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Taxi light will mean 'no alcohol'- Islam forbids carrying liquor, cabdrivers say
Pioneer Press ^ | 10-2-06 | JOSHUA FREED

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 4kicksleavebacon; accelerant; airport; alcohol; baconintheback; cabs; crushislam; freedomofreligion; islam; leavebaconinback; liquor; mn; muslims
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT
"Or, just wear a light on your head - no Muslim cabbies!"

Don't they arrest people for not being PC in liberal fascist strongholds like Minneapolis?

41 posted on 10/02/2006 3:30:30 PM PDT by lormand (1 - 10,000,000 people read my posts everyday)
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To: Rakkasan1

What a great idea, now people can tell who the muslim cab drivers are and avoid them!


42 posted on 10/02/2006 3:32:23 PM PDT by protest1
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To: Dog Gone
What if you're carrying bacon?

What if your bacon is carrying wine?


43 posted on 10/02/2006 3:33:07 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: lormand

Isn't the RNC's convention being held right next door? What are the delegates gonna do if they have booze on their breath?


44 posted on 10/02/2006 3:33:09 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT
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NO FARE FOR YOU!!!

45 posted on 10/02/2006 3:33:35 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: Rakkasan1

The airport should pull their permits to operate (assuming they can do that) if they are not willing to service the clients. It is a lucrative position to operate out of an airport, if they don't want it I'm sure someone else will.


46 posted on 10/02/2006 3:33:49 PM PDT by ndt
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To: Rakkasan1

Sharia -- coming to your neighborhood soon!


47 posted on 10/02/2006 3:34:04 PM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: lesser_satan

From now on, I will make sure I have a bag of pork rinds in my hands whenever I go to take a cab. I don't mind waiting for a non-mooselimb cab.


48 posted on 10/02/2006 3:34:12 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: Dog Gone
What if you're carrying bacon?

Or a small pig for that matter. Some Scandinavian-American hog farmer should try to do that, and then sue if he's not allowed to do so. I'll bet that taxis carry pets all the time. A pig on a leash, ala Arnold Ziffle, would be an interesting test.

49 posted on 10/02/2006 3:35:06 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Rakkasan1

Seems to me that they need to find another line of work.


50 posted on 10/02/2006 3:35:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: trumandogz

Cabs are typically rented for the shift.


51 posted on 10/02/2006 3:35:27 PM PDT by kinoxi (.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Whoa! No taxi ride for you!!


52 posted on 10/02/2006 3:36:06 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Gay State Conservative
Getting into their cab wearing a suicide belt is OK,no doubt.

No need to be so extreme. A special cell phone or laptop computer, placed under the drivers seat and left there when exiting the cab, would make the point in a less Islamic manner.

53 posted on 10/02/2006 3:36:52 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Rakkasan1

Some of the Muslim delegates at the UN don't seem to have a problem being in close proximity to Demon Rum....


54 posted on 10/02/2006 3:37:21 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Dog Gone

Just sit in the back of the cab munching on pork rhinds and make sure your greased stained fingerprints are all over the money you give him.


55 posted on 10/02/2006 3:37:31 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: Rakkasan1
I would be temped to ride one of these cabs and surreptitiously smear the seat with pig fat and leave some porn just to have that intolerant bastard have to clean it up.
56 posted on 10/02/2006 3:38:16 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: lesser_satan
The vast majority of cabbies here are muzzies of Somali origin.

Probably some of the same wonderful folks who dragged our soldiers' bodies through the streets, after (and before) mutilating them.

57 posted on 10/02/2006 3:38:40 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: mewzilla
Guess the cabbies in question won't want one of these neither...

Bobblehead Muhammed?

58 posted on 10/02/2006 3:38:51 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Rakkasan1

Next thing you know, they won't take you to a place that might be serving alcohol.


59 posted on 10/02/2006 3:39:17 PM PDT by ushr435
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To: kinoxi
Yes, some are rented and others are owned by the driver. However, even a cabbie that rents his taxi has the right to refuse service to anyone they wish.
60 posted on 10/02/2006 3:39:37 PM PDT by trumandogz
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