Muslim cabbies refuse to bend in alcohol dispute

Daily Times | AP ^ | 3/1/07

[kinoxi]

I hate it when muslims touch my seat.

[boomop1]

Ban them from Airport, fire them.

[edcoil]

Welcome to modern America.

Tierney by the minority.

[Republicus2001]

I guess cabbies make a lot more money than I thought!

[D Rider]

Somali? Revoke their green cards and send them packing.

[Right Cal Gal]

I must have missed the "right to be a cab driver" the last time I read the Bill of Rights.

What's next? We refuse to carry "infidels?" You are a public car for public hire, nimrods. If you want to drive a alki-free car, go back to Somalia - and look! There's a convenient airport for you to depart from!

[loreldan]

Maybe I'm not understanding this properly, but it doesn't seem that the city should have the right to tell people who they can do business with. If I own a restaurant and I refuse to serve someone it's my choice, my business IMO. Same with cab drivers.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Sorry Mustafa, WE PUT ALCHOL IN THE GAS! ITS ALREADY IN YOUR CAR! Its and unintended consequence of the Democratic Green Party push for energy independence, and thats OUR SECRET WEAPON!

Whats more, WE USE PIGSKIN FOR OUR WALLETS. Thats right! Probably 50% of the money that you receive has been in a PIGSKIN WALLET! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! IT touches your hand EVERY TIME YOU ACCEPT MONEY!

Now, Deal with it or go home.

[goodnesswins]

Maybe ALL the cabs are owned by ISLAMISTS in Minneapolis....????

[kinoxi]

Transportation services are generally regulated differently. T

[mgstarr]

I recall a lot of support here for pharmacists that refused to dispense the morning-after pill on religious grounds. Oh but wait, that was different.

Huh. Nevermind.

[loreldan]

To add to my post on # 10. I remember a landscape company somewhere a few months ago that refused to do business with some gay people. Like I said then it's their business and they can serve who they want. If I own a cab and refuse to drive a drunk (or a Muslim) it's my right. So it applies to these cab drivers as well.

[LibWhacker]

LOL! I've carried tactical wallets for years. You've just given me a reason to go back to leather. :-)

[loreldan]

Sounds like someone has a prime opportunity to start a cab business there if that's the case.

[xcamel]

see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792293/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792286/posts (dupe)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764921/posts
(more background)

[Ikemeister]

I wonder what would happen if these cabbies said that they were Christians, and as Christians, they refused to transport anyone with alcohol?

[Tarheel]

Hassan Mohamud, a Muslim imam and adjunct law professor at William Mitchell College of Law, said the Muslim cab drivers are only trying to support their families, both here and in their strife-torn home country, and are being placed in an impossible situation.

Wrong, wrong--it is the ordinary traveling person in the MN area that is being put in an impossible position. Did the flying public have these difficulties before the Muslims started driving the cabs in MN? Most likely not--it was the Muslims who brought a problem here for us (AGAIN!). It is a Muslim problem that can be best dealt with by sending them back to their country of origin.

Oh, they don't want to go back because of the war and strife--then learn to adapt, that is how humans thrive and progress. Progress, a commodity the Muslims are short on--that is why so many are content in their 7th century comfort zone.