Posted on 10/12/2006 4:35:54 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
Muslim cabbies refusing the blind and drinkers
MUSLIM taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind passengers with their guide dogs or anyone carrying alcohol.
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And there have been several complaints that drivers refuse to allow passengers to carry sealed bottles of alcohol.
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One Muslim driver, Imran, said yesterday the guide dog issue was difficult for him.
"I don't refuse to take people, but it's hard for me because my religion tells me I should not go near dogs," he said.
Drivers who refused to carry blind people with their dogs attended remedial classes at Guide Dogs Victoria, Mr Sach said.
"They are taught why blind people need dogs," Mr Sach said.
"The Victorian Taxi Association has included a program in their taxi driver training program."
Guide Dogs Victoria spokeswoman Holly Marquette said blind people regularly reported taxi drivers refusing to carry them because of their dogs.
"It's sad and quite upsetting," Ms Marquette said. "We try to work with new drivers to educate them about their responsibilities and the needs and rights of blind people.
"We explain that the dog is clean, well trained, won't go near them and will stay in the foot well with the client.
"But it's a high turnover industry and it's hard to capture everyone."
Ms Marquette said there was a legal requirement for taxi drivers, shops, restaurants, hotels and supermarkets to accept guide dogs.
Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder said the guide dog issue would exacerbate the taxi industry's flagging respect in the community.
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Mr Sach said the problem was often reversed and that Muslim drivers suffered discrimination from passengers who abused them for being "terrorists".
"Muslims are good people and the community has to realise that the days of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant are well and truly over," he said.
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Curious...are you guys having the same problem in the US?
Well, in animal-loving, beer-swilling Australia, that ought to win them lots of support....hmph!
IMO, they would feel more at home if they left Australia and immigrated to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and thereabouts. Why are these people coming to countries where they dislike the culture? Bye, bye.
Typical ploy. Deflect legitimate criticism by pointing out something that the other party is doing.
YES! There was just a thread about airport cabbys in Minneapolis, MN doing the same thing.
Co-ordinated???
I like the proposed idea of having a special light on the cab to mark it as driven by someone from the religion of intolerance. Then we always travel with a bottle of wine and bump thier arses to the back of the cab line every single time. For fun.
Regards.
Because they hope to someday be in charge in these newer countries and replace the current cultures with their own stone-age culture.
WORLD DOMINATION!
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."
-CAIR chairman, Omar M. Ahmad (as reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald in July 1998)
“Once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. ... There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it..."
-Abdulrahman Alamoudi, 1996 at an Islamic conference in Chicago
-Abdulrahman Alamoudi served in the 1990s as State’s goodwill ambassador to Muslim countries
(In 2004 Alamoudi was sentenced to a 23-year prison sentence for violating anti-terrorism sanctions, including a plot to kill the Saudi ruler.)
The Metro Airports Commision has reportedly scrapped the Muzzy-light idea due to massive citizen outrage, and is working on something else. Apparently even in leftist Minneapolis this has gone too far.
"But it's a high turnover industry and it's hard to capture everyone."
P.S. Doesn't like dogs? What kind of people are these muslims?
They have a public license. No service public, no license.
Are Brits having problems transporting black pudding (which recipe generally calls for copious quantities of fresh pig's blood)?
Dogs, like pigs, are considered unclean animals to Muslims.
Doesn't like dogs? What kind of people are these muslims?
Not yet that we've heard. Simple solution pulll their Cab permit. As your PM said Assimilate or Clear Off!
"Co-ordinated???"
Without a doubt!
"One driving force behind the move to accommodate the drivers' beliefs is the Minnesota Chapter of the Muslim American Society.
MAS was founded by U.S. members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which promotes the spread of Islamic influence through political parties and militant groups in the Middle East. MAS members say they do not promote violence."
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=66888
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