Airport taxi controversy: Why here? (MN)

Garowe Online ^ | 3/12/07 | EMILY GURNON/Pioneer Press

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

But some Somalis suspect there's more to the taxi dispute than religion.

"The Twin Cities has become — more than any other city — the center of fanaticism and extremism as far as Somalis are concerned," said Omar Jamal of the Somali Peace and Justice Center in St. Paul.

Carrying alcohol in cabs "is not an issue at all for most of the Somali community, but (leaders) use that as a political platform."

Jamal said he believes the goal is to raise money and gain influence on the political situation in Somalia.

Somebody gets it....

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm guessing they'd have a problem with my pet potbelly pig, my triple-decker ham sandwich, my liquor flask and the strippers I travel with, then?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yer screwed!

[MizSterious]

Someone wrote to John Gibson this afternoon, wondering why the Muslim taxi drivers won't carry passengers with alcohol (or who have used alcohol), yet they board airplanes that serve alcohol. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[glorgau]

I'm guessing they'd have a problem with my pet potbelly pig, my triple-decker ham sandwich, my liquor flask and the strippers I travel with, then?

What happens in Vegas - stays in Vegas.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

If it's in their contract, they should've thought of that before becoming a cab driver.

However, I'd also like to point out that anyone that has a problem with this and also supports Catholic pharmacists refusing to sell birth control is a hypocrite.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

What I've learned about the issue here in the Twin Cities is that the majority of the airport cabbies are new to the country. They are fresh from their home country and still very tightly knit to their religion.

They work at the airport because they aren't yet familiar with all of the streets and addresses around town. It's easy to drive from the airport to an address provided with directions by the passenger. And then back to the airport.

The "pros" know the cities and how much money they can make if they just shut-up and drive. That's why the problem only exists at the airport.

[Don Corleone]

Blue Laws and a Burqua in your future????

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Heh...

We still have a couple of the old "Blue Laws" on the books here.

A burka....

Hardly.

[bboop]

Maybe they could just clean latrines, then. I always thought it was -- 'If this job is not a good match for you, get another job.'

[MizSterious]

Don't be too sure about no burqa--what these cab drivers are trying to do, plain and simple, is replace US law with Sharia law. Wake up, MN!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I'll go down blazin'.

[SauronOfMordor]

There was another thread about a Muslim checkout clerk at Target who refused to touch bacon. They had to get somebody else to pass it over the scanner.

[steveo]

With all that cash outlay, one would hope!

[AlaskaErik]

If a diaperhead doesn't want my booze or dog in his taxi, that's fine with me. I'd just as soon not help finance the terrorists in our war with them. I think the reason they're using MSP to create this issue is because the diaperheads know that liberal Minnesotans won't tell them to pound sand and refuse to ride in their cabs like people in other cites would.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

There were several threads. It's truly becoming a problem around here.

I could tell some stories.......

[VeniVidiVici]

So if I need a taxi at the Twin Cities airport can I demand a Christian driver?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Actually, the metro airport commission (MAC) has told them to pound sand, or lose their hack license. They also stood up to the muzzies when they wanted their own, PRIVATE, prayer room in the airport. They were told to use the airport chapel, just like everyone else.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"So if I need a taxi at the Twin Cities airport can I demand a Christian driver?"

I'd certainly give it a whirl. I may just do that exact thing next time I fly. I'll report back.

[MizSterious]

All it takes is for enough citizens to shrug their shoulders and let them get away with it.