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2007-04-17 Home Front: WoT

Taxi drivers will be suspended* for refusing passengers

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Posted by Jackal 2007-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is discrimination! Half of all muslims will have to leave the country!

Now how are we going to take care of the other half of the problem? :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-04-17 01:14|| 2007-04-17 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Make it a two-for-one deal? you leave, and take a "friend" with you? (wife, whatever, and don't come back)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-17 06:18|| 2007-04-17 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Hassan, had earlier told hearing officers about a 1990 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that allowed Amish people to forego displaying bright orange triangles on their buggies for religious reasons.

Amish aren't proving public taxi service. And Somalis can take comfort that, they too, don't have to display orange triangles on their buggies.

Posted by Pappy 2007-04-17 10:08|| 2007-04-17 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks Pappy. I just blew coffee through my nose!

Posted by OyVey1 2007-04-17 10:26|| 2007-04-17 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Been following this story. Disturbingly I haven't seen to many mentions of the muzzies going off on seeing eye dogs. Which If I'm not mistaken is a federal law.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-17 12:20|| 2007-04-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Many airport taxi drivers say the proposed penalties would force them to chose between their Islamic beliefs and their jobs.

By George, I think they've got it!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-17 12:32|| 2007-04-17 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 All this drama for (roughly) .9998% of the fares? Reckon that if the MAC doesn't back down ( always a possibility) the 12 cabbies involved will find some other employment. Perhaps towel boys at the community college mussie only washroom......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-04-17 15:02|| 2007-04-17 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 "Many airport taxi drivers say the proposed penalties would force them to chose between their Islamic beliefs and their jobs."

Works for me.

What, don't they have any faith that Allan will provide?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-04-17 15:50|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-04-17 15:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course, no mention is ever made of how local Islamic clerics issued fatwas absolving the Somali cabbies of any wrongdoing so long as they did not imbibe the alcohol themselves. That would make the whole issue a non-issue and lob the ball back into the Somalis' court for contriving this entire dispute.

Let me know when the media finally begins to identify this sort of intentionally inflated grievance ploy that Muslims are so fond of. The flying imams was another prime example of this.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-17 17:12|| 2007-04-17 17:12|| Front Page Top

#10 The term "suspended" does sound promising.

Posted by Judge Lynch 2007-04-17 18:57|| 2007-04-17 18:57|| Front Page Top

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