Outrage Dujour

Here’s a classic example where multi-culturalism is a burden to society. The arrogance displayed by CAIR in this instance is typical, which is why they should be shunned and ignored.

Islamic taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are refusing passengers carrying alcohol and blind folks with seeing-eye dogs because the animals’ saliva is sacrilege according to Sharia law.

The enterprising Muslims during the past year have stranded 100 passengers a month, sometimes for more than an hour, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission, since three-fourths of the 900 taxi drivers servicing the airport are Somali Muslims who have decided to participate in the new discipline.

To make matters worse, a local outreach director of the ever-obliging Council on American-Islamic Relations, Damon Drake, dismissed the issue, saying, “Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be accommodated.”

The issue originated 12 months ago when the airports commission received a fatwa, or religious edict, from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society. It stated that “Islamic jurisprudence” prohibits taxi drivers to carry passengers with alcohol “because it involves cooperating in sin.”

Shunned?  No sir, actively repelled is more like it.

Posted by Fred  on  01/08  at  11:58 AM

since three-fourths of the 900 taxi drivers servicing the airport are Somali Muslims

::trying to resist racial stereotype comment...::

::unable to hold on...::

What, there were no more 7-11 franchises available?

::must now say 10 Hail Nancy Pelosis and make an act of contrition..::

But in a more constructive comment --

While I applaud anybody’s choice not to facilitate sin, doesn’t this inherently violate the passengers’ privacy? I mean, the cabbie does have to ask if they are carrying alcohol. Do they ask everyone this question? Does that then mean we can ask them if they are carrying explosives?

Posted by Jerry Novick  on  01/08  at  12:15 PM

Forget about the drinkers. They don’t take blind people. This is in Minnesota, so imagine how cold it gets. Some they’re stranding blind people out in the snow.

Posted by  on  01/08  at  12:24 PM

actually - refusing service to a blind person - doesn’t that violate the anti-discrimination laws?

Posted by Jerry Novick  on  01/08  at  12:27 PM

Yeah, and they should be sued back to the stone age. Except that is more advanced than the culture they come from.

Posted by  on  01/08  at  12:33 PM
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