"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Posted on 10/11/2006 4:36:37 AM PDT by Alouette
It would be great if there were two lines of taxis. The line on the left would be for non-Sharia compliant taxis, which would take anyone anywhere, regardless of what they were carrying, wearing, or doing. The other would be for clearly marked Sharia compliant taxis, which would have a list of restrictions as long as your arm. Let the customers step up and request a taxi from one line or the other.
After watching the non-Sharia compliant cabs whiz by and take 98% of the fares for a few weeks, we would soon see a change in attitude.
If you state that you will wait for the next Taxi you will be put at the back of the line. /S
Isn't this akin to a stripper refusing to take her clothes off because it's against her religion? Or a surgeon refusing to do surgery because he's offended by blood? If a certain job has aspects of it that are in conflict with your religion, DON'T TAKE THE JOB!! How hard is that to understand?
Wait for a Muslim gal to sue Hooters for not allowing her to wear the hijab.
Didn't a transvestite already sue Hooters?
In order to assure that any cab I take will not also be a suicide car bomb, I will openly carry an unopened bottle of Jack Daniels...hell, I might throw a piggy under my other arm just to be safe.
Many USA airports have an exclusive deal with a single "Airport Taxi" company ... anybody (even other taxicab companies) can drop off passengers but ONLY the approved Airport Taxi company can pick them up.
Great idea. Imagine if 500 people got off 5 planes and all had a bottle of Black under one arm and Miss Piggy under the other? YooHoo!
Call the Chabad mitzvah-mobile.
The way it works in the New York Metro airports is that all taxis must go to the taxi stand to pick up the next available fare. However, the traveler can arrange with a car service to pick them up at the passenger pick-up area by calling and requesting a car at a specific time. However, the car service cars are not allowed to pick up passengers for which they do not have an arrangement.
There are hundreds of car service outfits in New York who do a nice business doing just that.
This has been stopped.......the Airport Commission said the out-cry against this crap was tremendous.
I suspect they also figured out that if the cabs were identified as mussies people would refuse to ride in them.
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So can American cabbies refuse service to anybody carrying a Koran?
So there is a legitimate First Amendment separation of church and state issue here.
Your suggestion is the simplest, most rational & ultimately most fair way to approach this, I think.
With TROP leaving our shores for their jihadistans..
like any other business, they can refuse service to any customer they want.
as long as that customer is white or a Christian.
What happens, though, if the already high percentage of cab drivers who're moslem rises-and the moslems who want the lights begin pressuring the moslems who don't? And we all know what "pressure" can mean in islam....I can imagine a long line of cabs with no alcohol lights, and a little bitty short line of cabs without lights. Let's hope the poster in reply 50 is right, and all the discussion about this is moot!
A poster on another thread has confirmed what the poster in reply 50 said : A caller to the Laura Ingraham show stated that MAC got so many angry e mails and calls from all over the country and even the world that they've shelved the whole stupid idea. Now all that remains is to punish any moslem driver who violates Minneapolis and MN bylaws on discrimination, and the ADA (service dogs). See to it they obey the laws and pull their licenses if they don't.
Interesting comment heard on talk radio this morning: Will this ability to exclude taxi customers due to one's religion now extend to Catholic pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for the Morning After pill?
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