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....
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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?
2 posted on
03/13/2007 3:32:08 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(Newt Gingrich/John Bolton 2008)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.
4 posted on
03/13/2007 3:34:08 PM PDT by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Blue Laws and a Burqua in your future????
8 posted on
03/13/2007 3:41:47 PM PDT by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.'
10 posted on
03/13/2007 3:47:17 PM PDT by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.
13 posted on
03/13/2007 3:52:04 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.
15 posted on
03/13/2007 3:55:39 PM PDT by
AlaskaErik
(Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
So if I need a taxi at the Twin Cities airport can I demand a Christian driver?
17 posted on
03/13/2007 4:01:49 PM PDT by
VeniVidiVici
(¡El proletariado del mundo, une! - Xuygo Chavez)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Guess where the GOP is having its convention....
22 posted on
03/13/2007 4:09:09 PM PDT by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
It is in MN because Clinton rewarded the Somali vermin for Black Hawk Down by letting 70,000 of them into America, where they settled in the most liberal areas such as New England, the Pacific Northwest and MN.
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