers, given that he himself did not believe in their use. He was told that while it is against the precepts of the church to drink alcohol or to smoke tobacco, it was the responsibility of each individual to live the law, and it was certainly not incumbent on non-believers to follow it. Therefore, there was no problem with him selling these items in his hotels.

This was probably a good thing, else I would be in a lot of trouble. While I was in basic training, we would go out to the field for a week or more at a time. Each soldier was allowed to bring at most a single carton of cigarettes with them. Those who smoked usually finished off their cigarettes within two or three days. I used to bring a carton of my own, because by the end of the deployment, I was able to sell the cigarettes for $2 a pop. I would make a couple hundred dollars every time we went to the field. If the answer to Marriot had been different, then it might have gone hard with me when I talked to my bishop...

David