Posted on 10/02/2006 3:12:49 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
Cabdriver Muhamed Mursal doesn't wear his Muslim beliefs on his sleeve, but he soon may broadcast them via a light on top of his cab.
Mursal and hundreds of other Muslim cabdrivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport refuse to take travelers they know are carrying alcohol. No one is searching bags, but a Napa Valley wine box or a see-through bag from the duty-free store can be enough to leave a fare waiting for the next cab. Airport officials estimate that happens at least three times a day.
Now, the airport and cab drivers have worked out a proposal that calls for cabdrivers who won't carry alcohol to have a cab light that's a different color. That way, the airport workers who hook up travelers with taxis can steer alcohol-carrying fares to cabs that will take them. Airport officials hope to have the lights ready by the end of the year.
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Great story! Heh.
Now all we need to do is change the song's words to alcohol, bacon, and infidel.
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Even better. Carry a bottle in a bag and be guaranteed to not have a Muslim driver. I think that if you've been drinking, the Muslims are prohibited by their 'religion' from carrying you. There's another clue for action.
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The laws of Economics and the Free Market can solve this one, folks. Nothing to see here... move along.
No. Taxis are a form of public transportation. The woman has a right to be transported anywhere she wants to go. If a cabbie doesn't want to transport women to abortion clinics, he shouldn't be a cabbie.
If Mulims don't want to transport alcohol carrying customers, they shouldn't drive taxis.
I heard it. It was Bob McNaney from KSTP TV. MAC is trying to keep this very quiet. They know the PR will be bad. People won't want to come through MSP if they hear this. Some of the Muslin cabbies say this is not a religious belief. Those that think so are misinterpreting the Koran.
That said, he thinks it's more a case of them finding out it's a short fare and using the no alcohol as an excuse not to take it. What the starter at the airport is doing as of now is sending that cabbie to the back of the line to wait again if they refuse a fare.
They are not independent. The are under contract by the MAC and have to abide by the rules.
A lot of discussion on the program about pharmacists that refused to fill the morning after pill for religious reasons and the employer basically saying fill it or else you're gone.
Local media was, (of course), NOT on the side of those pharmacists. They had to abide by the rules of their employers. Now we shall see how sympathetic they are to the Muslim cabbies. Somehow I don't think it's going to work out the same way.
Apparantly some religions are more equal than others.
Yes, You must submit to Islam.
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Is there a light that tells if driver has bathed in the last week?
No, Taxis are not a form of public transportation.
Why not? What defines public transportation? Is it the size of the transport vehicle? Must it be run by government? What qualifies as public transport, in your definition?
I submit that taxis serve the general public, therefore they are a form of public transportation, and cannot be allowed to discriminate. Like restaurants - when was the last time you saw a Muslim's only restaurant?
If this were a case of white taxi drivers refusing any but white passengers, what would the outcry be? If Muslim cabbies were to discriminate against Jewish passengers, would that be OK?
Driving a cab involves serving the public, and in America any discrimination is not to be allowed. If you have a problem with that, don't drive a cab.
America is a country where the U.S. Constitution is the Law of the Land. We practice freedom of religion, speech, and press. If anyone has problems with that, then they shouldn't live here.
Not just yet.
'And when the cabdrivers start going broke they'll complain about the "intolerant" infidels.'
They are already complaining, WGAS.
I wondered about that too. service dogs are unclean tools of the infidels. wonder how a leftist ADA lawyer would treat that one?
"This is freedom."
Bull. Because if a cab driver was to say that they refused to carry patrons for any of a variety of other reasons - skin colour, religious garb, gender, and so on - it would be called illegal discrimination. Personally, if I was in charge of permits for airport taxi drivers, I would tell them they can either take any reasonable fare (refusing to take a visibly drunk and vomiting person would be reasonable, for example) that shows up at the curb, or not work the airport at all.
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